New Style

Perfect mix of old and new. A child's room with an interesting contemporary design perspective. Nuevo Estilo gives good insipiration.

Plant Decor

A little organic interior decor inspiration.

Foyers

If you're looking for foyer/entranceway ideas. Mirrors, clocks, storage baskets, armoires, chests, baskets and benches, warmth, welcoming objects and a little girl who insists she must be in the photo.

Children and Prisoners at the Opera

I only know about Joyce Didonato because of her performance at Sing Sing. Singing at a prison: the ultimate in captive audience, right? I had heard about Joyce on the BBC and listened to a clip of her explaining how she aroused the interests of the female inmates.

I started googling the Opera because I was looking at what the upcoming shows were at the National Opera in Vilnius. They have some great productions for the family and I was looking for something that would arouse the interest of my midget. I figure if opera is universal, as Joyce has said, then the midget must find something she can appreciate about it. So I take my midget to Zuikis Puikis this weekend.

Imelda's Jewellery

In my teens my aunt started calling me Imelda Marcos on account of my trying to rival Marcos at her 3000-strong shoe collection. I took offense at the comparison, obviously. But still, I wonder what my aunt would think now if she saw my closet...

Anyhoo, everyone knows of Marcos for her bad shoe habit and also her and her husband's swindling ways. It was that swindling that also supported Marcos' jewellery collection. The Philippines' is currently trying to sell all of Marcos' confiscated jewellery and the former first lady, now 87, had put up a strong fight in court, claiming that her husband's government salary could have amassed her jewellery collection which perhaps rivals that of any royal house. Well, now it appears that Marcos has lost the court battle and the Philippines can now auction the jewellery...problem is: will they... given that the Marcos family supposedly has close ties to the President Duterte? Anyhoo, I am here for the jewellery and not the corruption. When is politics anything but corrupt?