LA DOLFINA

Does it again!     I love the idea of using a classic secretary as a make-up table, especially in the bathroom.  I have a chinoiserie wooten desk that I use as a make-up table in my bedroom and it works beautifully.   (Entire article scanned from House Beautiful Magazine Dec/Jan 2011) I adore anything and everything Windsor Smith and this home is no exception.  Every detail is beautiful and so well executed.  If you've ever dreamed of having a space in your home that has the inimitable Windsor Smith vibe well it looks like it's now within your reach!  

  I just love seeing a beautifully styled bar.   I've been longing to do one in my home for years and I don't even drink! My friend Gina and I used to wax poetic about setting one up of our own when our kids were grown and out of the house. This one belongs to my friends Eddie & Jaithan. Because I'm not a drinker I really don't know the basics of setting up a bar and have been accused of  choosing a wine based on it's label. I have fond memories wandering the aisles of Bevmo admiring all the liquor bottle eye candy  all the while making mental notes about which ones I would one day come back for.       I actually have several spots in my home that are  just waiting to be transformed into cocktail central.      I even have this exact bar cart currently in my Dining Room.  I also have collected a stash of fabulous crystal decanters .  What, you ask, am I waiting for? Maybe I'm afraid that when my coll...

While on our walk this morning my husband and I stumbled upon a treasure.  (I still need to wash it off)     We rushed home to borrow our neighbor's wheel barrel and wheeled it directly into our backyard where it found the perfect spot!   This is the enclosure we built out of corrugated metal to hide our garbage cans.  I want to hang the abalone shells all along the top edge and then drape it with white lights for some coastal Christmas charm. They say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 

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 ...