New Face Lift

Hope everyone enjoys the new look on the site! It’s needed the change for a long time. Please bear with us during this transition time.

Red White and Blue

There’s one day of the year we share patriotism and pride in the United States with all around us. Although the celebration is to commemorate the signing of the Declaration of Independence of our great country, most relate the 4th of July to parades, fireworks,...

Hip to be Square

New color and design trends have cycles that last for several years. Trendsetters observe, copy and reinvent these cycles over and over again. The current trends in colors and design motifs like trefoils and geometric angular forms, remind me of my childhood watching...

An Irish Tale

Today is the day for all things green and for the tellin of Irish tales and limericks and the singin of Irish songs. I was searching for a great limerick for the holiday, which is a short poem, relatively humorous and bawdy in nature and that sometimes has a  dubious...

Designer Rockstar

Living and growing up in Los Angeles my entire life has left me a bit jaded to the Hollywood crowd. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a rush when working with celebrity “types”, but in this town everyone is a celebrity type! It’s always...

All Dressed up!

It’s the Academy Awards tonight and the whole town is a flutter! My little mannequin is in her formal attire in a polka dot embroidered silk gown with leftover beads from a recent project fashioned into a stunning necklace and trim for her “hat” for...

Silly Valentines

The origins of Valentine’s Day has long been anyone’s guess between several Christian martyrs named Valentine. Although there are three recognized “Saint Valentine’s” in different eras, each with their own legend, the Catholic Church took...

Showroom Happy Feet

We had fun this year with our penguins and snow in our holiday vignettes. I always hate taking down the Christmas displays and was going to keep them up a bit longer this time. But when I came to work, all my snow had been sucked up by the vacuum and now all I have...

101 Things!

We recently hosted James Swan’s book signing of “101 Things I Hate About Your House”. What a fun night and such a charming guy! In preparation I must confess, there was much to be done before his arrival as I stood, book in hand, reviewing his powder...

BFF Squared

A few months ago while working on my blog posting, I came across a black and white group photo from 1970 that was all too familiar. It was from my 8th grade grammer school graduation and the posting was from Laura, a name I had remembered from 41 years ago but not...