.do ya dine?

Do you have a formal dining room? Hands up. Ok if you do, do you use it? Still standing? Ok, do you use it more than five times a year? Last one. Does said room serve any other purpose than your five -a -year fancy days?

Do tell...

(images Sanity Fair, Elle Decor )

style or vile...sort of.

I love bringing the outdoors inside. Driftwood, shells, rocks, objects that grab me and remind me of a place I have been. But what is up with antler's, horns and empty turtle shells as art/decoration? Clearly the coolest of the cool say it is swish, look at the shelters mags and catalogs that people covet, but I am a bit lost. I am not a hunter, but understand(lack of better word, here)why hunters keep racks as a trophy of sorts. Not my thing, but ok, it is a sport to some, whatever, don't get all PETA on me, I can't even flush a goldfish. I have a friend whose dog, Ruffin, feels he is a hunter. He brings her all sorts of dead things, things that have been dead, clearly, for years, that he finds and chooses to collect. See above. Not sure that makes him a hunter( sorry, Ruff, you are so good at so many things ) but my friend keeps his stash by the door, which seems to make this pup quite proud. So that is what I mean.....sort of.

Anyway. Why are people who have never ventured off a city block decorating with collections, often fake, of antlers all over the wall? I was at the local flea this weekend and people were practically ramming(ha! ha!) each other to get into a booth that had everything dead you could imagine, or parts of dead things, anyway. And they were expensive as hell, too. One woman bought twenty nine turtle shells at $20 a piece. I asked her why she did not get thirty, and while she did not answer verbally, her expression told me it was the wrong question. I was just curious is all.

So tell me. I want to know. Was up?

.end of Summer

How about this yummy selection for a fond farewell to Summer. I will miss Summer, too much, but love the crisp Autumn days that many of you speak of. We have about two and a half days of Fall in the South, but I will enjoy those as well!!!

What is your favorite season?

.you would be grouchy, too...

Rumor has it her dissatisfied look is due to Noel's shoes being here and not on her saucy little feet. Wouldn't they be perfect? I don't blame her. Most of my clothes are living inside the J. Crew Catalog or at Bottega Venata in New York and it is so annoying.  I wish the folks at Toast would send for them and call it a day.

Or maybe she is just hungry?

Where are the frocks that should be in your closet?

(image frou frou fashionista)