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A lovely post by a fellow designer!
Yesterday, I was stunned when I received a post by my new friend, Julie of TG Interiors! She wrote me to ask if she could speak to me about how I started my career; and she wanted to see if had...
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Monterey Colonial!! “Progress!”
This is the continuation of the “restoration” of the Joseph Plunkett designed “Monterey Colonial” house we found (finally); in Montecito after a two-year search for our daughter and her family to...
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Backyard Wildlife Habitat
(Be sure to click on the title to see the complete post!) In 1997; we decided to move to Montecito from Pasadena. We spent our honeymoon here in 1978; and I had grown up in Pasadena coming up every...
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A lovely post by a friend and blogger!
My friend and fellow blogger Tracey Jackson came to Santa Barbara to visit her mother; and came over to visit! (These pictures were taken last Spring! Not by Tracey) Tracey is a screenwriter,...
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Spring Is Here!
Today really feels like spring! 11 baby ducklings! Just in time for the Piedmont Garden Club!! The proud Mommy! It’s the most we have ever had! The duck house in the rear (from LWB Creations in...
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The magical things that can be created with paint effects!
Sometimes people ask me about “faux” wall finishes. The walls in our house are not “faux” anything! They are lime washed. Lime (which is mined out of the ground); is mixed with natural pigments...
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Our Home Featured in French Country Style !
Yikes! What an exciting week! Fifi O’Neill , the founder and editor in chief of this magazine/book,(and many others! ”google” her!) saw our house and my friend Renee’s house on my blog; ( she...
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Montecito Sea Meadow, my dream once-in-a-lifetime decorating job!!
Well, there is a “secret place” in Montecito. Honestly; even close neighbors barely know it is there! One can only see it from the water……or walking on the beach going from the “Biltmore” east...
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Happy Mother’s Day!! A reprise of my favorite surprise!
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!!!! I ran this last year on Mother’s Day, and for anyone who didn’t see it, you might enjoy it!! I had a wonderful Mother!! She was the creative behind my own creativity; although...
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French Lavender Oil
When we were building our house; we went on several trips to Provence. We stayed on one trip at a wonderful hotel in Aix-en-Provence called La Villa Gallici. http://www.villagallici.com/en/hotel It...
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La Colombe d’Or in Saint Paul De Vence : an iconic hotel in Provence
In 1982 my husband and I went on our first trip to Provence together. My favorite hotel I had ever seen was the “Hotel de La Colombe d’Or.” (I almost fainted!!!) It is perched at the top of the most...
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Quick duckling progress story!!! First ducklings of the Spring!
This picture is right after they hatched!! April 13,2013 And this is today!! May 25,2013 All 11 ducklings have survived; in 10 more days they will be able to fly!! They are a little hard to...
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The finest embroidered linens: the legendary “Marghab”!!
When I was growing up; my mother loved beautiful linens. Embroidery was her favorite thing. Her favorite maker was a Portugese company called “Marghab” from the island of Madeira. They had...
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Surprise!! Surprise!! Chinoiserie Paintings & Prints by Harrison Howard
I have always loved, loved , loved Chinoiserie!! I have been planning to do a post on it! It is all through my house; and has been in all of my houses! In many different forms! However, I have never...
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Duckling update! And a rare bird nesting!
Well!! Look how big the ducklings are! They are now 57 days old; their wing feathers cross over on their backs! They CAN fly!! But they don’t seem to be going anywhere!!! Do we think it is...
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The Olive Allée!!!
Definition: (from Wikipedia) “Allée is traditionally a walkway with a line of trees or large shrubs running along each side , which is used, as its French source venir (“to come”) indicates; to...
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Finally!! The summer slipcovers!!!
Finally!! I promised the “Summer slipcovers” months ago!! I couldn’t find any of my pictures!! So; I had to wait until Summer! These are the “Summer chairs” which are made from these beautiful,...
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Grace Design Associates …..our wonderful landscape designers!!!
I was showing a friend the photographs of our garden on our landscape designer’s website; and read the story of our project! I realized that our project from their standpoint was quite different...
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Our guest house in Luxe Magazine! The Los Angeles Summer edition! And more...
Imagine my surprise when I opened up LUXE magazine (Los Angeles edition, Summer), and there is our guest house!! In the section “Scene alfresco” on page 82!! More baby chicks!! This hen hatched...
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Montecito Sea Meadow, my dream once-in-a-lifetime decorating job!!
Well, there is a “secret place” in Montecito. Honestly; even close neighbors barely know it is there! One can only see it from the water……or walking on the beach going from the “Biltmore” east...
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