BOO!

Have a Happy Halloween Weekend With More Treats Than Tricks!

This Book Is Finally Out!!!!

Let me know how much you enjoyed it !

Description:

For all those who choose to live "imperfectly" with the messy things they love, this book shows how to do so creatively, happily, and with considerable style ideas from leading designers. A beautiful and inspiring volume, A Perfectly Kept House Is the Sign of a Misspent Life focuses on living well with everything that makes a house a home. If you have been influenced by the picturesquely cluttered studios of Pablo Picasso or Alexander Calder, or by the art- and book-filled house of Vanessa Bell, this unique style book will stimulate you with its creative ideas.This volume explores how real-life tastemakers (photographers, textile designers, fashion designers, writers, artists) integrate their life and interiors to live well with their passions, histories, conveniences, and inconveniences. In inspiring essays, Mary Randolph Carter muses on such key housekeeping concerns as clutter versus mess; open windows; and unmade beds. Combining practical tips with liberating philosophy—"Don’t scrub the soul out of your home"; "Make room for what you love"—this volume celebrates living beautifully and happily, not messily. Lavishly illustrated with intimate photographs of different living spaces, Carter exalts in the beauty of imperfection and in living perfectly in our "imperfect" homes. Life isn’t perfect—why should your house be?

The Marshmallow Test....OR....Can You Delay Gratification

Oh, The Temptation from Steve V on Vimeo.

Follow up to this test showed that children who were able to pass 
the marshmallow test enjoyed greater success as adults.

"Remember Your Manners" - my mom

Something For You To Think About.......

I hope that this makes you look at EVERYONE differently for a while....

You can find fun everywhere.....

British designer, Paul Smith  "gives classics a little kick."

&

Don't you just LOVE this customized Mini Cooper?

AND the trunk is lime green.


Go to www.miniusa.com and click on build and play with designing your own mini for pretend or maybe for real.

Have a fun and colorful weekend!

A Peek At Highlights From High Point Market Week Without Hours Of Walking Brought To You.... By Me

High Point Market(HAPPENS 2 times a year-Spring and Fall)and has the world's most comprehensive selection of home furnishing products. 

It is the largest wholesale home furnishings market in the world.  There are more than 2000 domestic and international suppliers exhibiting all over the city of High Point, North Carolina.  It allows members of the furnishings and design trades to see the newest trends with thousands of new products-casegoods, upholstery, accessories, lighting, bedding and rugs being introduced.

Gorgeous lighting from Lowcountry Originals

Artisans from South Carolina to Georgia

have created a very unique line of lighting using natural

materials like marsh reeds, old metals, driftwood and

oyster shells.

John Beard of Brown Dog Publishing is part of

a family business that produces original works of

art and offers high quality canvas giclee prints

of their work.

I love these archival museum quality plant pressings from 

The Lauren Lachance Collection.

Lauren and her husband travel the world to find amazing plant life

to arrange in these absolutely amazing botanicals.

She also does watercolors from her botanicals that are exhibited

in the Smithsonian.  

A book of her works is "literally" on the drawing table.

The perfect way to go green by recycling.

This oushak was created by using the best pieces of worn rugs.

The colors blend beautifully in a quilt like piece of art...for your floor from Patrick Charles, Ltd.

This was a beautiful showroom- Luna Bella specializing in clocks

and lamps but offers other lighting, furniture and accessories.
Every 6 months new pieces are designed. All pieces are unique and functional and are really pieces of art.

Barclay Butera always has a beautiful showroom and a new

look for his new line of fabrics.

Design-Legacy Showroom

The colorful and perfectly appointed Guild Master showroom.

Busbin Showroom had unique handpainted linen pillows

that can be painted with any color that you need for a room,

along with lovely atmospheric paintings by Stuart Budd as

well as handcrafted furniture.

I loved the pottery and wood table and floor lamps and mirrors handcrafted by artisans in the Mediterranean at Zeugma Import

I am a pushover for shelter magazines. Here is my latest find-Adore

Another wonderful online design magazine. 

 Adore is an Australian based magazine chocked full of design tricks and tips.

