Got the most beautiful arrangement for my Birthday. I love fresh flowers and use them all around my house. This one features Calalillies, boxwood, fuschia tulips, orchids the size of my fist and the most gorgeous white and lavendar roses with fuschia on the edges of the petals. I have never seen roses like that before. It was such a sweet surprise to answer the door and be greeted by this lovely hello.

Thanks Mom and Dad. You are the best!

My baby!

I have a love of Orchids, and usually put one in each clients home I design.

My beautiful Orchid.

Southern Charm

"Kitchen" up with the Jones's

The old saying goes "You eat with your eyes first." Eat your heart out!

Royal Plantation Jamaica

http://www.royalplantation.com/gallery.cfm

We were in Jamaica a few weeks ago for a nice respite. View this heaven on earth from the link above. It is one of the only places I have ever vacationed and thought...."I wouldn't change a thing!"

From Farm to Fabulous

We bought a second home - a 100 acre ranch in Stringtown, OK. When we purchased the property we had not even seen the back two bedrooms. New carpet and paint really spruced the place up for our weekend country house. Not to mention the job I did with the kitchen cabinets. Eventually I will replace the counter tops - but it's fine for now...I wanted a French botanical style, and had to have the signature roosters to complete my French Country Kitchen.

The table and chairs I got for $50.00 at a re-sale boutique, and I refinished the set in an almond color and upholstered them in a Schumaker fabric and trim. Finding this diamond in the rough made me want to "go green" for the rest of the house. It was surprisingly easy to do and I can't believe how inexpensive it was. The only furniture I recycled from our Frisco home was the leather sofa, the rest of the furniture in the house I bought and re-upholstered myself with fabrics and trim I already had.

I included the before and afters...

Bonjour!

Pretty in Red -

A Room Fit For A Kingston

My best friend Mer had a baby and I traveled per special request to Lubbock, Texas to decorate the little angel's room, and hang some custom HollyWould Originals art. He almost didn't make it being born at only 26 weeks - but alas - he is finally out of the hospital and ready for his own room.

Welcome Home Kingston - Love, Auntie Prissy!

New pics of my house

Shannon's office

Getting down to business 2.0

Here are the rest of the pics from the executive offices and the conference room.

Getting down to business

I was in Atlanta for spring break and popped in to take some pics of an executive office I did. She sells commercial real estate investments, and her partner does shopping centers and property managment. I painted the walls "Grass Green" - the intensity of this color cannot be truly appreciated from a computer screen. It truly envelopes you as you enter this gorgeous office. The lovely chenille scroll bergere's are from Hickory Chair and the custom silk taffeta chairs on casters are from Marge Carson. The four can be pulled together for serious contract negotiations or they can be done from the Chiniosere inspired conference room. I took a closeup of the 100+ year old tea table imported from China that we used for the conference table. The art we used in her office depicts 3 respected warriors throughout the centuries. Genghis Kahn who unified the over 200 Mongol tribes and became the largest empire in world history, and Zhu Yuanzhang better known as The Hongwu Emperor Tai Zu - the founder of the Ming Dynasty and the man who was able to repair and complete the "Great wall of China". The last is The Charging Chasseur, by Théodore Géricault exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1812. His french romanticism depicts an Officer of the Imperial Guard, Napoleon's cavalry officer on a horse, ready to attack.


I had intended more pics of the art but blogger.com is having problems today and won't allow me to post anymore pics. Stay tuned...

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