Suddenly, as I sip my new pumpkin tea, I wonder how many pumpkin things one can consume in a day? I like pumpkin… I like the look of them and how they feel when I touch the outer shell on cold pumpkin-carving nights…. I like them glowing on the stoops Read more…
One cannot celebrate August properly without a moment of tiki styling… What is it about polynesian carvings and the word tiki that brings summer so quickly to mind? For me, I think it’s something to do with the completely foreign way of life of the Māori, the warm weather, lush, jungle Read more…
Not just for booze-hounds anymore, the Stork Club is also known as a group of friends who are all pregnant together at the same time. They meet at Starbucks (and pretend not to drink coffee), chat about their aches and pains and go to the bathroom every 20 minutes… In Read more…
In honor of my fans who quilt AND as a tribute to the excellent quilt exhibit currently on display at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, I wanted to play a little with deco motifs and traditional wedding ring quilts… Enjoy!
That’s right, you just can’t keep a good deco design down… One of the fun things about playing with a deco element is the versatility of the patterns. Here, I took a simple scroll motif and played with the spacing. In the red design repeat, I stretched long connecting lines Read more…
Spring on the East Coast is finally in full bloom… As I walked the red-brick and iron-railed streets of Boston today, kids were playing on fresh, green baseball diamonds, gardeners were busy with watering hoses, a pair of cleaning women walked in their shirt-sleeves with baskets of supplies without fear Read more…