Birthday Wishes

Climbing Hydrangea

Catmint

Bleeding Heart

Orange Begonia

Aurinia, "Basket of Gold"

Astilbe

Helleborus, "Christmas Rose"

Attic in the Clouds

I absolutely love this space. I love the shiny wood floors, the white wood paneled ceiling. I LOVE the sign that says "Marie's Dress Shop". Something like that is a must find. I already have some ideas brewing. This picture has so much inspiration in it for me! But now, on with the practicals!

An all white, all wood attic is sooooooo dreamy.

THE TAILORING AND CRAFT STATION

Exactly what I'd like for the thread! This is much like what our space can be like as the ceiling seems like an attic here. 

Nice open spacing and a clean, white palette for the imagination to wander!

LOVE the magazine rack in here. Must have a place for mags.

Also, really love the use of wall space here.

I have always wanted a wrapping station. I'd really like to have an all-purpose table adjacent from the sewing station for these kinds of goodies. I love the use of wallpaper here as well.

This is a little busy and frilly for me, but, what I do like about it is the curtain in front of the table. A different pattern, but the idea is great.

Love the peg boards and simple shelving.

Exactly what I'd like to have in front of the sewing station, perhaps more compact.

NURSERY TO CHILD'S ROOM

I just love these colors, linens, old wood. Breathtaking...

Again, the all white and the blue for an attic seems so perfect.

It's like being "up in the clouds"!

This is precious.

Imagination abounding!

More grown up. This is really doable.

I can see this already!

The color palette I love, and the beds are a great idea.

Dreamy Garden

Aquilegia Dove

Thyme praecox Coccineus

Vinca minor Illumination

Ground Cover

Echinacea Twilight

Happy Returns Daylily

Leslie Renee Daylily

Butterfly Bush White Profusion
(Buddleia davidii)

Black Eyed Susan Indian Summer
(Rudbeckia hirta)

Balloon Flower Fairy Snow White

Astilbe thunbergii Straussenfeder
For a shady area or under a tree.

Vibernum

Possible hedge.

A Dreamy Kind of Great Room

Wall art. This would be in a Cherry wood or Mahogany frame. If I can find some kind of aircraft lithography or original engineering of a jet that would be ideal!

Love: Tailor sofa from Crate and Barrel.



White Tulips.



Pirouette Chair from Crate and Barrel. Covet covet drool drool.

Starburst Bowl from Crate and Barrel. Never have I dug C & B this much. But this particular ensemble kills me!

I have always preferred rugs to be soft and fluffy. This is the one for me. Flokati becomes a bit harsh after the years. Something closer to a plush burber is purrrrfect.

Live Here.

Really really in love with this. The SHELVING!

The white tile back splash and the perfect touches of green...

I have red in my kitchen now. Though I do love it, I am pulled toward light green lately: like a pistachio green. But I do love the red here as I've created in my previous kitchen. Very Italian country.... Though I am definitely ready for pistachio green touches in my next kitchen!

Buy this here.

A Dreamy Day.

"Over The Rainbow/ Wonderful World" medley:

by Isreal Kamakawiwo'ole: followed by:

"In My Daughter's Eyes":

by Martina McBride

I wanted this event to dream up imaginings for girls and boys. I wanted them to feel the magic of possibility, the fairytale you can jump into: and they did!

Conceptual art is my love of loves. I have produced and designed two of my own shows, and everyday I seek to formalize my creative skills into a solid, living, breathing, auspiciously sustainable work.

I've been challenged, fallen on my head, made countless mistakes, and getting up and hoping I'm wiser from it all, trusting that it was all in order to teach me. Coming back around, stronger with lessons learned, as to why we celebrated this love on this day can be that much more rewarding. No matter what, this day has led me to live the life of my dreams, though I could never have known what details my future would bring, I have continued to follow my heart and my dreams as the core of my purpose, and it has not led me astray. I continue to live the life of my dreams, more fuller, more pronounced. The HOW is the only thing I don't actually know for certain. It's funny that way, isn't it?

I'd Like To Make A Toast: To Dreamy Ingredients!

Our dear friend, Chef Dino Castri, makes our epicurean world 1 million times more incredible. He is from Salento, on the heel of Italy. He has worked in some of the finest kitchens in New York City restaurants, and has owned his own in East Village, which was lauded for both his food and the wine selection. He brings such quality of living to our lives, beautiful conversation, and endless flavors of the freshest, most incredible foods I've ever had. I long for the day that my mother, whom is a remarkable cook herself, can sit down at a meal with and made by Dino. My dream dining room is one that has elements in these environments below, but most of all, meals like those made by Dino Castri, though none shall ever compare.

This is as elegant as I would ever get. I'm not big on the "grand, epic" look in a dining room, as I want the food experience to have a loose, conversational flow to it, not stilted and overly strict. This has soft colors and elements in it's opulence. The windowed walls and french doors are everything, opening nature up to a lavish room will always bring things back to earth.

I like this for a nook. This is happy.

I think the open lighting is important for a formal dining area. This is one of the most important rooms to me, because it begins conversation, and must create flow throughout the evening.... flows and transitions should always be seamless, or the seams must be perfectly defined- in life as much as in art, fashion and entertaining.

Oh, Jane Coslick. Your a Goddess.

Dining OUTDOORS. This is absolute heaven, even if on the small side for tables... tables for me need to be big!!

This is more like it...

And this.... Timothy Corrigan is very opulent. This is a treasure of a space.

Love the dark wood against the clay colored walls and fuchshia hued flowers. It's all about the light.

From VT Interiors. Wonderful big print and spacing simplicity.

Two things: light, and a daughter.

Very sweet, very informal and playful. And of course, lots of light!

In opposition to the informal above, this is every bit formal, "old money" tradition as it comes. I love the chairs, and I love the singular quality. I would love to know what is under that glass on the table!

This is Seleta Hayes Howard's (of Simply Seleta) dining room. She has several pictures of this space on her blog post, but I chose this because it is an intimate shot. And if you enlarge, you can see the perfect shell chandelier she chose. I adore the floppy tulip bouquet in the white urn, with hurricanes in beach rocks on either side. She said on her post that she wasn't super happy with her "railroad style" green chair covers, and had a terrific idea that followed, which I'm curious to know how it will turn out. Although I do think this is just lovely, I also think there is nothing better than linen the color of burlap with a medley of mismatched buttons. I see it, Seleta, I see it!

Mmmmm, simple. Perfect.

This is here if only for the blue dot depression glasses and dried, hanging hydrangea, but the wood finish is gorge.

Quite possibly the best of all worlds, for me as far as color, light, use of the eclectic, and wood warmth against white. The only thing I'd change is the hanging light and the stuff on the mantel.

May all your meals with company be dreamy and candlelit.