saturday "seasonal" secrets

Welcome home wreaths grace doors, it's no secret....

It's beginning to look a lot like...

the holidays.

Adding fashionably festive touches to one's home adds a refined warmth to entertaining.

I love H & H's Suzanne Dimma's seasonal secrets.

Love seeing the before and after of her "Holiday home."

Care to share some of your seasonal secrets to adding festive touches to your home?

Enjoy your Saturday!

Saturday secrets

pve design, artwork for the upcoming Sheridon Road Magazine

On Saturday morning, I have hung a "privacy please" sign on each of your bedroom doors.

You have been granted permission to go back to sleep and dream like a child. Vivid dreams.

You are luxuriating in dreamy Matouk bedding

with your very own monogram.

A soft blanket envelopes you-

from gramercy fine linens and furnishings.

oil painting by Stephen Gjertson, The Newborn

You fall back asleep like a newborn baby held in the safety of tender arms.

The smell of the blanket tells you you are at home.

oil painting by Stephen Gjertson

You are greeted with a smile and suddenly refreshed for a new day full of secret love.

What is your secret to begin the day feeling like a newborn?

Saturday secrets

There is a secret path for each of us.

It takes tremendous patience and dedication to persevere

even when one is on an unknown path headed in the face of danger.

The heart wants what it wants.

Hold your head high

and

your heart steady on your way.

One can only hope that our hearts and our steps are in harmony.

It is good to move in tandem or in harmony with the right gear.

It is good for your heart too.

Take this day to find some time to restore order and grace.

You only need a few minutes.

Reach out to those who may be hurting and to those who are celebrating a birth.

Take time to create your own secret wish for this solemn yet heartfelt day.

You may write it down or draw it here.

Remember it is your secret.

Take a moment to pay tribute to our fallen heros and angels.

You can do this in secret.

saturday secrets

I did say I was signing off, but before I go, let me share a few saturday secrets.

clever secrets, silly.

It's no secret that times are changing. I wish I had one of these items when I had babies.

Quite a splash on any counter. It is a bottle dry station. The brush is hidden in the center for cleaning the bottles. ("Splash" found at target)

I found one of these Moleskines. It will be my back-to-school wellness note-book.

A beautiful box of these jewels arrived and the designer blogs here on monkey grass hill.

The stones have secret wellness wishes.

My secret stash for gifting. Shhh, please don't give-away all my secrets.

Great gifts for teachers, friends, family.

This sweet blog gal had a small swell birthday at home.

Just thought I would let you "be in on a few secrets."

I was never very good at keeping secret finds all to myself.

Would you like Saturday secrets to be a weekly post or shall I just keep it a secret?