5/28/14

Inspiration of the Week



Here it is…….

Santa Marina Resort 
in
 Mykonos

When should we leave?
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Have a fabulous week!

5/26/14

Memorial Day



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A Quote from the book 

Road of 10,000 Pains: The Destruction of the 2nd NVA Division by the U.S. Marines, 1967 by Otto J. Lehrak


Sergeant Harold Wadley: “ ‘Some will remain eighteen, nineteen, or twenty in my memory. They never grow old. Out of one blood-soaked, shattered tree line and paddy, where unselfish, devoted Marines once answered to the roll call of Aukland, Baptist, Braswell, Horvath, Herman, Irving, Rosales, Stutes, Wilson, and Wolf."



5/20/14

Sneak Peek



of a recent photo-shoot…..


www.rylandwoodard.com




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Have a fabulous Week!

5/12/14

Inspiration of the Week


Here it is…...

Alexa Hampton's Room 
at the
Kips Bay Showhouse this year


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Have a Fabulous Week!





5/11/14

Happy's Mother Day


I never really got what being a mother was until I became a mother myself.  As my children grow older and life changes I am in awe of what all of the mothers in this world have done to get all of us to where we are today.  

I recently found a note in a family bible that said
"Grandmother Hancock fed the hungry and buried the dead during the Civil War".  
She was 30 years old had a 6 year old, a 2 year old, was pregnant and her husband was at War.  

How all of the women throughout time did everything we are doing and so much more without electricity, running water, diapers, bottles, formula, microwaves, stoves, food you do not have to prepare/grow/kill, husbands, clothes you have don't have to make yourself, cars, screens to occupy your children, shoes, lawnmowers, telephones, heat, air conditioning, ice, Oprah, medicine, Patient First- the list goes on and on.  I don't know how they did it then and I can't get over the fact that there are women that are still doing it today without all of the things we couldn't make it through the day let alone an hour.  

So thank you to all of the mother's that kept going, put themselves last, loved and nurtured their children in good times and bad to get us all where we are today. 

"Grandmother Hancock"- Emily Pauline Carrington
































 HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!
Especially to my mother who helps me make it all happen!










5/9/14

Portraits


I have always been fascinated by portraits. 
 The artist, what the person chose to wear or have in their portrait and the overall mood.  
I know I want to do one of my children one day - but I am torn on what I want.

I think they are all amazing…..

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 What my mother chose in 1978 to do of me


A friend's child at her first sitting for her portrait…..




HAPPY WEEKEND!

5/5/14

Inspiration of the Week




Here it is……


Ellen Niven's Living Room 
featured in the new House Beautiful

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Have a fabulous week!