those who know her can attest: mrs jones never dispenses fashion advice, only seeks it. (and despite frequent, desperate peeks at the sartorialist and bill cunningham’s weekly ”on the street” videos) is still in paint-covered khakis or overalls most every day.) however, the fall clothing catalogues have been chock-full of beautiful colors that may be showing up in paint around [...]
you know that old saying about the cobbler’s children having no shoes? the same might be said for a painter’s own walls. so when my friend lauren dropped by yesterday, she noticed that i had (finally!) painted our own breakfast room, and proclaimed it “maria-from-the-sound-of-music-orange”. (it’s actually farrow & ball’s #70, orangery, with a little burnt [...]
jackie o, chairman mao, and ingrid the nun all in one room together can only mean one thing: the memphis brooks museum’s the prints of andy warhol: from a to b and back again. it made for an entertaining (and air-conditioned) afternoon, especially since the twin little joneses had studied pop art in school this year, and enjoyed educating me on a thing or two. (charlie’s [...]
1. cooking for fabulous foodie friends (and you all know who you are),
2. painting furniture for an extra-lovely client whose family business, south front antiques (formerly the common market) is a landmark memphis antique/architectural salvage shop, whose home is filled with gorgeous old painted pieces, and whose mother was herself an accomplished painter of furniture.
but as [...]
confession: i stayed up last night devouring the august issue of domino, too excited to sleep after seeing some really cool stencil ideas. (this is the sort of thing that tends to happen when mr. jones is out of town.) so now, if you’ll please flip to page 100 in your copy: the “katie” stencil used on the floor is from [...]
