“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.”
— bell hooks All About Love - New Visions
Also the importance of building habits and structure through long term persistence and self forgiveness is more important than the gratification of quick results in almost every aspect of life just FYI
Annemarie is a set designer, event styler, and decorator. This is the entry hall- it’s her “homage to Versaille” and only a preview of the awesomeness to come.
The sitting room. Annemarie likes to buy antiques from various places, including boot fairs. Great trompe l’oeil wallpaper.
This is The Snug next to the kitchen. The 1950′s bar was her grandma’s. She made the pillows herself.
How to completely redo a kitchen & pantry w/o renovating it.
Floral wallpaper and bright blue in the main bath.
In the downstairs shower room, it took 3 days to decoupage the walls & ceiling with wallpaper samples and magazine pages.
The master has pop art pieces done by her friend, Tiff.
Guest room.
She did this bedroom for her granddaughter and made the mushrooms herself. Doris the cat looks a little uncertain, maybe she thinks this is a gnome home.
That Warhol portrait of Jackie Kennedy has significance- her mother was nanny to Caroline Kennedy’s children. Every corner in the house tells a story.
And, this is how she decorated the beach hut she shares w/her friend, Tiff. This house makes me want to run to flea market!
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“What a generous thought. That you are already what you’ve always wanted to be, and all you have to do is let go of the parts that are keeping you from that. But letting go is so terribly hard. I admit I have tried everyday. All the time. I want to let go. It’s not that I’m still holding on– it’s holding on to me.”
— marsarchives (via wnq-writers)
were looking at metaphysical items on ebay