Happiness Is...

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjckkRtay-nxt8yk8xEuCkNQfhojkrjlMP8ysdWC_xwZuaFfWIxDU6S8zIORVgl6jVQjUE6sbW8KcpeG1gwIcu2e_wPPIXbAqTVcxx7Ws6SoI04zkC8shFWqOscKWN2GZqaM0Rpb16qAes/s1600/HBX100111Cover_000_lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjckkRtay-nxt8yk8xEuCkNQfhojkrjlMP8ysdWC_xwZuaFfWIxDU6S8zIORVgl6jVQjUE6sbW8KcpeG1gwIcu2e_wPPIXbAqTVcxx7Ws6SoI04zkC8shFWqOscKWN2GZqaM0Rpb16qAes/s1600/HBX100111Cover_000_lg.jpg" /></a></div>The latest issue of <a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/">House Beautiful</a> in my mailbox, with a fabulous pop of purple on the cover, and a quote from "yours truly" on the back page!  Read the whole issue in bed, now that's happiness!  Thank you House Beautiful!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaSbLoZFogLBVV38jVz0rlbOsjDbgePM0gx4pFLVTEeMfAIc-2zDWoe8rWEzupVaVg-U4rZ7SskxZ0tZyKp5pAEKLLGjvuHuuULT5ud5nzrKLfbUtMULt_Z4U6yaXxAruaXyKeh3qUfYk/s1600/DSCF3262.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaSbLoZFogLBVV38jVz0rlbOsjDbgePM0gx4pFLVTEeMfAIc-2zDWoe8rWEzupVaVg-U4rZ7SskxZ0tZyKp5pAEKLLGjvuHuuULT5ud5nzrKLfbUtMULt_Z4U6yaXxAruaXyKeh3qUfYk/s320/DSCF3262.JPG" width="234" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQUTaJ6w6FOybvwn4VWg548wInfXlyUhyqsh39tV8oAgThsyXu7uPfYew4THprIPyzMN_-csmrdGQ-alUPTvpiEBYIhKqHAmcLbwN4cJ0c0l7QCbtCJb-CwzzlbBcHkZEr5A3vm40GXAM/s1600/394716805.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQUTaJ6w6FOybvwn4VWg548wInfXlyUhyqsh39tV8oAgThsyXu7uPfYew4THprIPyzMN_-csmrdGQ-alUPTvpiEBYIhKqHAmcLbwN4cJ0c0l7QCbtCJb-CwzzlbBcHkZEr5A3vm40GXAM/s320/394716805.jpg" width="232" /></a></div><i>And thank you to <a href="http://stacystyle.wordpress.com/">Stacy Kunstel </a>for tweeting this last photo and giving me a heads up!</i></div>

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Still Can't Get Enough: Silhouettes

