Feeling very proud….

Hope everyone is enjoying this Memorial Day Weekend and honoring our troops.  It’s been beautiful here (for a change)! 

I am sitting in the shop right now looking out, just finished putting the final touches on my new website for

 The Whistling Elk and published.   Yah!

I am so amazed at myself….although i had a website for The Whistling Elk for 20 years – this is the very first one that

I actually built by myself… http://thewhistlingelk.com

i still have a few kinks to work out….like my photo gallery needs to get redone in a slideshow…but i

have yet to figure that out!  Maybe tomorrow.

Enjoy whatever you are doing today!

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Candy and Dessert Buffets….mmmmm

My friend Ivanna has started a new company!  She attended a show yesterday to kick things off and here are some pictures

 she shared with me…enjoy!

The name of the business is THE SWEET BOUTIQUE  Elegant Candy & Dessert Buffets and the link is

http://sweetboutique.com  – check it out!

Soooo pretty and elegant!

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Window treatments enhance the beauty of a room

I’ve been busy installing window treatments for clients this week….here are some of my favorites.

This goblet pleat panel is trimmed with rouche (brush fringe).  It’s a trellis pattern silk from Fabricut and the color works

so nicely with the wall color in this dining room.  These panels just frame a very large series of windows (almost 12′ across).   I wish i had taken a close up of the hardware which is amore…the rod is a

rustic brown and the finials and rings are an antique iron finish.  I love this hardware!

This casual swag below is in a beautiful master bathroom….it fits right in with the elegance of the room!  It’s a trend fabric

 with an RM Coco beaded tassel trim.  The beads are almost black and add a little glitz!

 

I did take some close ups of this one….

 

 

 

Installing these treatments has made me impatient to start the sewing projects for Little Paris….I have some of the fabrics

 and trims already – its so hard to keep myself on track.  I want to move ahead but have to keep reminding myself “all

 things in good time!”

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Surrounded by beauty

Good Evening…I’m so worn out from spending hours and hours and hours on website creation…so much

uploading and design work!  I needed a break so i thought i’d just upload a picture here and say hi…i sold the painting in

the background and i still miss seeing it in the shop!  It’s so gratifying to have pictures that

remind you of such beauty. 

 

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Shabby chic shutters speak to casual elegance

Old shutters and doors look fabulous to me…whether you just lean them somewhere or nail them to the wall – like i did in my bedroom!  (I’m all for easy installation).  These are just “leanin” in the shop right now! 

They are such a great color…very shabby chic and rustic (actually the more beat up they are the better i like them) These could work in a formal setting too.  Just love their ambience and style.  

These would be swell in the Paris Boudoir or the Paris Apartment in our new “Little Paris”….but sigh…we wont be open til September…and they are here now.

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Make a design statement with a beautiful mirror!

Yesterday we brought some beautiful mirrors onto the shop floor (I should say lugged as they were very heavy…the detail is amazing though!  Always worth the trouble!

The picture above is a catalog picture so we snapped a few other photos after depositing it in its new home in the shop.  The iron top is so pretty – very simple yet elegant.

 

 

 

 

 

This one doesnt look that great in the catalog photo yet in person its beautiful and it would make a great leaner mirror at 73″ high.  The picture below is the same mirror where we leaned it in the shop.

 

 

The mirror below is one that truly has presence…the frame is so wide and the ornamentation so regal.

 

 

 

Here it is in the shop – leaning at 60″ high it reflects everything around it! 

 

Ok i know this one seems  small after all those big ones but it really is a beauty too.

I cant wait to put this one in the Paris Boudoir on the little skirted Dressing table. 

We didnt get this one but i included it cause its a favorite and it will probably be here again soon!

Mirrors truly make a room more beautiful and we love making a design statement with them.

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A few days and nights in Aruba…

What a great week….sunshine & warmth, great food, beautiful sunsets…

aruba ocean club

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Delicious dinner at Carte Blanche – appetizer duck with foie gras creme brulee

gate leading into madame janette's in aruba

 Madame Janette’s – delicious dinnersssss

 

  

 

  

 

 

A wonderful week cant wait to go back!

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