Holiday weeks are so nonproductive. Who else votes that the whole week should be a national holiday?  The Dr. and Mrs. are headed to Atlanta for the long weekend, and I was all too happy to agree to watch Gucci, their beloved standard poodle, for the weekend in exchange for taking over their house for [...]

With the temperature and humidity high each day in the South, we’re drinking a lot of water and iced tea.  Beautiful pitchers are a must.  I discovered this pitcher from Airedelsur in an email from One Kings Lane, but it can also be found at The Picket Fence.  It is gorgeous, don’t you think? I [...]

Summer is going great, other than this icky cold that is working it’s way through my house this week.  We have been languishing in trips to the pool, vacations, and cool evening drinks on the patio just the way a family should during these months.  However, I can’t help but to find myself looking forward [...]

I’ve mentioned my tendency to keep notebooks everywhere to jot down thoughts, lists, etc. I start with the intention of keeping one notebook per subject… one for the house, one for writing ideas, one for sketches, one for research, etc. It never quite happens that way, and I wind up blindly grabbing whichever is closest [...]

Hopefully many of my Southeastern readers had the opportunity to see Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum, Wales at the Columbia Museum of Art before it came down June 7.  The exhibition contained many of the heavy hitter Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings that we studied in high school and art history [...]

This morning while running around town I stopped by The Gourmet Shop to pick a snack for along the way. Like most who stop by there, I had to do a lap around the store before checking out. My intention was to take a peek at some Le Creuset cookware that I may add to [...]

Meagan Warren is someone with whom I have worked while volunteering with the Columbia Museum of Art. She is the museum’s Development Manager and the party planning extraordinaire behind the recent Soirèe du Soleil along with gala chair Carol Shropshire. I have to tell you, though, that this girl is quite possibly one of the [...]

Feeling slightly lazy today.  Jr. and I finally made it to the pool yesterday and then dinner with the Mrs. at my parents’ club, and I think we’ve both been rendered useless for today.  Here is today’s pick-me-up: I ducked into Earth Fare before lunch to pick up some snacks for the pantry and I [...]

If you’ve read the Who is Camille? section of the blog, you know that I am definitely not an interior designer or chef.  I just really enjoy learning about aesthetics, art and art history, and I LOVE good food and wine!  Through the blog, my interest in the arts, and dumb luck I have met [...]

If you haven’t yet been to the roof of the Met to see this installation, you really should.  It is breathtaking.  I really liked seeing it on an overcast day like it was last Wednesday.  The different shades of gray and silver in the air, concrete, and metal had a very soothing affect.  It is [...]