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />After receiving some insightful emails about my silhouette obsession,</div><div style="text-align: center;">I thought I would do a follow up post.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />I think it all began, on the co-op floor of Barneys New York, around 2006.  Inside the dressing room, painted right on the walls, I saw the work of <a href="http://blog.carterkustera.com/">Carter Kustera</a>.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIJAYHuJaNNa3joKE74DP-DOMWnzjftj_LXIo3sfHE9zBGtEXGJ6YFEEI6Zfo36IQZ-PYL4cIXBqAh9xmnWlbFXLxlpiNJvHw6Rc4SwZSCmfBjeCcESh5gfyAsXB5SnMBxPfGJZjEmk9U/s1600-h/%2345.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIJAYHuJaNNa3joKE74DP-DOMWnzjftj_LXIo3sfHE9zBGtEXGJ6YFEEI6Zfo36IQZ-PYL4cIXBqAh9xmnWlbFXLxlpiNJvHw6Rc4SwZSCmfBjeCcESh5gfyAsXB5SnMBxPfGJZjEmk9U/s400/%2345.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">{this is actually for an installation he did at the Westchester Barneys Co Op, but you get the idea}</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I fell in love with his whimsical illustrations, and the captions he had put under each one.  </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />It didn't take me long to track him down,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg066LdMSGuFUnZdBovqDgyyivZwe3POigHXCmtk1lM8u_izXmTOmH_g8Be1ntTyK5UX0xgX4C0wHa5gBmGJa5RmDTpchzU6wtO9T8gNaQIGSk35OGp9AmxCf2Z5sfNwUTOEgM6CbtzGpc/s1600-h/carter_bottom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcmyxZGz1jazM0eMrX3fs1uBGuTcYT41v8dXkneRSjn3wTahUCjfy36lsBay4t4GXj9aiEPN4Mt5pq9V194KU_bvzc79svHYKMxjRc8l2QfsCZzfqL3Pjyq4089r5rDGytdaCIGFczRgQ/s1600-h/carter_bottom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcmyxZGz1jazM0eMrX3fs1uBGuTcYT41v8dXkneRSjn3wTahUCjfy36lsBay4t4GXj9aiEPN4Mt5pq9V194KU_bvzc79svHYKMxjRc8l2QfsCZzfqL3Pjyq4089r5rDGytdaCIGFczRgQ/s400/carter_bottom.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">once I connected the dots, Barneys, Simon Doonan, <a href="http://www.jonathanadler.com/shop/carter_kustera.php">Jonathan Adler</a>, success!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />I knew I wanted Mr. Kustera to do a series of silhouettes of my children.  I wanted to hang them in my foyer, going right up the front stairs.  Figuring out what paint colors to use was easy. (Carter lets you choose any Benjamin Moore paint color, ANY!)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirCAqRa_r23XAPBs1HjpDfnIsDOzHsMpcQboTopJTKzVt5rL45VUwRJa_sgv0uY00t6SCdL8gN2JP626Ru53oy5npRR8bLTsvhEguk-vuoFDFKC7vNpfFVFLiYvh2L1lF9aFm-bC2Q5Nk/s1600-h/DSCF2008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirCAqRa_r23XAPBs1HjpDfnIsDOzHsMpcQboTopJTKzVt5rL45VUwRJa_sgv0uY00t6SCdL8gN2JP626Ru53oy5npRR8bLTsvhEguk-vuoFDFKC7vNpfFVFLiYvh2L1lF9aFm-bC2Q5Nk/s400/DSCF2008.JPG" width="400" /></a><br />These fabulous Kate Spade books (gifted to me by one of my closest friends), and already on display in our foyer, were my color inspiration. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>And, look! There is even a silhouette on the cover!</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0uRUe33Ip_RpBYf07hQsBd1tCAwp4AeKXI-K89fL4fE4U0bTNMeVwYXxIJ6FLqXjfTDAZoA8CR3Tbdj71FOQDK8nOoT01mi6L_Vk385kchCdeKWhitJrmGOKCj6u35E21viDv9ynmj4Y/s1600-h/DSCF2020.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0uRUe33Ip_RpBYf07hQsBd1tCAwp4AeKXI-K89fL4fE4U0bTNMeVwYXxIJ6FLqXjfTDAZoA8CR3Tbdj71FOQDK8nOoT01mi6L_Vk385kchCdeKWhitJrmGOKCj6u35E21viDv9ynmj4Y/s400/DSCF2020.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Off to the paint store I went, books in hand, to match the paint color exactly.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi34QCa-mlv2Z2P4caLoJCovrDlQlNd8rxgW6WmCXI3AnjGrLhBdTVQl18GC356TpVRhsIi_PVCsJKYh13u5zqzxJV3sHJra_zR5Ye55M9BCDz4VmzbrCaUa8TSAt1kMOgYFlXufR0KyJY/s1600-h/DSCF2010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi34QCa-mlv2Z2P4caLoJCovrDlQlNd8rxgW6WmCXI3AnjGrLhBdTVQl18GC356TpVRhsIi_PVCsJKYh13u5zqzxJV3sHJra_zR5Ye55M9BCDz4VmzbrCaUa8TSAt1kMOgYFlXufR0KyJY/s400/DSCF2010.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Loves his new buzz.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHMpZvO0WX10YM5Du0UBW9gnWL-g6OsUGbbbwZ9WdlugnnqfIY44MuEEAG6RawySI1pqawkAk3bz6_xb51AibKoAH7Vo4ctPeZ9PKe1J6QELhU5ZSGoptP8wkBzW0tdDBWs3FblHIUh5A/s1600-h/DSCF2012.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHMpZvO0WX10YM5Du0UBW9gnWL-g6OsUGbbbwZ9WdlugnnqfIY44MuEEAG6RawySI1pqawkAk3bz6_xb51AibKoAH7Vo4ctPeZ9PKe1J6QELhU5ZSGoptP8wkBzW0tdDBWs3FblHIUh5A/s400/DSCF2012.