To All of Our Wonderful Email Subscribers…
January 20th, 2011 § 3 Comments
Visit our new site at www.mydesignhchic.com!
We wanted to revamp our look a little, so we’ve moved to Blogger! You should all get an email in the next couple of days, requesting your permission to receive subscriptions from our new blogger site instead of our old wordpress one. Sorry for the inconvenience and inbox clutter! We didn’t realize this would happen until it was too late… I think we have all the kinks worked out now (fingers crossed), so going to www.mydesignchic.com like always should direct you to our new site. Thanks for being such wonderful followers!
Visit Us at Party Resources!
January 17th, 2011 § 13 Comments
Good morning everyone! Today, we are doing a guest blog for Kate at Party Resources on our party essentials for 2011. These photos (from Collage of Life and Christian Louboutin) are a little sneak peak… Check back later in the week for our — drumroll, please — 100th post!
Stylish Blogger Award!
January 10th, 2011 § 46 Comments
We have t0 thank the lovely and talented Luciane at Home Bunch for presenting us with our very first internet accolade… the Stylish Blogger Award! What an exciting way to start the week!
After receiving this award you have to pay it forward and follow the rules:
Rule #1) Thank & link back to the person who awarded you.
#2) Share 7 things about yourself.
#3) Award 10 great bloggers that you recently discovered
#4) Contact those bloggers and tell them about the award
Stacey at Design Addict Mom.
Slim at Slim Paley.
Julia at Belle Vivir.
Helen at Whitehaven.
Doreen at Style Maniac. This is not one of her gorgeous photos, but it’s so great — especially at the start of a new year — we had to put it on here!
Mary Ann at Classic Casual Home.
Julie at Milk and Honey Home.
Monvi at Mochatini.
Mona at Providence Ltd.
Now… Seven interesting things about us:
1. We are a mother and daughter who live in two North Carolina towns, three hours apart, but do this blog together.
2. Several months ago, when we decided to do this blog, Mom (Beth) literally could not attach a document to an email, which goes to show that technology can be learned very quickly! (Sorry, Mom, but it’s true.)
3. We decided to start this blog when I quit my “real” job to write and Mom wanted a new hobby. It has given us the inspiration to decorate two houses and me a brain break from writing two novels.
4. We both wish that we could paint but are seriously lacking in the art area.
5. Hydrangeas are both of our favorite flower.
6. Mom, Dad, Will (my husband) and I all graduated the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in four separate decades. Mom was a business and econ major who now has a design blog. Dad was a chemistry major who now owns a dry cleaners. Will was a history major who is now a dentist. I, boringly, was a journalism major now writer. Formerly, however, I was working in finance.
7. In my 25 years of life, I have never missed a summer at the beach with Mom, her parents, her three sisters and my five cousins. (And Dad!) Those weeks contain some of our very best memories!
Thanks again, Luciane, for this sweet award! It has given us something fun to do on a freezing, snowy North Carolina day!
Mustique Magic…
January 7th, 2011 § 19 Comments
Andrew Twort Photography
After the relaxation and fun of the holidays — not to mention the days off — it can feel a bit daunting to rejoin the real world. If you’re like us, this first week back to reality has made you long for another vacation… Mustique, anyone? I wouldn’t mind locking the door behind the stacks of paperwork on my desk and waking up to that view. Even if your weekend itinerary doesn’t include a trip to the Caribbean, we hope it’s wonderful!
Andrew Twort Photography
Baby, It’s Cold Outside…
December 29th, 2010 § 18 Comments
are so happy
The Steward
Moa Maria
Constant Flux
so very pretty
Tiny White Daisies
tiny white daisies
viv amore
The Steward
Like this:
Super-Duty Sleigh
December 24th, 2010 § 10 Comments
Orvis
If you’re like us, you might need this fabulous — and roomy –Defender 90 to haul home all of the presents you’ve picked for your loved ones. Here’s to safe travels, home-cooked meals and relaxing by the fire! It really, truly is the most wonderful time of the year…
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree…
December 1st, 2010 § 36 Comments
Absolutely Beautiful Things
It’s now December 1, which means no more excuses. I MUST put up my Christmas tree today. Mom has ten billion beautiful ornaments (and some lovely works of art by yours truly) that she and Dad have collected over the years, so decorating her tree is always a little more exciting. Every ornament has a sentimental story, a special meaning and a place in our hearts. Will and I got married on December 29, 2007, so I think we might actually own a small portion of the Christopher Radko corporation. (By the way, that’s such a great wedding gift!) That being said, this is only our second Christmas tree together, so we’re still definitely at that stage where going out and buying fifty ornaments at a time is necessary. At this point, our tree can be anything we want it to be, so we just have to decide what that is. I’m hoping to get a little inspiration from these pics… Hope you do too!
