Inspiration for Creative Textile Designs: from “Bombacha” to City Park
What do Brazilian bombachas – the traditional pants of Brazilian gauchos – have in common with a walk in the park? Though it may not immediately seem so, there is a fairly […]
What do Brazilian bombachas – the traditional pants of Brazilian gauchos – have in common with a walk in the park? Though it may not immediately seem so, there is a fairly […]
My friend and fellow blog writer Sabine asked me to write a piece about fengshui, mostly because she either laughs or shakes her head in disbelief whenever I declare that […]
As Sabine, my co-author (and her daughter Natasha) will tell you, I have been meaning to write this blog but got caught up in the post-summer, back-to-reality scrambling around of […]
Tokyo. Several years ago a friend of mine suggested that I should look into obis to accessorize our place. She had lived for many years in Japan, so it came quite […]
Hong Kong. When I recently went to our local spa to get my pedicure done, I was asked to wait in their waiting area for a few minutes. The atmosphere […]
Hong Kong. My daughters had asked me a while ago for flower arrangements to add some color to their rooms. Clearly, those flowers had to be of the low maintenance sort. In other […]