Dining Room Makeover and Thanksgiving Day

Our dining room has been undergoing a few cosmetic changes in the  past few weeks.  It all started with getting the enormous purple turkey platter to add to my transferware collection.  I decided to take down the mirror in the dining room and put more of my transferware on the wall. After the purple was added, the blue opaline chandelier clashed, so I  decided to finally hang up a different antique chandelier I had been hanging onto for over a year.  "Not for sale"...

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Palace Doors~Make your own!

After visiting Versailles I came home quite inspired.   This is a room in Marie Antoinette's casual palace, the Petit Trianon.  As you can see its more formal than how most of us live,  but if you could take away one decorating idea,  I think it would be the molding. Look past all the gilding and brocade and you will see  the most beautiful moldings on walls and doors and fireplace surrounds.  The moldings in the small country palace were painted in muted...

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Incredible Painted Finishes! Segreto Style!

I like to think I know a thing or two about painted finishes...I  have been working on them for years now and am  always turned on by a nice looking paint job!   Some of the nicest finishes are the ones that don't hit your  over the head, but instead lure you in closer, asking for a second  glance or the brush of your hand across the loveliness.   In this category, the painter standing at the  top of the heap is Leslie Sinclair.   She started...

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Holiday Workshops!

Pinch me!  I am taking a day to myself to go to a Holiday Workshop offered by designer/stylist/photographer Matthew Mead! I saw a notice posted on Facebook from this fab style guy who was opening up his studio to do intimate workshops. How exciting! The workshops will be holiday decor classes with Matthew and his wife Jenny.  Wreath making, centerpieces and adorable one of a kind dioramas are on the menu!  There are several workshops to choose from~ I am attending on...

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