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Friday, November 6, 2009
The French Romance Maven - CLAUDIA STRASSER
at South Florida's Design Center of The Americas , The D.C.O.T.A. in Dania Beach Florida, on November 12th 2009.
The event takes place in the Pierre Deux Showroom (Suite B - 236) at 2:45 PM.
Come if you can.
One can never have too many cheer leaders, or fans.
Right?
The adorable, sweet, funny and modest Claudia will be sharing with all who attend this event
her design secrets.
I am going to meet her at 1:00 PM so we can chum around for a bit before Claudia gets started
(running down the hallways , darting in and out of showrooms while hiding from paparazzi's LOL),
and besides I haven't seen her in in quite a while, we have some catching up to do.
I can't wait to see and hear her do her 'schtik' on Paris Flea Markets.
Miss Claudia will be fabulous.
How exciting will it be to see her signing copies of her book ???
Good things do happen for good people....see ?
Don't worry, I will be taking pictures of our Adventures In Design!!!
Would you come if you could ?
xx's RF
If you do not know Claudia Strasser,
you should.
Claudia's blog:http://parisapartment.wordpress.com/
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Let John Saladino Transport You Too!
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!
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Monday, November 2, 2009
Practice Compassion ... Purple Orchids Work Well
Dalai Lama
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
OH SUSANNAH, DON"T YOU CRY FOR ME...FOR I COME FROM ALABAMA WITH A BANJO ON MY KNEE....
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
What Do You Say?
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Monday, October 26, 2009
Feed Your Faith And Your Fear Will Starve To Death
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.
....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
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Friday, October 23, 2009
A Barge And A Bash At Vizcaya In Miami
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.
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.
Do you think so? Would you visit Vizcaya if you were in Miami?
Let's go inside and look around.
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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It is worth the click!!!!
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About Renée Finberg
I have been in this business since the age of 22.
I love what I do and cannot imagine my life without Design.
Design Challenges are great.
And because of those challenges
I have imported fine antique pieces from Paris,
Designed and Manufactured Furniture,
Created Fantastic Window Treatments,
And solved all kinds of spatial & architectural issues
With my unique style.
If I can't find it, I create it.
My rooms would make excellent movie sets.
I am a visual, tactile and audio sensitive individual.
Creating is what I live for, not math, not spelling, not science.
Just Great Design.
Just imagine how it would be if each of us,
If only for a few hours of everyday,We could be in a space that is our very own.A place that is exactly the way we want it to be
Surrounded by all the things we wanted to see,
The atmosphere we wanted feel, smell and the sound we wanted to listen to.
Private Paradise
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