Santa PLEASE add this Dress to my list

Everyone who knows me knows I love peacock feathers, prints, fabric etc... This was listed on Stylehive.

Industrial Pendant Chandelier

Again by Hudson Goods:Industrial Vintage

Industrial Chic

Reclaimed Wood Barrel Chandelier by Hudson Goods

All I want for Christmas are these shoes!

Small Spaces

Bohemian Colorful Chic

Lighting Trends, Wood Beaded

Client Hummingbird Powder Room

Recently papered a clients small powder room in a Hummingbird motif with an aqua background. Name: Vanuatu Twilight. Colorful yet muted. Very whimsical and pretty. This paper is available at Anthropologie but I purchased at www.fabricsandpapers.com. There are several background color choices and you can also order in a fabric. The fabric was featured on Cynthia Rowley's dining room chairs in an old issue of Elle Decor circa 2008.

Client Boys Bedroom

Client boys bedroom. Gold and Silver Rugby Striped wall

Client Master Bedroom Before & After

Dining Befor & After

Client Stripe & Leopard Dining

Client and friend, Tahsin's dining room. Bronze and Gold Stripe with a pewter sheen paired with leopard wall paper below chair rail. The husband was not so sure but once complete he was glad he listened to us! Very elegant with Tahsin's amazing treasures from India and Europe. Meeeooow!

Gotta Live

Client Zebra Dining Chairs

Client chairs had great bones and fine lines but needed an update. We chose a gorgeous indigo blue and gold zebra pattern in a linen finish. These chairs are beyond divine as the head chairs in the client dining room. They mix fabulously with french country dining chairs in a yellow, blue red check rooster pattern and the gold metallic walls. LUV!

Table for Two, Garden Delicious

Hay Hay

Clover Farm Landscape

ROCK!abilly Chic

Stripes Galore

I Am Ready to Make Nice

I know the "yayas" will get this. I/We...don't really have much to prove or be mad about..... I'm ready to make nice.

Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I’m not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I’m still waiting

I’m through with doubt
There’s nothing left for me to figure out
I’ve paid a price
And I’ll keep paying

I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

I know you said
Can’t you just get over it
It turned my whole world around
And I kind of like it

I made my bed and I sleep like a baby
With no regrets and I don’t mind sayin’
It’s a sad sad story when a mother will teach her
Daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger
And how in the world can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they’d write me a letter
Sayin’ that I better shut up and sing
Or my life will be over

I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

What it is you think I should

Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I’m not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I’m still waiting

I

"The Long Way Around"

"The Long Way Around"

My friends from high school
Married their high school boyfriends
Moved into houses in the same ZIP codes
Where their parents live

But I, I could never follow
No I, I could never follow

I hit the highway in a pink RV with stars on the ceiling
Lived like a gypsy
Six strong hands on the steering wheel

I've been a long time gone now
Maybe someday, someday I'm gonna settle down
But I've always found my way somehow

By taking the long way
Taking the long way around
Taking the long way
Taking the long way around

I met the queen of whatever
Drank with the Irish and smoked with the hippies
Moved with the shakers
Wouldn't kiss all the asses that they told me to

No I, I could never follow
No I, I could never follow

It's been two long years now
Since the top of the world came crashing down
And I'm getting' it back on the road now

But I'm taking the long way
Taking the long way around
I'm taking the long way
Taking the long way around
The long
The long way around

Well, I fought with a stranger and I met myself
I opened my mouth and I heard myself
It can get pretty lonely when you show yourself
Guess I could have made it easier on myself

But I, I could never follow
No I, I could never follow

Well, I never seem to do it like anybody else
Maybe someday, someday I'm gonna settle down
If you ever want to find me I can still be found

Taking the long way
Taking the long way around
Taking the long way
Taking the long way around

And Coco

At the Lucketts 11th annual Spring Market I came across a vendor who does WAY cool jewelry. Rita uses vintage pieces of jewelry and re-inspires them in a very hip way. I bought a fabulous bracelet with a vintage broach attached. Rita mentions her website is behind on updating but she is going to send me pics and I will add to the blog. Planning a summer girls get-together showcasing local artists and WINE :0)

DESIDERATA

The Desiderata


Go placidly amid the noise and haste,

and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others,

even to the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexations to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter,

for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble,

it's a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery.

But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;

many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.

Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love;

for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,

it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,

gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.

But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.

Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars;

you have a right to be here.

And whether or not it is clear to you,

no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive him to be.

And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life,

keep peace in your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

Max Ehrmann was an attorney turned philosopher-poet who live in Terre Haute, Ind. He spent his life wrestling with the realities of making a living and following his personal calling to a life of poetry, literature, and thought. He wrote A Prayer, which became a message of hope for thousands, but he is best known for Desiderata, which he wrote for himself, "because it counsels those virtues I felt myself most in need of." Max included this work as part of a personal Christmas greeting in 1933, and Desiderata's power and appeal have continued to reach out to and significantly affect readers ever since.
He died in 1945.

Belle Maison in Pville

Affordable Luxury for the Home. Elegant home furnishings, vintage chandeliers and interior design services. Lisa Lang of Belle Maison recently opened in Purcellville, VA previously from Middleburg, VA. The store is filled with decadent furnishings at fabulous prices. She is a local Round Hill resident and an all around fabulous person! Visiting will definitely will be a regular routine for me!

170 West Main Street * Purcellville VA
540-338-2711

Life is a Gift

Wayne Muller wrote, "Your life is not a problem to be solved but a gift to be opened"

Green Chic

Vintage Vanity, Rustic Reclaimed Wood Beams, Groovy Wicker Chair

Imperial Serene

Trellis textured walls, faux bamboo mirror, creamy muted flooring. A-Mazing!

Urban Modern Loft Dining Room

Marble Pedestal Dining Table, Greek Key Rug, Geometric Walls.

French Geometric

Textured walls, Antique Vanity, Silver Sconces, Dark Wood Floors. LOVE

Vintage Revolution

Kerry McConnell of Vintage Revolution is all things Chic!

Kerry's philosophy on vintage. "Vintage is a way of wearing history, a means by which we can turn the past into the present, even the future. It is also in some respects, fashion’s version of archaeology; every article of clothing has a story to tell—but alas, we have no means to decipher the body language of the garment and thus we will never know the loves, lust, passion and torments it witnessed. Through us old fashion lives again….."

You Aint Seen Nothing Like Me Yet

When the rain is blowing in your face
And the whole world is on your case
I would offer you a warm embrace
To make you feel my love
When the evening shadows and the stars appear
And there is no one to dry your tears
I could hold you for a million years
To make you feel my love
I know you haven't made your mind up yet
But I would never do you wrong
I've known it from the moment that we met
No doubt in my mind where you belong
I'd go hungry, I'd go blind for you
I'd go crawling down the aisle for you
There ain't nothing that I wouldn't do
To make you feel my love
The storms are raging on a rolling sea
Down the highway of regret
The winds of change are blowing wild and free
But you ain't seen nothing like me yet
There ain't nothing that I wouldn't do
Go to the ends of the earth for you
Make you happy, make your dreams come true
To make you feel my love

Turquoise POP