Click adore magazine and click -Read

to enjoy and Adore this newest addition to online design magazines.

Santa Baby....just put the sable under the tree, for me....I mean, the MetroShip houseboat under the tree!

Neiman Marcus 2010 Christmas Book

For 2010, the “His and Hers” gift is a floating romantic getaway aboard a 48 Foot Luxury MetroShip houseboat in New York.

The living area includes a Sony LCD flat-screen TV, a Nintendo Wii, Viking appliances and a remote-controlled media center. The bathroom features a Kohler frameless shower and the master suite bedroom features a luxury W Hotel bed. The entire boat features hardwood floors and maintenance-free translucent thermal aluminum walls.

You can travel anywhere on this houseboat for the mere price of $250,000. 

 What would you wish for in the Christmas book?

"This Time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."-Ralph Waldo Emerson

www.supermarkethq.comThe watch....

or tourbillon (french, menaing whirlwind)

The first portable timepiece was invented in the 1500's by Peter Henelein.  It was easy to carry but walking made it impossible to keep time. In 1795, French watchmaker Abraham- Louis Perrelet developed the first self-winding watch.

Now,

many people no longer wear a watch preferring to check the time on their cell phone.  

Not Me! 

I think it is a classic accessory and part of my wardrobe.   

Look at these fun choices!

Love these architects watches.

And nothing over $49.

From.....

 Click supermarket and look at other goodies.

Have a good week.

Happy Weekend To All!

I LOVE These Unusual Hand Andirons

Prana Hand Andirions

Editions of 50

bronze and iron

sculpted by Adam Kurtzman

21" H x 11" W x 10" D

$10,200

Happy 1st Birthday Lonny!

Click the link and ENJOY!

www.lonnymag.com

"Laughter Is An Instant Vacation" - Milton Berle

Dr. Madan Lal Kataria has an unusual claim.  Not only is he the Guru of Giggling but he

is the self proclaimed leader of an international movement that promotes laughter....

as a cure for just about anything that ails you.  

Now, that is my kind of doctor!! 

We don't know the numbers of followers but in India alone there are 6,000 laughter yoga clubs.

He believes that laughter is "A connector of people. No barriers. No language."

He also believes that whether you really laugh or pretend to laugh, your body can't tell

the difference.  Laughter has transformative effects that can for that moment erase fears, needs and provide a bit of spiritual enlightenment.

At the moment, the most solid scientific argument that can be made about

laughter and healing is that briefly it can eliminate pain. 

Now, for those that would like to find out more...Kataria is discussing plans to build and ashram that will be called.........

LAUGHTER UNIVERSITY!

I wonder.....what the school song would be, the mascot, would you have to take math,

would they have a football team and what would the cheers sound like.

Watercolor Illustrations, by Caitlin McGauley, That Make Me Smile

Click this link dailycandy to learn more deliciousness  about  Caitlin McGauley and

her delightful watercolor illustrations.  There is a short ad on the video before Caitlin tells you about her art.  Enjoy!

Hey Pumpkin! Are You Ready For Fall????

Have A Crispy Fun Weekend!

Ever Had A Week When Everything Is CRAZEEEEEE?

MMMMMM HUMMMMMM....

Me TOO!

Remember though......Tomorrow Is Another Day.

Why Use A Perfectly Good Chair When You Don't Want To Hang Up Your Clothes Right Away???

The Mark Makers Table by Ed Swan

.....let's you reveal its true COLORS.

With a little bit of elbow grease and sandpaper.

London Design Festival 2010: Mark Makers Table by Ed Swan from Core77 on Vimeo.

DoGood

 Suppose 1 million people decided to do the same random act of kindness on the same day?

Well, the DoGood App @ Apple invites you to do just that.  Every day one DoGood is announced and once you complete it you press - Done.

You can check out the statistics for the day and you can also look back at old DoGoods and check those statistics and read posted stories about that particular Good Deed.

Let's add some more Good to the world!

Something To Contemplate .....

You got it? 

Have a great weekend!!

Oh....and Happy Birthday brother of mine (Chuck).