a little glimpse inside

The weekend is over. Two very incredible sales of which I cannot show you pictures today because my little camera finally went kapoot this morning. But I will soon...this week, so I can tell you how nice it was to meet so many amazing designers and artists and wonderful customers too. And to show you the beautiful art I got and other assorted sundries. Until then, here's a little glimpse of my surroundings mostly taken in the Fall when I was a little less busy and my little camera was still alive...{goodbye old friend...}

(p.s. That second picture is my mother and my uncle next to Jim's great-great aunts in Iowa!)

Sometimes we're all winners and Upping the Ante*

I was so excited to hear the ever-so-lovely Raina gifted herself a very special bonbon: my Rose de la Prairie from this season's Les Pres et Les Bois Collection (inspired by Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass)...it is antique glass with a rosary of tiny freshwater pearls and a 24k gold-dipped charm of a little bison. I am always so impressed with all of you incredible photographers...She chose a perfect setting for these stunning photos, perfectly capturing what I wanted this collection to be about: the quietness of the winter prairie of long ago.



The other night, I think I woke up in the middle of the night, which I do sometimes when I'm really busy, and went to my computer. I read that I had won something and then I was so excited I went back to sleep. Yesterday I remembered it as a dream, or an awake dream, or a total figment of my imagination...with images and everything of a man with sparkling wings in a very ethereal setting...but then when I went to one of my new favorite blogs this morning, it wasn't a dream. I actually won something. Which goes to show that sometimes we're all winners and other times we really win something! And other times we should try to get some rest. I will love this always Katrina. Thank you.


*Oh and hey...thanks everyone for keeping the contributions to the raffle coming in...There's still 9 days left so keep on keeping on, posting about it if you don't mind and now an added twist: For contributions of $100 or more (that's 10 tickets!), I will send you a little pair of one of these as a thank you...
and please come visit me this weekend where raffles tickets will only be $5 and you can rub elbows (and maybe noses) with some of the shining NY star designers and artisans!

My Ideal Day

This is about my ideal day. And here is my ideal outfit for my ideal day.
(can't find the link. help!)...


If I find it, I'll wear this with it for good luck that I don't lose it again...
and put these on my feet and we will go out and choose a tree and then bring our tree home...


And then we'll pop the Yule Log DVD in and dance around the house, it will be snowing and quiet outside and we'll decorate the tree with these (via little brown pen)...

And string these all around!

Then I will change into this...

And we'll toast with a glass of this and a little nibble of this...
and act like this...
And when it gets dark, then I will light these...

and look at this beautiful new photo that I will have gifted myself and just hung on my wall...

and Jim will stare back at this, which I will gift him, because he is a wise, not old owl (who I haven't seen much in the past few weeks and miss very much...)

{for Jen, after her Ideal Reader poem and who printed out a new bunch of raffle tickets and surprised me and brought them over to me in the rain...thank you!}

Time Out

Everyone needs a little break, just to come up for air a little. But sometimes it doesn't feel like that's even possible when everything is happening at the same time. Oh the details... I am feeling buried. I am feeling great. I am feeling manic. So I took a break. (Vanessa made me.)
There is so much I want to tell you about:
My trip to Iowa where it went from Fall to Winter in 4 days...

The boxing match I went to last week...(and I danced with the winner after the match at a nearby club---yeah..I went to a club too!)

The incredible gift that one of my favorite blogger friends, Vana from Le Papier Studio, sent to me just because...she is just the sweetest. She was inspired one of the pictures of Coco's flat in Paris! Fantastic isn't it/she?

And Heidi posted an interview she did with me today,part of her Wednesday Q&A series! I loved her questions! Read it and you can learn what a dork I really am (except when I'm dancing with boxers and other cool cats like that...)
Oh and I have these two sales coming up over the weekend!
And finally, we've already raised almost $800 for the raffle and still have 11 days to go! I'll be selling tickets at Secret Project Santa on Saturday and at The Divine Sale on Sunday but if you want to enter on-line (sorry U.S. residents only...) go here!
Thank you to everyone who's bought a ticket so far! You are wonderful! Keep spreading the word pals!
To ask if there's some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

-Robert Frost