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“the top 10 most romantic homes in the world in 2012″
Oh my goodness!! Imagine my surprise when our agent sent me this!
This is an annual list released once a year! These houses are selected each February and are
publicized all year!
No one can apply for, nor purchase this advertising!
I feel extremely honored; and I am with some very spectacular company!!
I have had calls from friends from all over who saw it in their newspapers, and even on AOL!
This is sure fun for me!!! And I consider it a big compliment!!
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a new blogger’s dream comes true!
Thanking blogdom!!!!!!
I started a blog last April (I think); and was encouraged by my dear friend Brooke Giannetti of Velvet and Linen.
I will learn how to make those links……(actually Velvet and Linen is in my sidebar and you can click on it!)
My nine year old grandson asked me what a blog was! I really couldn’t answer him. (see previous post comments……
they are wonderful and so informative.)
Well, anyway, I have been a decorator for 41 years (sorry, there are new people who don’t know!) and the thought of a blog had not
crossed my mind………until….way after ……..I discovered the internet!
First thing I did on the internet..(newyorksocialdiary.com).
No one called it a blog….I just knew I liked him; his point of view…..(I also love all the party dresses!!)
(David Patrick Columbia….now a dear friend)
These two things happened at the same time…..the other one was “Pale Male” the blog about the very first red-tail hawks
to nest in Central Park in 50 years, or more! (www.palemale.com)
the author of that one is a photographer for National Geographic.
I read about the hawk’s nest 22 years ago in the Wall Street Journal and sent our daughter (who lived there and was a teacher) on a mission to see this nest! She saw it!
(don’t forget, I am a decorator, not a techie)
So, along I go, discovering fabulous blogs along the way! ”An Aethete’s Lament”!!??!! (I have not recovered!! the best of the best! Lordy! Grad school in decorating right there!
“Home before dark” are you kidding……….you cannot get that education anywhere…….nowhere at all. I am serious. There are so many wonderful blogs!
So I became a blog addict. Then……with Brooke (who when she met me could tell that my favorite thing is to tell stories…..encouraged me to start a blog! Of my own!)
So I did. I thought 3 people might subscribe. 5? maybe.
Sheesh! I am so way too wordy…….the point is this. I did start a blog. Once a week at most is all I could muster; but the fact is; it is one of my favorite things in my whole life! I am a storyteller! I love telling stories more than anything in this world! So here is the audience who have not heard my stories….
and if they don’t like them; one click away! POOF!
Here is the point of this. I received this in my email. This is the reason for this post. This is why I know I am doing the right thing.
This is a new blogger’s dream come true.
I received this from someone far, far away. It made me cry very happy tears….and I asked permission to publish it She said yes.. So: here it is!
This is an example of what makes this whole effort so way worthwhile: THIS:
“Dear Mrs. Bianchi,
my name is Bettina Baldassari, I’m writing you from Italy, where I live with my 5 cats and 5 birds, I found in years.
I just were looking around he web, and I came into your site.
So, let me tell you: that the pictures of your housein S. Barbara are simply BEAUTIFUL, and more, the philosophy that I guess is beyond, that must be your life-style, is what I feel to be
nearest to mine.
So I can’t help to write and say THANK YOU, for your art, and for sharing your inspirations on your blog, that now is among my favorites.
Last year I’ve written and illustrated a book dedicated to the old school book I remember of my childhood, and to the places where I live, that’s the countryside near Ravenna.
Let me send you the link of the book trailer that we made (which I compose and realized the music for too), is just a small thing, but is precious to me, and I’m happy to share it with you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-tZV8Edi8o
So, thank you again, and again.
I send you also a picture of my friends…
And since we still are in Christmas time, my best wishes for you and your family.
Bettina Baldassari
Conselice (Ra)p.s.: Is there a book to order somewhere to know your work better, I mean something like a catalogue?
I would be grateful if you let me know.”That is what she wrote to me.
Guess what? As a decorator, animal lover, and new blogger……..it doesn’t get any better! What a lovely letter and what a lovely thing that I touched a life in my favorite place in Italy……it doesn’t even matter where it is! Somewhere in the world I touched a heart, a visual person, a life.
This made my dreams come true!! Isn’t it astonishing????
Of all the wonderful things about blogging…..nothing means more than the comments.
thank you all so much for your comments……..they mean more than I can ever express!
And then she sent me this picture!!! Of 3 of her cats!
