Today is the most celebratory time for Christmas at Arlington National Cemetery. I am departing from my usual Thursday post this week.Sometimes I'm in DC for Christmas. If you happen to fly in over Arlington National Cemetery you will see a sight you will long remember- fresh hand-made wreaths with red ribbons on the graves. If there is a new snow, it's even more Continue Reading
Traveling? — What Makes a Boutique Hotel Boutique
Are you traveling for the holidays and staying in a hotel wherever you're going? You may want to know what makes a Boutique Hotel boutique.While a patron of boutique hotels, you'll immediately notice their variety, use of color, sense of unexpected style with personal touches that larger chains forgo. They express creative individuality, which is often lacking Continue Reading
Emerald Green is more than just a color for Christmas
Emerald Green is Pantone's color pick of the year for 2013. What does this mean? It means big marketing hype but it also based on psychology and what this color represents, money (the country is in need of it) and renewal (heralding Spring and hopefully a turn in the economy). Let's hope as emerald green gets tossed around that some of these things will follow in its Continue Reading
Thanks to …
We hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving! Many of us are still on the road traveling and I'm just getting back myself so I'll be short. We were so pleased to see our bold Birds & Birch removable wallcovering used in Tabithashayla's "November" Olioboard and that it had earned 22 loves! Many thanks to Tabitha Shayla! We love seeing how others conceive of using Continue Reading
A Second Spring
Albert Camus said, "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." True, Halloween is over, so is daylight savings time, but the first day of winter is more than a month away on December 22nd, so...I usually become invigorated with the onset of cooler weather and treat it like another spring. In the October 14 Parade, Nate Berkus says about offering Continue Reading
