Refreshing the hall bathroom meant new paint. I picked a color that could be a dramatically elegant room with gold and crystal. Don’t you love the way color can add drama and invoke emotions? Paint is such an easy way to make everything look new in your room. My inspiration for a deeper color was from several bloggers who use…
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It’s been an unexpected gift. The Core Four is eating dinner together. Yippee! We are all taking turns making it. Last night we had delivery. Meg really wanted Pad Thai. It’s an unexpected gift. Usually when the girls are home, they aren’t. After all, they are 20 and 21. Away at school, working, friends, they keep their own schedule.Often, there…
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Do you enjoy going to a local coffee shop handbook store like Barnes and Noble for coffee and lingering over decorator books like me? Or do you carry your own to the local favorite? As we all know, that’s out of the question now. While I and other amateur decorators and home stylists may consider it essential others setting the…
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re posted on April 19, 2013 I went through older post looking for something else but found this. Are you tired? It hasn’t been long since we self quarantined though our daughter has been back from Study Abroad, Florence and under a quarantine basically 2 weeks before the public was. There is hope. Week’s end finds me tired of the world….
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My first glimpse of the Guggenheim was unexpected. It was both awe inspiring and a surprise. It was small! It’s a small but magnificent building. Stark white set on a corner of an old exclusive area set across the street from Central Park was not what I expected. But for the exceptional daring design, it would merely be a small…
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