Fleurs

Some flowers from a recent dinner party.

My Mom was here visiting for 2 weeks but returned home last weekend. Her visit and her company was simply wonderful. I miss her so now that she's left, but I have some wonderful memories, especially memories of her here in our new house. It was her first visit, and since she lives several thousand miles away, it may be the last for a year or two. But now I have memories of her here, to keep me company, and she has context now for all my stories. But more about that later.

I'm lonesome for my kind and lovely Mom (who is great company, like a best friend only better...a best Mom!) but I'm keeping busy with work and our bountiful backyard garden, which is revealing new wonders every day. I will soon post about the garden, shopping for a console table for the living room, and other exciting bits, like choosing paint colours for the office. Oh, and I also borrowed several decorating books from the library, including Pottery Barn's Work Spaces (for office planning) and a gorgeous book published in Spain called Cozy Atmospheres: Bedrooms, which is terribly inspiring and makes me want to do the whole house "rustic" with lots of relaxed, natural materials...I wish I could stop changing my mind about which styles I love most - it's making this nest-building process awfully hard. I keep falling in love with new things...

Decorating Crushes: I am presently in love with feathers and light watery colours, like pale blue, and things from the seaside like driftwood and polished stones. And anything and everything white!

More updates soon.