LA DOLFINA

pulling things together for my  Thanksgiving Table.  It's in the conceptual stage right now. I've been throwing things together to help inspire my table top vignette. It's sort of a "beautiful mess" as my friends Eddie & Jaithan like to call it.  We haven't hosted Thanksgiving for several years and I'm really excited! It's extra special too because it's the first Thanksgiving that our son comes home from college! My Mom told me that the Holidays take on extra meaning when your kids come home. I think she's right as I've never felt more in the holiday spirit even though it's hotter than a summer day in the Bay Area today.   I'm even inspired by these turtle shells! I picked up these gorgeous Ikat napkins on sale several years ago at Anthropologie which are the inspiration for my color scheme. I bought these yellow Tiffany & Co. cachepots last month at an estate sale and am thinking of filling them ...

Image via Trouvais  Laundry is so much easier these days... especially since I bought this great new industrial hamper from Restoration Hardware Image via Trouvais I love how they are bringing it back into the modern laundry room.  It's available in 3 sizes       Thankfully the smallest size worked perfectly for us since we don't have a laundry room. We have a laundry closet! Another space saving find of late are the new 3-in-1 laundry sheets! I don't know how I ever lived without them! They go from the washer into the dryer.   And voila, a fresh load of laundry is ready to carry into my room to fold and put away. We recently updated our little laundry closet. We removed the upper cabinets and found the laundry definition at wonderfulgraffiti.com I find the whole experience of doing the laundry so much simpler and more enjoyable now with less stuff.  We are looking forward to buying new front loading machines so we can eventually add a co...