Archive for the 'Inspiration' Category



Resourcefully relaxing

Published on March 3, 2010

Tweet These moms are learning about the great resources on Disney Family’s website for moms while enjoying the amenities at the Burke Williams Spa in Santa Monica.


Couldn’t resist…

Published on October 2, 2009

Tweet …passing this on! I hope that my little Critter will always love music the way I do. He’s already doing air guitar and drumming on any and every surface. And I encourage it, even when it’s a little embarrassing, because magic moments can happen when we let them do their thing! Thanks to Shane […]


I couldn’t commit…

Published on April 22, 2008

Tweet …to a font, other than my beloved copperplate gothic and my Engravers MT. It has always pleased me that my my business card could be from a venerable law firm, were it not for the one word design. The two fonts used together are timeless, classic, and promote those ideals in my designs. Helvetica […]


Artist / Mom?

Published on April 18, 2008

Tweet When I was expecting the Critter, I was haunted by the voice of Louise Nevelson in a documentary I saw in design school. I can’t quote her, but she was talking about having children when you’re “on this search” for art and that it’s unkind to put children in in the position of coping […]


Narcissistic artist post #01

Published on April 16, 2008

Tweet It occurred to me as I sat on the terrace enjoying a glorious California morning the odd trivia that led to the painting currently housed a la John Saladino in my direct line of vision. The original muse for the painting was a staircase that led to a garage apartment on Charleville. I walk(ed) […]


West Week is coming – Part two

Published on March 25, 2008

Tweet The first day I worked at the glamorous Wilson and Associates office in Beverly Hills, I was asked to copy an entire specification book for a High Roller Suite of the MGM Mansions. It took all day and I was bored stiff. I was a good little copier, though, and I learned an awful […]


West Week is coming – Part one of many

Published on March 18, 2008

Tweet Ah it’s that time of year again, as evidenced by the arrival of the invitation to the always fabulous Kneedler Fauchere for a reception after the Jack Lenor Larsen event… I can remember the first day I ever entered the Pacific Design Center. I was an intern working for Trisha Wilson and Associates in […]


Spring Sprang

Published on February 26, 2008

Tweet People move here for the weather – and it hasn’t disappointed us this year. On our daily stroll we noticed all that is already in bloom – even the succulents look, well, succulent! Beverly Hillians tend to stay indoors during the month of January, as most have caught a bug from traveling, partied like […]