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Earlier this week, on June 28th to be exact, we celebrated four years since we moved into our home. Four years ago (and for many more weeks after that), our living room was filled with unopened boxes, excitement and renovation plans, and too many bits of furniture I’d strung along. Some all the way from California. Even now, as I write this, I cannot believe it’s been that long. It feels like only yesterday that I shared with you our home, and invited you all on our renovation journey. See our first post HERE.

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An Entertaining Life, by Paolo Moschino and Philip Vergeylen

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Good morning, friends! I’m back, anyone still out there? 🙂 For today’s blog story, I wanted to tell you about a sumptuous new book by Paolo Moschino and Philip Vergeylen, called An Entertaining Life. Have you had a chance to look at it yet?  Published by Vendome last month, it landed on my coffee table almost by chance, and from there, straight onto my dream board. From London to Portofino to Casa de Campo, the book includes collected European interiors, stunning gardens, and elegant tablescapes that will inspire you to live not only an entertaining life, but a life with beauty and friendship and community at heart. 

An Entertaining Life, by Paolo Moschino and Philip Vergeylen

An Entertaining Life - Paolo Moschino and Philip Vergeylen
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This Week’s Finds

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Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there! I hope you had a wonderful time celebrating with your loved ones today.  Thankfully, it’s been an easy couple of days at our house, compared to the madness of previous weeks. Quiet moments spent in the company of books and favorite movies, considerable amounts of watermelon and orange cake, cuddles with my favorite girl, and lots of thinking and coffee drinking and jazz.

The family room, on a good day 🙂
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June Blooms

Happy Wednesday, dear friends!  It’s been a while… I hope you’re doing well! It’s the end of the school year here in Western Massachusetts and we’ve been busier than ever with school functions, recitals, dance performances, field trips, bake sales and, sadly, goodbye parties. Life has been filled with activity and I’ve been trying very hard to keep my head above the water. For the last few days we’ve had the joy of dog-sitting a gentle (and incredibly needy for affection) golden doodle and his company has brightened up my days. 

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This Week’s Finds

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Hope you had a great weekend, dear friends! Here are last week’s finds, most of them inspired by a delightful project we’ve seen published recently – the Nelson-Galt house in Colonial Williamsburg, circa 1695, redecorated by Birmingham-based interior designer Heather Chadduck Hillegas. We’ve seen a tour in Veranda magazine a few months back, but thanks to Frederic magazine (link below), we get to hear the designer in residence describe the entire process – a collaboration with great American brands such as Schumacher and Benjamin Moore.  Over the course of several months, the Nelson-Galt house was thoughtfully redecorated using paint & fabric selections both appropriate to a home steeped in American history, and relevant to a contemporary way of life and design. I find the project deeply inspiring, and I hope you will too.  

A House Tour of Nelson-Galt House at Colonial Williamsburg with Heather Chadduck Hillegas

Inspired by Early American designs and handmade in New England, the Rockland Hanging Lantern

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