alone again, naturally
back from florida, all alone…i’m staying at my parents’ house while they’re away for a couple days. my mom has been asking me for help to redecorate my old room and turn it into a proper guest room.
i found the above image on desire to inspire, and just as promised, i was inspired! it’s the easiest room in the world for mom to reproduce, the main thing would be to find a headboard. a couple mins on google images produced this one:
but then again i found this while searching for villas…suffice it to say it’s just as hard for me to lock down and commit to a style!! but don’t worry mom, the time has come and i won’t let ya down! i do love that pink satin bedspread tho…
in the meantime, i’ve been working on another remodel, my website. just thought i’d pass along a couple of great resources i found: this is from myfonts.com. you put in your name and scroll thru thousands of logo options, changing your business statement from serious to playful in a nanosecond.
lightbox at istock had beautiful wallpaper backgrounds:
well that’s about it for both my virtual and reality decorating for tonite!
oh almost forgot, saved the best for last, i’ve been blessed by two bloggers…
thank you for my Smile Award from the following wonderful and talented ladies who have made me feel so special! i’ll get my list together tomorrow. for now:
thank you julie!! fabulous finds studio
and a thing for roses thanks lisa!!
the trouble with wanderlust
and it IS trouble! i forgot how florida has surprises at every turn. for god’s sake, this is liz’s powder room!
anyway this life works for me right now and i am gonna do my best to move down STAT. it’s a completely other universe i love to death! plus my miami shopping trips up to, ahem, palm beach, and the auctions! FORGET about IT!
this was yesterday:
thrifting:
Parking:
antiquing :
and my new favorite: shopping for Random Real Estate, the new division! you know i’m making this up as i go along, right?
i feel a real kinship with this one. i hope it gets into the right hands or can wait till Random RE is able to acquire it! still, it’s on biscayne which is not ON the beach. personally, i prefer ocean front property. and i did happen to find the most amazing little place for sale…
ok, this is the front yard (note the winds of change)
and this is the hotel, for sale by owner
maybe not the most glamorous YET, but look at the view…i know, how can this all happen you ask? me too! i have no idea but this is what’s next door…remember, this is miami beach, just a quiet part that’s more uptown. still undeveloped and way old skool!
i’m ready to stay next door here if it means yoga on the beach at sunrise with my aging ol pup, daisy.
liz and jezebel are our best friends and we all moved to florida together 3 years ago. i kept having to get back to ny and never got to stay. now it’s 3 years later and it may be now or never. we can’t believe we didn’t film how they used to play and tackle. now they’re 14, i think they’ll go easy on each other. we’ll see!
anyway it’s all part of the same dream, just like hotel bijoux…someone mentioned visualization in a comment the other day and it’s been on my mind ever since so thank you, it’s helping!
check please
i’d have gone insane spending another second in ny. i haven’t had the patience for it since getting back from paris. don’t get me wrong, it’s the greatest, most intense place in the world, if you’re into ALL intensity ALL the time. finally realizing after 20 years that i’m just not that into it.
sooooo, thank god for jet blue! my guy has a pied a terre in miami beach. VERY humble and total bachelor. there’s not even a tv , but that’s exactly the peace i was craving. above is my friend and stylist liz. this is basically how mornings have been starting for the past 3 days. i didn’t realize how i was neglecting myself in ny, not even going once to the beach all year! anyway now i can get focused again, and sit for a sec without being pulled everywhichway…
SO, back to us bloggers…
i’ve been thinking about a game of cross promotion to feature bloggers’ items for holiday sales, etc…. i found a marquee as a jump off below. are you already doing it and if so, how?
until then…the set of pics above is from none other than the whimsical mastermind of Constance from Rochambeau, and the purse below is from her collection:
more to come!
la dolce vita
it’s so crazy it is here, just doing the basics takes the entire day. even now i have like 1 sec to write. i’m working on finding a villa in tuscany for one of the clients of the client so it’s been fun hunting for someplace a family can celebrate the dad’s 60th birthday with 12 people and 6 bedrooms, pool, near florence…anyway here are a couple pics from some that would never do darling!
but this one might!!
and to you a huge hello…i think about you all the time, wonderwomen…how do you all get it done? mothers, you have my serious respect!
one thing i’ve been thinking (and hopefully you will help hash this out): i’d like to work together somehow as blogging businesses…like cross promoting, listing each other’s items, stuff like that. maybe we each pick an item a week (or day or month) from each other and find things to feature. i just haven’t had the time to go thru etsy and read blogs at all lately and damn am i feeling the void! well something to think about, christmas is coming and i have a store that could be full of stuff too!
i blame my parents
they indulged my grandmother who gave me the most beautiful doll house furniture when i was 7. (thanks mom for keeping it all these years). in fact it’s being ravaged by my nieces and nephews who all seem to have the same fascination with it. anyway a photoshoot brought out some of my faves. guess i don’t have to wonder where i got my taste for detail…and satin!
