This past Friday the Canadian Decorators Association – BC Chapter held our annual general meeting in North Vancouver on a fabulous, hot and sunny day! I have been a member for months but this is the first time I have been to an event–silly me–now that I live in the country it seems the monthly meeting date never works for… Continue reading
I am not a person that feels sad or depressed for long periods of time but this week I have not yet gotten over the fact that we had to turn the clocks back an hour last weekend. My sister Elizabeth couldn't sympathize. She looked at me blankly and said "I don't even get up with the kids until 7:30… Continue reading
October 31, 2008 I created my blog and wrote my first post. I was so obsessed that weekend, I wrote 5 posts and barely slept, one of them, The Best Trim Colours: NOT Cloud White, is still one of my top 10 most read posts. If you have read my blog for a long time, you'll notice that I always… Continue reading
My sister Lea has been studying people who set goals now that it's the new year and she reminded me of a study that was done by Tony Robbins years ago with one particular class of university grads. 20 years later when interviewed, only 3% had set goals and that group was the richest of all the rest. In January… Continue reading
Thursday night we hosted a small gathering for my fabulous associate Irene Hill, her husband Kevin, Cary Blackburn who manages my website for me and his wife Deanna. It was just Christmas lights and candelight when they first arrived, with a glass of Prosecco. Irene arrived in a fabulous cape so we had to take a picture! ps. Rebecca, I… Continue reading
We live 5 minutes away from the Heritage Tree Farm where you can choose a live tree that you can plant in your yard after Christmas or cut down a fresh one. Elizabeth & Lea My sister Elizabeth and her family and my other sister Lea (There's one more sister) arrived to get their tree as well. The rain came… Continue reading
Remember when I told you that I won that competition for my up cycled Kate Spade Inspired End table? Well what I won was a night at the Delta Victoria Ocean Point Resort & Spa and that's where I am right now. Because of your votes, I am sitting here tonight, drinking a little bubbly with my love in downtown… Continue reading
Can you believe I've been blogging for four years? I post an average of every second day and this is my 849th blog post! The second post I wrote was October 31, 2008 and this is what my nephew William looked like 4 years ago. Here he is this year at 5 years old. It was a rainy night tonight… Continue reading
Well today was a big media day at BC Place. I woke up at 3:00 am this morning and could not go back to sleep knowing that I had to be there at 6:15 am for Breakfast Television at 6:50 am. Why is it that you're always so nervous up until you're speaking? I was on Breakfast TV for a… Continue reading
source So I'm driving home on Saturday night, after the bloggers yearly gathering at the St. Regis Hotel. It's 10:00 pm and I'm on the freeway with my car filled with carefully selected decorative pumpkins and little tiny orange and black pansies for a party I'm having on Sunday. We have guests staying at the house so I am in… Continue reading