This is the best cat picture I have ever seen in my life! I have a cat sleeping on my lap purring right this moment…… who looks a lot like the last one….. a blue eyed calico. purring away!I wrote her back immediately,
“What a lovely surprise! I love the book; and want to order it!
If you go to my website and click on the “Press” section; and click on the covers of the magazines and books, you can see more! www.mccormickinteriors.com
Thank you so, so much for your lovely comments!!
Penelope”and received from her:
“The real surprise is you, Penelope.
Thank you again, for your kindness, for everything!
I’ve just visited the “press” section you say, on your website – the only one that I didn’t went in yesterday! – and I found there a lot of pictures and interviews that I’m going to read this evening, as I come back home.
The feeling I receive from you is of a pure sense of life, and joy… I can’t tell you why, but sometimes it happens, and I think is when you have a special “thing” in front of you, it could be a poetry, or a movie… or a person, that you don’t even know!
But, in my life it has sometimes happened to me, and I rarely was wrong.
Unfortunately my English is not good enough to assure to me the proper and correct expression of what I meant to say.
Anyway, it has been a great pleasure found you Penelope, I’ll keep on following you on your blog, with a warm thought for you, for this upcoming new year!
Wish the best!
Bettina”This is only one of so many wonderful and loving comments I have received from my readers, especially since my recent family health scare!
Thank God for animals, friends, family, and blogs!!!I love you allPenelope
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I have to push “pause”!
Grandparent’s Day at Crane School Sunday with Poppy (Penelope) 13; and Tommy , 9, and Adam my husband!
It was 80 degrees, if you can believe it!!
I cannot tell you how much fun it is to post a blog every week or so! There is always something I am excited about!! and that has not changed!
What has changed is that there is a member of my family who has developed some medical problems.
I am on call to help with my grandchildrenI can’t even think straight…..let alone…..do my blog!
I know you will all understand.
Also, my assistant who helps with the photos on my blog is having a wonderful time “en vacances” in Kauai surfing!
I will be back……I have four or five (I hope interesting posts) I am just unable to do any at the moment!
Thank you for being my friends……..and I do consider you all my friends…
I have some really exciting things coming up here………(go Brooke! Velvet and Linen!)
We are going to a book signing with my best friends in Palm Beach Florida and Lars and Nadine Bolander.
You may remember the book signing at our house for Lars’ book is where Brooke and Steve and I met!
Lars’ book is ”Lars Bolanders Scandinavian Design”;
and Brooke and Steve will be signing their beautiful book “Patina Style” at the Bolander’s wonderful store in West Palm Beach!!
They are online and have the most unusual and wonderful things
I have ever seen in one store! EVER!!! They have another store in New York in the Design Center.
The name of their store is, Lars Bolander!
It will be such fun to show Brooke and Steve around Palm Beach! They have never been!
I am just out of commission for a while. I think next week I can pick up again!
My favorite was when I was fretting….with my nine year old grandson……
“ohhhh I can’t do my blog!!” Tommy said ; (he is nine) ”Grannny, what’s a blog?”
Do I know? No!
I told him: ”You know how I love to tell stories?” He said, “yes, and I love all your stories!”
(he gets something big in my will for that one!)
I said, “that is what my blog is; telling my stories!”
I think that is sooo funny!
Please help me…….and thank you for your patience. I will post some pictures. So…what the heck is a “blog”???
I hope you miss me; and I hope you will welcome me back! I miss you!
Penelope
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A lifelong collection of a “Happy Bird”!!!
I was minding my own business, (yes working!) looking for furniture for clients in my favorite antique store in our area; and this bird; this happy little bird caught my eye!
What a delightful, fey,whimsical, little bird! I was captivated!
And look!!!
Shelves all over the store filled with them!
plates,bowls. platters of all sizes, cups, saucers, espresso tiny cups and saucers! Oh my heart!!!
There had to be story about all this; I could see subtle differences in the glaze color, in the application of the trims; and even slight differences in the bird!
I asked the owners, (twins who know everyone and everything about Santa Barbara County for the last 100 years!)
“Oh yes, Mrs. Flood collected this pattern for 50 years or more!”
Oh happy day! More
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Christmas with grandchildren! Their “presence” was our “present”!!
We are so lucky! Two of our seven grandchildren live less than a mile from our house here in Santa Barbara!
Three more lived here for 3 years; but for 8 years they have been living in Switzerland; and are moving back here next summer!
