Even without any snow… it’s a White Christmas… in Haleigh’s apartment… And as visions of sugar plums danced in our heads, the reindeer guided Santa’s sleigh and found us in a little jewelbox of an apartment tucked in the Marais. *** May the magic of the season be with you throughout the New Year!
Wishing you all a…. Happy Valentine’s Day!
It was a small gathering of six… and I planned it as a sepcial evening for my parents as they don’t get to do much fine dining anymore… the tabletop decor was already in place…years ago I decided to use more of a Winter themed Christmas decor so that it easily transitions into the New […]
I was wondering when Serendipity would finally show up and help me with my Christmas decor… she actually had already peeked in on me…I just didn’t know it.. I was really beginning to doubt her arrival and with a holiday deadline to meet, I had to start without her… or so I thought… I never […]
If you want to feel like a kid in a candy store… try making your own marshmallows… simple ingredients easy & fun saving these for our Christmas crew… spotted these cake pop sticks when I went to Sur la Table to buy the candy thermometer and thought they would look amazing with the peppermint mellows… […]
A few years ago I came across a beautiful collection of vintage glass ornaments… if I had to put a name to their lovely romantic color it would be “Candleglow” Year ’round, our baby grand piano is the stage for a curated collection of silver… the dolfina bowl shown here is a vintage Los Angeles […]
Script ornaments… in copper & snowy white… newly added to a lifetime collection of proper ornaments and non-ornaments… like the ex votos and sacred hearts that always seem to find their way into my Christmas tableaux… and other little bits & pieces of found treasures from the Paris flea markets and beyond… Giving the little […]
Travel is one of those experiences that enriches our lives in ways often not fully realized until illuminated by that moment… months or even years later when in an instant the soul intersects the fragile synapses of the mind sparking an… Epiphany… nothing groundbreaking in an Isaac Newton sort of way, but something so personal […]