Wine & Dine

Fortunate is a word which often comes to mind regarding my work/love relationship with my clients.  It’s wonderful to know so many of my design clients have become dear friends. Four years ago we were invited to a dinner in a client’s home.  I sat by my client’s new next door neighbor and across the…

Landlord, Client, Friend

Monday, sixteen years ago today was actually 9/10/2001…one day before that cataclysmic day 9/11.  I’d heard about a Memphis antique store with all kinds of antiquated architectural elements. I was shopping for doors to make a folding screen. After shopping I stopped in The Arcade Restaurant for a slice of pizza. There was a tri-fold…

D. C. Wedding

I’ll take a bit of a break from food and recipes to share a couple of projects with you…first a beautiful wedding. 1991 They met as neighbors on Oak Grove Road, Tupelo, MS but the groom’s family moved away.  At the rehearsal dinner the father of the groom said, “I thought I moved to Tupelo…