For a multitude of reasons, Christmas has been “childless” for 8 years; and this year we had grandchildren!! Their “presence” was our “present”!
Here are our daughter Ella; and her children Poppy (Penelope) 13, and Tommy 9.
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My Christmas post!
This is my Christmas Post!!!
It is someone else’s Christmas Post! ”Splenderosa”!
It feels OK to me to be using it; not plagiarism if I give credit where credit is due!
I hope so!
It is so perfect, and splendid, I had to share it with all of you!
Have a wonderful holiday season , everyone!
Happy Holidays!!!!
Who gets to have 10 dogs!? And who gets them all to stay still in costume?
There is also one horse…..and behind the upper center dog…are those ears of a donkey??? Now that is where I will go if I get heaven!!!
(front center of this picture! In my halo and wings!)
A magician is who can do this!
And check out her lovely affordable jewelry!
Penelope
ps (no sponsors; no advertising! all 24 of you are just getting my favorite stories and favorite things!)
here’s where I found it!
http://splenderosa.blogspot.com/
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My duck story…….after they flew!! and here they are BACK!!!
Well……when the ducklings flew………(the last nine of the three groups..) I missed them!I was so happy they all lived…..but I must say…..just picture a pond with a Mom and Dad duck and 9 ducklings….
….and then……one day…..none. I didn’t cry. But I felt like it!
they flew on a Thursday….and the parents flew with them!
I was elated that they all survived the “sitting duck” stage….however; I did miss them terribly.
Saturday of that week my friend who lives very nearby
(less than a mile) on a golf course, called me to ask for my advice on the “trim color” on her house!
(My advice is always available; and I always have an opinion!)
(my adorable brother says……….”if you ask my sister her opinion…and she doesn’t have one…….rush her to the hospital immediately!!!
Something is terribly wrong!!!”)
I got to the house……..(it is on a pond) and I see a bunch of ducks on the far side of the pond , on the golf course……(so much lawn!)
and my back is to the pond and I am talking and pointing to the trim….giving my opinion!
We turn around……there are two ducks steaming across the pond……and they get out….walk through the garden…….walk up to us within a foot of us and look right up at me!
(can you picture it? Ducks have these long necks…..and they are making eye-contact! I swear!!)
My friend says……..”"EEK! This has never happened!!” (She was not thrilled they were on her lawn!)
I said…..”Oh, so sorry, CeCe! These are “My ducks” they recognized my voice!
I think it is the biggest compliment I have had in my entire life!! Honestly!
and here they are BACK!!! There are 6 pair in our pond every day!
I didn’t get a photo of all 12; but they are there!!!
There are twelve every morning! And when they hear my voice…..or my feet on the gravel they steam right up to me!
Life is wonderful!!!
My favorite stories of our lives are things like this!
Thank you for reminding me! It is truly a wonderful and happy story!
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What I am thankful for!!! One of the biggest surprises; and one of the biggest gifts of my life!
I really have thought about this post!
”Grateful” ”Giving Thanks”! A Hugely important thing to me!!!
This is my first year blogging…….( I am so way grateful for those of you who are visiting)! I love, love love it! Thank you for participating!
So, I decided to share the thing I am most thankful for in a long, long time!
Honestly; the best “Surprise Present” I have ever received (that was not alive!) is this!
I was born in 1947 in Los Angeles; My mother was 40 years old when I was born (that was a neighborhood scandal!) I have a brother born in 1938; ( there were blood issues ; now easily solved); however, my mother lost 7 pregnancies after my brother; who was born in 1939!
My Daddie died when I had just turned 4; I heard wonderful stories about him; I have some great photographs of him which I treasure….and are on my walls! I don’t remember him…really…except little tiny “snippets”..I never saw him “move”; and I didn’t remember any “mannerisms” or ”body language”.
My mother was an enormous influence…..we were incredibly close; I learned everything I know from her; and she was a total pistol;
until Parkinson’s took her down at 67 (YIKES!) and took her life at 70.
So: my cousin Paulette calls me to say she found a yellow “Kodak” box with my father’s name on it; inside is a roll of film with a date stamp of “June 20 1950″
I think it might be my birthday party! Off it toodles to be turned into a disc! I put it into my laptop; and this is the story!
It is a film of them right after their wedding!!
It was a “silent movie” filmed 16 years earlier; in 1934! It is a movie (when you had to crank it up……and let it wind out…..and crank it up again!)
