What’s big in your world right now?
It’s almost summer break! Are you planning trips!?
Maybe you just attended graduation for one of your littles, or maybe one of your BIGS went off to prom! I saw your pics and I can’t believe how time flies.
Sarah took on a new staging project for a recent house listing! Her Southern Pines Real Estate life is cruising right along and its brought new and exciting challenges to our work lives.
She’s also found a moment to whip up some classic pillows shams from a piece of highly sought after Chinese Batik textile that we sourced at the antiques market here in Santa Monica. The result is great, and we’d love to take custom orders! Contact us through our CONTACT TEOT page.
We got some new art easels in, and as simple as this home decor idea is – we think you can really bolster your table top steez with these basic pieces. Find them on our art page.
We get real happy when our clients and customers send us a pic of their latest TEOT goods in action. Thanks Court. We’ll forever love this pattern.
We are looking into a round up of the best hanging rattan chairs that the internet has to offer. While our vintage example in the shop is hard to top, we think the new hanging rattan chair we stock online is pretty darn close to Midcentury perfection. It goes boho for sure, but with clean lines like that, we think that just about any context could benefit from the casual and playful aspects it brings, even juxtaposed in a traditional setting.
I can hardly believe it, but the shop is taking on a more natural, neutral tone with its most recent layering of badass boho accessories. One signature of Sarah’s design practice that I really love, is her eclectic glaze. Thoughtful, sentimental and well poised elemental arrangements atop a purposeful, classic base. It’s evidenced by the recent bedside vignette at the shop.
I stopped my car, parked across the street and then looked up and down the street for judgey eyes before snapping this photo of my neighbors home. I had too, for a number of reasons. The first being that its FARMHOUSE in the Pacific Palisades. The second is because Sarah and I had cruised by it the very day that an associate at the Pacific Design Center told us that Venice was where it was at, and nothing interesting was happening anymore in Santa Monica or north… just boxes on boxes. But this is straight up East Coast Traditional architecture here in my hood and about a billion more area homes are clad in construction fencing, getting the same kind of update. Thanks Joanna Gaines???
At any rate, we’re into it.
And speaking of a little bit of country, the sweet ticking stripe napkin place setting is a great idea for your modern farmhouse table decor.
Oh, more new natural neutrals to love in the shop! Hot dog!
OMG, I bout died when I saw these. I need shelfie coaching so badly. I don’t even hardly have shelves at this house just yet, but they are coming and when they do…. I need Sarah’s magical touch.
Just look. It’s zen meditation for my hungry helpless eyes.
In other news, I just want to share something personal b/c you guys are so great to be here. It’s easier to do this in hindsight. I’ve been relatively quiet about it on the internet and around here we always vacillate between “do I share, or do I not share and move on talking only about pretty rooms and things to buy.”
… but today I share.
I’ve just come through a recovery period from a sudden surgery, very similar to something that Lena Dunham can outline for you to much greater detail and drama that I can muster on an interior design blog! Suffice to say, I’m one less fallopian tube and two less ovarian dermoid and chocolate cysts than I was a couple weeks ago and I’m ready to party – more sane and less pain, into the future of continuous birth control. I took the #endo pic with my phone, but I’ll spare the internet my intimates.
This is just my own personal part of the lady health stuff that both Sarah and I have confronted in the past few months. From our mothers, sisters, cousins, friends, daughters and ourselves, women’s health concerns have been surfacing all over the place for us. I hope its coincidental to our own ring of loved ones, and not the the new dystopic future that the Handmaid’s Tale would have me believe.
At any rate, at the moment I’m a bit raw, but grateful for my health and future. I’ve been through this quick, rough patch that was handled wonderfully with loving care from my doctors and my dude…. but there is more to face down with my mom’s continuing battle with endometrial cancer, with my reproductive pursuits, with cancer screenings and more. I guess I just want to say that if you are dealing with this, have dealt with it or are wondering if you may one day have to deal with it, you have my big, big heart. And we can chat it out. I’m ready to talk. Sharing and chatting through this stuff with friends and ladies of all types has been the most therapeutic approach I’ve found so far. Don’t spin out on your own. Don’t feel afraid, and let’s tackle it.
The end. That’s the end of this suddenly personal purge on the heels of an otherwise lovely eye candy phone photo folder dump. Love and thanks again for being with us.
