Domino's "Sites We Love"

I have loved seeing all the amazing pictures captured from the pages of Domino on all the blogs that have done tributes to this little love of a glossy. However, for me? Of all the pages at the Domino's website that could be gone shortly, this is the one page I would have missed most. I use the words could and would because I believe we can do something through the blogosphere to stop it. Until I know otherwise, I will remain hopeful. Should I be wrong, I have saved all the lovely links they shared with us.

Sites We Love
Our favorite sources for decorating, entertaining, gardening and more.

Decorating
Paint
Benjamin Moore
C2 Color
Dulux Paints
Farrow & Ball
Fine Paints of Europe
Milk Paint
Pantone
Pratt & Lambert
Ralph Lauren Home
Sherwin-Williams
The Stencil Library
Wallpaper
Adelphi Paper Hangings
Brewster Wallcovering
Cavern
Cole & Son
Cowtan & Tout
de Gournay
F. Schumacher & Co.
Hamilton Weston
Holland & Sherry
Osborne & Little
Quadrille
Robert Kime
Secondhand Rose
Studio Printworks
Timorous Beasties
Trustworth Studios
Walnut Paper
Waverly
Zoffany
Fabric & Trim
Chelsea Textiles
Duralee
The Furniture Joint
Kerry Cassill
Lee Jofa
Les Indiennes
Lewis & Sheron
M & J Trimming
Mod Green Pod
Outdoor Fabrics
Purl Soho
Repro Depot
The Silk Trading Co.
Textile Arts
Furniture
American Leather
Anthony Lawrence
Arango Design
Architonic
Atmosphere
Avery Boardman
B&B Italia
BDDW
Bernhardt
BoConcept
Carlyle
Cassina
Colcha
Cool Sofa
Davidson
Drexel Heritage
Elite Leather
Ethan Allen
George Smith
Grange
Hickory Chair
Highbrow Furniture
Highland Park
Hollyhock
HomePortfolio
House Eclectic
Jayson Home & Garden
Knoll
Laneventure
La-Z-Boy
Ligne Roset
Maine Cottage
Mecox Gardens
Mitchell Gold
Natuzzi
Oly Studio
Orange Skin
Plantation
Plush Pod
Retro Modern
Richard Wrightman
Robert Lighton
Room
Sundance
Thomasville
Two's Company
Urban Cottage
Vanguard Furniture
Vitra
Weego Home
White Furniture
Windsor Smith
247 Workspace
Home Accessories
2b mod
Alabama Chanin
Allegra Hicks
Apartment Zero
Anupama
Art Effect
Auto
Bark
Base
Blackman Cruz
Calypso
Charlotte Moss
Cielo Home
Decorative Things
Dutch by Design
Elsewares
FinnStyle
Fitzsu
Gifted
Hable Construction
Hazelnut New Orleans
Home & Haven
Hunter Douglas
Imports from Marrakesh
Iomoi
Jonathan Adler
John Derian
Kartell
Koo de Kir
Larson-Juhl
Lekker Home
Lunares Home
Maharam
Marimekko Interiors
MoMA Design Store
The Museum of Useful Things
Mxyplyzyk
Nova 68
Objects of Design
Ochre
Overstock
Pearl River
Perch!
Rare Device
Shabby Chic
The Shade Store
Sheherazade
Smith + Noble
Superdeluxe
Tortoise
Umbra
Uncommongoods
Velocity Art and Design
Vivre
William-Wayne
XY Decor
Zinc Details
Zipper Gifts
Rugs
ABC Carpet
Angela Adams
Beauvais Carpets
Dash & Albert
Elson & Company
John Rosselli
Karastan
Kravet
Madeleine Weinrib Atelier
Mansour
Mohawk Flooring
Odegard
The Rug Company
Stark Carpet
Sweep Dreams
Lighting
Charles Edwards
Circa Lighting
Galerie des Lampes
Just Shades
Lum
School House Electric
Vaughan
Y Lighting
Bed & Bath
Area
Charles H. Beckley
Charles P. Rogers
Dwell
Frette
India Rose
Labrezel
Leontine Linens
Nancy Koltes At Home
Room Service Home
Schweitzer Linen
Sue Fisher King
The Bathroom
Kids
ducduc
kid o
NettoCollection
Ooba
Entertaining
Tabletop
Clio
eTabletop
Fishs Eddy
Global Table
Home Click
Iittala
Lillie
Lladró
Marc Blackwell
Porte Rouge
Potluck Studios
Stash Tea
Maxwell-Silver
Moss
Mottahedeh
TableArt
Table Tools
Tabletop
Tart
Tse Tse
Villeroy & Boch
Vivi
Cookware
Broadway Panhandler
Chef's
