Pickwick House {Home-Office} Bash + Some Table Dainties

vicente wolfe

john granen table

Happy Monday!  

Tonight, I'm having a little pre-store opening prep party at my pickwick house {home}.  We'll be setting up our workshop/bash with dainty supplies + wine + treats on my dining room table.  It's always doubled as the work table/home office desk.  

Tonight's party reminds me that we'll be opening the store with some really, really great tables that will be for sale and will also be fully decked out with each of their own dainties + their own entertaining style + fresh flowers.  Have I told you that we'll have fresh flower bouquets at the store...provided by one of my favorite florists, The Orchid Lady.   You will want to remember that if you're here local, especially for Valentines Day! 

 What's style are you feeling for table entertaining right now?  I'm loving these rustics mixed with moderns, and especially this elegant-tay mixed with the gorgeous, violet-drapey linen.  On a side note: Sylvie used the word gorgeous the other day.  I guess she listens to me, sometimes.

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Stay tuned for our give-aways, here on the blog, coming in the next week! We're planning SIX days of give-aways in the countdown to the SIX-Eleven S. Pickwick St. Brick & Mortar Store.  {Boy, that's fun to say!!}

images from red ticking, vicentewolfe.com/

xo
sharon

Honeysuckle Pink: Pantone Color of the Year

Jonathan Berger via House Beautiful

Windsor Smith via House Beautiful

Jonathan Berger via House Beautiful

Miles Redd

Miles Redd

I thought I was immune to sickness because my four kids have all gone through well spaced waves of the flu separately, these last few weeks.  Moms aren't supposed to be sick, but alas, oh... uh...glass... uh water, I am.

Today, I'm treating myself to watching Ellen, looking up cheerful inspirations on-line, glancing out my bay windows at the snow, and ignoring the fully wrecked house full of dirty clothes, dishes, and dirt.

I love the new color of the year.  It's cheerful and spring like.  What do you think?  Would you do a room or decorate with this color?  Not sure if I could sell any clients on it.

I guess, if I'm well enough to lay around on the computer, I'm probably well enough to do my yearly spreadsheets of bookkeeping to prepare for taxes.

I still need to post the befores of the last bedroom I posted.  I'll get to it, once I'm able to get out of bed.

Have a wonderful weekend!!

xo
sharon

Colorful Girls Bedroom by Sharon Taylor Designs

Here is a recent project that I did for an eleven year old girls bedroom.  I'll post more later, along with befores.  It's time for me to run, though.  I am headed to a meeting to firm up the first quarter of events we will be offering at the store.  Can't wait to share more fun details with you!

Happy Snow Day!!

Images by
nathaliebearden.com/

Wishful Spring

Wishful Spring

I was going to use these green suede pelts for recovering a bench for the shop opening, but then when I found the green hills painting, above, at a flea market, I thought that the suede pelts would work well for  mimic-ing the grassy green that I am so longing for right now.  Throwing in the Italian leather Castelli chair, and I immediately imagine myself as a real horseback rider with those cute kind of riding boots.  The trophy just "goes" for the show.

photo by nathaliebearden.com

Hope you are having a wonderful week.  What are you doing to ward off the winter blues?  I could use some pointers, 'cause the kids are going in waves of the flu around here, and it feels as if Spring is a million miles away.  Help!

xo

sharon

Locked In Love, In Paris

I had a good evening last night with a friend.  It felt good to laugh and fill our "inspiration buckets".  I'm stealing the phrase inspiration bucket from Rachel Ashwell.  Last night, my friend shared Rachel's blog with me.  If you've never gone there, you should, because Rachel opens up with her deepest thoughts, struggles, limits, triumphs, fears, and amazing inspirations.  She is a goddess of strength and just a really great woman/mom role model.

She built an empire, only to see it fall, and now is beginning to see it slowly be built back up again.   Ironically, her empire is built on simplicity. {Goes without saying...shabby chic}

I admire her simple, honest views on life, work, home, and family.

**Cherish every moment with your loved ones.

**Love is a daily choice...For others and yourself.

This is the month leading up to LOVE day, so you may hear more from me on it.   I told you I love, LOVE.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

xo
sharon

Refined Rustic Chic

I'd love to go to this place in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho.  It didn't surprise me that Miguel Flores-Viana so beautifully captured the amazing work of interior designer, Mary Lynn Turner, and her two daughters, Marie, and Emily of m. elle design.  Amazing workmanship, too, I might add.  The place they built on family land looks as if it was rescued, and those were there exact intentions.

Rescuers, come to my rescue and take me there. I've been walking a mystery mile, here lately, and could really use an escape like this one to let free a few worries o'mine.  I just know it would soothe any ones soul, don't you?

via elledecor.com/


Cheering up is in order:  shop projects, craft projects, and creating entertaining table tops with friends.  The line-up begins in February and Oh, what FUn is to be had with all of you who will come!  I do hope you'll join me.

xo
sharon

Motor Running!

 

I love:  

1. vintage cars

2.  chocolate

3.  kids in military jackets

4.  twin beds

5.  grace kelly and cartier

6.  amaryllis

7.  classic stationary

...still thinking on the other three things...

8.  snow covered streets

9.  LOVE

10.  two oxen pulling the cart the same way.

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As I prepare for wedding show and shop opening, I'm loving red! 

 THOUGhts Today: 

*I think a red mercedes would be the perfect prop for designing a wedding.  

*This week, I'm having red drapes made for the shop and looking at words that symbolize "LOVE" to be added to my brochures and signs for weddings.

*Beautiful text is what I go weak in the knees over, and who represents classic beauty more than grace kelley?

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So, what are you all loving right now and what really gets your motor running?  And what does love represent to you?  

I'm getting ready for give-aways as the countdown begins for shop opening.  Get your boots on and sign up as a follower!  You might just be happy you did.

xo

sharon