When the mailman arrived at the studio with a box from Amazon.com in his hand, we knew exactly what was inside.  We’ve been waiting anxiously for it! The delivery was the new book Print and Pattern by blogger Bowie Style. The book is a compendium of current designers working in surface design, creating graphics, patterns [...]

Is it strange that we get ridiculously excited about tomatoes?  Well, we do!  And this weekend was the much anticipated annual event, Tomatomania.  It’s held at a local tiny farm, so small that it’s actually nestled along one of our busiest freeways. Every year, the farm hosts Tomatomania, where you can purchase countless varieties of [...]

Happy Friday!

The forecast is nothing but sunshine this weekend and we intend to take full advantage of it! Spring is blooming everywhere; you can’t drive around without noticing an abundance of green grass, colorful flowers and blue skies.

On tap this weekend:

• Watching the premier of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. We *heart* Jamie!

• Making lemon curd [...]

As small children, each year we would receive an Easter basket filled with jelly beans, robin’s eggs, chocolate eggs and, of course, a stuffed animal. Sometimes it was a lamb or a chick, but most often it was a candy colored bunny. A couple of special times we got those inflatable bunnies holding a carrot. [...]

Spring officially started on Saturday, but here in Los Angeles, it started a little early. The last week or so has been gorgeous; all we want to do is be outside. This past Friday, we decided to get out of the studio for a while and go on a picnic. Sometimes you just need to [...]

As I mentioned on Friday, a lot of “Spring Cleaning” needed to be done in our yards. Saturday and Sunday were both spent weeding, trimming, and re-planting. A ton of dirty work! While there is still a lot to be done, I was able to set up our our outdoor dining room so that we [...]

With the first day of Spring, just around the corner, we’ve been thinking a lot about what’s going on in our gardens.  With all the crazy rain we had last month, the weeds are absolutely out of control and need to be dealt with (YUK!). There’s also lots of physical work to be done in [...]

We haven’t done a playing with color post in a while, so it seemed appropriate to do one today in honor of St. Patrick’s Day and the color green. The inspirational photo above is a piece of vintage gift wrap from the early 1970s. It is a photo print of different upholstery trims and pom [...]

It was definitely the pink, aqua, and black color combination that first attracted me to the box of this craft kit. I just love the use of limited color palettes in vintage illustrations and this one really does it perfectly. What I didn’t expect to find was a complete kit, never used, with all the [...]

We can’t tell you how much we have been looking forward to this weekend. Why, you ask? The beginning of daylight savings time! There just never seems to be enough hours in the day to do everything we want to do and somehow with that extra hour of sunshine makes all the difference in the [...]