Someday I’ll have a whole house on the coast full of Maine Cottage furniture. Another fabulous thing I’ve learned about from Abby and another dear friend, Charlotte. Maine Cottage has the most amazing colors available for all of their furniture pieces and great accessories from artwork to lamps to tableware. They also sell my favorite […]
In my post on Lonny Photo I referenced the head-on cow face oil painting in my foyer. I realized I should include all I know about Roz, the South Texas-based artist of the store RozArt, who made my little cow, below, as a custom order for me. Roz is a single mother of three, who, […]
For Christmas I bought Brooke one of OctopusMe’s sets of earrings. She had just returned from almost a month in Africa and had, like so many, found it a very transformative trip. The octopus is a wonderful animal that can regenerate itself, if wounded in an attack is just regrows a tentacle – I like […]
Today it was sunny and almost 60 degrees in New York. I wore a coat but could still tell that Fall and Winter were behind us and Spring was just around the corner. As we say goodbye to cold weather I found these amazing, needle felted (of course), acorns that will serve as a colorful […]
I just learned that you can search locally on Etsy – I know, not news to many people, but news to me. First I went through Austin and found some amazing things and then I went through Boston where I was once again racked with nostalgia when I came upon the store Twigs and Heather. […]
Since I was five years old we’ve had our house in New Hampshire. Over the years my parents have made a few friends in the neighborhood – more since they’ve been up there fulltime. One of the families we’ve always been close to was the Reid family. Chris Reid, the mom, is an amazing pastel […]
I think I’m discovering Etsy store, Paloma’s Nest, a little behind the curve given the number of times her pieced have been viewed but I love her ceramic work none the less. As I was just in Austin, I wish I had been able to see the designer, Caroline’s studio but I wasn’t aware of […]
The first time I saw Breakfast at Tiffany’s I really adored the bathtub couch. It’s not the type of item I could easy have in my apartment but I just thought it captured Holly Golightly’s personality in a piece of furniture. Like almost every young girl living alone in New York I feel a kindred […]
Where my folks live in New Hampshire there are some fabulous little antiques stores for the peepers who come up every year to see the leaves change colors. My favorite is Red Chair Antiques for its collection of furniture, household items, as well as collectibles, a few beads, ribbons, stamps, vintage bags and nightgowns, odd […]
When you’re a renter you don’t want to do anything too destructive to the apartment for fear of losing your security deposit. I’ve been in the same apartment for almost three years and I’ve still not painted the walls. Plenty of art but no paint. Today on Etsy I stumbled upon Elephannie, who creates wall […]