Hello! Hope you are well and that your week is off ot a great start. Started my week with  a fun birthday dinner  with a group of treasured friends (hi girls)! We have vowed to do that until we are old and gray…..what would we do without our circle of friends! It was a very nice break to come up for air from the “ginger jar ornament universe” I have been living in the last two weeks:)

We have gotten thousands of ornaments out to their lucky recipients and finally we are on the last batch, major cause for celebration:) That is……until the next shipment arrives with more blue and white and the colored versions sometime mid-late Nov. There will be one final presale on them for the many of you who have asked in a week or two.

As I periodically do, I share with you recent happenings in my life seen through my trusty little iPhone. So without further ado here we go…….

Absolutely loved wrapping my first (and only gifts) so far of the season with my little ornaments as adornments- really takes the gift presentation up a notch

And so enjoying the way my office is coming along,  work in progress, still need to finish the paint, hang prints, etc….

How gorgeous are these! They shipped yesterday to a very lucky client

And the white explosion at my front door is in full bloom!

Went to a local Japanese very authentic sushi restaurant, Yamaguchi….so good!

Experimented with the square tray from my site as a charger and love it so much that they are now on order!

My “ochidirmary” which I have dubbed because my laundry room is a makeshift intensive care unit for my flowers:) This middle orchid is being discharged and by it’s side are two new patients

Cant’ get enough of these and I see visions of ginger jars dancing in my head at night:)

The gray paint is a goner…yay!

Love coming home every day to this sleeping beauty

Love the explosion of color all around us

Aren’t these amazing! Handpainted chinoiserie custom butterfly pillows for  a lucky NYC client

Smitten with my new office chair:)

I will do what it takes to get my kids home, lured my oldest son home from the city with a homemade carrot cake:)

Starting to add magnolia throughout my house, love it during the holidays

Another gift which I couldn’t resist using a ginger jar ornament on

A serious perk of fall…..getting to bring out my old favorite classics!

Pretty gifts out the door to a special friends birthday

And this picture metaphorically means a lot to me…one day I was rushing like a madwoman, had a list a mile long and was highly anxious over getting it all done. Raced to meet someone then zipping back to the office, I was forced to stop and do nothing when this very large group of geese meandered ever so slowly in front of my car across the street.

They even paused to take it all in as they sauntered from one side of the street to the other…..they reminded me to stop and relax and that the world will not stop spinning if I get to where I am going a few minutes late…thanks guys:) This visual will stay with me a long time.

And that friends, sums up whats new around here at least the pretty, fun fluff as I like to call it. Back to the grind, hope you are having a wonderful week, enjoying this gorgeous fall,  I love the season but must admit not really looking forward to winter except for that very first snowfall which is always just magical.

Thank you as always for stopping in, love to hear from you. Until next time….

PS Just starting today (email going out tomorrow so you are getting a heads up) – a presale on the next batch of GORGEOUS Provence metal planters. Get your size and color at a special presale price. Click here for all the details.