I love ETSY, but I know how overwhelming it can be to sort through it and find things. My favorite finds from ETSY is always artwork and today I’m featuring one of my favorite new custom painting shops! Birds of Ashmae can take any picture (it can literally be an iphone snapshot) and make a […]

I loved getting another peek into how a new designer broke into the design world. Last week the NY TIMES did a piece on Avery Leigh Cox who is a Junior designer at Amanda Nisbet Design. {Avery actually painted her own apartments fireplace hot pink! I totally need to see pictures of that!} The article […]

Ok I totally swear this is the last time I discuss my 30th birthday, but you guys wanted pictures and I’m happy to report that I have some to share. My sisters were the master party planners behind this bash and I must say they did an excellent job. There were little teeny details everywhere […]

Today’s IN HER SHOES featured lady juggles many balls in the air. Valorie from Visual Vamp works with interior design clients, styles photo shoots, produces shop displays, does PR at a local home store called Perch and teaches Tango with her husband! Whew! I tried just typing all of that up! Enjoy a peek into […]

A while back I meet the ladies behind Nesting Newbies and they asked me to contribute to one of their latest issues. I was given the assignment of working with a faux e-decorating client that was a young single gal who had recently graduated from college and had a $2,500 to work with. Here is […]

Sorry for the late blog post this morning. I was up a little too late last night celebrating my birthday and I’m wiped this morning. I had a lovely time seeing my family, eating some good food and of course opening presents! Jon surprised me with his gift. All week he had been banging away […]

Today I wake up a year older. I’m not normally excited about birthdays. This birthday was one that I was particularly not very happy about because this lady was leaving her 20s and turning 30! A couple of months ago though I decided I was going to embrace it instead of freak out. My twenties […]

This weekend I had the great pleasure of getting to spend the weekend with my family in the Hamptons! It was lovely and all thanks to my sister’s sweet friends family (Did you get all that? Thank you Foleys!) We left early Saturday morning and arrived after a scenic 2 hour drive to this home: […]