October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and I suppose that's good if you aren't otherwise aware of it every month. There was a transformation moment when I received a beautiful White House/Black Market catalog which is in recognition of the observance. The cover had a lovely shade of pink for the background and featured a single Blue Morpho, Casart Coverings's Continue Reading
Autumn Leaves and Trees
Seeing Autumn leaves and trees reminds me that fall officially arrived last Saturday but the October issues of HGTV and Country Living took note of the season and beat it by a week. HGTV suggested papering your stair risers and showed a stylized leaf pattern in their illustration.Designer Helen Tucker is quoted as saying that she measured often to insure the Continue Reading
Pretty As A Peacock
Flipping through the pages of the September issue of Better Homes and Gardens, I saw a beauty article titled Pretty as a Peacock. It featured wonderful turquoise, violet, plum, emerald, peacock blue and gold colors accented by one peacock feather.They looked so luscious just like the colors of Casart's French Peacock Damask and Quill patterns. Just look at Continue Reading
Hurricane Isaac and Me
I’ve lived in New Orleans all my life and have dealt with many hurricanes; some bad, most not so bad. I didn’t have a “light bulb” moment, a revelation or epiphany during Isaac but I did learn some things. But first I’ll summarize what I consider is important to know about hurricanes and then I’ll tackle Isaac.Houzz recently had a timely ideabook about disaster Continue Reading
Who Knew?
Who knew how Houzz started? Unpleasant but not unproductive is what Tim McKeough says in September's Architectural Digest about Alon Cohen and Adi Tatarko's renovation experience. They couldn't find the right people to do the work and had difficulty conveying what they wanted. So they took a negative and turned it into a giant positive by launching Houzz where Continue Reading
