COLOR.....Are you in?

Are you embracing the latest Color Trend? After years of the muted 'Belgian' look and a dour economy, just maybe this is what we need to brighten our outlook. What do you think?

Everywhere we look...........fabrics

Furniture

The trends in flower development is a sharp infusion of intense color

Flora Grubb's in San Francisco

A favorite.......the British Morris Minor. Remember turquoise cars? Well, even turquoise appliances?
I'm wondering if that would ever return? That I would ignore!

 

                                                              Would you go this far?

Fashion is easy.......Tiring of my basic black, I welcome a wardrobe switch

You could enter slowly with a signature piece for "pop"

                                                               Or total immersion

Inspiration is everywhere

Nature in particular is a huge source of inspiration

creeping thyme and grass checkerboard

                                                                     Are you in?

Happy Weekend, enjoy the Oscars!
xo
Debra

The Nashville Garden and Antique Show 2012

My annual pilgrimage to Nashville for the Garden and Antique show never fails to inspire, tease,  spring cannot be too far behind (Nashville maybe....Chicago, not at all) and induce a covetess nature. I want it all!

The entry garden. Beautifully acknowledged this years theme of 'Color' but these grass like men were both ingenious and creepy......to me that is.

Nothing appeals to me more than an allee of trees

These massive containers were dressed in strips of Redwood skins

One of the premier speakers at this event was Eddie Ross. The lecture was brilliant, the speaker engaging and the content doable for all.........but that, we know, is his forte

Let's walk through the stunning booths together........you'll see where i began coveting

Simple elements take on a curated look against a white background and the appropriate lighting

Three long strands of farm equipment chains. When individualized they will make great coat hooks in my foyer

Favorite booth by ' Garden Variety' of Nashville.

See what I mean, she is good, very very good

This inspired me to repeat this with outdoor containers but with spilling plantings instead of sphagnum moss

My friends Mary Bairstow of Atlanta and Murielle of Paris shared a booth. Mary is renown for her basket lights

With the evocative art by Andrea Costa

A surprisingly comfortable chair from vintage rugs

Murielle's furniture is all Parisian. She strips the ordinary brown stain, bleaches the wood and viola!

Just adore these miniature gardens where everyone can become a landscape designer

An evocative figure found buried, for at least a century, in Mexico

 More farm implements. Here turned into wall art/vine support

 Obelisks.........in ground or in containers.........an all important vertical ornament

Hope you enjoyed the mini "tour"and shared in a moment of Spring!
xo
Debra

BLOG loving

Two blogging superstar girlfriends, Debra of Acquired Objects and Barbara of Hampton Hostess

nominated me for the above award. Debra is a leading  expert in antique textiles, lives in New Hampshire in a killer home and setting. All with a great sense of humor. Barbara is chic and sophisticated as she guides us through the Hampton's and her life as a designer and hostess extraordinaire. Thank you ladies!

The Rules;

1) worship at the feet of those that nominated you

2)  share 7 facts about you only your BFF would know

3)  pass on the award to 15 other bloggers

4)  contact your nominees and tell them you have tagged them

OK, Here goes......

I am a spiller. I speak with my arms.

Last weekend a friend insisted I sit on her cream linen sofa, red wine in hand. Despite my protests, she insisted. No, I did not spill because I did not move.

Want a traveling companion? Call me, I can pack my bags in an instant.

I love and collect quotes.

If you are in trouble and need help, I am your person. Human or animal I will mindlessly run in to aid

LOVE chairs, they can be so diverse. A pair is perfect, a single is magical. And all the upholstery options are a delightful challenge. My friend Sylvia in England once owned a posh shop in London, selling only chairs.

Men in kilts send me over the moon. No, my husband refuses to wear a kilt. What's a girl to do, ogle  others.........I must get to Scotland!

And...... if that man in a kilt is making music out of this.........it is guaranteed I will make a spectacle of myself.

I hoard fabrics. One never knows when that great chair appears and needs dressing.

Ridiculously clumsy with bad luck. I possess every one of the attachments shown, multiples of the stylish neck brace.

I am passing this award onto some of my favorite blogs. You are in for a treat if you stop by and visit them

cheers!
Debra
                                                          Divine Theatre
                                                          Urban Cottage
                                                          Providence, Ltd.
                                                          Renae Moore Designs
                                                          Ragland Hill Social
                                                          Wind Lost
                                                          Renee Finberg
                                                          Charlotte Interior Designer Amy Vermillion
                                                          Always, Robins Egg Blue
                                                          House of Edward
                                                          Being Ruby
                                                          Art by Karena
                                                          House of Edward

Stay tuned, next stop............Nashville Garden and Antique show!