Posts tagged: blue

Rainy Day Blues 5/25/26

Rainy Day Blues 5/25/26

How was your weekend - besides wet?  I've been thinking about all the families out there who packed their cars, hauled the coolers, organized the kids and the long handled shovels and the pool noodles, and are looking at a scene like this one above, with a traffic filled drive home not yet in their rear view mirror.   Memorial Day is one of only two precious long summer weekends that American life still grants to our working folk with limited vacation, and to have one with constant rain just seems unfair.  My heart goes out to everyone in this scenario.

And yet I must confess, this steady gray drizzle has felt like a welcome home gift to me.   I returned late Friday night from the Museum Store Expo in Philadelphia where I was showing my custom line of scarves, bangles and valet trays based on my paintings of bespoke places and collections.  Exhibiting at a wholesale market is a LOT - three days in a dreary windowless convention center, setting up a 10' x 5' booth which you hope will communicate your dreams.   But if just a few of the interesting conversations I had with amazing non profits on my dream client list come to fruition, I will be doing cartwheels on the beach like a second grader.  So cross your fingers for me.   

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The Deep Blue Sea 3/30/26

The Deep Blue Sea 3/30/26

This photo is sort of like us.  A Love Note Reader's view of the world.  We see a beautiful blue sea with soft summery laundry billowing in the foreground.  We can almost feel the sunshine on our shoulders,  a breeze wafting through salty hair.  We ignore what looks like a platoon of icebergs passing by in the background.   This is our nature.

The iceman has already cometh, we're all done with winter.  We expect this last gasp of March to exit like an Easter lamb.   And off we go.   READ MORE

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Why Blue 1/12/26

Why Blue 1/12/26

Blue endures.  We all love it.  We all look good in it.  I'd venture to guess that everyone reading this has at least one blue room in their house.  Blue feels steady and familiar, kind of like home.

When I'm buying stones, I'll buy half in blue and split the rest among all the other colors.   Why?  Perhaps because our subconscious tells us that blue evokes calm, trust, steadfastness.  After all, it's the color of deep water, wide skies and open horizons.   I think it invites me to pause, to breathe, to see with more clarity.

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Autumn in New York 10/6/25

Autumn in New York 10/6/25

I started out thinking today's note should be set to Ella Fitzgerald singing "Autumn in New York" ... and yet before I knew it, Nina Simone was crooning "Feeling Good" in my ear (so good!), fast forward forty minutes (which flew by) and I had created this playlist, neatly bookended by the two songbirds.  In my mind's eye, I'm picturing it as a soundtrack for a Nancy Meyers movie with you as the protagonist ... camera pans as you stroll through Central Park (or along your favorite hometown walking route) ... the director calls for a zoom in as you pause to kick a few leaf piles, and a red maple drifts up toward the clouds.  What is our lovely protagonist (YOU) thinking in that moment?  What is she longing for?  Where would her story lead, if she dared to write the next scene herself?  READ  MORE

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Stop Singing the Blues 9/8/25

Stop Singing the Blues 9/8/25

Last Monday, I promised to stop singing the end of summer blues, and I'm fulling intending to make good on the pledge.  In the words of that unexpected poet, Jimi Hendrix, "The blues is easy to play but hard to feel". 

How about we lean into the playing part?

Today's note is filled to the gills - oodles and oodles of new goodies to share, sprinkled with some of the best blues from the world of design.

Care for a soundtrack to kick off the new season?   I've made one for you on Spotify here - "Rock Me on the Water" ( no surprise there) and I happily promise that it doesn't include a single chord of Jimi Hendrix.  It's filled with old favorites to deliver a spring to your step, and maybe even get you singing along.  READ MORE

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