Stopped Me in My TRACKS....

I was cruising Bond & Bowery just now, and saw these Murano Barbini Lamps shown with Ostrich feathers and my jaw instantly dropped a bit. I immediately took a screen shot of it, and made it my new desktop wallpaper. If I can't have a bit of hollywood glamor like this in my own home, I am going to look at it on my computer! These are so Auntie Mame... and so Kellie. Well, so "Kellie in another life". A glamorous, eccentric, Mame Dennis life. Can't you imagine these lamps in one of her "hollywood regency gone wild" stages/sets? 

Auntie Mame:  Run along to Ito and tell him to bring me a light breakfast- black coffee and a side car. Oh, oh. And a cold towel for your Auntie Vera.

Patric Dennis:  Is she in the guest room again?

Auntie Mame:  Since Sunday, dear. Now run along to Ito and hurry my tray, darling. Your Auntie needs fuel.

Dwight Babcock:  For nine years, Mame Dennis Burnside, I have done everything in my power to protect this boy from your idiotic, cockeyed, nincompoopery.

Stopped Me in My TRACKS....

I was cruising Bond & Bowery just now, and saw these Murano Barbini Lamps shown with Ostrich feathers and my jaw instantly dropped a bit. I immediately took a screen shot of it, and made it my new desktop wallpaper. If I can't have a bit of hollywood glamor like this in my own home, I am going to look at it on my computer! These are so Auntie Mame... and so Kellie. Well, so "Kellie in another life". A glamorous, eccentric, Mame Dennis life. Can't you imagine these lamps in one of her "hollywood regency gone wild" stages/sets? 

Auntie Mame:  Run along to Ito and tell him to bring me a light breakfast- black coffee and a side car. Oh, oh. And a cold towel for your Auntie Vera.

Patric Dennis:  Is she in the guest room again?

Auntie Mame:  Since Sunday, dear. Now run along to Ito and hurry my tray, darling. Your Auntie needs fuel.

Dwight Babcock:  For nine years, Mame Dennis Burnside, I have done everything in my power to protect this boy from your idiotic, cockeyed, nincompoopery.

Where to Find it?

There is this Antique Store nearby that I have mentioned before, Nick Brock Antiques. What I have always really liked about the exterior of this shop is the very neoclassical styled planters in front. What's more, I really like the sculpted boxwoods in them and the river rocks hiding the soil. It is so orderly and neat and it just looks so sophisticated the way it ties in the metal on the windows.

So when I was surfing the web and came across these other window planters,  they immediately reminded me of my favorite ones from Nick Brock's. They're not identical, but they're pretty good looking! 

Aren't they awesome? They're from Bobo Intriguing Objects. To see more of their products, go here.

Where to Find it?

There is this Antique Store nearby that I have mentioned before, Nick Brock Antiques. What I have always really liked about the exterior of this shop is the very neoclassical styled planters in front. What's more, I really like the sculpted boxwoods in them and the river rocks hiding the soil. It is so orderly and neat and it just looks so sophisticated the way it ties in the metal on the windows.

So when I was surfing the web and came across these other window planters,  they immediately reminded me of my favorite ones from Nick Brock's. They're not identical, but they're pretty good looking! 

Aren't they awesome? They're from Bobo Intriguing Objects. To see more of their products, go here.

Epicurism

I've been gaining weight lately just reading yummy posts on the yummiest blogs.... 

One of my favorite posts I've read lately is called A Sweet History from Privet & Holly. I LOVE local folklore and history and Suzanne showed us just that from a local restaurant, AND THEN she shared a recipe from that restaurant AND she has the most delicious photographs that she took of she & her mom making a sweet Blueberry Tart....

image: Privet & Holly

And then there was another restaurant adventure that made me drool, this time from Everton Terrace. Instead of desert,  Everton Terrace shared with us the meals she and her family had at the St. Francis and OH.MY.GOSH. I know I've grown up when the dish that got me most excited was the plate of Fresh Vegetables.... And like Privet & Holly's images, Everton Terrace's own snapshots of their meals were AMAZING. These two girls might have a future in food photography if they're not careful!

above two images: Everton Terrace

So, because I am not the cook, or the restaurant goer of late, I give you my humble ode to yumminess.... Just some stuff that I like...cheese and jam and french bread....yummm! But If I had that to go with steamed farm vegetables and a blueberry tart, THAT would be perfection!

collage by cashon & co: click image to enlarge

From Top to Bottom:

Leaf tray by Buccellati; Cow's Milk Cheeses: 1. Carmody Reserve by Bellwether Farms 2. Hooligan Cheese by Cato Corner Farm 3. Grayson from Meadow Creek Dairy in Virginia 4. Red Hawk by Cowgirl Creamery 5. Apple Mostarda by zingermans.com; Hollywood Regency styled house in Beverly Hills, called the Virtue House built on 1960 by architect James Dolena; Grey Goose Le Ctiron Vodka. 

