Love Notes

May 31, 2022 • #charlottesville #flower arranging #peony #pink

5/16/22 Paean to the Peony

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!

Jan 20, 2022 • #dessert #pink #valentine #winter

1/17/22 Get ready for your Galentines

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.

Nov 01, 2021 • #art #blue #christmas #holiday #pink #Tablescape #Tablescapes

11/01/21 a Candy Colored Christmas

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.

Jun 09, 2021 • #blue #charlottesville #dahlia #peony #pink #strawberry #trout

5/17/21 - Blue Ridge and Pink Love and Happiness

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.

Jun 09, 2021 • #dinner party #lemon #peony #pink #shrimp

5/10/21 - Pink Peony Dinner Party - with shrimp & grits and lemon tart

After I was first married and before I had children, I liked nothing better than a rainy Sunday spent pouring over a paper copy of the New York Times, then a stack of Gourmet magazines and a pile of cookbooks, dreaming up menus for dinner parties - some of which I had, some of which I only dreamed about having. My brain was younger then, but I could probably still do pretty well in a trivia contest based on "Gourmet Entertains" menus. (Other trivia categories today ... errr probably not so good). One image that is indelibly stamped in my brain is "Pink Peony Dinner Party" from Martha Stewart's "Menus for Entertaining".

Love Notes

Posts tagged: pink

5/16/22 Paean to the Peony

1/17/22 Get ready for your Galentines

11/01/21 a Candy Colored Christmas

5/17/21 - Blue Ridge and Pink Love and Happiness

5/10/21 - Pink Peony Dinner Party - with shrimp & grits and lemon tart