Showing posts with label blog love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blog love. Show all posts

Farm to table {a wonderful evening}



On Saturday I was lucky enough to attend a wonderful dinner hosted by Andrea @ French Basketeer.  It was a beautiful evening with perfect weather and an amazing meal.  We were welcomed by the candle lit stairway and walked into the heart of the space, a covered loggia.  Everything was just perfect from the rosemary in the ice buckets (I will be using that one thank you very much!) to the singer who entertained us for the evening.  


A beautiful table with vintage dishes, silverware and linens.




 It is all in the details...  the water bottles were to die for!  These are the Christian Lacroix glass bottles for Evian. 











Andrea made a wonderful meal that I am still telling my family about.  I must make that Burrata with peach and tomato.  


I will say that the desert table was my next favorite.  Each creation was a wonderful temptress, and the display was really perfection.


It was so perfect to get a chance to talk with Andrea after the meal and meet her sweet little babies.  Andrea, it was beautiful and the food was fantastic, thank you for including me!   

I love a good party and this one was filled with a great group, great food and in a beautiful setting.  I think that each time we visit with another we have the opportunity to learn so much and take a bit of that experience along with us to share with others. It is also an amazing thing to meet people through blogging and be invited into their lives and homes in such a special way, who would have guessed what a small world this has become.

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greige: {pinterest guest pinner gallery}

 
 I know you love pinterest as much as I do.. so I have asked some of the best in the business to be our guests on the greige guest pinner gallery.  Stop by and see what we have been up to.



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Amaryllis Truth Studio {giveaway}

 

As I am sure you know I love art and I really love the beautiful pieces that Allie from Amaryllis Truth creates.  I cannot remember how I first saw her work but I have been enjoying them for a little while now.  As with many things in the blogging world I met Allie over time via email and twitter and with reading her blog I feel like I know her.  She is a young aspiring artist who is extremely talented and I am so excited to be able to offer one of her pieces here as a giveaway to you my lovely readers.

Allie is offering a 12" x 12" custom oil piece to one lucky reader.  Please take a moment to visit her shop and let us know your favorite!


 
Finally, please come back to this post and leave a comment telling us the piece you like.  Greige email subscribers please click this link to go to this blog post and leave your comment. 

The giveaway will end on Saturday July 21st at midnight.

Please remember I need to be able to contact you if you cannot be contacted through your profile please include email address.

  This giveaway is open to residents of the US as well as my international followers (please note international winners will need to pay shipping).

  

Also, if you would like to learn more about Allie and the time she spends in her studio as well as what is inspiring her you can check out her blog.







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Details of a well lived life...




Some days are more reflective than others.  The past two days have been so beautiful here at home that sitting inside working at my computer seems like a crime during the day.  I have been day dreaming and thinking a lot.  

I found something that is so fun here on Kimberly's blog.  Something I love.  I am a list maker and this seems like the best kind of list - a Life List.  Aside from making this my new before bed project I have been thinking about how we need to get back to basics here at home (my home) we need to entertain more, visit with friends more, spend more time together just playing and laughing.  I have been thinking about friends and how easy it is to make new friends and how we can loose track of old friends.  In the world of blogging and design a friend can easily be a reader, a client, a fellow designer or a vendor, each is still a friend with which a wonderful common interest is shared.  So to those of you that I am lucky enough to call friend I am saying thank you for all you do for me and for making each day special.  

Have a wonderful Wednesday... and I promise to not be soooo sappy tomorrow!  

image via pinterest from OKL


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Lost in Arles...








A few weeks back I was feeling a little out of sorts.. a little lost at the beginning of the year, it always seems like a time when you should be overly motivated, ready to run out of the gates and get some things really taken care of, make changes and plan for the year ahead.  Well, I was in a total funk and kinda bummed out.  On a Sunday morning I had a chance to take a little time to myself and was wandering around in the land of the blogs, I came across Lost in Arles a blog written by Heather,  I spent well over an hour reading her posts and looking through her beautiful photos.   I finally felt like myself, I felt inspired and awake for the first time in what seemed like a month (the holidays really took a lot out of me this year).  I am ready to go, ready to be inspired, ready to travel and ready to take on the challenges of the year ahead.   Maybe I will visit France in the Fall this year, I know I will be working on stream lining my time and energy into projects that I really want and need to do, and maybe just maybe I will be taking a few more leaps of faith this year.

I wanted to thank Heather and thank all of the bloggers that take their time posting so many fantastic images and inspiration!




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New Trad Designer Nominations





Trad home is looking for the new up and coming designers of 2012... and they are looking to the blogging community to bring some great faces their way!  I think this is so great to get someone on the map in a way that most of us only dream of.


Trad Home is back… and YOU can be part of it!
Submit your fave NEW TRAD designer and you could be a guest editor in the next issue.
For the past 4 years, Traditional Home has recognized up-and-coming design talent with its annual hot 
list of NEW TRAD designers. This year, we want your help…
We’re inviting bloggers to help us identify the next wave of emerging design talent. 
We’re on the hunt for 10 up-and-coming designers who epitomize the new traditional design style to 
be showcased in the Spring 2012 issue of TRADhome—our interactive digital magazine.

Please excuse the ad attached to their video but check out their site if your a blogger and want 
to submit your favorite designer.


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