Homemade Chalk Paint

Here’s a quick recipe that I use for mixing a homemade version of Chalk Paint.

Living in the Wine Country

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”.

Love Wins

I’m sorry that I have been away for more than a hiatus.

What is more than a hiatus anyway?

My daughter recently told me that in medieval times a moment was measured as 90 seconds.

The dictionary describes a hiatus as:

 1.  A break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc.

 2.  A missing part; gap or lacuna.

I like it that a hiatus refers to space and action.

Small Spaces

The Simple Life

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.

A big rosemary topiary.