since moving and downsizing i must content myself with relishing and capturing beauty through my decorating books and magazines, although i am tempted to look for some of those Japanese silk umbrellas. don't they look just fab?

or Rachel Ashwell's simply white cotton slipcover love seat?

and all those vintage buttons, can't get enough of them.

ooooh, and this papier mache doll centerpiecing a boudoir displaying all the Queen's jewels

and fabric swatches


and the favorites-bastidores from 18th. Century churches