Chef's Resource
J.B. Prince
Sur La Table
Recipes & Foodstuffs
Chocolate & Zucchini
Adagio Teas
Artisanal Cheese
Bloods Groves
Dartagnan
Daylesford Organic
Dean & DeLuca
Diamond Organics
Ethnic Grocer
Food 411
Ideal Cheese
K & L Wine Merchants
Jin Patisserie
Lobels
Olive and Peach
Sweet Celebrations & Maid of Scandinavia
The Olive Press
The Wine Specialist
Zingerman's
Gardening
Furniture & Accessories
Accents of France
Architectural Pottery
L'Atelier Vert
Charleston Gardens
Detroit Garden Works
Fermob
Fire Features
Gardens
Garden Hardware
Grounded
GRDN
Inner Gardens
Jamali Garden
Janus et Cie
Kiybele Copper & Wood
Marston & Langinger
McGuire
Modern Birdhouses
New York Botanical Garden Shop
Plow & Hearth
POT-TED
Richard Scultz
Robert Plumb
Smith & Hawken
Sprout Home
Terrain at Styer's
The Gardener
The Grace Stone Collection
Touched by Dutch
Treillage
Urban Weeds
Wood Classics
Plants & Supplies
Contrary Mary's Specialty Plants
Brent and Becky's Bulbs
Earth Flora
Gardeners Edge
Gempler's
Jungle Music
Kinsman Company
Monrovia
Old House Gardens
Online Wholesale Flowers
Yucca Do
Renovating
Building
Armstrong
Be Jane
Build
DIY Network
Dream House Source
Environmental Home Center
Hardwood-moldings
Handyman.com
Jamestown Distributors
Old House Web
Pioneer Millworks
Rust-Oleum
Bath & Kitchen
Ann Sacks
Artistic Tile
Bisazza
Designer Plumbing
Faucet.com
Heath Ceramics
Kohler
Restoration Tile
Urban Archaeology
Vintage Tub & Bath
Waterworks
Wave Plumbing
Flooring
Country Floors
Forbo
Hardware & Tools
Baldwin Hardware
Bolt Depot
Home Decor Hardware
Home Depot
Liz's Antique Hardware
Lowe's
P.E. Guerin, Inc
Rejuvenation
Restoration Hardware
Whitechapel Ltd.
Misc.
Art
20 x 200
Art + Commerce
Artaissance
Artnet
Artocracy
Boundless Gallery
Brooklyn Collective
Cereal Art
Danziger Projects
deviantArt
Edward Thorp Gallery
Etsy
Eyestorm
Galerie Renate Bender
Habitually Chic
Hennessey and Ingalls
Hidden Art Shop
HunterGatherer
Jeff Bailey
Keep Calm
Levis Fine Art
M + B
Margot Stein Gallery
Matthew Marks
Mixed Greens
My Name is Andy
New Image Art
Pretty Darn Swell
Sears Peyton Gallery
Strand Book Store
Tiny Showcase
Village
Antiques/Vintage Finds
1stdibs.com
GoAntiques.com
Home Anthology
1950.com
Turquoise
Treasured Things
Blogs & Ideas
An Aesthete's Lament
Apartment Therapy
Bloesem
Brink Shelter
Craftster
Charles and Hudson
decor8
Delight
Delightful Blogs
designboom
Design Calendar
Design Milk
Design*Sponge
Ecofabulous
Habitually Chic
HouseBlogs Network
Inhabitat
Josh Rubin: Cool Hunting
Katy Elliott
Land + Living
Oh Joy!
Poppytalk
Pure Contemporary
The Sartorialist
Shelterrifc
SketchUp
Style Spoon
Treehugger
You Grow Girl
Fashion & Beauty
Aedes De Venustas
Anthousa Collection
Beauty Cafe
Beauty Habit
Benefit Cosmetics
Bigelow
Castor and Pollux
Caswell-Massey
Como Shambhala
Devera objects
Diptyque
Doe
Dr. Hauschka
Fruits-Passion
Harmonie
Jamu
Jo Malone
Kirini
Korres
L'Occitane
Le Labo
Linden Leaves
Lush
Mistral
NARS
Naturopathica
Red Flower
Shu Uemura
Stitch
White-Starr
Catalogs & Chain Stores
Anthrolopogie
Ballard Designs
Bed Bath & Beyond
CB2
Crate & Barrel
Curran
Design Within Reach
Garnet Hill
Gumps
Horchow
IKEA
Pier 1 Imports
Pottery Barn
Restoration Hardware
Room & Board
Source Perrier
The Conran Shop
The Container Store
West Elm
Williams-Sonoma
William-Sonoma Home
Winterthur Gifts
Wisteria
Z Gallerie
City Guides
Decorating Resources
entertaining resources
fabric calculator
green list resources
paint calculator
renovating resources
shopping resources
sites we love
Wallpaper Calculator

