whew!!! Just came back from buzzing through a warp speed shopathon with one of my favorite people, Judy Aldridge. We are working on her home…stay tuned friends. It will blow your socks off, I promise. So before I run out to the next meeting, I quickly found this image on ffffound and felt that it was representative of our “Amazing Race” day of all things glamourous and vintage. Don’t you love?

it’s lovely outside… We are all so ready for the weather to stay like this for a few days. Seems like the perfect day to grab lunch outside and the perfect time to share with you this series of photos I’ve been saving from the very gifted Manny Rodriguez of a very simple, very beautiful tree.

Enjoy and happy Tuesday!

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um, excuse me… Can I live here?? I’ve hardly been able to sleep since I saw this house. VERY excited to share it with you today. This is the home of the lovely home-obsessed Silka Sanchez who is OCD about interiors as I am. She and her sister-in-law, Theresa, can talk for hours about where to put something (love that about them). She’s one of “our people.” What’s funny to me is she’s not really into the blog-o-sphere. More ebay!? Ebay intimidates me but this motivates me to suck it up and get shopping. Hope you LOVE LOVE LOVE this as much as I do and it leaves you with visions of vintage sugarplums dancing in your head! Stay tuned for Theresa’s home to appear in a few weeks!

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OK, just to pause for a second and say…could this be any more perfect? These are photos of Silka’s family and that little moss ball…are you kidding me? Simple. Genius.

I know, TWO picks of the unicorn??? Yes, it was that good. And these chairs…that’s what keeping me up at night. Ebay find. YUP. That’s what I said. Gotta get shopping.

Theresa’s got great wallpaper all through her house… and I’m not giving it enough credit but you can see that GORGEOUS chandelier (similar to the one in Rebecca Sherman’s home from last week).

I’m in love with this mirror… I don’t know if I every would have picked it but now I MUST HAVE.

Couldn’t get a great shot of this lucite bar table table but had to share…lucite, sigh…

Hallway of photos (taken by Silka - did I mention she’s a photographer hobbyist) of friends and family… all totally amazing.

Again with the great mirror and EBAY!! Oh, and of course we love the pup!!

Silka and I share the same fondness of paintings/drawings of women. Aren’t they stunning? Love you ladies!

Bret and I are redoing our bathrooms and kitchen so I’m fixated on tile at the moment. Loved the way her tiled kitchen countertops sparkle?! Don’t you?? Who would have thought? They were original to the house and she thought about ripping them out but friends convinced her not to. Good decision.

Dreaming big for a screened in porch to sip my wine on one day…for the moment I’ll just live vicariously through Silka.

And finally we arrive at her domain… adorable upstairs, great wallpaper, love all the furnishings. Perfectly pretty.

I don’t even think I need to say it but L.O.V.E.

let’s get back to the good stuff… relivin’, relovin’, reinventing oldies but goodies. Hope you enjoy these before and afters from Again & Again. Leslie Pritchard is seriously phenomenal. Her eye and knack for finding (or rather SAVING) these gems is a true talent and never ceases to amaze me. From estate sales to thrown out things in the yard this gal is fearless. If you haven’t been to the sister store, Again Design Studio lately you need to!! She recently brought in Roger Harrell to manage a consignment component and the store is literally overflowing with gorgeous pieces. I saw at least ten things I couldn’t live without. I just kept thinking “Where does she find all this stuff???”

Hope you enjoy these rescued gems as much as I do!

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after!

I dream of the day I can have a piece like this sofa. I’m not sure how I would redo it but the bones of it are beautiful.

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after!

This is so Leslie… white with a shocking pop of color — a little lively, a little lovely.

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after!

Since I’m currently rethinking the guest bed, I’m feeling that I’m in need of this one now. Love the height of the headboard.

isn’t this fun… I mean, just look at that face?! I’m having the time of my life. Every day is a new adventure and a blast. This month I’m thrilled and extremely grateful to have been featured in two local publications, 360 West and Modern Luxury. I want to extend a special thank you to the two incredibly gifted women who included me, Meda Kessler (Editor, 360 West) and Rebecca Sherman (Writer, Modern Luxury - and yes! that was her amazing house last week!).

A huge honor to be included in both publications - more info on each story below.

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360 West

360 West is magazine that is based on the Western side of the Metroplex (aka Fort Worth and surrounding areas). Editor Meda Kessler is a rockstar and wrangles the content, writing and design this magazine monthly, huge task - the thought of what she does monthly is daunting. The woman runs circles around me.

The article in 360 is a great write up about the blog with fun photos (the one above is our sweet little Shiba Inu, Logo Sano) taken in our home by Allison V. Smith and very well written by Meda.

Full story here.

(LOOK! It’s Logo! - she’s so excited she made the magazine)

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Modern Luxury

The ML article is a fascinating round up of creative people crossing over and expanding into other areas of creativity. “Reinvention is the mother of necessity for Dallas designers in a challenging economy. Meet a cast of creatives who are rewriting their résumés and loving it.” I’m ecstatic to be included with so many other amazingly talented artists.

Other creatives featured here are: (this article is a must-read)
Julie Cohn, textile designer
John Buell, graphic designer
Jan Jones, photo stylist and Lisa Martensen, magazine and catalog biz vet
Elizabeth Barrett, president and CEO of a white glove delivery service