Ever Have One Of Those Days.....

that turned into three ?

I just finished a long complicated post , 

with pictures, lotza' typed words and explanations.....

and my computer BURPED!

Everything disappeared. 

FOREVER!

I can't get it back. It is lost in the blogosphere.

In the black hole of all knowing and all not knowing ....

words and pictures out there just floating for eternity.

I am just trying to breath.....

In with the good ....out with the bad.

In with the good ....out with the bad.

In with the good ....out with the bad.

When I got to work yesterday, it was the same thing only different.

It was 'people' who were malfunctioning/burping.

Emotional Moods, and other unpleasant vibes and words.

I am getting ready for work and will reload the entire post tomorrow.

But now... I am reloading my mind set for today.

I am just trying to breath.....

In with the good ....out with the bad.

In with the good ....out with the bad.

In with the good ....out with the bad.

I am envisioning all good.

Surrounding myself with love and protection.

I am surrounding all I encounter today (including you) with love and protection.

:)  XX's

I am off tomorrow and am going to the DCOTA to see Miles Redd at the Century Showroom.

AND.....Play with and listen to Claudi Strasser's schtick at Pierre Deux.

And that should feel good.

Don't you think?

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Let John Saladino Transport You Too!

Always...

It is in the details.

I tore this room's picture out of a magazine, and have had it for years and years.

It is as timeless today as it was stunning, when it was first published.

I would still love to live in it.

His work transports me to another place and time.

Look at the fabulous dutch door.

Perfect for your horse. He can peek his head in to wake you.

A personal dream of mine.

The work around the fireplace mantle is divine.

I have attempted to recreate these sheer shades here in Florida to no avail.

I have shown pictures, every workroom tells me they can do it.

(and they are the top workrooms)

They can not.

Yes John Saladino  has his own line as well.

How can a sophisticated eye not love this chair?

And Yes....he has his own line of furniture.

John Saladino is highly educated and a gifted Interior Designer, Architect, and Landscape Architect.

Mr.Saladino does Corporate work as well.

Like Residential......

from the 'dirt up.'

The Architecture, the Landscape, and finally the blank canvas that is your new home's interior.

Corporate.

So, what do you think? 
Could you live in any of these spaces?
Does any space in particular speak to you?
Will you take something from this post and add it to your home?
XXX's Have a great day!


His Philosophy.

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Practice Compassion ... Purple Orchids Work Well

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. 

If you want to be happy, practice compassion." 
Dalai Lama

On Halloween I wore my famous pirates costume to work.

It really is fabulous, even if I do say so myself . I look cute in it, with my make-up done in a  theatrical manor, the red jacket all the pearls and gold chains etc.

It looks like a real stage costume.

*

Now, my boss happens to be an owner of this HUGE business. She was so sweet on Halloween to everyone. But to me she said; " I have never seen anything so cute", "Renee, you look adorable in that costume!"

At the end of the day when things were winding down ....

(I will refer to my boss as 'Laura' - you may need to remind me later that I decided to call her 'Laura')

Laura came into the 'bull pin', (where sales people 

hang out waiting for their turn on the floor) which she never does -  and I was on the schedule to work until 8pm.

Laura said; "you really look so cute that you should go to your Halloween party earlier rather than later."

HUH?

Such sweetness.

And today I did not write a sale, but I do have a few House Calls (design jobs) in the works,

and Laura knows that.

But YOU know...until they sign and buy -  it is only 'drawings and fabric swatches.'

And I need to write business to keep my job.

*

Today at the end of the day I was outside having an evil ciggie break and

Laura said to me; "Are your people coming in tomorrow to buy?"

" I don't want them trying to take advantage of you."

Did Laura say 'take advantage of me?'

That is so very much not the style I know her to have. That was sincere concern , and she meant it.

Awwww....really, (so nice) I thought she might say;

 "If you don't pick your numbers up this position will not work out"

You can imagine how relived I was. I felt all warm inside towards her.

So, it is a funny thing that it was just this morning that I brought Laura a purple orchid from my garden, and I put it in an old vintage silver creamer that I have just like the one in this post.

Laura works too hard, and she works ALL THE TIME.

I do not know how she deals with the stress.

Once in a while she loses her 'GRACE'...but she is entitled.

*Everyone needs someone sometime.

The gesture made her happy. Laura smiled and thanked me.

xx's

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OH SUSANNAH, DON"T YOU CRY FOR ME...FOR I COME FROM ALABAMA WITH A BANJO ON MY KNEE....

suzani's

The reason for the title is to help you memory challenged gals out there remember the pattern name.

Suzani.

I am challenged daily with remembering names.

For instance, there is a woman that I regularly see, she doesn't look like her name.

Do you know what I mean ? 

Every time I would run into her I would call her by the wrong name. The same wrong name every time.

Debbie.

Her name is 'Diane.' But she looked like a 'Deb.'

As you might imagine this was a tad embarrassing for me.

Finally I decided to use something that my first boss taught me.

' Name association.'

Anyway, back to Debbie... Oh, I meant to say DIANE.

Desperate and embarrassed at this point I was forced to use 'name association.'

Here is how I did it.

Diane is 'loaded' , not on booze, with money. Her husbands.

She dresses over the top. Everything is the most expensive that you can find.

She drives a JAG, her hair is always coiffed perfectly, and she is thin and tanned (or sprayed tan).

She sports a golf ball sized diamond on the hand she wears her Presidential  Rolex. On the other hand, ears fingers etc she wears the latest trend in fine jewelry.

Did I mention she is (on the surface anyway) very very nice?

No really, she is nice.

I have never seen her face move out of a slight smile when she is talking with other people.

She has had 'work' done. I know that.

Diane, like me, is 'Jewish Lite.'