Epicurism

I've been gaining weight lately just reading yummy posts on the yummiest blogs.... 

One of my favorite posts I've read lately is called A Sweet History from Privet & Holly. I LOVE local folklore and history and Suzanne showed us just that from a local restaurant, AND THEN she shared a recipe from that restaurant AND she has the most delicious photographs that she took of she & her mom making a sweet Blueberry Tart....

image: Privet & Holly

And then there was another restaurant adventure that made me drool, this time from Everton Terrace. Instead of desert,  Everton Terrace shared with us the meals she and her family had at the St. Francis and OH.MY.GOSH. I know I've grown up when the dish that got me most excited was the plate of Fresh Vegetables.... And like Privet & Holly's images, Everton Terrace's own snapshots of their meals were AMAZING. These two girls might have a future in food photography if they're not careful!

above two images: Everton Terrace

So, because I am not the cook, or the restaurant goer of late, I give you my humble ode to yumminess.... Just some stuff that I like...cheese and jam and french bread....yummm! But If I had that to go with steamed farm vegetables and a blueberry tart, THAT would be perfection!

collage by cashon & co: click image to enlarge

From Top to Bottom:

Leaf tray by Buccellati; Cow's Milk Cheeses: 1. Carmody Reserve by Bellwether Farms 2. Hooligan Cheese by Cato Corner Farm 3. Grayson from Meadow Creek Dairy in Virginia 4. Red Hawk by Cowgirl Creamery 5. Apple Mostarda by zingermans.com; Hollywood Regency styled house in Beverly Hills, called the Virtue House built on 1960 by architect James Dolena; Grey Goose Le Ctiron Vodka. 

My Idea of Green

If I am going to celebrate nature, I am going to do it like Marilyn above: In style. *insert your own laugh here. 

Okay, but really. I have found some really beautiful and cool things that are not truly "green" maybe by recycled standards, but they definitely celebrate nature and all it's beauty. Here are some of my favourite examples. Examples of glamorous, earthy, pieces....

Coasters from Anthropologie

The Shroom Cuff by NAGA Jewelry from Vivre

Grant Dawson "mangrove" serving set from Neiman Marcus

(image: source unknown)

I snapped this picture from a local neighborhood boutique Merge last fall. The necklace is stunning, but essentially it's just rocks! (well, okay, minerals...) So cool!

Vera Wang gold beaded leaf necklace with silk tie, Fall 2009

Assortment of rings from InStyle April 2010

My Idea of Green

If I am going to celebrate nature, I am going to do it like Marilyn above: In style. *insert your own laugh here. 

Okay, but really. I have found some really beautiful and cool things that are not truly "green" maybe by recycled standards, but they definitely celebrate nature and all it's beauty. Here are some of my favourite examples. Examples of glamorous, earthy, pieces....

Coasters from Anthropologie

The Shroom Cuff by NAGA Jewelry from Vivre

Grant Dawson "mangrove" serving set from Neiman Marcus

(image: source unknown)

I snapped this picture from a local neighborhood boutique Merge last fall. The necklace is stunning, but essentially it's just rocks! (well, okay, minerals...) So cool!

Vera Wang gold beaded leaf necklace with silk tie, Fall 2009

Assortment of rings from InStyle April 2010

NOT too Soon For School, wailed one LLama Ridin-Bloggin-Mama

(both images courtesy of Nordstrom, Spring 2010)

Oh how I wish this was me right now....standing there in some lucite-block heels, unwrapping a FABULOUS sculpture ... I'd be happy, my son would be happy with all that bubble wrap... we'd all be happy! 

