Saturday January 8, 2022, that’s when I started getting back to me. I was taking my daughter to gymnastics, a routine that usually involves lots of fussing and rushing to get there on time. My husband and two of my kids had been sick the entire week and I was feeling a bit overwhelmed. My best friend of the past 20 years called while I was…
Friday it was fall in Houston, then Saturday it was back up to 90 degrees! Luckily I had already planned a Wishful Weekend getaway to the Catskills where the daytime high will be in the mid-60’s and at night the temperature should drop about 20 degrees. I have always thought that cold weather clothes were cuter, so this gives me the opportunity to dust off colorful…
Summer is unofficially over as we are now past Labor Day but I wanted to share one last wishful weekend in the northeast. As I’ve said before, I’m not a huge fan of winter, but it’s funny that many of us have this great buildup of anticipation for summer, but then once it gets here the reality is that the weather is quite uncomfortable, at least…
Travel is something that I have always enjoyed. Well, I enjoy being other places, the flying/driving/navigating isn’t necessarily my favorite. I had a job assignment once that was 80% travel and that was fun and fit my type A personality. It was travel, but we went to the same location for 4-5 weeks in a row so I was able to establish routines…
Tomorrow, Christie’s is holding it’s the first of its biannual Magnificent Jewels auction’s in New York and I am so excited! Magnificent Jewels is my favorite jewelry auction because the offerings are always over the top. People ask me why I enjoy looking at auction results and I think it boils down to three things: (1) It’s an opportunity to see vintage or antique…
A dear friend of mine is looking to buy his first piece of fine jewelry and called me up to talk about starting his collection. The first part of the journey, and I think many of us have been there, was to come down out of the clouds circling his daydreams of a large canary yellow diamond. I was able to text him some pictures of loose diamonds…