Hence the name I finally gave her to remember her real name.

PRINCESS DIANA.

Ta dah!!!!!

F@$^ ing Brilliant!

Easy as pie.

I have never forgotten her name since.

ps guys...I maybe Jewish, but I am no Princess.

(only in my dreams)

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The pattern on these pieces is called a Suzani Pattern.

I am digging it. They are so very sixties.

So 'Serendipity' , NYC (a restaurant)

Someone please pass me their frozen hot chocolate please.

I just need a sip!!!!!

Oh yeah, about Suzani Patterns;

(oh susannah...don't you cry for me)

The word 'Suzani' is the Persian or Farsi word for needle and refers to textile panels embroidered with silk thread. The suzani was an integral part of a woman's artistic expression in Central Asia for hundreds of years. Traditionally, as soon as a girl was born her mother would start embroidering the suzani for her. As the daughter grew older, she would join in the process. The suzani would eventually become a part of her dowry and be used to decorate her home.

They are HOT HOT HOT right now.

I dig them.

Do you like the pattern?

How do you remember names?

I just used this pattern in a different color-way on some pillows on the job I installed yesterday.

I will take pictures and SHOW &TELL you later.

xxx's to my friends out there.

 I am off today, and my feet will be up. :)

* credits:

the boots are from : www.shoeblog.com  www.stanistandesign.com

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What Do You Say?

Do you think this was a good a good choice for a lamp on this table? 

Do you like the black table in this room?

*meow meow, where's my bowl of milk?

Sorry so short tonight , gotta go to work very early for a whole house installation tomorrow.

This house and these people are why I went into the business.

I love doing homes, particularly when most of it arrives all at one time.

It is so exciting!!!

Everyone is excited.

Just like it says on my sidebar,

I am a designer because I want to make a persons home their favorite place to be in the world.

Even after going on vacation, I want them to feel that their house looks and feels better than anywhere else.

I love what I do.

Especially when the clients are nice, pretty to look at, and COOL people.

Tomorrow I will be in my bliss. 

xx's RF

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Feed Your Faith And Your Fear Will Starve To Death

It will be a cold day in hell when I wake up fearless.

I struggle with fear.
Fear of the unknown.
Fear of not making my sales numbers at work, and then what will happen?
What will happen if I lose my job?
The economy is weak and people are not beating furniture showroom doors down to buy design services and furniture.

Yesterday I was on an emotional roller-coaster.
I had  meetings with two clients who bought nothing. One of them was an antique dealer and everything I showed him he thought was 'poop'. And well, yes, compared to furniture from 150 years ago it is.

But he and his wife still had taste in their rectums.....and I mean that in the nicest way.
You would have to live here to 'get ' what I am talking about. Boca Raton is a very tough environment.
Possibly the most difficult customers in our country. All they care about is their ADDRESS $$$, and their cars $$$, and their jewelry, their hand bags, and how little they can spend to give the impression that they are millionaires or billionaires.

The other client brought in his newly divorced ( 25 year old) ex-wife who is a sexy, gorgeous, skinny, with a boob job. a bombshell with her shirt open to her navel

  ....and still nothing was cheap enough.
I was showing him 2 Sherill Sofa's that were all upholstered beautifully. They were coordinated to go with his oriental carpet. The floor plan and everything was great.
He liked all of it. He just refused to pay for it.

CHINA, and( it rhymes with) 'Rooms To Blow'  have ruined us. People WITH money don't seem to care
anymore about fine quality. Forget 'fine' quality, they don't even want to pay for good quality.
As far as I am concerned, the furniture from some of these cheapo furniture places is worse than what we used to put in model homes. It wasn't furniture, it was just fashion to explain the space in a home.
If you were unlucky enough to buy the model home with all the furniture in it, and were unlucky enough to get the furniture WET.....IT WOULD EXPAND TO TWICE IT'S NORMAL SIZE.

In just 2 hours I have to show up for work and try to talk to strangers and sell myself. I am feeling beaten up from yesterday.
Today will take some work on my FAITH.
Will things be better today??? (oh please, please,please)

 Fear puts hopelessness in my heart.
I must remember that
"Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers;
fear disheartens, faith encourages"


I love you guys.
xx's RF

credits:
prozaciswack.blogspot.com
www.ccel.org

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A Barge And A Bash At Vizcaya In Miami

A (formal) Halloween Bash at sundown on October 24th 2009.

I have mentioned a few times that Halloween is my favorite holiday.
This weekend I wish I could go back to Vizcaya again.
I went as a small girl a few times and I wanted to share it with you.
I want to see the home and the grounds again, but what I really want is to go to the BASH!!!!

The barge and most big structures are made of coral.
Which means ...it is all TEXTURE.

I remember this the clearest.

How cool it is to swim in and out of  one's home!

John Deering. It is his house.

The process.
You have to understand....Florida was a remote and difficult jungle to deal with.
You had to be  pretty ambitious to get this task completed.

The tour guides.....

Now you know if these woman were around today, THEY WOULD BE BLOGGING!!!

( and on my blogroll for sure)

Now...this is a formal garden.
Do you think so? Would you visit Vizcaya if you were in Miami?

Let's go inside and look around.

Check out the ship chandelier.

Would you want to go to a Halloween Bash at VIZCAYA with me if you could ????

I wish we could!!!!
And all dressed up too.
It is the closest thing to a masquerade ball that I will get to this year.

xx's RF

I am trying to get my 21 yr old daughter to go.
She is in her last year at  the Univ. of Miami.
If I were her...........nothing would keep me away. :) :) :) :)


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New WPBT2 Documentary to Detail Unique History of Miami’s National Historic Landmark

Narrated by Actor Andy Garcia 

*I went to Miami Beach High With Him.

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