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.
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.
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Happy Tuesday, dear friends! I hope your week is off to a great start. After an unusually capricious month of April, we’ve had a string of gorgeous days here Western Mass. Summer temperatures and sunshine, day after day, and gentle breezes, have coaxed us all out of the comforts of our favorite armchairs and into the garden.
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A roaring fire on cold winter nights, deep, comfortable seating and the company of loved ones (four-legged sweethearts included) make life in a country cottage infinitely sweeter. A fireplace is a wonderful thing to have in a home and when it’s in the right spot, it often becomes the focal point of a room’s entire decorating scheme.
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Following a gloomy week with too much rain, and too little time spent outdoors, this weekend’s weather has more than made up for it in sunshine and warmer temps. Such a spectacular turn of the weather is many a New Englander’s dream so, naturally, everyone’s talking about it. Flip-flops and summer dresses quickly replaced coats and rain boots and our little town is buzzing with excitement. The garden has been slowly coming back to life, and it’s been such a joy to see old friends return, tender and shy at first, but getting bolder and stronger by the minute: the pretty peonies and the proud phlox, the scented salvias and the lovely lupines. There were a few surprises, too, things I’d forgotten I’d planted that now I can’t wait to see bloom, for the very first time in the garden. A good friend of mine who happens to be an excellent gardener, keeps a log of every plant, bulb and seed that goes into her garden and I’d like to (one day) copy her method, if only to keep track of what gets eaten. Hungry squirrels have decimated some of my tulip borders to such an extent that out of dozens of bulbs planted last fall, only one bulb remained intact and strong enough to bloom, below.
