31 January 2010 – 8.40 pm
just shaking the glitter off my clothes after a great getaway to celebrate the fact that, as mr. jones says, our marriage could now (legally) go to a casino and have a drink. while in las vegas you’re always subject to gratuitous amounts of gilding and the over-use of over-the-top finishes, but there was beautiful restraint in spots, too…in addition to the food, i especially [...]
27 January 2010 – 8.22 pm
please don’t think for a minute that mrs. jones hasn’t enjoyed taking her show on the road this week, giving programs for the lovely ladies of the pidgeon estates garden club and the delta gamma alumnae chapter! but life can’t be all fun, games, chicken salad, and technique demonstrations, can it? so after a short break, it will be [...]
22 January 2010 – 6.40 pm
you might recall that this fall, i had the pleasure of working on several things for darling ellye’s room…all fab flea market finds by her lovely mom. only one other tiny wrap-up task remained: adding a hit of color in the form of painted wooden knobs and lining detail around the top of this beautiful old dresser. here’s a before & after:
and now [...]
18 January 2010 – 8.53 pm
can you imagine what tales this chair – thought by my lovely client to be about 100 years old – could tell? how many pages turned, stories told, cups of tea sipped, naps taken? the old finish had seen better days, and so she requested layers of “aged” paint, incorporating colors from the new fabric that will soon cover it. [...]
15 January 2010 – 7.35 pm
a huge brava to jeanine hays of aphrochic for initiating a bloggers day of action for victims of this week’s earthquake in haiti. please take a minute to peek at the fabulous items in the online auction she has organized (and designers have generously donated to), and place a bid. 100% of the proceeds will go to [...]
12 January 2010 – 9.05 pm
a slightly sheepish mr. jones came home last night bearing a tiny envelope. he had (so thoughtfully) tried to surprise me at christmas by having these kooky paste-opal & -amethyst earrings of my grandmother’s modified from painful, janky clip-ons to comfy french wires, but they couldn’t be done in time. not knowing the full depth of my recently developed and extremely serious case of “the young [...]
11 January 2010 – 7.16 pm
a lovely, clever, practical client stopped by recently with a handful of tear sheets:
her request: give their dining room walls (now painted in a beautiful, deep gray) the same sort of feeling as one of these gorgeous gracie-, de gournay- or paul montgomery-style hand-painted wallpapers in a way that will fit their budget and their life with a [...]
cold, dreary weekend where you are? you might go and see the young victoria…it’s so beautiful and moving! and it warrants a second viewing just to admire the extravagant palace interiors, the gorgeous gilding especially. the costumes are fabulous, as are every single pair of earrings victoria wears…i want them all! and the music…”only you” is the haunting, romantic song played [...]
9 January 2010 – 12.58 am
it’s time. now that ryan rowlett, my amazing web designer, has finished the (long) wish list of tweaks and updates, he’s officially activated the facebook button on our home page. so, those among you who are social media frequenters may now become fans of me & mrs. jones on facebook, and/or listen for tweets. (these new outlets will allow opportunities to share more [...]
8 January 2010 – 11.22 am
our friends back home in chicago are probably having a good giggle over this, but with a dusting of snow and chilly temperatures, the little joneses are officially out of school today. meg, though, could not pass up the oppportunity to practice her cursive writing. good girl.
…with the lovely ladies of the kimbrough woods garden club, that is. there was a warm fire, a warm welcome and a lots of excellent questions on new developments and possibilities for environmentally responsible interior design (especially painted finishes, of course.) mrs. jones was only too happy to provide a little door prize:
so that the winner [...]
today on an old navy run, mrs. jones was tickled to turn around and find these, because her laundry basket looks like this:
maybe this will be a new sideline….since spattering jeans is apparently in my skill set already.
1 January 2010 – 11.13 pm
with it being the last day of robert burns’s 250th birthday year, an appropriate new year’s eve celebration seemed in order. antlers, moss, turkey feathers and other treasures gathered from the farm (along with our shrine to the auld lang syne poet) set the “scottish muirs” mood for dinner and a cup of kindness to ring in 2010 with a few friends.
thank you, [...]
