The Best Time of Year

I really am a primitive lover. I can't believe how deeply I have fallen for the old country, primitive shaker style.

So homemade feeling.

Spacious and simple.

UH! Let me count the ways!

Again, this room will stand as my inspiration for as long as I have a living room with mustard colored walls.

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?