But alas, I've been up to my neck in work and while I do enjoy it, I really miss my time blogging and keeping up with my on-line buddies. I'm hesitant in thinking I'll ever take a blog-vacation because I perpetually say to myself "this weekend you are going to do nothing but relax and browse and read and catch-up.... on-line and off-line...." but alas....that hasn't transpired yet.

But pretty soon school starts for us-- actually,  in exactly 39 hours, 43 minutes..... and I am looking forward to our entire familial unit being on a routine and back on schedule... homework, early bed-times, milk instead of soft-drinks... brothers who hug instead of bicker, mothers who blog instead of snicker.....

Okay, that sounded pretty darn good. Dr. Seuss might be kind of smiling down on me on that one.

So.... to follow the wisdom of George Costanza, I will leave on a high note.....

Until then my friends! 

Meeting at George's office. His Boss, Mr. Kruger, is speaking.

Kruger: According to our latest quarterly thing, Kruger Industrial Smoothing is heading into the red. Or the black, or whatever the bad one is. Any thoughts? 

George: Well, I know when I'm a little strapped, I sometimes drop off my rent check having forgotten to sign it. That could buy us some time.

Kruger: Works for me. Good thinking, George.

Co-worker 1: Alright, George.

Co-worker 2: Way to go man.

George: Or we don't even send the check and then when they call, we pretend we're the cleaning service. Heh heh. "Hello? I sorry, no here Kruger."

Kruger: Are you done? Silly voices, c'mon people, let's get real.

Co-worker 1: Good one.

Co-worker 2: That was bad.

New scene.

George and Jerry are at the coffee shop.

George: I had 'em, Jerry. They loved me.

Jerry: And then?

George: I lost them. I can usually come up with one good comment during a meeting but by the end it's buried under a pile of gaffs and bad puns.

Jerry: Showmanship, George. When you hit that high note, you say goodnight and walk off.

George: I can't just leave.

Jerry: That's the way they do it in Vegas.

George: You never played Vegas.

Jerry: I hear things.

New scene.
Office meeting at Kruger Industrial Smoothing.

Kruger: ...And it gets worse. The team working on the statue in Lafayette Square kind of over-smoothed it. They ground the head down to about the size of a softball, and that spells trouble.

George: Alright, well why don't we smooth the head down to nothing, stick a pumpkin under its arm and change the nameplate to Ichabod Crane?

Everyone at the meeting breaks out in laughter.

George (getting up and leaving): Alright! That's it for me. Goodnight everybody.

New scene.
George and Jerry are at Jerry's apartment.

George: I knew I had hit my high note so I thanked the crowd and I was gone.

Jerry: What did you do the rest of the day?

George: I saw "Titanic". So that old woman, she's just a liar, right?

Jerry: And a bit of a tramp if you ask me.

New scene.
Kruger's office. George enters, seeing nobody but Mr. Kruger.

George: Hey. Where is everyone?

Mr. Kruger: They're all off the project. They were boring. George, you are my main man.

George: I am?

Mr. Kruger: I don't know what it is, I can't put my finger on it, but lately you have just seemed 'on'. And you always leave me wanting more.

George: This is a huge project involving lots of numbers and papers and folders.

Mr. Kruger: Ah, I'm not too worried about it. Let's get started.

George: Okay.

Mr. Kruger: George? Check it out. (He begins to spin around in his chair) Three times around, no feet.

George: And?

Mr. Kruger: All me.

New Scene.

Jerry: Alright. So how's the two-man operation at Kruger?

George: Two-man? It's all me. Kruger doesn't do anything; Disappears for hours at a time, gives me fake excuses. This afternoon I found him with sleep creases on his face. The only reason I got out to get a bite today was that he finally promised to buckle down and do some actual work. (turning around, George sees Mr. Kruger at a booth eating a piece of cake) Oh, I don't believe this. This is what I have to put up with, Jerry. (He walks over) Mr. Kruger? Who said he was going to do some actual work today? Who?

Mr. Kruger: I'm not too worried about it.

George: Well I am. Couldn't you try to go through some of that stuff I put in your shoebox?

Mr. Kruger: Alright, alright I'm going.

George (to Jerry): Huh-ho! Have you ever seen anything like this?

Jerry: Never.

New scene.
Mr. Kruger and George are burning the midnight oil. George is working, Mr. Kruger is bouncing a ball against the wall and catching it. George is percolating.

George: Would you mind helping me out with some of this stuff?!?

Mr. Kruger: You seem like you've got a pretty good handle on it.

