Playing Catch Up... POTTERY BARN!

The Wonders of the Sea...

Coincidence?..... My May 2011 catalog showed up from Pottery Barn a few months back (this is a "playing catch up" post...after all)... and imagine my THRILL & surprise to see an item I picked up at a local yard sale SMACK dab on the cover!?! I have been aware that PB has been using Healdsburg and the surrounding area(s) for their catalog shoots for sometime now... so it was only a matter of time before their designers gravitated towards Healdsburg's biggest and best antique store... Mill Street Antiques.  The four, small porcelain signs were purchased from my retail space and used to complete the look on the ocean-themed shelf that appears on cover and throughout the catalog.  Lastly, I found it extremely "interesting" the fact that my name, spelt... Sta-SEA... and 'The Wonders of the SEA' theme... if anything, its just personal gratification and significance... both of which are more than fine with me.

Bicoastal!!!

I am absolutely THRILLED to report that Seahoney will be bicoastal here shortly! I am so excited to share my latest window installation with you once it is designed & in place... should be about 3 weeks from now and I will make sure to post an update with images and more details... but for now... I am officially designing on both the East and West coasts and really looking forward to seeing New Jersey!

(I know this post is "vague," but... just be excited with me :)

Great Expectations...

I just spent the last 3 1/2 days in wonderful, beautiful, incredible Napa doing a kitchen resto to a "vintage-style" kitchen.  The house, located in downtown Napa is nearly 100 years old and full of surprises.... but it was a great challenge and lots of fun to do.  I just can't wait to get back and finish the staging and decorating! This is my favorite time though, the in between.. the hunt...for just the perfect things... So while we wait to see this project added to my portfolio I am dying to share something already...so here is a quick before and (nearing) after:

Set of 4 vintage Fire-King red polka dot bowls were purchased online (I can't imagine seeing these for sale in a store!?! That would be a DREAM COME TRUE)(Why don't they make amazing pieces like this anymore??) The Oxbow in Napa served up this scoop of pure perfection which now hangs opposite the red corner cabinets... (detailed before and afters photographs coming soon):

But you may (or maybe not) be asking yourself right about now...what does this have to do with "great expectations"??? Not a thing... well, not really.... 

Great expectations is the appetite I built up burning off calories like an insane person over the weekend trying to get this project tied up! Once I was back in the 'burg, I was feeling feisty and ready to EAT... I was so confident that I could eat all of my order that I made an "unwise" bar bet... that I could eat ALL of my dinner... I lost by 4 chicken wings (less a bite)... I really had such great expectations as I compared myself to the "Black Widow," Sonya Thomas and San Francisco Giants closer, Brian Wilson........ Not today & you're welcome.