My mother was 26; my father 32; they were married in Yuma Arizona, in 1934! Right after the ceremony; this person filmed them leaving the “Justice of the Peace” office; and off they went to some divine hotel with a cousin; filmed by someone! In 1934!
My father took it to the film store to update the film 16 years later. He knew he was dying; I think he did so so we could watch it when he was gone! He died in 1951.
This is the 3 minute film.
Among all I have to be grateful for, and I am , I picked this to show you!
Having a movie of my parents right after they are married is great enough; however, this is the first time I have ever seen my Daddie “move”!
It means more to me than I can express!
One of my friends said it so beautifully!
She said….”this shows the power of film to bring people back to us”!
Watching it, I felt they were blowing kisses at me!
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving; and I hope you enjoy this short film!
I saw a lot of love here! Please share your comments!
Pretty darn stylish people; and the cutest car! A 1934 Ford Cabriolet with a rumble seat!
An incredible gift!!!
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Radisha revisited!
Radisha, a dear friend and artist extraordinaire, has been doing a drawing or painting a day; and generously sharing them each day in my email! They are such a beautiful collection; I decided to share them with you!Being an interior decorator is a humbling experience in many ways! Probably the most humbling is how we rely on our “team” of workrooms, upholsterers, painters, carpenters, and artists! (They are all artists, really!)
Radisha is an “artist” artist; who has been with me for twenty-something years! He can honestly do anything! (you can see my first post on him below in “You might also like”.)
This is a water-color so ethereal and beautiful!
This is another beautiful pencil and water color ! The love in their faces! More
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A Thanksgiving thought!
I know I am late!
I’m working on two things for Thanksgiving; neither are right! Yet!
But I received a picture of 4 generations of her family from my “best friend” since the 6th grade! Her parents have been married for 70 years! They are both in their mid-nineties!
(we were “not asked back” to school together!) We are 64 years old! She has her parents?!? Yikes!
Her parents just had a Thanksgiving dinner with 4 generations!
Her mother asked her “who are all these people?” My friend said, “they are all your family!”
There is a life-size portrait of her (drop dead gorgeous mother that I wondered about when twelve) in the dining room!
Her mother saw it; and said.”Why did I have that done?”
My friend says, ”Life is a hoot!”
And she also said, “No matter how senile, or complicated the members of my family are; they are MY family!”
And THAT is my Thanksgiving thought!!
Family is just about everything!
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“Porch” a wonderful store!
Porch! A lovely store in Carpinteria had a ” Winter Fest”!!
The co-owners Christy and Diana are talented and energetic; and their store is truly special!!!
They describe their wares as “Shelter and Nature”. They have all kinds of things for bringing the outside in, and bringing the inside out! And these women (who own it and work there) really know how to “style” a showroom and garden!
Here is a little sample! A tiny olive tree in a pot; a hand-carved bowl, pomegranates, and portable wine glasses for wine tastings!
Of course, in the advertising for the event; my dear friend’s book “Patina Style”; was front and center!! It is such a beautiful book! Even before you open it up!
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Paint magic in a kitchen! A total transformation with paint!
My brother and sister-in-laws new kitchen!!! Before and after!
Via the internet from California to Connecticut! Utilizing , my favorite tool, our iPhones!!!
My brother and sister in law bought their house 15 years ago; and wanted to add on a family room with a garage under it off the kitchen. They did that; and they thought they needed to remodel the kitchen.
Having been paid for so many years for my advice; I just assume everyone wants it! (guess what? not everyone does!) Well, I suggested all they needed to do was to paint the cabinets; the walls and the floor! My sister-in-law didn’t think that would do it; so they did the family room and other things in the house waiting to redo the whole kitchen.
Then the children grew up and flew the coop and they decided to sell the house!
The kitchen looked tired; had a yucky tile floor; and kind of insipid pinkish color stained wood cabinets. It did not “show” well!
I suggested again that “Paint magic” was all it needed! The cabinets looked “stuck on” the yellow walls; and weren’t tall enough to reach the ceiling; but they had attractive lines and the plan was practical!
Borrowing from my friend Brooke Giannetti’s weekend house makeover; on her blog ”Velvet and Linen”; (the most dramatic I have ever seen!) I suggested the color “Hardwick White” from Farrow and Ball for the walls and the cabinets. Then, the cabinets would not look “stuck on” and the color (which is not white); looks really good with Stainless Steel appliances!