anyway, i am rushing once again. it’s getting to be my theme song here in the city. my boyfriend said i was spending too much time on my blog. i guess he sees it more of a diary, but how do you explain doing what you love? anyway, now i’m feeling all guilty so i may not be around too much for awhile but i’ll try to sneak away! in fact, i have to go right now…
pure pleasure non sequitor
with so much to do and new york starting to snowball again, i’m in a hurry as usual. it’s saturday nite and truly i have about 60 seconds so am posting these pretty pics from French Elle Decor to keep me mellow and for no particular reason. this is september’s before and afters. those bones! there are so many kits and great things you know where to decorate ceilings and walls. i have it in my maison objet goodie bag of amazing decor and products…i’ll drag it all out tomorrow!
also had to do a little research on wallpaper…is anyone using cool wallpaper? are you? do you want to? i found so many and see lots of great articles about them but would love to see more…Yours? Please!
these two have great things, dig in!!
http://www.thecollection.fr/v1/
http://www.annadove.co.uk/collections/wallpaper_shadowpaper.html
and, exhale
the great thing about important meetings is that they force you to do what you always put off. now i have it and can build on it, whew! as for the meeting, well hey, i don’t want to jinx it, and i did mention the blog…but we had a lot of laughs and great ideas were tossed around. so thanks again for your pickmeup, will keep you posted!
i don’t really have the luxury to write today (as usual) so i again will make it petite and sweet! all the pics posted today are of the apartments i visited in paris and recommend. if you’re going, definitely check into it, you’ll feel like a local. i loved every second of it! of course fresh flowers make all the difference, dahling!
now i have to get my site to be what i know it could be, making pages for these and getting it PhAtTeNd uP!! if only i’d studied html instead of art history! if you want more info on any of these apts, check the sites below. they’re all really reasonable!
and i’m not so into kitchens but this one did get me!
i didn’t take any of the above pics. they’re from
and
http://www.myrahoeferdesign.com
thanks heddy…(my blogging friend who pushed me to go meet myra. turned out my apartment faced hers. paris is a small weird wonderful world)!
oh yeah, and one more, this one i did take the pics but should have let her! she shoots for Elle Decor and rents out this space, wild to find in paree!
more later!
this has been a new york minute
bon soiree! i have exactly one minute to post this so i’m gonna make it short and sweet! tomorrow i have the hugest meeting with Citicorp(!) about my trips. can you believe?! only in ny. anyway i spent today trying to find something appropriate to wear and i’m off to their office at high noon tomorrow. tonite i have to work on the material! i’ve always crammed at the last minute! damn! anyhow i realized last nite that this is my blogging anniversary so i had to just STOP and celebrate with you all. thank you for coming and all the sweet things you say. i hope we change the world one blogger at a time! today i met amy from designda for lunch. just starting to fly, making a very important mark, for sure! trying to believe she can really do it. i love how we celebrate each other…keep on truckin!
these are some pics i’m using for the brochure…suddenly i am all nervous and don’t think anything’s right!, the pressure! don’t worry i’ll try to snap out of it!!
i have a dream
and don’t want to wake up from the state i’m in. still feeling the effects, still making plans to go deeper. funny when you travel, you never know what’s going to come of it. for me it seems i found a new passion in affordable real estate. no one believed me that there were apartments for about 150,000 euros available in the heart of paris. ( i happen to be a bargain huntress despite my lust for finery) . going thru my pics from the trip i see i was definitely out to prove them wrong. i wish i could buy them all and start my own little paris apartment biz right now, but if i can’t, maybe you can!?
this is what got me started, imagining a little place to call chez moi…
i started obsessing and searching out agencies in all the different neighborhoods.
this is just the tip of the iceberg!
you’ll have to excuse my pics, they were taken thru windows
i mean take your pick!
this one below is the most expensive topping 200g’s but hey, it’s so cute, it’s worth the little extra! happy hunting!!
oh and of course i have to throw in my bit of parsian gaiety wherever i can find it. i spent time with my nieces who were dressed as pirates for a local parade. to me they looked like they were ready to have their portraits painted in 1740′s france! yes, i know, auntie claudie is suffering from dimentia!! somebody stop me!
oh and politically:
you can take the girl out of Paris…
ok so i’m from jersey, what can i say? maybe i was there in another life with you all? maybe we stormed the bastille or lived at versailles? whatever it is i’m happy we all share this passion for paree!
don’t worry, i won’t stop posting pics from the trip. i did take them for the books but it’s such a long arduous process and so much more fun to show YOU!
for now tho, back in nyc, figuring out what to do with the store and just seeing life from a new perspective. i never imagined 30 days would make such a difference but hopefully i’ll keep some of the more imp’t things i learned. today it’s how everyone was on their bikes: they don’t ride the wrong way, don’t talk on the phone, stop at the lights, blah blah blah…i’m gonna try that!
so my readjustment time is pretty much wearing off, but i’m determined to use my camera here and find beauty or things that remind me wherever i can. and if i squint i can avoid ny’s roadkill and pretend i’m you know where…
this is on 8th street, st marks…what a difference a flower would make!…here’s a few from paris for inspiration!
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ca va for now!
oh by the by, i won this from my wonderful blogging friend, Joy. It was waiting for me when i got home and as fate would have it, i have just the person for it. so joy, know that this is going to a friend in need. i think it really will cheer her up so thank you!
