Happy September! A year in review!

I cannot believe that it has been almost a year since my last blog! Life has been busy! So much has transpired….it would take a long time to tell it all. Tutu and I have been very busy designing for many projects! We even worked on New Year’s Eve thanks to sweet Kevin at Kravet accomodating my client who has such a busy schedule that New Year’s Eve was one of her only free moments. We had the showroom to ourselves for over 2 hours! I took an incredible trip to Florence with my best friend Beast in March. It was amazing start to finish! My daughter Riley moved to San Diego in May and my son Harrison just started a new job in August here in DFW. I had a darling TCU summer intern this July who is going to continue working for me during her senior year. Tutu ADORES her! Life can be so busy that you turn around and another year has flown by. I am really trying to stop and smell the roses more!! If you look for the joy in every day life can be wonderful.

Enjoy all of these pictures. It has been a super year in many ways!!

Happy September and Happy fall!

This chandelier was almost a year in the making from design to installation. My clients went to Murano to order it in July 2025.. When it arrived….each piece of the chandelier had to be built. It took all day long. Amazing!

My whole trip to Florence was magical with my best friend Beast! She is so brillianrt that I had my personal tour guide to every museum~~~ she was an Art History major at Yale. This picture was a private massage for the Medici family to walk from their offices…now the Uffizi Museum…..to the street. It has been recently opened to the publc.

This passage blew Beasts’s mind with fascination!!!!!

We walked 20,000 steps one day!!!! I do not even remember which cool museum this was taken in. It was originally a private home.

I was IN HEAVEN in this hair accessory store!!!!!!!!!!!!! Like many stores in Florence it is run by two generations of family members.

The Aquazurra shoe store is outstanding! What a glamorous setting~~ I could have stayed here all day! These are the shoes I am wearing today. I LOVE my shoes!!!!

I reupholstered this whole room for my childhood friend. We worked around her rugs. She inherited a lot of art from her parents…..so I basically turned her house into a gallery.

Lunch at Le Bilboquet with my friend Cami. She treats me every year for my birthday to this favorite place of mine. SO special!

Tutu continues to be a fabulous assistant….especially chosing rugs at Abrash. This rug was the winner!!!!

This living room was started in December and installed by May. It turned out to be amazing!!!!! Here the rug is in place.

We added some custom pillows this summer. It is all in the details!

The master bedroom with a fabulous wall of wallpaper from Kravet. All of the rest of the room came from her last house that I also designed. Everything translated beautifully.

An upstairs guest room that I transformed from a storage room. The headboards just shipped last Friday….we are getting there. The bedding is custom from Kravet and Legacy linens.

We started this upstairs tv area last November. It is still evolving…..the art came from her previous house and she wants to update it as we move along.

Custom towels for a guest bath from Hamburg House.

This sun room used to be a back porch. My clients have discussed enclosing it for years. We kept the same roof line and made it like a solarium. This is now the favorite room in the house!!!!!! The breakfast chairs that were due here in December are now coming on October…..so my old breakfast chairs from my house are living in the room until they arrive.

The other end of the room. We just installed the valences a month ago. They add a cherry on top!

New counterr stools from Kravet for a house I have worked on since 1999.

A guest room refresh with fabrics from Metaphors, Kravet, and Donghia. Glorious!

Harrison went with me to Kravet to meet Tutu’s best friend Kevin and pick out a sectional before he started his new job. We had a blast!

A master bedroom refresh with a new bed from Bunny Williams, new pillows , and custom draperies. We are still adding new elements.