Do you love MidCentury Modern? January 2, 2023This has been a rapid trip through some of the styles impacting design in the middle part of the twentieth Century. We saw Art Deco yielding to the more organic...
Eleven Great Reasons to Buy More Earrings January 12, 2022To Buy or Not To Buy? Some of us don’t need REASONS to buy more earrings- we just indulge! For the rest, here are some great ways to explain to...
Abandoning Fast Fashion May 3, 2021Fast Fashion can feel so fun- who doesn't love new clothes! But the ecological cost of a rapid turn-over of inexpensive garments is staggering. Here are my self-challenges as a...
How Fiestaware Dishes Inspire Us March 29, 2021On a cold winter day in January, 1936, at the Pittsburgh China & Glass Show, everyone was agog over the new china line from the Homer Laughlin China Company. Fiesta...
What Inspires Us- Frank Lloyd Wright March 1, 2021Hollyhock House is a gorgeous Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house featuring multiple interpretations of a hollyhock in concrete, glass and metal. Simply stunning!!