The Wildflower Class on Sunday at Little Flower School in Brooklyn IS FULL!!!! I just found out and I am so bummed… I wonder if there is any way I can sneak in for a twenty minute “extended peek”….!?
MAGENTA BLOOMS? It might be very white, but this bedroom is nicely flowing in shape and pattern. What we need are elements. For a bit more fire and yang, add more tropical flowers with deeper punch colors as the need arises. Since this room has lots of pattern, think one-color, sculptural flowers (dahlias, anyone?!) to keep it together and yet, sexy)
Hint: In such “spare” rooms, use scent and sound to create elemental richness as well as color and material.
HGTV Design Star Finalist (and professional prop stylist) Emily Henderson’s place in Los Angeles is well styled and balanced, though the very medical flag is a bit worrisome in a gathering room. A flag, any other banner of a positive nature= fine. The hospital-looking banner is a bit disarming and alarming….
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RE-Filling your Creative Well (Aka, why doing nothing and/or playing around is really productive sometimes)
As some of you know, I am deep in the trenches (which feel more like the grooves that flank a roller skating rink) of the BOOK AND COURSE that changes lives: The Artists Way. So much has stirred itself up in the last week, and I am determined to go with its flow no matter how twisted the logic of the universe can be ( like the acorn that shattered my brand new car’s windshield when I asked for “a sign” that things were happening in the right ways) because when you start creating ORDER and first a ton of CHAOS will rain down on you. (But… that’s a whole separate conversation which we will have soon!)
Julia Cameron requires all people doing The Artists Way book to take themselves on an “Artist Date” to refill their well of inspiration. This week’s “date” was about 5 hours of Hulu-watching: The Office, Glee, old episodes of Friends, Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia… And yes, I am fully aware that this isn’t really a “date” per say, but allowing myself to space out and do nothing all by myself while eating my favorite food is… AMAZING.
I am totally not inspired by most of what I watched. I am excited and inspired by how thoroughly relaxed I feel and how many pure images and notions I absorbed that will find their way into the articles I write this week, the stuff I talk about with my clients… even a light-silly episode of Glee about competition stretched my notions of what “modern day competition” actually means….I’m also pretty sick of watching TV, so my focus is getting quite razor sharp for the week ahead!
My next “dates” I have planned are real and kinda crazy cool…. I’m particularly stoked to start crochet again…walk Fifth Avenue to the MET steps (and the Metropolitan Museum of Art itself!)…video-blogging on You Tube (which I may or may not share with you (??!!??)… mastering BBQ…. yep, there’s a lot to do in the next 11 weeks!!
TRY A DATE : I do encourage you to take yourself on an Artists Date even if you don’t want to do the full Artists Way right now. You can probably make a fine list of twenty or thirty things you have always wanted to do creatively, maybe fifty or 100 things. Do that list. One a week. Keep it going. See what happens!
“ There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it’s easy.
Awesome Proverb
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“ How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I’m committed to?
Tony Robbins
A room that lacks fire for all its wood and earthy excess can struggle with gaudy “over-the-top” accessories like mirrors and too-ornate filigree sconces to make up for the fundamental lack of “”spark” and balance.
ART IN THE CLOSET: If you are lucky to have a modern dressing room, these images could be the ideal to inspire you. I remember first hearing details of Posh Spice’s Los Angeles closet—- a Warhol shoe print completed her $500,000 walls.
Your closet- even if it simply swings or slides open, or wheels out on a rack- can present ideals through art taped to the inside of a door (perhaps your style-spiration of the season shot by Mario Testino?) , hung on a wall beside a clothing rack (a vision board that functions as a collage?!?), or a postcard of someone you admire stylistically stuck in the corner of your morning mirror if you must…. All of these little ways are vital ways to purposefully let imagery and artistic expression reinforce your style and sense of personal luxury. (go for it!!!)
