I was so happy to be able to celebrate my Mom's birthday with her up in Humboldt, California! What a special time we had… My stepdad David & my Mom, Colette… "What? You're giving me Frida Kahlo socks again?" Marcel of the dunes… Some of her shells… One of her sweet corners… Lots of good…

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.

At about the same time that I was diagnosed with breast cancer Marcel began having "little spells". He would freeze, sometimes in mid sentence, his eyes would roll upward and his eyelashes would flutter. We would try to speak to him during these moments and he was unreachable. They would only last a few seconds…

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…

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…

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…

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!

I have been suffering with back to back migraines. Thanks for checking back with me. I will be amongst the living again soon. xo Sylvie

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’ve discovered a new show on TV with Marcel that we’ve been enjoying ever so much! It’s Charlie and Lola . It’s an animated children’s show that’s done in mixed media collage. Wonderful little stories of a brother and sister, with fun interiors to boot. The series is an adaptation of author and illustrator Lauren…