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For those of you who have lived in Atlanta for a while, you might remember a store named Geode which sold, well, geodes. I remember walking by Geode as a child (it was, interestingly enough, located at a mall) and being mesmerized by the displays of colorful crystals and minerals. They were so shiny, so mysterious, and so flashy. OK, so the insides of the geodes were flashy; the exteriors, not so much.
Perhaps it's this early childhood fascination with quartz and stones that explains why the stuff is like catnip to me. And perhaps it's why I was excited to be introduced to the work of Eduardo Garza. Eduardo creates sculptural pieces made from not only stones and minerals- my favorite- but also wood, eggs, and shells. (Van Day Truex always said that in design, Mother Nature is our best teacher, and Eduardo's work is testament to this.) His pieces, all hand made and sold as signed, limited editions, have caught the eye of both Bergdorf Goodman and Harrods, where his work is featured in the vignettes seen at top. In addition to being sold through both department stores, Eduardo's pieces are also available through his website.
If you're not familiar with his work, let me show you...
Citrine mounted on a gold leaf base. Far more luxe than the geodes of my childhood.
For those taken with purple, there is Amethyst mounted on a gold leaf base.
Rock Crystal on a gold base.
Fuschia stone encrusted lucite box
Fossilized wooden coasters with silver and gold leafed edging
Not all of Eduardo's work incorporates stones and wood. This handmade mask is dipped in gold.
The ostrich egg piece at top is perched on a gold leaf and malachite base with a finial handmade by Eduardo. A certain designer with the initials "AH" (and a man who is also my idol) used this piece on his designer table at the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Gala. The smaller egg at bottom is an ostrich egg dipped in gold.
Eduardo also works with anodized aluminum. I think the island coaster series is fun. The coral tray is a different take on the classic ocean motif.
A lot of homes may not be really adobe ... just styled to look Abobe ... personally I really enjoy it ... well then what about the interiors ... are you in doubt about how Stylish they can be ... you know those questions that go pop-pop in the head ... is it really my kind of style ...
... well any style can be you ... if you enjoy it... and as for the stylish enough for me factor ... well , honey ... that's what you bring to it ... and what you make of it ...
... bring in the look and don't compromise on the function ... and bring in what you think is you ... and you 'll do just fine ...
... give me this look in my city home and ...I'll always feel like I am far ... far away ... and give me this look in my home far...far...away ... Oh! ... I'll know I finally am away ...
... I really love the earthy and welcome to my home ... feel of this entrance passage ...
... uuuuh! that carved piece over the bed ... I think it makes the room soooo romantic .... and cozy ... comfy and classy ... wow rooms ... as you style them to be ... Hope you enjoyed these pictures of some adobe home interiors ... Wonder , if you'll style that second home of yours ...somewhat on these lines ... or better still how about a second home that looks like this ...
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Image 1, 3 , 9 ... Unknown ,Image 2 ,5 , 8 , 11 ... Susan Brookes Interiors , Image 4 , 6 , 7 , 10 , 12 Barracan builders...
Here's an image of the artwork ... you probably saw on the wall of my very first apartment . Zaara , one of my dear reader wanted to have a closer looky ... so here goes Zaara ... the picture you requested ... my very first attempt at art : ... )
For Aussie readers, tonight is the finale of HomeMADE, a fantastic competition for Interior Designers and Stylists. My pick for the winner is Jason Sullivan, Model and Design Assistant who has taken the show by storm. The room above was one of my favourite rooms Jason had done. I think I love it because all of the white pieces pop against the dark colours to give the space a really sophisticated, clean and earthy feel to it.
Everything in this room is gorgeous. The silver platter on the wall looks superb against the dark walls and the coffee table is just gorgeous. Jason's style is very RL and maybe that's why I pick him to win homeMADE tonight.
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I have finally reinvented my Flour Sack pillows!! I have made 4 to put onto my Etsy Shoppe to see how they go, then I will make more.
This is the White and Wheat one. The text has changed and the year, incorporating the year our home was built...and the little bee has been added. These new ones will have different styles of ladder stitch ribbon, as I find it so they won't always be with this one.
This one is the Wheat and Caramel pillow. It is lovely and warm and goes great with the white.
Seeing I am in renovation mode again, I thought I would show you the evolution of this room...how it came about and what it ended up as. 
We had to fill between all of the beaded ceiling grooves, repaint, put up new cornice to suit the era, added picture rail and chair rail and high skirting's.
Dad set to work building the new fireplace surround to protect the old bricks. Previous owners had really done a job on the fireplace and we had to render the bottom just to stop it falling apart and to make it look nicer.
I painted this 1 meter x 1 meter canvas to become the main focal point of the room....
...while I was 8 1/2 months pregnant with Mason! As you have probably guessed by now we were doing his bedroom/nursery. This was taken the day we brought him home.
We had to re carpet (obviously) and I painted the room Chalk USA as I wanted the toys and the canvas to be the main colours in the room. At the time we had balloon curtains in the window and side drapes were added. There is now wicker roman blinds.
...at this point we still hadn't finished the fireplace. The bespoke corbels had gone on and the bricks and render painted the same as our other fireplaces, but the detail was still being sorted.