Last week, Krista from Cloth & Kind asked me over to her place to take part in her Show and Tell series. She asked me to talk about my favorite textile in our house. I have many favorite fabrics to pick from, but in the end I selected to talk about our Fortuny upholstered fireside [...]

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I spent the last 10 days in Michigan with my mom – after my phone fell in the Detroit airport toilet upon arrival, I didn’t get any notifications about comments from my post about dad’s sudden departure until I logged in this morning to show you these magnificent mushrooms. I can not thank you enough for [...]

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Omgosh – it’s practically Memorial Day weekend and I am still recounting all the wonderful things I saw last weekend! I’ve been posting sporadically this week because I have been taking part in bits and pieces of Blogfest 2012. On Monday afternoon we attended the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (more on that later!) and the Kips [...]

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What a weekend! As you know, I started off on Thursday afternoon with an overnight trip to the Berkshires to visit with designer Annie Selke to see what goes on behind the scenes at her companies. I followed that up with a weekend exploring the Trade Secrets plant sale and garden antiques benefit on Saturday [...]

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I’ve been very hesitant to hang artwork in The Country House. At first, I just really liked the look of empty walls in our Shaker style house. Truth be told, there has been a bit of push back from the Mr on this subject of whether or not to fill our walls. He likes seeing [...]

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