George: No! I don't! Don't you even care? This is your company! It's your name on the outside of the building! Speaking of which, the 'R' fell off and all it says now is K-uger!

Mr. Kruger: K-uger, that sounds like one of those old-time car horns, huh? K-uger! K-uger!

George: Huh-ho! Oh! You are too much, Mr. Kruger! Too much!

Mr. Kruger (getting up to leave): Thank you George, you've been great. That's it for me.

George: Oh no, you're not going out on a high note with me Mr. Kruger!

Mr. Kruger: It's K-uger!

George: No! No!

Mr. Kruger: Goodnight everybody!

This post is dedicated to my dear friend Angie Case, whom without I would have no-one to call when I have a real-life Seinfeld moment, and NO ONE ELSE BUT HER can finish my Seinfeld quotes, flawlessly. "I would drape myself in velvet if it were socially acceptable." 

Ange, YOU ROCK

Jerry: Well, maybe Kruger wasn't for you.

George: But they seem so disorganized....

NOT too Soon For School, wailed one LLama Ridin-Bloggin-Mama

(both images courtesy of Nordstrom, Spring 2010)

Oh how I wish this was me right now....standing there in some lucite-block heels, unwrapping a FABULOUS sculpture ... I'd be happy, my son would be happy with all that bubble wrap... we'd all be happy! 

But alas, I've been up to my neck in work and while I do enjoy it, I really miss my time blogging and keeping up with my on-line buddies. I'm hesitant in thinking I'll ever take a blog-vacation because I perpetually say to myself "this weekend you are going to do nothing but relax and browse and read and catch-up.... on-line and off-line...." but alas....that hasn't transpired yet.

But pretty soon school starts for us-- actually,  in exactly 39 hours, 43 minutes..... and I am looking forward to our entire familial unit being on a routine and back on schedule... homework, early bed-times, milk instead of soft-drinks... brothers who hug instead of bicker, mothers who blog instead of snicker.....

Okay, that sounded pretty darn good. Dr. Seuss might be kind of smiling down on me on that one.

So.... to follow the wisdom of George Costanza, I will leave on a high note.....

Until then my friends! 

Meeting at George's office. His Boss, Mr. Kruger, is speaking.

Kruger: According to our latest quarterly thing, Kruger Industrial Smoothing is heading into the red. Or the black, or whatever the bad one is. Any thoughts? 

George: Well, I know when I'm a little strapped, I sometimes drop off my rent check having forgotten to sign it. That could buy us some time.

Kruger: Works for me. Good thinking, George.

Co-worker 1: Alright, George.

Co-worker 2: Way to go man.

George: Or we don't even send the check and then when they call, we pretend we're the cleaning service. Heh heh. "Hello? I sorry, no here Kruger."

Kruger: Are you done? Silly voices, c'mon people, let's get real.

Co-worker 1: Good one.

Co-worker 2: That was bad.

New scene.

George and Jerry are at the coffee shop.

George: I had 'em, Jerry. They loved me.

Jerry: And then?

George: I lost them. I can usually come up with one good comment during a meeting but by the end it's buried under a pile of gaffs and bad puns.

Jerry: Showmanship, George. When you hit that high note, you say goodnight and walk off.

George: I can't just leave.

Jerry: That's the way they do it in Vegas.

George: You never played Vegas.

Jerry: I hear things.

New scene.
Office meeting at Kruger Industrial Smoothing.

Kruger: ...And it gets worse. The team working on the statue in Lafayette Square kind of over-smoothed it. They ground the head down to about the size of a softball, and that spells trouble.

George: Alright, well why don't we smooth the head down to nothing, stick a pumpkin under its arm and change the nameplate to Ichabod Crane?

Everyone at the meeting breaks out in laughter.

George (getting up and leaving): Alright! That's it for me. Goodnight everybody.

New scene.
George and Jerry are at Jerry's apartment.

George: I knew I had hit my high note so I thanked the crowd and I was gone.

Jerry: What did you do the rest of the day?

George: I saw "Titanic". So that old woman, she's just a liar, right?

Jerry: And a bit of a tramp if you ask me.

New scene.
Kruger's office. George enters, seeing nobody but Mr. Kruger.

George: Hey. Where is everyone?

Mr. Kruger: They're all off the project. They were boring. George, you are my main man.

