Few things make my heart pitter-pat the way something hand made does. Over the weekend, I attended the Renegade Craft Fair and the combination of like-minded, crafty folks + gourmet food trucks + gorgeous California weather made for a perfect day. Sure there were several vendors selling crocheted refrigerator magnets [...]
Me, and Rauchenberg's "Bed" 1955. Last week I read a post by life coach, Martha Beck whose work appears regularly in O Magazine, and is one of the most thoughtful and inspirational columns you can find anywhere, much less in a major newsstand publication. Though I am not "a 55 year old [...]
While waiting for a vendor at a job site, I took my dog for a walk in my client's neighborhood. The area is quaint, set with variety of styles of houses that sit fairly close together. As I headed down the block, I noticed that the street gradually crept down [...]
For a long time now, stainless has been king, and in most kitchens these days, it still is. Massive Sub-Zeros and Viking ranges have fueled our appetites for commercial, industrial environments. Over the past few years though, a complimentary trend of this industrial look has been the factory look - [...]
The Über-fab designing duo, Joe Lucas and Parrish Chilcoat of Lucas Studio used one of my new pillows in the nursery of their clients' home which was featured in the current issue of Lonny. I am thrilled for them... and for myself. One of my favorite parts of this business [...]
Nestled in a scorchingly hot, flat, middle-class neighborhood of Sylmar is a shade covered patch of land entirely filled with the work of Roy Nagatoshi and his father. Roy at work. Of course, most of my Bonsai education is firmly rooted in The Karate Kid, but one step [...]
It is all things summer camp around here these days and the beginning of my daughter's first summer away from home. After so many years of daydreaming about my summers spent in Maine, it is actually time for my daughter to follow in my footsteps. A real dream come true. [...]
Last year, I started having a thing for blue. Not the turquoise-y green blue that most of my friends know I love, but a different,deep, dark, inky, indigo blue. Slowly, I've started seeing this color creep into the wider consciousness. And just today, this was in my inbox. [...]
An early Saturday morning alarm, two kids and my mother in tow, we headed north to Santa Barbara for the Raoul Textiles Sale. Afterwards, a little worse for the wear, as if right out of a stampede at Filene's, I was happy to discover the Carpinteria Growers Association hosting free [...]
Hi J. Latter friends + fans! I'm Tracy, new Project Manager at J. Latter Design. I'm so excited to be working with Julie because I (finally get paid to) come across items like this pouf by Franco Albini, which we saw recently at Blend. Check this thing out! It's sculptural and [...]