Fridays with The New Yorker

A night at the opera.

The New Yorker cover artists do some of the best caricatures.

what to think about andy?

"I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom. "

Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick, the first "It girl".

"I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say "figment." "

The Factory was located at 19 E32 and 22 E33, between Park and Madison in Midtown, Manhattan, NYC.

"I never think that people die. They just go to department stores."

Some of my favorite framed art in my house is of Andy's shoe sketches.

In the early days in NYC he was able to figure out how much he would make in a week by how many shoes he had sketched.

Andy was in many ways a superficial personality and never afraid to admit that he was obsessed with fame and money.

"I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money. "

"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink.
As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks."

And yet, he decided to make his name creating "pop" art.

He was the first to mass produce art through silk screening.
"It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger."

"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. "

So, what to think about Andy Warhol? He threw away many people he used to get to the top.He created art for the masses and called it all stupid. He made us look at the advertising that bombards us in a whole new way. Was he a genus and a bit nuts? Or was he laughing at us all the way to the bank? Whatever the answer is, I love what he created and left behind.

"Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. "

"If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it. "

Life's For Sharing

I just love this!

Fridays with The New Yorker

More of my favorite covers...

Finally

It seemed as if today would never come.

But it has.

It is here.

We can rejoice.

We have learned.

We have grown.

We will recover.

We will persevere.

We will find the super heroes in ourselves again.

One for the road

Just had to post this...

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A Day Of Service

In the service of the rose:

Michelle Obama asked us all to participate in some sort of service activity today. I was fortunate to be invited to "The Rose Lady's" house for her fund raiser held to benefit the Goodwill's Fitness Center. It is a full service gym for the disabled and a wonderful cause. You can read more about this amazing facility here. Nancy, The Rose Lady, offered as her service a three hour class in all things roses. "Nancy's Magical Garden" is home to over a hundred different varieties of the magnificent flower. Nancy has been growing roses for over thirty years and is a wealth of amazing information. It was an absolutely wonderful event.

Our hostess and rose aficionado, Nancy, The Rose Lady

I believe every garden should have a resident princess kitty.

Phoebe is just as sweet and beautiful as all the flowers she reigns over.

Nancy taught us how to correctly prune a rose bush and

how to correctly cut the blooms from them

I will not attempt to remember all the names of these lovelies but

I do remember that they all smelled heavenly.

A Double Delight...and oh so delightful it is.

A Blue Girl

The high maintenance Marilyn Monroe.

It is the most exquisite rose I have ever seen.

It just looks like Hollywood.

Nancy is about to plant some Peace is in her garden.

My hope is that with we will all plant some peace in our hearts,

our minds and where ever we grow.

Thank you Daisy for inviting me to go with you today!

The morning was all I had hoped it would be.

The people who attended were wonderful to meet!

And thank you, Nancy for so graciously opening your home and gardens to us.

I know we all left with many of our questions answered and

are ready to master the rose.

If you would like to contact Nancy with your questions about roses, or

you live in the Southern California area and

would like her to host a class,

you can contact her at: xperdesigner@cox.net.

She also sells bouquets of her lovely flowers so

if you want quality roses,

the kind you can't find anywhere except right out of the garden,

please contact her.

Her colors and varieties are vast.

Happy Birthday

"I say to you today even though we face the difficulties

of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

It is a dream that is deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up,

and live out the true meaning of its creed."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Welcome to Fridays with The New Yorker

I love magazines and I really love magazine covers.
Vintage Vogue and The New Yorker,
vintage and current, are two of my favorites.
Every Friday I will be posting some of my favorite covers
from The New Yorker magazine.
I will begin with a few covers of NYC.

Hope you enjoy them

I have the above cover of my refridgerator.
It cracked me up when I first saw it (Irant and Irate, FUNNY)

although at the time, it was a little bit disturbing as well.

You can see a better view of it here.

And one more for the paris apartment who lives between both places.

You can find more New Yorker covers here.

Old Friends and a Few New Ones

I have been very fortunate to share my time and space with some wonderful little beings. Their spirits have brought and still bring me endless joy and unconditional love. I hope I have done the same for them. I thought I would post some of my favorites of them here so that I don't have to sort through hundreds of images on my computer to find them. One might think by now I might have done a photo album........

Watson was with me for almost 15 years of endless, and I mean -endless- games of fetch.

I think he was born with a toy in his mouth.

He was my best boy.

Oh, Dodger! What a body on that boy!

There was never a dull day in my sister's life while he was with her.

Mr. Bonomo's kitten face.

He went through some -very- awkward growing stages. Look at those ears!

And then grew into this beauty.

Bart lived next door and in my house and was Mr. Bonomo's best buddy.

They both disappeared within a year of each other.

I hope they are off on a big adventure somewhere together.
Jack and his first "friend" He was still feeding from a bottle at this point.

He loved watching TV and nascar with the boys next door.

Elvis showed up at my office one day and just moved his bog ol' Tom Cat self in.

He stayed about 8 months before moving on.

Junior was 13 when I rescued him.

He lived with me for about 3 months before deciding he would move down the street into someone else's house. They fell in love with him and allowed him to stay.
My girlfriend found Meeha in her backyard one day. She was skinny and sick and covered with fleas. She took her in then sent her to me. She was the sweetest, tiniest little girlie.
Lily loves St. Francis and used to spend a lot of time starting at him.

It sort of makes sense as he is the guardian saint of animals.
She did a lot of bird watching in the safety of his watch.

Iris and her purple purse. Her purse is her first line of defence against all things scary..

There will be more about this at another time.

There is one face missing and I just realized I don't have any pictures of him on this computer. Rest assured, Elliot, you are not forgotten.