Hello lovely souls! Hope you had a most memorable weekend! Wishing all you mamas happiness + goodness by the bushel!  So, here’s a question for you!? Do you ever see your life as a sketchbook? ..a journal of experiences that you collect and treasure…and somehow manage to store..in your brain, in your soul…or in whatever way it feels right to you? Photos of course  help me with much of it. Whenever  I look back through my digital files I find they instantly take me to that moment the photo happened.Well…I like this sort of thinking..gathering as you go…making “sketches” ( as in photos)  of...

  Hey Darlings! Hope you had a splendid weekend!! Were you were able to get out for at least one adventure?..Always a good weekend thing in my book…near or far…it just keeps you on your toes…and keeps your eyes, heart and spirit open to the next!!  We went in to the mountains to this lovely spot near the river where a perfect swimming hole sits beckoning you to sit with blankets.. picnics..dogs, kids..wine, bikinis and the like…It was about 90 up there..which made the icy water feel stellar when you jumped in…our boys climbed up the huge rocks to jump off...

  Bonjour!!  Hope you all had a splendidly luscious weekend! I know lots of you were planning on getting out into your gardens yipee!! So glad that you were able to dig around a bit! Even the clean up of a spring garden is exciting…fun to see what sits beneath the leaves etc!  I just wanted to share a few fun pics!!….We went to a really roaring  Midnight in Paris party Saturday eve! The perfect theme as The great Gatsby just opened up in the theaters (I need to go this week!! Tell me if you did…and did you like it?)  I...

  I get questions pretty regularly about creativity….how did I find mine, how did I follow it…how to inspire children…how to begin the process in general.  I try to answer anyone that asks me as simply and truthfully as I can….and it usually sounds something like this.  You just have to begin to be creative. Sounds so obvious- eh? Well in reality it is. The problem is that for many that is a really scary thing to hear, because it just seems so much more complicated ..but it’s not. WHAT!? What do you mean just begin…? Well…what are you passionate about….what do love to do….what have...

  …It’s spring and I am flying around on butterfly wings..in a good way that is! I just came home from a very quick jog  to NYC for the textiles show and another bedding debut! I will tell you I was pretty excited about our first  Poetic Wanderlust bedding debut last September..but this one has me over the moon! Mind you the first group is still not all in stores..though many of you have kindly e-mailed us that you did buy our bedding from Neiman Marcus and Horchow…. thank you so much…we are so very grateful!! I took a bunch of photos of the showroom...

  I get insanely giddy garden thoughts all year long…and while our season here in the California countryside is pretty much all year, we do still have our “winter”…a small respite…while a few things die back… there is all around you…. the verdant garden spirit you so crave. The trees have been full of blossoms since the end of January…not sure who’s more confused , them or me… I love the perplexing thought of it…trees with flowers in January….I point them out everyday to our boys and everyday I think they point out to me that yes, I showed them...

Hey there!! I’ve been invited to speak at the Las Vegas Mart on January 30th, If you are a retailer please come see me! I’d love to meet you…(see more details below. ) Since I am speaking…I prepared a very juicy presentation to share while I ramble on…I know many of you are not retailers…so I thought I would share a tiny snippet of the mix.  My speech is entitled ( appropriately) A Soulful Journey….I chose that title for obvious reasons. I plan to tell my story from the beginning ..and as many of you know….well, it’s soulful….anyway to me it is.  Going through...

  Many of you have followed my blog for years now ( thank you!) …so you know me…and the stuff I have quite well ( in fact it really cracks me up when you identify things from photos past etc..or something broken that I cannot toss ( lucky you…you even know when we break things…well….I do live with 5 boys..it’s bound to happen!!) . One of the things you know is that I tend to use the same stuff over and over in new ways…for me it’s a bit of play and trickery for my own wandering brain. I love...

Hey There!  As we are just ambling our way through autumn and into winter…I am happily here to give you a wee sneak peek at spring! To say I am jubilant about these new goods would be an overwhelming understatement…You know I live my poetic wanderlust..in everything I do….and most especially in design!  These succulent layers will become many things….I typically just start with a feel I want..colors that excite me….a scent that makes me wild ( yes, really…I will have it on my wrist and keep lifting it my face for a lovely whiff…) . Designing is my elixir ..a talisman of...

  via http://becauseimaddicted.net/ Dear November, here you are already….with your irrepressible spirit…your fetching ways….your bits of mischief that have me on a quest for all things fiercely textural and genuinely luscious. Dare I say you are coming at me a bit faster than I fancy…with Thanksgiving a mere few weeks away…slow down darling….! SLOW for me a bit!  I have not yet tucked and wrapped the macabre elegance and bounty that all hallows eve brought…I need a clearing in my week to get to that piece! But then…I am in. I have been craving you and your well orchestrated confections….I have true wanderlust...