My first trip to Paris in 1988 put me into a state of sensory overload! That taxi ride from the airport into the core of the city left me in awe. The architecture was so exceedingly beautiful and foreign to anything I had ever seen, the trees towering over the expansive boulevards and… Continue reading Forging Beauty…
Month: January 2019
Painting the month away…
As I was putting away the Christmas decorations, I spied the paint cans and brushes on an adjacent shelf and thought, "No time like the present." I started off in the front hallway by painting the interior side of my front door and the front hall closet. Before the doors were an almost "black"… Continue reading Painting the month away…
It’s Hollywood…
The HOLLYWOOD sign...with a life of its own, a symbol of the Hollywood film industry representing The Golden Age of Hollywood...has stood on the side of Mount Lee, in the Hollywood Hills, since 1923. Originally intended as an advertisement for a real estate developer, the sign read HOLLYWOODLAND, and was to stay up for only… Continue reading It’s Hollywood…
Shop Assistants
I have been lucky enough to be a shop clerk and also to have had my own shop. When I was 16, I started my first retail job working in the fabric department of a major department store loving that I could dress up for every shift and be surrounded… Continue reading Shop Assistants