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Refuses to eat anything green.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbIV0uUnpRwZcm44Pow3FihS2yh_X1T4zOpumTkGfumYIdrRh0HuKVuzU6sAUZiifBMULe0J37Vo3mf2ctEFS72nTjBAweBgQn6VdyPapcbCKEdGI4pdTraTEGwXcf205nlXDmGvlYQQA/s1600-h/DSCF2013.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbIV0uUnpRwZcm44Pow3FihS2yh_X1T4zOpumTkGfumYIdrRh0HuKVuzU6sAUZiifBMULe0J37Vo3mf2ctEFS72nTjBAweBgQn6VdyPapcbCKEdGI4pdTraTEGwXcf205nlXDmGvlYQQA/s400/DSCF2013.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Considers herself half girly girl, half tom boy.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>  </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKid-1gZS6AoFWnmktQr_j4Tbdfc7X_xO3ht4h9oucStbKD9evfKGT3hfBbHaguGqN8ga6D29g2ockXZCSNBXDnEj24ZEo_Hd0V3EbHAy-v_rolVId9FYraOHZkzzOtro2lwmlx7u3KnA/s1600-h/DSCF2017.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKid-1gZS6AoFWnmktQr_j4Tbdfc7X_xO3ht4h9oucStbKD9evfKGT3hfBbHaguGqN8ga6D29g2ockXZCSNBXDnEj24ZEo_Hd0V3EbHAy-v_rolVId9FYraOHZkzzOtro2lwmlx7u3KnA/s400/DSCF2017.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> </i><i> </i>And there they are, all lined up.  I love them so much.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">But there is still more.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMqmdTugEmzn0SpaXQM0aaocis_TPgFtMFTC8KH98BLJDS5b5j_YIm-Xi5Qw9ZFL9B2RuTRNGkfzUcq8epuOMRZoRedGGCIXFkid5oX_EYuRL5R6xgznIqjP9obKLlsuwz3eZ2oA7yF3c/s1600-h/DSCF2029.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMqmdTugEmzn0SpaXQM0aaocis_TPgFtMFTC8KH98BLJDS5b5j_YIm-Xi5Qw9ZFL9B2RuTRNGkfzUcq8epuOMRZoRedGGCIXFkid5oX_EYuRL5R6xgznIqjP9obKLlsuwz3eZ2oA7yF3c/s400/DSCF2029.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">These hang in my oldest daughter's room.  She is 10. She doesn't want her room to look like this anymore.  This make me incredibly sad, so lets move on.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiIizmXlht0VFPPTdo1FeNaa9mj59W9KBjZomeZbP7npqVyWcvTqLpQUCy6LpSrAwXRdEWndKENFQg9cieFokjHgJ6F2ZodGXOtemDGYolg8SsBZmVhBAsAJV8H7pkTaEc2o1Er6swP_0/s1600-h/DSCF2045.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiIizmXlht0VFPPTdo1FeNaa9mj59W9KBjZomeZbP7npqVyWcvTqLpQUCy6LpSrAwXRdEWndKENFQg9cieFokjHgJ6F2ZodGXOtemDGYolg8SsBZmVhBAsAJV8H7pkTaEc2o1Er6swP_0/s400/DSCF2045.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>This is my son.  I wear these charms on a necklace, he is only 3, this does not embarrass him.<br />{yet}<br />At our ski condo, my girls share a room.  I wanted to hang two silhouettes facing each other, above their bed.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaZgVdXSBJMO52zvUoJrC_EPzE0JZkeHQyupNl4VilKpsmZazm2pYj7bkjzSG3t01NtpFhkLONJytFQqWH2Dqt1OpJNeEdqUq27xrlSyY9WH5OAoTQ7mesU9dTxXObV9Okmf5jsopAl20/s1600-h/IMG_2784.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaZgVdXSBJMO52zvUoJrC_EPzE0JZkeHQyupNl4VilKpsmZazm2pYj7bkjzSG3t01NtpFhkLONJytFQqWH2Dqt1OpJNeEdqUq27xrlSyY9WH5OAoTQ7mesU9dTxXObV9Okmf5jsopAl20/s400/IMG_2784.JPG" width="400" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I looked everywhere for this, but when I couldn't find the right ones, I cut the images from this wallpaper (in a different color), and had them framed.</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNrdbL1dpY2TmZVfKh-eU-JIwrhednI9QzCDFnHR50PYxLNHc574gHJ_v-Nlb1_2HVy8FRhNkU27MhS3pOO9FwhrRABHYYcOd89gtDoKHHi_EZmRIsA0OV5LOjYKzrkbx1yq1vJh88TSE/s1600-h/main-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNrdbL1dpY2TmZVfKh-eU-JIwrhednI9QzCDFnHR50PYxLNHc574gHJ_v-Nlb1_2HVy8FRhNkU27MhS3pOO9FwhrRABHYYcOd89gtDoKHHi_EZmRIsA0OV5LOjYKzrkbx1yq1vJh88TSE/s320/main-2.jpg" /></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf2ejkvP0HDpQIXMQTkyzTINJhyphenhyphenlaiwsDio04A-xljaFUHrQmuctCNgHLNHKRm3vrccMmRJByPtV7BD7dbClKkW52LpS3gs9npP4NchPL5SAgmRDHGnWpVkDyby6VTgJru4Q8mmZWHeKg/s1600-h/IMG_2737.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf2ejkvP0HDpQIXMQTkyzTINJhyphenhyphenlaiwsDio04A-xljaFUHrQmuctCNgHLNHKRm3vrccMmRJByPtV7BD7dbClKkW52LpS3gs9npP4NchPL5SAgmRDHGnWpVkDyby6VTgJru4Q8mmZWHeKg/s320/IMG_2737.JPG" /></a></div>That is my silohuette collection.<br />I'm sure I will be adding to it, it's just a matter of time.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>*images via: CarterKustera;JonathanAdler</i></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>

Still Can't Get Enough: Silhouettes

After receiving some insightful emails about my silhouette obsession, I thought I would do a follow up post. I think it all began, on the co...

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