(click here to download this month's calendar as your screensaver or to print a copy) Each month, when I sit down to create the calendar...

Barneys has offered up a style challenge.  --- Get out your favorite blue jeans, the ones that are truly you --- and style them up with yo...

Just wanted to pass the word- before the limited quantities of Chanel's hottest nail polish disappear in their boutiques in NYC (with a ...

Creole Sha explained that  my post triggered the idea -- but this design duo gave it their signature, romantic touch - turning a pair of o...

This denim beret is from my sewing book, Denim Revolution . The contrast of softly worn blue denim embellished with ornate gold and velvet t...

Over at Colette they are already selling Isabel Toledo's "Court" shoes.  Aren't they divine!  All that style for only 35 E...

(as a fellow blogger, just click here  to download and use this month's screensaver or to print yourself a copy) August always feels li...

Last summer I bought some luscious fabrics from Liberty of London . And since then, have thought and mused about what to make. Finally, afte...

Finally (...it's only July 18th after all) the July screensaver has arrived! (click here to download a copy) With this denim trimmed vi...

One reaches up and plucks a fig for breakfast or a midday snack. Vacationing in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence has been so lovely.

Labeled simply, as "Man's Morning Gown, 1825."   Created from a cloth pieced together from hundreds of diamond shaped cotton f...

Elsa Scaparelli Bug necklace (Brooklyn image) If you are in New York – you simply can’t miss the pair of costume exhibitions at the Costume ...

(click here to download the June screensaver ) Still high on my wonderful visit to NYC.  10th Avenue viewed from the Highline  - wow!  The g...

I wanted to let everyone know, that over at my other blog, the new, pure denim one , I've just posted these cozy, cropped, rather smug, ...

Gone with the Wind is and will always be a most favorite fashion inspiration. Tattered or dripping in gold, either way, the clothes play a ...

The Making time column of the Guardian has featured my denim slipper tutorial.  Do skip over, as there are many wonderful and original tuto...

Dear Friends, I'm traveling.  First stop Portland, then last night I left Portland (can't help but mention it is one of my most favo...

Just click here to download this month’s screensaver Here we are, already the second of May, and everyone is sliding into the spirit to tho...

hmm ... a blue rose ... click here

dear friends, a fun dream, that started as a little seed is about to bloom. I can’t wait to share it with you … in just a few days. ...