Stylish & Child Friendly Spaces

A happy home is a stylish home!  The reverse is not always true. Have you ever been to a friend’s home and wondered where all the “stuff” was? Why was there nothing on the coffee table? The answer was that things had been put away until the kids could learn not to touch them! Doesn’t this seem a little backwards (not to mention boring)? Children must learn to live around our pretty things, learn to appreciate them, and thereby learn to respect and keep items in a nice condition. Children want to learn the stories behind our treasures. At the same time, there’s no way around the fact that we must learn to live with their treasures...

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Setting a Simple & Easy Thanksgiving Table

As the end of the year quickly approaches, it brings no greater joy than the opportunity to give thanks and celebrate good cheer! Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays because it brings the whole family together to laugh, enjoy each other’s company, and to be thankful for all of life’s true blessings. I recently had the opportunity to assist a very special client with prepping and decorating her family’s brand new home to host Thanksgiving.  The Thanksgiving table is arguably the most important focal point of any Thanksgiving dinner or party; it’s where the whole family gathers and where everyone feels “at home”. The result...

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Don't Skip Over Thanksgiving

It seems to be a trend lately to skip over the turkeys and the pilgrims and head right into decking the halls for Christmas. I love the holidays; all of them. Including Thanksgiving. I still love and enjoy my pumpkins and I don't like to rush to put them away. I always add turkeys to my décor the first of November. As much as I love Christmas and my house lit up with merriment at Christmastime, I try to enjoy every last minute of fall and embrace the meaning of Thanksgiving and all that entails.  Don’t skip over Thanksgiving! After all, in Texas, it is just now fall, so we have to embrace it! In my family,...

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