“Oh too dark! Cried my poor sister-in-law”. Relentlessly, I nagged and needled; and explained and nagged some more and sent more pictures of Brooke’s kitchen,; and she reluctantly went ahead!!
She was scared to death! (This poor woman; in her last house she took our daughters water-skiing and when they came back; I had rehung every painting and picture in their house!) You either want, or don’t want, a decorator in the family! I think they liked them there! (Or every time I visited they moved them back!)
Here we go!!! ”Paint Magic”! My sister in law did all the labor; and we used our iPhones to send pictures back and forth!!!
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San Francisco Fall Antiques Show 2011
The Fall San Francisco Antique Show! What Fun!
It is in the lovely location of historic Fort Mason on the bay looking across at the Peninsula and Alcatraz Island!
It is in this big building which is like a warehouse;but great effort is made to make the interiors dramatic and feel unlike a warehouse!
My husband Adam Bianchi was getting our tickets at the entrance
This gorgeous table was part of a trompe l’oeil exhibit! There is a reflection on the glass; but it is so exquisite!
Some really interesting shoes!!! I’m finding those leopard with the red heels if it kills me!
an interesting statue!
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Hooked on Houses Provencal farmhouse feature
One of my very favorite blogs is “Hooked on Houses”! She has a huge following and is always interesting!
She did a whole post on our house; and combined some photographs from a House Beautiful article with others, and I was thrilled with the results! Her taste and sensibility are excellent; and combined with her understanding of architecture and comfort make her blog wonderful reading and educational as well!
There are so many great parts of her blog! Prepared to get “Hooked on”Hooked on Houses”!!!!
If you’d like read the article and see more pictures, go to Hooked on House’s website.
Some of the funniest things are the “bad MLS Listings” There are so many great things on this website! I was very honored that she did a post on our house!
(By the way, the price has been reduced!)
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Another wonderful blog I love!!!
Leta Austin Foster is a sensational decorator and has one of my very favorite shops in Palm Beach Florida.
In her blog, she shares all her amazing sources in Europe and other places!
This article has fabulous sources in Paris!
I also want to thank her for mentioning me in this post!
You can read the article here and know right where to go in Paris! It would take YEARS to discover all of these wonderful and unusual spots!
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Picks of the Week! Round 2! Thanks to “Pinterest”!!!
Well, I have a new addiction that involves the internet.
Oh dear! ”Pinterest”!!! It is a genius idea! One can see a sublime picture on a post or blog or magazine, or whatever, and you can “pin it” just like that! And that is saved on your “inboard with its information of where it came from! And people can follow you if they like the same things you do!
I haven’t figured out how to put the photo information on my blog , but I will! You can go to my “Pinterest page” and find it there; but my next “Favorites”, I will be posting the credit!
I try to do the right thing by the photographers and bloggers who provide such delectable images! I just have to learn!
I will begin!!!I hope you enjoy my picks!
Above is one of the most beautiful canopy beds I have seen! There is so much attention to detail !
The fabric on the canopy is embroidered “Chelsea Editions” and it is on a hard valance with wonderful trim!
And the lining is divine as well!
The coverlet folded at the bottom is also Chelsea; and with the antique tapestry pillow….just heaven!
The bedroom itself is lovely; note the faux painted paneling on the fireplace wall. Very subtle and pretty.
Also note the slightly “tattered” rugs on the neutral carpeting. I love old worn rugs. (Even on their “last legs”!)
Patina!
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My dear friends’ “Swedish Village” on Orcas Island!
My longtime friends from Pasadena have developed a charming spot on Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands in Washington state. They have been going there for 22 years! It is a dream of a family compound!
This summer I went to Orcas Island to visit my granddaughter at her camp and visited the Coffey’s “compound” close by! This red house is one of five! This one is called “Missel Thrush” after a quotation in “The Secret Garden”; a book my friend Marty has loved her entire life.
Orcas Island has very strict rules about development; which has resulted in an unspoiled natural environment!
There were five little “shacks” on the property when my friends purchased it; and they were allowed to only build on the “footprints” of those “shacks”. They are reminiscent of a Swedish village with the feeling of the Swedish artist and interior decorator Carl Larsson.
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The tale of the pond!
On Mother’s Day in 1997; we purchased this vacant lot. It is a little over two acres; however it seems like more because it is in the middle of 90!
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The inspiration for our French chickens!!
Our granddaughter feeding the chickens!
About eighteen years ago; my husband Adam and I went on a trip to France.
I had read a lovely review of a new hotel opened in Burgundy that sounded wonderful.
