Late weekend greetings. I’ve been busy all day packing for our spring break trip to Florida’s gulf coast. While we’re in Florida we will be relaxing a little but we’re also looking for a new house, touring universities for my daughter, and a few high schools for my son. It’s all very exciting to be…
It’s interesting all the different ways we come up with to create beautiful storage or display opportunities. We all love a great wall of bookcases and arched niches are an architectural trend. There’s another look that’s caught my eye, it’s a slightly different kind of built-in: wood trimmed niches. The asymmetrical layouts are especially alluring…
I took a painting class all day yesterday and it felt so good to be studying art again. I was remembering so much! I hadn’t taken an art class in over ten years and it all started coming back. I’m in a creative flow and I was so inspired, I started several new art projects.…
A few weeks ago I toured the Kenwood Inn & Spa and they had a delightful loggia that extended from their main building into a charming courtyard. It reminded me how much I love a loggia! I’ve stayed in various hotels and visited several European sites over the years that also had loggias. I was…
Hello weekend! I’m off on a road trip to Paso Robles, California to do a little wine tasting with friends and see this light installation in the fields nearby. Did you see yesterday’s Insta stories? If so you saw I chose an off white vertical offset tile for the kitchen remodel. Paired with the dark…
Less than a week to go until Christmas! I’m glad I’m done shopping and ready to relax! I’ll share some pictures of my decorated home later this week. The last week of this year I’m focused on the final details in our flip remodel project, those spaces are getting close to completion. Unfortunately we’ve had…
I finished decorating my staircase today, I was in the mood to deck the halls. We’ve had a few weeks of sunshine and my yard was so happy so I was inspired to use what I’ve got! I chose non traditional yard clippings to layer over my faux lighted pine garland that I reuse every…
Well this week I had my fill of Thanksgiving flavors. We hosted a teen Friendsgiving on Tuesday, a classic Thanksgiving on Thursday, and attended a casual outdoor fried Turkey Thanksgiving yesterday where I discovered some new recipes I’ll be recreating soon. My belly was full many times and I felt so thankful for the health…
Happy Halloween weekend! My teenagers are off with their friends running around town to various hangouts. Gone are the days when I get them dressed up and we go trick or treating together but that’s okay. Now we sit home and wait for the little ones in our neighborhood to come to our front door…
Weekend greetings! I’m sitting in my little studio listening to the rain on the street, it’s been storming for a few days and of course we need the water but I find the sound is so comforting too. Fall activities are filling our calendar, we had two homecoming dances this past week, there’s an upcoming…
I spent the first week of August exploring the state of Oregon, a place I had never been to before even though it’s my neighbor to the north. On my road trip, I stopped in Ashland, Portland, Hood River, and then drove the entire Oregon coast home all the way back to California. It was…
I had a lovely birthday weekend! My best girlfriends picked me up on Friday and took me wine tasting then out to dinner, and the rest of the weekend I’ve been relaxing and taking it slow. Practicing the art of slow living leads to such good things. Food tastes better, plants and flowers are more…
Hello friends, how is your September so far? I’m a bit sad having had to postpone my trip to Spain but I’ve been enjoying our California fall weather so no complaints! My birthday is next week and a group of my girlfriends are planning a special outing and I’m not allowed to know the details.…
Blonde wood is everywhere, it’s made a major comeback and rightfully so. Natural wood brings a modern organic vibe to a space, especially when it’s paired with white walls or used to create contrast with dark hues. I chose a blonde wood floating vanity cabinet for the master bathroom in the house I’m remodeling right…