The Day After

Did everyone have a wonderful Easter?

Sabina sent this post Easter photo to me - I'm sure it is making you smile too!

The weather was perfect across most of the country. Wisteria and azaleas are blooming their heads off in New Orleans, and the tulips and hyacinth and daffodils are up everywhere. It's the grandest Spring floral display.

Here's something to do with your empty egg shells. What a wonderful little vessel for a mini flower arrangement!

I wonder if you could use all those fake eggs out on the market that come in so many pretty colors.


Just snip off the top! Let me know how you make out.

Here's a blast from the past from Easter 2004, the year before Katirna. I'm with my dearest friend Miss Anne. I used to ride with her in the Germaine Wells Easter Parade in the French Quarter.

Valorie Hart and Anne Farmen Easter 2004

We decorated our hats and baskets. There was breakfast at Arnauds, then Mass at St. Louis Cathedral, then parading in the French Quarter in old buggies, giving Easter toys to the children. After that, back to Arnauds for lunch with the husbands. It was grand.

A faded newspaper clipping from The Times Picayune
Valorie Hart riding in the Germaine Wells 2004 Easter Parade

I hope you had a grand Easter with your family, friends, and loved ones!!!

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I am a stylist, decorator, designer. I had a design business over 15 years ago.
I'm a boho through and through. I love the beauty of the world, and especially the rooms and spaces people create for themselves, or for a profession.

To amuse myself, I make little styling projects at home. The digital camera allows instant results.


The blog allows an instant magazine. I am in pig heaven.

These images were made for the good folks at HGTV's online phenom Rate My Space. They really are my base readers. We encourage one other, and have a strong support system among ourselves.


I did not intend to put in on the blog, because it is a little like a Hallmark card, and it is personal, because it's my Easter tribute and memorial to my dearest, best-est friend Miss Anne.


Miss Anne was the ultimate visual vamp. Her home was jam packed (but not junky looking) with decades of things.

She loved to decorate, dress up, garden, club hop, dance, dine out, shop, paint pictures, and sew.

She had every decor and fashion magazine, and she knew trends, and what was good and what wasn't.

She was not wealthy. But her home looked unique and fabulous.

She was a single working mom who once lived on boiled peanuts to put her son in a good private school (and feed him something better).

She was a fashion maven beyond compare.

And most of all she was a positive life force: kind, but not stupid; busy, but never obsessed, and she was my devoted friend.


So here's to Miss Anne!

Thank you all for helping me make my tribute to her get to Page One Top Rated on RMS!