Recently I fell in love with a new perfume that has a retail price much higher than that of the fragrance I have been wearing for years (which isn't cheap either). It all started when I mentioned to my friend that I had heard rave reviews about this mystical perfume which I couldn't seem to get my hands on. Of course being the wonder that she is, my friend tracked it down and gifted me ...

Happy Thursday returns of the day to you. I'm keeping it uncommonly brief today as I'm currently so tired that it's sort of like I'm sleeping sitting up, open-eyed, eating BOOM CHICKA POP. And since I can barely make anything out with my peepers at this point, I'm treating yours to the splendor that is Melanie Turner Interiors. That isn't a fair trade at all come to think of it, but you know, an eye ...

I bought them by the caseload, hauled them all over town, installed them in all the homes, and couldn't have organized without them--my top picks from the month of July. (Psst: as there was no June Favorites you might as well consider these dual-month qualifiers.) 1. Totally Bamboo Expandable Utility Drawer Organizer Certainly mentioned before, (probably in this post on my top drawer organizers, although I'm entirely too tired currently to bother checking) these bamboo organizers ...

  It is with a fair amount of regularity that I encounter a client's painstakingly preserved collection of silk scarves, and along with them, an attitude of utter resignation. "Oh yeah, they're gorgeous. Have to keep them. Will never wear them," you tell me. Shrug. "What do you do? Mumble." Rifling. Bit of head shaking. Another shrug, most probably taken to mean: These used to be so in./ My mother spent a fortune on these./ ...

Last week I was working with a client on a closet editing project. It was a day of questions, explanations and decision-making about beautiful designer clothes, shoes and bags. Towards the end of our session I opened a drawer, ready to deposit a stack of neatly folded, rainbow-ordered (naturally) tops inside. The drawer was to have been emptied, but before setting the shirts down I noticed something, way at the back. It looked a lot ...