The name was” Chateau Vault de Lugny”. The owner was a young woman
who had grown up in the Chateau as her family’s country home.
She wanted to turn it into a country hotel; and described to us all the work and all the requirements
to qualify for a ”Relais and Chateau” member.
Our room was beautiful; and best of all; the labrador retriever “Licorice” slept on our bed!
(We missed our dogs; so we were encouraging him. Not everyone’s cup of tea!)
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I promised the pictures of the dogs! the stone ones! Here they are!!
Originally, when we built our house; I only had one of the pair of the Madam DuBarry Sphinx. (See my blog post The Garden Sphinx) I found these delightful cast stone reproductions at Quatrain (an antique store in West Hollywood). Here is their description: “LOUIS XIII STYLE CAST STONE HOUNDS . The original early Baroque examples are from the famed walls surrounding the Chateau de Raray near the ancient town of Senlis, France. On either side of the Chateau stand two long walls of stone upon which hunt two packs of hounds; one bringing a stag to bay, the other a wild boar. Certainly a reflection of the many centuries of hunts that have taken place thanks to the immense royal forests of Chantilly, Halatte and, to the North, Compiegne.”
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Thank you Tara Dillard, Velvet and Linen and Callie Grayson!
Thank you so much to those who have posted three wonderful posts about us recently. We are over the moon!
You can view Tara Dillard’s blog called Landscape Design Decorating about us, and this earlier post here!Brooke and Steve at the fabulous blog, Velvet and Linen. You can view the articles she did on us here and here!
And last but not least, thank you to Callie Grayson for her feature called “Beautiful, comfortable patina.”
P.s: I love getting your comments! If you want to; please post them on my blog rather than email! Click on “comments”!
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Hatched in the wild!!
Three weeks ago, a hen of ours went missing! I was afraid a coyote or hawk had taken her; but I couldn’t find feathers anywhere!About ten days later, I found her outside the coop in the morning, and I knew she must have made a nest outside of the coop!
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The Garden Sphinx
I have always been a lover of gardens, especially the wild ones! I love statues, birdbaths, and accessories (although when overdone; I am reminded of a cemetery)! Two of my most prized possessions are a pair of terra cotta sphinx that sit on the entry way to my house.
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Orcas Island
This past week I took a little vacation up to Orcas Island, where my granddaughter Poppy is attending summer camp. Orcas Island is the largest in the San Juan island chain, located off Washington state. The area has so much history, and it was a real treat to visit Poppy while she is away at camp. My daughters Ella and Jacqueline also attended the same camp as young girls, and it was my first time to go and visit!
Four Winds Westward Ho is the name of the camp; and it has been in this place for 86 years! The campers wear the same uniforms (bloomers and sailor tops); and very few of the traditions of the camp have changed all these years later.
A very refreshing thing to find in this technological world. The girls part of the camp (Four Winds) has wooden cabins; and the boys part (Westward Ho) they sleep in tents.
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Dive into Summer, my favorite pools!
With the onset of Summer in full swing, I can’t help but get excited for the season. I avoid sitting in the sun; but I have always loved unusual pools and pool houses. They can make or break an outdoor space(usually, unfortunately, break), so I thought I would share with you a few pools I have seen that I am absolutely in love with.
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Australian talk show
Click here to see full interview, aired on Australian TV. I was in a room with a camera; and they were talking to me in Australian accents! That is hard!!! Hope you enjoy!
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Corsica, Villa Murtoli
“Like nowhere else on Earth”
This is a perfect way to describe the luxury villas at Villa Murtoli on the island of Corsica. I have dreams of visiting this place, strolling the beaches and meandering through the rolling hills and countryside. As you will see in the photos below, this rambling property is a true work of art, and an exquisite example of architecture being preserved over time and made into something unique and enchanting.
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Picks of the week
While perusing the internet and visiting some of my favorite sites and blogs this week I decided to save the images that most inspired me. Please take a look to see what was on my “favorites” list this week. I am always so overwhelmed by the amount of imagery out there, now I have a good excuse to showcase the ones I like best: sharing them with you!
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Indigo Seas
“Joie de Vivre!”
Pretty much describes the owner and spirit behind Indigo Seas: founder and owner of the shop: Lynn von Kersting.
Lynn is the personification of the expression: ”Joie de vivre”. It means “joy in life”; it is a rare and beautiful thing! she is the walking ,talking epitome of it!
