Turquoise Breakfast

by rosedeniz June 15, 2009 nesting

Tweet My favorite color made an appearance this morning at breakfast. Between Devrim’s shirt, our coffee mugs, bowls and the kitchen walls, it was a turquoise dream come true. If only all our breakfasts were this colorful.

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Sugar Pink

by rosedeniz June 15, 2009 nesting

Tweet The sugar pink of this spread in June’s Elle Decor Turkey transports me back to my bedroom when I was thirteen. It was on the top floor of our new house that we had moved to from St. Paul, MN to Wauwatosa in Milwaukee. There was a pink tiled bathroom on that floor and […]

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Rainy Day Pages

by rosedeniz June 13, 2009 drawing

Tweet Just after having said we were having sunny days perfect for photo ops, I woke up to rain drenched sidewalks and brilliantly green trees and grass from an early morning storm. Not the ideal day for hanging laundry outside, but I’ve got a down comforter on the line that I hope won’t take three […]

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Friday Photos at Home

by rosedeniz June 12, 2009 nesting

Tweet I’ve blogged more this week than I usually do, and I think it has something to do with the quality of light for taking photos. Winter is drab and dreary here, and now I feel like everything from my mood to the world outside has improved with a little sun therapy. This morning I […]

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Wednesday Pillow

by rosedeniz June 11, 2009 nesting

Tweet Say hello the newest member of our pillow family, sewn yesterday out of Anna Maria Horner’s Good Folks fabric. When I got this 1/2 yard in the mail it was begging to be made into a pillow. It would have taken much less time to make had I thought about a closure before I […]

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Marie Claire Maison, June 09

by rosedeniz June 10, 2009 design

Tweet I just participated in a recent magazine swap helped along by Holly Becker’s post on decor8 and a forum on Kindred, sending magazines from Turkey to a lovely new friend in New York. I thought about how I sometimes see really gorgeous things in Turkish magazines and that they reach such a small audience. […]

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The Book

by rosedeniz June 1, 2009 writing

Tweet No, not that Book. Or the other book, the one I’m writing. This one, Home Comforts, by Cheryl Mendelson. My companion on the balcony with a cup of tea, the one I read in the living room when it is quiet in the house and I have time to think. I gave it a […]

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Lemonade Award

by rosedeniz May 29, 2009 design

Tweet Thanks to the lovely Keryn of Eighty Days Design and her other blog gryb at home, I’ve been awarded the Lemonade Award. Now, to choose only 1o of the most delightful and inspiring blogs that I love! 1. Figen of The Knit Box has inspired me with her new blog. After many years of […]

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Tangents at the Market

by rosedeniz May 28, 2009 nesting

Tweet This container and these bowls came home with me the other day when I went to the market. I’m not sure how it happens, but after I pick up the pasta, the milk, the bread, I wander over to the household items. Sometimes I look at socks, and eye the newest shampoo. It’s all […]

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