George: I am?

Mr. Kruger: I don't know what it is, I can't put my finger on it, but lately you have just seemed 'on'. And you always leave me wanting more.

George: This is a huge project involving lots of numbers and papers and folders.

Mr. Kruger: Ah, I'm not too worried about it. Let's get started.

George: Okay.

Mr. Kruger: George? Check it out. (He begins to spin around in his chair) Three times around, no feet.

George: And?

Mr. Kruger: All me.

New Scene.

Jerry: Alright. So how's the two-man operation at Kruger?

George: Two-man? It's all me. Kruger doesn't do anything; Disappears for hours at a time, gives me fake excuses. This afternoon I found him with sleep creases on his face. The only reason I got out to get a bite today was that he finally promised to buckle down and do some actual work. (turning around, George sees Mr. Kruger at a booth eating a piece of cake) Oh, I don't believe this. This is what I have to put up with, Jerry. (He walks over) Mr. Kruger? Who said he was going to do some actual work today? Who?

Mr. Kruger: I'm not too worried about it.

George: Well I am. Couldn't you try to go through some of that stuff I put in your shoebox?

Mr. Kruger: Alright, alright I'm going.

George (to Jerry): Huh-ho! Have you ever seen anything like this?

Jerry: Never.

New scene.
Mr. Kruger and George are burning the midnight oil. George is working, Mr. Kruger is bouncing a ball against the wall and catching it. George is percolating.

George: Would you mind helping me out with some of this stuff?!?

Mr. Kruger: You seem like you've got a pretty good handle on it.

George: No! I don't! Don't you even care? This is your company! It's your name on the outside of the building! Speaking of which, the 'R' fell off and all it says now is K-uger!

Mr. Kruger: K-uger, that sounds like one of those old-time car horns, huh? K-uger! K-uger!

George: Huh-ho! Oh! You are too much, Mr. Kruger! Too much!

Mr. Kruger (getting up to leave): Thank you George, you've been great. That's it for me.

George: Oh no, you're not going out on a high note with me Mr. Kruger!

Mr. Kruger: It's K-uger!

George: No! No!

Mr. Kruger: Goodnight everybody!

This post is dedicated to my dear friend Angie Case, whom without I would have no-one to call when I have a real-life Seinfeld moment, and NO ONE ELSE BUT HER can finish my Seinfeld quotes, flawlessly. "I would drape myself in velvet if it were socially acceptable." 

Ange, YOU ROCK

Jerry: Well, maybe Kruger wasn't for you.

George: But they seem so disorganized....

I Love Rocks!

The mineral Vanadinite from a mine in Mibladen, Morocco

The mineral Flourite on barite, from the Taourit Mine in Morocco

This specimen is an example of bright yellow botryoidal mimetite crystals on brown limonite matrix. Yes, I don't know what any of that means either. But I do think it looks pretty unusual and cool. It was found in San Pedro Corralitos, in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico.

This unique piece of Tourmaline on Quartz is mined from Paprok, Afghanistan

Maybe I should clarify by saying I love "minerals." Seriously. I may be geeky but I have always loved rocks. When I was about 8 my parents gave me a Rock Tumbler for Christmas (well, actually Santa gave it to me.) You put rocks in there and they come out shiny and smooth. We would go to Colorado for vacation when I was young, and we went to the mining towns where we would go "panning" for gold. As shown in the image here, you would get a pan, with small holes in the bottom, and put it in the shallow water where you would scoop up the sediment in the river bed. As you shake the pan, hopefully the lighter dirt falls through and leaves you with your tiny piece of gold - "fool's gold" - Pyrite. If I remember correctly, we would find a tiny piece or two. Then we would hit the souvenir shops of course, where we always took a geode home; whole or cut in half, to reveal the inside crystals. 

Cut and uncut geodes from Mexico

So when I go to places like International Marble Collection (IMC), a supplier of marble and granite, I am in heaven. Of course I am looking for slabs for clients (currently a client is looking for a Quartzite for her kitchen, and there are several different looking kinds. Depends on where and which country it is mined from. It can vary a lot!).  But I can get sidetracked very easily by the incredible patterns and stunning individuality in each slab.

Image a warehouse with rows and rows of natural rock slabs upheaved from the earth, each sliced perfectly even, and all on display. Imagine seeing natural elements from countries all over the world in one place!  This piece above really caught my eye. In a dream world, I would make a bathroom, or any room really, with the walls lined in huge slabs like this. It is it's own artwork. This slab above is mined from India.

