Monthly Archives: January 2011

Get Ready to Celebrate with the One You Love

Get Inspired! Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and instead of going out to an expensive Restaurant Meal, this might be a great year to celebrate with the one you love at home. You can read about our Valentine Inspiration Dinner on the website for some ideas to make this year’s Love Own Day [...]

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Love You!

Just a little note….to let you all know I’ve not forgotten you. After shopping .like.crazy. at the Los Angeles Gift & Home Decor Show….I came home to a blank. Computer. Totally blank. eek!! My operating system crashed. I mourned. Luckily, my local geek squad put the pieces together again, and now I have my baby [...]

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Weekly Favorites, Parian Ware

One of the pieces we just recently “found” on our buying spree is this sweet guy. He’s a doll, {ummm, Putto actually} isn’t he? He looks like marble, but he’s actually a piece of Parian Ware. Every properly furnished Victorian parlor contained at least one piece of it. It’s been said that Parian had the [...]

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Wow Them!~

Nothing starts your new year off better than a new look. Change your style. Wow them. Nothing puts a whole new spin on your warderobe better than a perfectly chosen piece of jewelry can. I am constantly inspired by the artists I meet, and love to bring you their exciting, hand crafted and one of [...]

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Honeysuckle Color of the Year

It’s the new color of the year! A glorious reddish PINK. While we are away at market and several fleamarkets, buying trips and auctions this month, I thought I’d do a post on this beautiful color, chosen by the Pantone Color Institute as the color of the year. Honeysuckle is a captivating, stimulating color that [...]

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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! There’s nothing like a blank slate, a whole new year to fill, is there? I can’t wait to see what the new year will bring. I hope for all of you it will bring cozy winter afternoons and evenings, spring days filled with bird song, and lazy summer days, too. Then back [...]

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