My Creative Blog [05/17/16

  • Dining Room Chairs- I Need Your Help!

    I've shared my dining room conundrum with you in a previous post, and we're really making progress! My wonderful mother helped me score 14 chairs for free! The old Plumsteadville Inn was sold to new owners and they were getting rid of many of the old dining chairs. She knows her daughter well and within five minutes she and my dad…

  • 17th of May

    Another happy independence day comes to it's end. Children marching in beautiful bunads and thousands of Norwegian flags all over. The whole country comes together in friendship and peace, happiness marks the day and everyday chores are forgotten for a short moment.I hope you all have had a quiet and nice day with friends and fami…

  • A Portrait

    W hat I find fascinating about anonymous portraits is the imaginary life we create for those captured for but a moment in time. I've often wondered about the woman in this portrait.I imagined her to be the eldest daughter of three, living on a grand estate and wearing beautiful dresses. I wondered if she was happy and if she lived…

  1. Veruschka & the Multi Color Dream Dress
  2. "Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them" Geoffrey Beene
  3. Maggy Reeves [A Canadian Couturier]
  4. Norma Jeane Mortensen Baker (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962)
  5. An Important 1954 Dior Couture Coat
  6. My Scattered Creating Morning
  7. Hawaii Day 1
  8. Junkin' Day
  9. Sweet Romantic Clothes
  10. Playing with Picnic