When Betsy found my blog and read this post, she realized her white house was just a little too white paired with the more earthy brick columns and railing. A few days ago she emailed me her exterior holiday lights and I asked her to send all of the images if she had them. Here’s…

One of the perks of having a designer sister (me) as well as living a mere 2 minute drive away is that your house can get elaborately decorated for the holidays. Dr. Bill & Elizabeth Jacobs Especially as Bill and his partners had their staff party here a week ago as well as their annual…

I really, really wanted to give you the tour of my house from the photo shoot 3 weeks ago and Christmas but Tracy Ayton, my awesome photographer, sent them into a national magazine and they are going to be published, hooray! I’ll confirm who it is very soon! So all I can do is give…

Rebecca Marshall decided to bring out all her fabulous boxes and bags to decorate her house for a good cause. Last weekend, this house was part of a tour of eight homes with all proceeds of the $10 tickets to benefit the Cyrus Centre, an inner-city resource centre responding to the needs of at-risk and homeless…

Elizabeth and I spent Saturday together Christmas Shopping on Robson Street in downtown Vancouver. Then at 6:00 pm, we decided to have dinner so we went to Cin Cin, one of our favourite restaurants. These are the stairs going up to the restaurant. You immediately feel like you’re arriving somewhere special, beautiful and european. Since…

Elizabeth and I shopped for ornaments and extra lights this weekend. We noticed that none of them were on sale. Isn’t it funny how this is pretty much the ONLY time of year we buy stuff at full price, all the while fully aware that in a week or two it’ll all be 30 –…