Art and Beauty

Wow it’s so green in Raleigh, North Carolina where I’ve just arrived to attend the Withit Leadership Conference. People always say Vancouver is green but It’s kind of cool when you can get into a cab, drive 20 minutes and barely see a single building. When the cab turned into the Renaissance Hotel where I’m…

This post is written by my design associate Irene Hill: source In my previous life as a designer, I specialized in selecting and supplying artwork for residential, commercial and developmental applications. Basically, anyone who needed art for a space and didn’t have the budget or inclination to start a personal investment fine-art gallery. Probably like…

source My client has 3 floors in her home and this gorgeous staircase which had been empty of artwork for a long time. So she called me to help her create a gallery wall. Nothing really beats IKEA frames for the price and she needed a lot of frames. I suggested that once they were…

All my friends and family know better than to buy me ‘what nots’ or ‘tchotchkes’ as a gift. They know it will pretty much not see the light of day in my house. And there are times when I have kept the occasional knickknack out on display for fear of hurting someone’s feelings. For example, I had these little wooden elephant bookends that my mom gave me on my bookshelf for years until my friend Tami said that they were bad luck because their trunks pointed down instead of up. So then I gave myself permission to stick them into the Sally Ann box.