(This first tree is the cutest thing I’ve ever seen but probably won’t go well with our living room decor!)
Southern Living
So fun!
Coastal Living
Traditional Home
Traditional Home
Coastal Living
Janis Nicolay Photographer via Country Living
This duo-chromatic color scheme is so elegant.
House Beautiful
I love this little kitchen tree. I might have to do that myself this year…
Traditional Home
Small trees can be so festive in spaces where a full-size won’t fit. Will wants to get a small tree like this at our house this year since, “We won’t even be here for Christmas.” Somehow, though, I don’t think he’ll be the least bit surprised when the nine-foot tree I have selected arrives this evening.
Traditional Home
Suzanne Kasler Designer- Traditional Home
Last year we had planned to go with this look with only silver and gold ornaments. But then we didn’t want to leave out all the beautiful colorful ones we already had, and I found these fabulous colorful birds and peacocks that you actually clip to the branches.
Traditional Home
This is what Mom’s tree usually looks like — except she has a big topper. She’s the only person in the country who has the patience to layer the lights in and out of the tree and do multiple rows and wrap them around the branches. The effect is quite spectacular with all those glittering little lights. Maybe one day I’ll have that kind of holiday fortitude…
Mary McDonald's Ribbon Tree - Veranda
I thought the big bow I had made as a topper for my tree last year was just gorgeous — until I saw this peacock. Fab-u-lous.
We’re in a New York State of Mind…
November 22nd, 2010 § 19 Comments
Rockefeller Center
As Thanksgiving rolls around, NYC is calling. A family pre-Christmas shopping escapade over the turkey holiday was always a part of our travel repertoire — although, admittedly, the lunch was more likely to involve pate than turkey — but, for the past few years, we’ve been in NC minus the Y for Thanksgiving. Not this year! 2010 seemed like the perfect time to take my hubby on his very first Thanksgiving extravaganza! (Finally, someone to carry all those bags…)
Mom and Dad lived in the fabulous city for some time, but I don’t remember being a New Yorker nearly as well as I remember the trips later on — and spending hours perusing every last corner of FAO Schwartz. Over the past several years, I will have to admit that Bergdorf might have replaced that warm, fuzzy place in my heart that used to be held by the “world of toys” alone, but it’s still fun to go in and, just for a minute, be a kid again!
So, any advice for the trip? Anything that we simply can’t miss? Let us know!!
Central Park
It’s supposed to snow over the weekend, so maybe we’ll get to see Central Park like this.
King Tut
Without a doubt, I am the most excited of the group about the King Tut exhibit. I am a sucker for anything Egyptian (maybe it’s all that gold…) and I just can’t wait. Has anyone been? Is it fantastic?
Courtesy, The Time Hotel. Photo: Chandler Ford
Friday night is dinner at Serafina at The Time Hotel, followed by a little jaunt to the Golden Theater. If we were eating at Serafina Broadway followed by La Cage, we would be exactly like the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills — minus the yelling, of course! (Aren’t they just great, though?)
Driving Miss Daisy
I think we’re all pretty thrilled about Driving Miss Daisy. James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave are such a legendary pair we just couldn’t miss it. I don’t know how it couldn’t be spectacular!
BG at Bergdorf Goodman
Sigh… There is no place on earth I’d rather eat a $35 salad. Can’t wait!
Bergdorf Goodman Christmas Window via Luxury Version Blog
Is it possible for a store window to be your soul mate? I wonder if they would let me rent that window by the month and live there? It’s probably as big as some studios, and I don’t really need a kitchen…
Bergdorf Goodman Christmas Window via Luxury Version Blog
The Christmas windows are definitely one of the highlights of the Thanksgiving NYC trip. I don’t know how they top themselves year after year, but I can’t wait to see it done! Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We hope, whatever you’re doing, it’s filled with people you love and wonderful memories!
