Journal

Hi Friends, Hidden in the Hills Open Studios, which this year featured over 164 artists in 41 studios, making it the largest and longest-running artist studio tour in Arizona, was incredible! I was thrilled to host at Meandering Paths Studio, and especially honored to have Meg Harper, Tracy Laasch, and Kristin Kleyer Mangum join me again. Last year’s...Read More

Stop the world and let me off – At my house, with the cats and the land and the quiet and my studio and NOTHING that needs to be done. This year has been fast and wonderful and hectic and design jobs and annoying health issues (I am ok). What I have not had is enough FUN or...Read More

Hello Friends, for those of you who are new, welcome! The majority of friends reading this have known me for quite a while, many of them were customers of my shop in Santa Cruz. It was the kind of store where someone might come in for a gift or a sofa, and we would spend...Read More

Hello!   I hope you’re doing well. I’m writing this quickly, as Open Studios starts on Friday!!! It’s been a crazy few months. My art was accepted at a preview show for Hidden in the Hills at the Desert Foothills Gallery in Cave Creek, AZ. That was lovely enough but then I was asked to give...Read More

Hi Friends,   I hope all is well with you and yours. I’m writing this on a plane on the way back from a quick design job in the Bay Area. Although the weather was beautiful, it was still too cold to eat dinners outside, so yes I am looking forward to 105 at home....Read More

Hello Friends,    I hope you are well, and doing okay in these rough times. As always, I’m doing what I can to help others while staying positive and appreciating all the good and the beauty in the world. Here in Carefree the weather is beginning to warm up and it’s so lovely! Today is about...Read More

Hi Friends,   I hope you’ve had a good year. It was exactly one year ago today that Andy and I set off to find a home in the desert. Arizona is truly my home now. I can’t explain the emotional pull the desert has on me. It’s overwhelmingly, hauntingly beautiful and inspiring. I’m now...Read More

Hello friends, I hope you’re doing ok.  Me, I could not be better! If you know me, you know I feel guilty about that. I wrote a terrible “poem” to let you know what I have been up to: Tapetenwechsel We talked about cacti and mountains and sunsets on fire but always imagined it when...Read More

Hi Friends,      It’s been a long while. I do hope you are well and as we say now “hanging in there”. I am extremely grateful, as always, to have a safe and sacred space to shelter in place with my loves. I have never spent this much on groceries, but we are saving...Read More

How to test colors:   After we work together (or I work alone, if you prefer) to get the right color for each space, you’ll have your own notes about which colors go where – sheen – all those little details. Now it’s up to you or your painter to get these test colors on...Read More

Hi Friends,  The professional images, taken by Lauren Edith Anderson, are here. Below are my pics, unretouched, with all of the details you never knew you wanted of my latest job, my own home. Forgive me for this layout, I chose to cut and paste everything, instead of spending hours sizing and uploading the photos to...Read More

  Hi Friends,  I hope you are having a fantastic 2018. I am thoroughly enjoying this weather, and watching the front yard transformation from my office window. Here is the before and in progress: I may have stated this before, but this yard is not like a room. It is super sloped in both directions. I have...Read More

Current Favorite House – Sarah Waller, Australia  Hi Friends,  I’ve many times written posts about what I would like to see (and no longer see) in design. I never publish them because I prefer to always be positive. I do not want to offend anyone who may have and enjoy the things I no longer...Read More

Hi Friends,  I hope as this year begins to wind down that you are happy and healthy. We’ve had a crazy time, and very sad times, not only in the US but globally, but I really do still think that good can come of the bad. I have to 🙂 I am grateful this year...Read More

Hello Friends, Those of us up here in Northern California are having a tough time with these fires, whether we know people that have been affected, the smoke is burning our eyes and we can’t go outside, just watching this horrible devastation on the news and not being able to do anything about it is...Read More