Love Notes

Our hearts ache for the devastation and loss from Hurricane Ian.    We send our hopes and prayers that our friends and neighbors in Florida and the coastal South will rebuild and recover more quickly than logic dictates.   Despite our differences, our American spirit of resilience remains strong, and it binds us together.    We can count on the innate kindness of our fellow countrymen to lend a hand to a neighbor in crisis.  READ MORE

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My husband suggested the title for this week's note, "Paean to the Peony".   "No one will know what that means", I said, not pointing out that no one included me.   Sigh.   I looked it up and learned:   paean: "a song of praise or triumph".    Well Lordy me, that's just what I had written.  Let's sing it out to the rafters!  

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If we lived in a world where you could simply close your eyes, make a wish, and watch it come true, I would rent this pink castle in Scotland and invite all my girlfriends for a Galentines girls getaway weekend.   Good thing it has a lot of bedrooms.

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The artist Mark Lovejoy creates riotous works of art beginning with a mad swirl of intensely pigmented commercial printing inks.  His visuals seemed to me like a fine jumping off point to introduce my Holiday 2021 Collection.  Learn more about Mark Lovejoy's work here.   

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I had a stellar week -  I travelled down to Charlottesville to set up for a trunk show at the very chic Quirk hotel (more on that below), undaunted by the prospects of a gasoline crisis in Virginia.  Nothing was going to stand in the way of my great peony adventure at Pharsalia Farm, and a visit with an old friend and her husband.   The beautiful interiors at Quirk, along with the Blue Ridge mountains and a profusion of peonies, inspired this week's color pairing.

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