The marble shown above is called River Jade and is from Italy. To me it reminds me of Sand Art that you used to get as a kid (different coloured sand trapped between two pieces of glass, and as you turn it, it forms different designs each time).

This piece of granite was incredible to see as a huge slab. I wish I took a picture of the name of it and the country it is from, as I cannot recognize the country flag from here. It is somewhat similar to the Brazilian granite below, as there are iridescent shapes throughout. 

This detailed image is from a granite Aquarama  (it doesn't look like what we typically think of granite, does it?) and is mined from Brazil

For all you people out there who are like me and think that the Italians have the best taste and make everything lovely, God decided to make their natural resources lovely also. You know this already if you have been to that country, especially the coast of Italy, but look at the Onyx that they mine from there. Isn't this just incredible? I can only imagine a fabric made from this slab. The colours and the pattern of the lines, how they bleed into each other so subtly.... Okay, no one steal that idea. I want to make this into a fabric! Ha!

This is a slab from Brazil. I thought that the colour was interesting, but also the large circular shapes. It almost looks like sliced tree roots that have been pressed together and grown together for millions of years, then sliced like bread. Hmphhh....

For all you Francophiles, this marble called Breche de Vendome is mined in France. This has a soft baroque quality to it if you ask me. Almost like a watercolour painted from the colours of roses from a garden in Versailles....

But enough about me and my dribble. Let's see a woman who is in my opinion an artist with minerals. I came upon the website Matthew Studios quite by accident. I think I was looking for some lamps made with minerals. What I found was Katherine Wildt O'Brien who designs the most wonderful lamps shown on her site Matthew Studios. I thought it was interesting to read why she started with lamps:

"Naturally...When I was little, my mother was always coming home with different light fixtures and lamp shades. She would change them out around the house, like most women would change their earrings. I was always amazed, how that could transform a room. I was also transfixed by dimmers! I always thought they had magical powers…still do."

This style above is called the Robert, as an ode to a favorite 70's designer of O'Brien's. If that's not beautiful enough on it's own, look at the finials she puts to her lamps. This one comes with a matching amethyst on hand-rubbed brass base, shown below:

And if it's just finials you're searching for, she's got a whole page to show you of them:

Gosh I wish I had known about her 6 months ago. I have a client and dear friend Dona (whom I have mentioned earlier here , here, AND here). We were looking for some rock-crystal lamps for her formal living room, and we did find the perfect ones designed by Sandy Chapman, shown below.

Then we decided to change out the round shade that came with the lamp to a rectangular shaped shade, almost identical to the one featured on the Gypsum lamp by O'Brien called the Frank Albert, shown below.

When we changed the shade, the small finial that came with the lamp all of a sudden looked to small. Dona looked everywhere for some bigger rock crystal finials. They are not easy to find. She finally found some that worked (after receiving some that were the size of softballs!) and it looks great now. Ah, but if we had known about these!

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!  If you buy the chopper, and the slicer, you will get this extra bottle of Oxy... I mean, wait! --There's more great stuff on her site! When I got to the page labeled "Materials" I got a little giddy. Yeah, that's slightly embarrassing. But I did. But she explains it better than I can.

"When I was a teenager I worked at a Gem-Stone Shop owned by an eccentric West Indian grandmother. She never wore shoes, and wore a hundred beaded necklaces all at once. I thought she was so chic! She taught me a lot about gemstones, and the mystical properties they possess. Today, I always carry a gem-stone in my purse for luck."

So you see, Matthew Studios' products are centered around her love of minerals. And that is why there is more to see than just lamps. She has sconces, finials, and this table above. Named the Gavin, this occasional table is made from Petrified Wood, and as she explains on her site, it is a type of fossil that takes over 100 years to harden and calcify in the earth. 

This is a detailed image of the top of the Gavin table.

So how does O'Brien best sum up her personal style?

"Individuality. I adore a home that showcases unique elements of a person’s interest’s or personality. I love to mix flea-market vintage with modern. The combo keeps a room fresh and energized. Bringing in natural elements, like white hydrangeas, chunks of rock crystal and candles make my home feel cozy."

(I wonder if she had a Rock Tumbler when she was a kid too?!)