I’m on a new plan to try to wake
up early and start to work on my business before my girls or the sun has risen.
This morning for me the sun rose at 6:56 am so each day there will be a little
bit more light in the sky.Does
anyone want to join me and give it a try? I already feel kick-ass and I only
began this morning.Laugh with me
not at me o.k.
Probably all of you at some
point have considered painting a room in your home RED.Maybe you already have… congratulations!I have not, shameful as it may be.Right now I’m obsessed with the right shade of blue.
I believe that there are many
ways to make a red room work.Here
is what made it work in my opinion in this space that I painted in San
Francisco.
I’m back in California and the
rain won’t quit.We have little
breaks and the sun tries to come out, but the air and ground are always.We are all thrilled, after 4 years of
draught, the rain is a big celebration.I like to go for long
walks and then scavenge for a winter bouquet.It is easy just to pick up Lichen, branches of Rosehips or fallen
Camellia blossoms.They are often
covered in dirt or mud.At home I
rinse them off and put them in a crystal bowl and an old olive oil bottle.Even if they faded or browned at the edges the effect is
still stunning.
It is a rainy day somewhere in
the world, now since you don’t really know for sure if I am in Umbria or
California today we are NOT going to play a little game, NOR are we going to
take a test.I don’t like to do
either of the above, in fact my friends and family think I should begin to like
to play games.I would rather read
a book or go for a run, than play a game.
I love this photo for its beauty
and feeling of solitude.It may be
just that January feeling.This is
a palazzo in our main Piazza in Foligno, Italy. I know the view well. I like the contrast of the modernity of
white lights with the antique façade behind.It warms my heart.
I love December and the Holidays, it warms my heart. Tomorrow we leave to go back to Umbria for Natale in Italy with my darling Alfredo and all our friends. I still haven't packed! It would be lovely to return dressed elegantly, instead of the painters whites that I usually bicycled around the city in.
Recently I finished painting an
apartment in San Francisco.It is
a space I have worked on before, twice actually traveled from Italy to work on the interior.Every time I return to the
neighborhood of Pacific Heights, I find myself in dreamland, architectural
wonder, full on cloud nine o.k. !It
is amazing. On the top of the hill with views of the Bay, Alcatraz and the Golden Gate
Bridge.Then I fall in love with
every single house.Watch and see if
you don’t do the same.
I’m feeling excited for the
festivities and to be home in America for Thanksgiving, everyone is heading out to the
beach house, the whole big family together.
I have been working so hard and
just finished painting an apartment in San Francisco.Soon I’m going to show you all the amazing houses in the
neighborhood I was working in, each one looking like a jewel.
To tell you the truth. I forgot and I got the date wrong. I'm that bad. I actually love this blog and so I should have remembered her day. To be honest I just have too much going on right now. It was November 5th 2012 when I took the leap and started it up. I was living in Umbria, Italy then. Click Here if you want to flash back and view my very first blog post.
I can’t believe it israining right now in California as I write to you.The ground is quenching its thirst from months and years of
disappointment.It is November first
and it is raining! Happy November everyone.
These photos I took earlier
in the week.I wanted to pay tribute
to this pendant pomegranate.I
have been tentatively watching it remain, consistently hanging low for
weeks.To me here at Sette Design
it is poetry.
Here we go another week
beginning.At least it is starting
to act a little Autumnal here in the Wine Country.A few leaves have fallen.The valley looks amazing with vivid green vineyards, ochre
and yellow and golden light spotted with the shadows of the deep clouds above.
Do you ever find yourself
driving to work or walking around your neighborhood and falling in love with certain
houses, maybe you pass a certain way just for the joy of seeingyour special house.
This is how I carry on my days
here at Sette Design.
Sometimes in the fall in Umbria,
I would make the girls stop in their tracks and smell the air of pungent fermenting grapes.I would say
that is the smell of the crush, the smell of home.Elisa and Lucia would undoubtedly respond, “but Mama it’s
GROSS”.
Now since we live in our little California cottage I need to force myself to think small and organized. The days of rambling around our huge Gothic Italian apartment are gone. Guests used to actually get lost and not find the way out. There were a lot of doors!
I like to play with scale and so I set up this pretty scene just for YOU.
A little chest of drawers, a silly tiny ice cream swirl chair and a bunch of flowers.