Month: September 2008

  • Well, due to two compelling factors — business is booming and I underestimated the volume of treasures to liquidate — Blossom Home will remain open through the month of October. Yippee! I’m so thrilled. This gives me the chance to meet more sweet bloggers, like Margot and Lauren! Hope to see you there!

  • We celebrated Richard's birthday yesterday with a lovely train ride in Niles Canyon, California. What a sweet little ride. It's a half hour ride that takes you through some classic rural California landscape, east to Sunol. Niles was an early film location and home for Charlie Chaplin.

  • What eye candy. I'm mesmerized by the images over at Airspace after hearing about them on Designers' Block. They're an incredible business that provides locations for film and magazine shoots. The locales are predominantly in London, but they venture further, throughout Europe, and even Morocco.   A house in SW London… Bath time…   Swimming…

  • Paul Vogel is a fabulous textile designer from London, England whose history is as colorful and dynamic as chinoiserie. From Saks, to Jean-Paul Gaultier, to Martha Stewart, he covers the waterfront. "Over the last 15 years I have worked on projects for companies as diverse as: Levi Strauss, Dockers Timberland, House of Fraser, Victoria’s Secret,…

  • So many people have been abuzz about the interiors in the film Mamma Mia so I thought I'd do a post on sourcing the look. Mind you I haven't seen the film. I must say, I really can't stand Abba (sorry Abba fans) and I'm too much of a Pierce Brosnan fan to have the…