A daughter's tribute

We finished staging my client's mom's house and I had my sister come with me to photograph it. I wanted to give my client a lasting memory of her mother's house ... a tribute to her tribute. She wanted to stage the house to help sell it obviously, but more importantly it was a way for her to honor the home that her mother and grandmother had lived in for so many years. And I think ... a lovely way of saying goodbye.

Thank you Patti for the fabulous photographs and thank you Carol for letting me be part of another one of your fun projects. xoxo

I should have been a Virgo

We are on the last leg of the kitchen "remodel". It started as just a "get-a-new-range" ... which led to new counters ... which led to the new cabinet doors ... and then we had the water damage from the broken refrigerator (new floors). We should have been done last Thanksgiving (all I wanted was a new range to cook the turkey) and already we are heading into Spring. But today the painters are starting and when they are done I can put everything back in its place. 

Martha Stewart's Bedford, NY kitchen

I do not believe in Astrological signs but for the record, I am a Capricorn. I think I should have been born a Virgo. I have a client that is always referring to decisions she makes as "the Virgo in me." And honestly, I didn't really know what that meant so I looked it up.  I am going to give you the shortened version, but there are a few of you that know me that will want to read it in its entirety (I love my sisters). 

Virgo Traits: Methodical, meticulous, analytical and mentally astute, the Virgo natives are perfectionists to the core, or at least, they like to believe that they are. They are excellent managers, and may even ruthlessly ensure that the work is done, and well done, at that. Fastidious to the tee, they may be perceived as narrow in their outlook, critical and quarrelsome by many. Yet, unperturbed by the others’ view of them, they will go on doing what they feel if right, quietly and with a dogged determination. 

I love having all my ducks in a row and even better, all my things neatly put away. Slightly obsessive. Slightly compulsive. So taking everything out of my cupboards (to paint) feels less like a chore and more an opportunity to fine-tune my organizational skills. Or feed the beast inside of me, perhaps?

Did you know that Mother Teresa was a Virgo?

Happy Monday everyone!

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What if you believed?

"You have searched me, LORD, and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.

For you created my inmost being;

you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful, I know that full well."

 - Psalm 139:1-4, 13,14

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