Month: June 2008
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This is your chance to have your fab entryway included on the House Beautiful web site. You can see examples of the entryways of eight different designers on page 46 of the July issue. Send your photo and a short paragraph describing your design to: sendus@housebeautiful.com ~Have fun! I love storage that's…
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California Home+Design – May 2008 Sunset Magazine web site – May 2008 C Magazine – March 2008 Better Homes and Gardens – May 2007 Los Gatos Daily – April 2007 Victoria Magazine – June 2002 This is an article on an earlier business of mine, French Paintbox. That’s us with baby Marcel in…
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Sitting here at Stanford Cancer Center waiting to be seen by my Oncologist. It's a beleaguered and world-weary group in this overcrowded waiting room. Half of them are wearing respirator masks, their immune systems weakened by toxic drugs or by the cancer itself, rendering them defenseless to communicable diseases. Some are bald from chemo, some…
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Introducing the three point king…Ray Allen! Ray Allen (center) with his great mates Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett of the Boston Celtics There's one thing you must know about me: I'm a big time basketball fan. There's another thing you should know about me: I'm a longtime die-hard Boston Celtics fan. And tonight I was…
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A birthday packaged arrived from my Mom. Here are some of the goodies… a soft organic shirt, to motivate me to do yoga again lavender for calm moments and a star to hang my dreams on another great organic tee, (from super fantastico, check out the cicada one) and this sweet buddha necklace that Mama…
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Stick with me here. It's a tangled yarn. This has been a morning where the message is "outsider art". First I went to "visit" Victoria over at sfgirlbybay and she had this excellent post on the film Beautiful Losers, a documentary about underground American artists (still trying to find out how to see it). Then…
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Below is a copy of an interview with Tricia Guild from British Homes & Gardens Magazine (May 2006) entitled Tricia Guild's Dream Room. Note* I've updated a few of her pieces that are no longer available, replacing them with comparable ones in her more recent collection. What would you choose for storage? "I would have…
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I celebrate Sublime Stitching today, discovered from a button on Oh Joy's sidebar! It's the brainstorm of amateur embroiderer Jenny Hart from Austin, Texas. No, that's not a slight. She admits to being a naive stitcher. She took up embroidery while her mother was recovering from breast cancer surgery and was frustrated with the lack…
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I finished my birthday yesterday with a yummy gluten-dairy-wheat-free cake. No pun intended. It really was yummy. In fact, it was divine. Grazie beaucoup to my sweetie, absolutely stunning friend Tina G., and her hunky husband Mikey who made the family green chile, potato, and kale enchiladas. I ate a mere six of them. I…
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Psychic presents arrived………!!!!!!!!! A treasure trove of amazing little paintings, papers, and stencils from dearest Scott Waterman: And bushels of yummy organic foods (many disappeared before photo could be taken!), herbs, flowers, candles, and sweet energy from the gorgeous Lisa L: You guys have incredible timing! Many mercies for brightening my day! My month!
So Sylvie 