I Spy - Happy Bedding

I love these colors.

Is your bedding happy, 

or is it more serene....

or sophisticated?

Does everything match 

in your bedroom?

Or is it.....?

to see more - hit link below
http://www.ajmoss.com/croscill/hibiscus-croscill/

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18th-Century French Country House (with an ugly kitchen)

This home in Newport, R.I., is a 19th-century copy 

of an 18th-century French country house. 

It sits on eight high-walled acres.

Who doesn't love a walled in estate????

And just get a load of the 93-foot-long swimming pool in the shape of a semicircle.

I love modern art mixed with the old architecture.

I do.

It is how the many Parisians do it,

so it's good enough for me.

But actually, 

I think it lets a space breath 

when you can break up the 'constant' of a traditional style.

Okay,

now here is where I get 'bitcheeee'

Regarding this kitchen-

the only thing in keeping with the home's architecture is the copper pots,

and maybe the French bistro stools.

Are they kidding?

Since they are mixing modern/contemporary...

Do a Poggenpohl kitchen.

 Knock out a wall and look out onto the fantastic gardens....

or do it a classic traditional kitchen.

Like something Joni from 'Cote De Texas' has featured.

Those cabinets are from hunger...yucko.

But I will end on a nice note,

I love the sub zero.

I'm just saying.....

they could have done better!

There are three swimming pools, including this indoor lap pool.

wow!!!

Have a lovely weekend.

I am off to atone for my sins.

For tomorrow is Yom Kippur.

Love to you XXX's

click here to read article in the N.Y.T.
French Kitchen from http://www.veranda.com


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Only For Those Who Love Them...

I'd rather have a goddam horse.
A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

A lovely horse is always an experience.... 

It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words. 

 ~Beryl Markham

...with that being said, 

here are more quotes that are special to me.

It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall.  

~Mexican Proverb

The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears. 

 ~Arabian Proverb

God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no horses.  

~R.B. Cunninghame Graham, letter to Theodore Roosevelt, 1917

Horses - if God made anything more beautiful, he kept it for himself.  

~Author Unknown

A horse doesn't care how much you know,

 until he knows how much you care. 

 ~Pat Parelli

He knows when you're happy

He knows when you're comfortable

He knows when you're confident

And he always knows when you have carrots.

~Author Unknown

Four things greater than all things are, 

Women and Horses and Power and War.

~Rudyard Kipling, "The Ballad of the King's Jest"

A canter is a cure for every evil.  ~Benjamin Disraeli

If your horse says no, you either asked the wrong question, 

or asked the question wrong.  

~Pat Parelli

The hooves of horses!

Oh! witching and sweet

Is the music earth steals from the iron-shod feet;

No whisper of lover, no trilling of bird,

Can stir me as much as hooves of horses

Have stirred.

~Will H. Ogilvie

The daughter who won't lift a finger in the house 

is the same child who cycles madly off in the pouring rain 

to spend all morning mucking out a stable.  

~Samantha Armstrong

A Horseman should know neither fear,

 nor anger.  

~James Rarey

My horse's feet are as swift as rolling thunder

He carries me away from all my fears

And when the world threatens to fall asunder

His mane is there to wipe away my tears.

~Bonnie Lewis

When I bestride him, I soar,

 I am a hawk: he trots the air; 

the earth sings when he touches it; 

the basest horn of his hoof 

is more musical than the pipe of Hermes. 

 ~William Shakespeare, Henry V

...I heard a neigh.  

Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh as that was!  

My very heart leaped with delight at the sound.  

~Nathaniel Hawthorne, 

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - 

strong, powerful, beautiful -

and it has the capability of giving us 

escape from our mundane existence.  

~Pam Brown

A horse is worth more than riches.  ~Spanish Proverb

I love the one below, and it is so very true.
Reading it reminds me, and takes me to the best memories of my life.
Again the early-morning sun was generous with its warmth.  
All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me - 
the snort of the horses as they cleared their throats, 
the gentle swish of their tails, 
the tinkle of irons as we flung the saddles over their backs - 
little sounds of no importance, 
but they stay in the unconscious library of memory.  
~Wynford Vaughan-Thomas



I hope you enjoyed this.
I did very much. 
And now...
I have this post to return to 
should I need another visit.
XXX's

horsie pics - go here
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Sunday.9.12.2010

The roots 


of true achievement 


lie in the will to become 


the best that you can become.


Harold Taylor




have a lovely sunday xxx's



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How Is This For Tastefully Wild?

This is Diane Gordy's work.

I tell you she can do all kinds of design.

In this post are a few examples.

I think that she is so very talented,

with a keen eye for pattern combinations.

This is the black door and trim that I posted about recently.

It is so rich.

I love it.

And this beautiful treatment reminds me of my installation from hell yesterday.

It was an all day install for my fave client.

I had to send most of it back......

I had to use the workroom of the company that I work for.

...And let me tell you....

I was the 'Drapery Nazi' from the dark side yesterday.

And I have now brought in my own workroom......

FINALLY.

I am a real drapery snob.

I can't take what I have been forced to work with.

(tearing up)

It is just too much for me to bear going forward and into another design job.

I know, I know...you can hear the violins playing in the background.

(Did I mention I have the violins all the time?)

You know, I am not a very serious person, I am a really wacky and funny person.

But when it comes to my designs.....I am DEAD SERIOUS.

So, not only was I frustrated with the shit I to sent back to the work-room....

Let's just say that I could go 'on and on' about how the whole thing was a cluster F%&k@!!!

of stupid and lazy mistakes.

(I hate problems that could have been avoided)

Which left me with a steaming pile of crap to deal with. 

This shoots to hell the confidence my client had in me 

(not really, but it's not a good thing).

People in general are freaked out about the high cost of window treatments in the first place,

and then The Mickey Mouse club comes and installs window treatments for ' the little shop of horrors.'

Not a good thing.

Oh, I feel much better......whew.

Thanks for letting me get that out.

I am hoping you are having a better day than moi.

I think I am going to take some advil and go to bed.

XXX's

Do you think I am over reacting???

hahahah

http://www.dianegordy.com/

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