{hello | late-week musings & the things we always come back to}

. . . there are things we always come back to, one of which was intimated last week, and on this [romantically] overcast thursday, in a dusky café with a stack of [more] thank you cards to write, have been drawn, again and again, to this breezy, springtime-perfect room -- first published here, [like betsey johnson's pink manhattan apartment], in 2007, with the actual image, astonishingly, dating back to 2001, and yet, the clamshell-ruffle appliqué tablecloth, draped along the hardwood and shaped from a continuous two-hundred-yard-long strip of damask, is as breathtaking today, as it was so long ago . . .

{p.s.} the first great love story still to come x


[image: scan, from martha stewart living, photography by james merrell]

{spring things | tabletop inspiration : satin-wrapped bouquets}

. . . and while on the topic of tabletops and bouquets, very much like the thought of arranging little bouquets, whether fragrant white freesias or lilac-coloured roses or palest yellow tulips, at each place setting at springtime soirées, bouquets wrapped in lengths of satin ribbon and pinned with pretty little rhinestones or iridescent mother-of-pearl . . .

{p.s.} a few things

* also new today : easter inspiration
* the last day: for the olivia von halle silk pyjama set give-away
* still to come : this week's {take me away}


[image: scan, from a tear from an old martha stewart wedding planner]