My Creative Blog [02/08/16] 

  • Brass Candle Sconce

    I came across a brass candle sconce at an antique store several weeks ago and thought, hmmm, that's nice... It was exactly $3.50 so I thought I'd just see what I could do with it. As you can see from the photo above, it was quite brassy.I dug into my basement cabinet where I keep all of my magic potions and found some "brass ager.…

  • Project Time!

    Italian, 16th Century, cut and voided silk velvet from Genoa Standing in at 26" x 20"In case some of you don't know I'm an antique textile dealer, I deal mainly in 15th '18th century European textiles and I make pillows out of fragments. Sometimes I get pieces in that are to big for a single pillow and I never cut pieces that are …

  • katie lee joel's NYC apartment by nate berkus

    katie lee's manhattan townhouse designed by nate berkus is now for sale. For the listing and more fantastic images, click here. discovered on the beautiful blog {this is glamorous} …

  • 44 nuances of white

    Swedish Paula Buitenen-Eklund decided to keep her home white even when having children. After all, there are washing machines. …

  • A Victorian Girl

    One of my favorite movies when I was a teenage girl was, A Room With a View. I wanted so much to be Miss Lucy Honeychurch. I wanted to live in Miss Lucy Honeychurch's house, wear her gorgeous dresses, and I even wanted to be chaperoned on a trip to Florence, Italy by an overbearing cousin named Charlotte Bartlett.So when I came up…

  1. Fabulous Girls Wear Ossie Clark
  2. Three Degrees of Kelly
  3. The Story Behind the Bags
  4. Wearing Vintage [Jill Stuart in Ossie Clark!]
  5. Required Viewing [Raf Simmons Interview on the making of his first Dior Collection]
  6. Canton Junkin' and What are These ....
  7. Vintage Aqua Ball Jars
  8. Painting, Sewing & Cleaning ....
  9. Pocket Pillow Tutorial
  10. Ruffles & Roses