Happy Glampers Part One: Camp Chic in a “Love Bubble” Airstream
glamping (noun): glamour + camping This is for all you city slickers out there. Maybe you would not be caught dead grilling a hot dog fireside, slumbering beneath the stars open-air in a sleeping bag, or fighting off mosquitoes (or the occasional bear) in the untamed American wild, yet you still have a thirst for...
The Friday Experience: Cultural Appreciation For The Arts
When looking up the definition of culture, as a noun, these are a few of the 9 definitions that you will come across: 1. art, music, literature and related intellectual activities, 2. enlightenment and sophistication acquired through education and exposure to the arts. Then onto a lengthy biological material definition of culture, to 3....
Couture Décor: Scentscape for Spring With Archipelago’s Candles
No one holds a candle to Archipelago Botanical’s soy wax flambeaus. And for their spring 2013 collection, they are pulling out all of the stops. Yes, welcome to the world where candles are unveiled in collections just like apparel — the world of candle perfumery. Archipelago (www.archipelago-usa.com), an international company, “where warm candlelight, exquisite fragrance...
The Friday Experience: Lapis Gallery/Design and Build Celebrates 15 Years
This April 5th First Friday, Lapis Gallery/Design and Build celebrates their 15th year at their Tennyson Street location, offering a little something for everyone. While the purpose and business direction has seemed clear from the beginning, it took time to metamorphosis into the business they are today. During the mid to late 1980’s...
The Friday Experience: The Gallery Exchange
Not everyone has to have a background in the arts to have a passion for the arts. Such is the case with entrepreneur, Kay Wilson, owner and creator of The Gallery Exchange. Forget what you thought about the on-line art gallery, it’s flat, stale way of viewing artwork. Wilson has taken on the old model...
The Friday Experience: Robert Davis Garner
As we plod through our daily lives, we may or may not notice the subtle influences that direct our path. It is those of us with the creative eye that expose and sifts through those influences to create works of art. It is through these daily influences that Robert Davis Garner takes his audience on...
Couture Décor: 7 Tips to Buying Art for Your Home
There are three types of people who amble into art galleries: those who are educated about art, those who are not, and those who pretend to be. I do not know about you, but I fit into the second category. I know so little I would not even attempt to feign being an art connoisseur....
Couture Décor: Local Mompreneurs Take Ingenuity Beyond the Home With Chalk Paint
With seven children and 30 pigments of Annie Sloan Chalk Paint® to juggle between them, business owners Becky Georgiades and Andrea Miner have their work cut out for them. They are one-time stay-at-home mothers, best friends and owners of a boutique, yet they handle the balancing act with style and grace — the same way in which they paint. The mompreneurs make up...
Couture Décor: Meredith Nicole, Storytelling Through Wood Grain
“LOVE,” “FAITH,” “STRENGTH” – these were the carved inscriptions hidden in the underbelly of a massive, wooden family dining table in France – the words, a chilling memory of its World War II history. During the war, German soldiers occupied the French family’s home where the table resided. Seizing the home for two weeks, the...
Couture Décor: My Dream Closet Unveiled
As Liz Finkelstein of Mile High Style recently told me, the closet is “a very vulnerable thing,” yet despite that, I find myself about to bare my soul to you all. After last month’s Couture Décor column on dream closets, inspiration struck; I decided it was time to confront the “monsters” living in my own closet....





























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