• really, it’s all about you

    You have read our musings, clicked our links and tried our cocktail recipes. {sigh} It all seems so one sided. Whaddya say we take this relationship to the next level? I think it’s time we met: Mad about Mod Tour: Glenbrook Valley – Modern & Historic DoCoMoMo Don’t worry. Your mother would approve.

  • How I spent my vintage vacation……or wish I did!

    Need a get away?????? Here are some great vintage fairs and gatherings to plan around. Oh, and take me! http://www.retrostart.com/Design/Fairs/unites-states

  • Off topic – no swank just musing on levees that fail, family & my fav city

    I posted this somewhere else and it was suggested I post here as well. So to take a break from swanky news and Gin’s home furnishing porn, here’s my recollection of Katrina, family and my beloved city … Five years ago all of my family was in Houston. It was the first time we were …

  • Won’t you be my neighbor?

    I know.  I know.  I ripped off the title from No Pattern Required – Home of the Mid-Century Menu. Regardless,  the swankienda at 8114 Colgate is for sale.  Not only is it cute to death, but in 1963, it won the GBV Christmas decoration contest for a display entitled “Christmas Hospitality.” Many of you know, …