About Time!

Some of you wanted to know about this clock. It's antique and huge, 79" X 79". It's $6500. and you can get it from perch. in New Orleans 504 899 -2122.

perch. also has this black and white clock face, 49" X 49" also $6500.

And also this blue clock face without hands, 49" X 49" for $4400.

They are all painted metal, from Europe, once used on clock towers.

If you're talented and handy, you could paint one of these images on your wall!

Time To Play!

Barely keeping a day to day semblance of a normal schedule going. Going to work, but really for all intensive purposes business in New Orleans is suspended until Ash Wednesday.

There's a victory parade for the Saints tonight, a New Orleans version of a New York ticker tape parade, and 60,000 locals are expected to attend. Yesterday 30,000 people lined the streets at and around the airport to welcome the Saints home.

People have been camping out since early this morning wrapped up in blankets curbside to claim a good spot. It's only in the 40's here with a wicked wind from the North making it feel very cold for all of us tropical flowers here in New Orleans.

We have house guests coming on Thursday and staying over until Ash Wednesday.

We're in full Carnival mode, stocking up on libations and food, and planning our costumes and party and parade schedules. We have a ball to go to Friday night.

So the blog is on simmer, as things sizzle here in New Orleans!!!!

Winners of The Swank Lamps

Material Girls HERE had a fun contest going where you did a design board for a TV show interior using the fabulous lamps from Swank Lighting.

The winners are: Sesame Street, by Joshua (1st place). I love the nest chair, the alphabet border, the Warhol painting of Big Bird, and of course the lamps.
Six Feet Under, by Gina won second place.
And Top Design by Lana got 3rd place.

Congratulations to all!

I also entered doing a bedroom for Ugly Betty using these beautiful Swank lamps HERE
I really could have used those new lamps! But not to worry. When I found out I didn't win I went to Plan B and revamped my living room lamps. I found them on a trash pile on swanky St. Charles Avenue after Hurricane Katrina. They had huge drum shades covered in pleated green and black plastic, and drips of gold paint running down the beautiful caged glass bases. They were also filthy, but remarkably intact. I love how large the lamps are.
I cleaned them up and got some new oval shape shades.
But since didn't win a new pair of Swank lamps, I decided to paint the gold parts white. I also painted the edge of the cream color lamp shades with a bit of white. I thought the "white" lamps would stand out a bit more against the Billy Baldwin Brown wall color.
There are two of them, and I use one on each end of the huge Baker credenza.
I gathered up the white accessories I had on hand, including shells, and candle sticks, and a cool old wooden bracket. I also brought in a couple of the newly recovered dining room chairs.
I think the lamps turned out pretty good, bringing white accents to the other side of the room.
Even though I didn't win the fab Swank lamps, I still love these 1970's babies rescued from the trash. The caged glass really is very beautiful.
But stay tuned, because everything has changed again for the holiday look, including the return of the Mac Daddy of glam coffee tables.