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I'm coveting these St Louis crystal tumblers and glasses featured in Classic Entertaining I mentioned on Wednesday. I never really lik...

This pretty dining room would be a perfect place for breakfast, don't you think? Featured in Classic Entertaining that I mentioned on W...

To everyone celebrating Christmas today, I hope you all have a day full of joy and hope! This is my tree a few years ago in a larger apartme...

I've been reading the book Classic Entertaining by Henrietta Spencer-Churchill and came across this beautiful dining room set for dinne...

In the December 2008 issue of 'This Old House' magazine is one of the most elegant conversions I've ever seen! A former 1916 Ca...

I hope you all enjoy your snowy weekend!! It's starting to feel a lot like Christmas :-) Image of Carnegie Mellon University campus

I'm longing to get away; Are you too? The holidays, the election, the start of winter, it's all exhausting!! Tell me, where would yo...

The most popular blog post I ever wrote were my 2 postings on the Petit Trianon (see them here and here ). While famous, very little inform...

Guess what I got at the post office today?? Bette Davis STAMPS!! What a great way to glamourize your mail! I believe this photograph they us...

The last issue of the now defunct 'O at Home' was probably the most enjoyable magazine I've read for quite awhile. I read it cov...