Month: April 2007

  • The Better Homes and Gardens May issue is out!!! I'm on pages 84 and 86. Yippee!! I had a little trouble trying to convert the PDF file to a jpeg so it looks a little wonky, but you get the idea. If you've been to my Flickr photos then you're familiar with my living room…

  • Life’s lessons go on, and on… Last night I was telling Marcel a story of when I was a young girl of ten, on my summer vacation in the farmland of British Columbia. It was a bucolic landscape; quite a contrast to the cement of San Francisco. In the fields I would collect herbs for…

  • I was sent an invitation today to join this wonderful site Normal Room. Here is an excerpt from the homepage: "See how people live around the world! Explore the variety of lifestyles and cultural peculiarities! Normal Room shows you interior design and home furniture from all around the globe. Search our image database and explore…

  • I thought I'd show some snippets of things in the shop and how they're displayed, just for fun, and so that you can virtually visit 🙂 I really love the embroidered wall art (from the 50s or 60s). I think it's a Scandinavian design. Any feedback you might have about this piece would be great.…

  • I set up a small display at the Los Gatos Farmers Market on Sunday to represent the kind of inventory I will have at my new shop. The weather was lovely as we handed out flyers to interested passers-by. Marcel helped me pass out the flyers. We got a very positive response from the community.Although…