rolling out the moroccan carpet

A new, temporary exhibit is on loan after our friends' honeymoon in Marrakesh. And it fits perfectly in our living room! How did they know?

Stay tuned folks, I'll be featuring more photos from their adventure soon. Who doesn't want to hear more about mint tea and haggling in the souks?

at home in boston

I haven't been inside Louis of Boston in 15 years or more? I love their beautiful selection of home wares on the first floor.























The first time I stepped inside Bliss Home in Boston it was a fiercely cold and blustery day on Newbury Street.


















That year, the Alessi Michael Graves tea kettle (2 shelves above the champagne/ice bucket) was my Valentine's Day gift. There's a wonderful 20% off Alessi sale going on now at Bliss. I bought the matching creamer to go with my sugar bowl.


Louis Boston
234 Berkeley St
Boston, MA 02116-3186
http://www.louisboston.com/

Bliss Home
225 Newbury St
Boston, MA 02116-2522
http://www.blisshome.com/

la cantina

We served up a menu of Mexican food and I was itching to hang my papel picado, Mexican paper cutouts, in the dining room. D felt like he was on the prom committee as we decorated, but I do adore these colorful and intricate banners and may just leave them up for a few more weeks.

Most of the recipes came from two cookbooks, Everyday Mexican by Rick Bayless and What's Cooking Mexican by Marlene Speiler. Our main dish was from A Cook's Tour of Mexico by Nancy Zaslavsky, but largely that cookbook was too ambitious for us. We have to learn more before trying the complicated moles and sauces. These days I try to test run cookbooks with the help of the library. The photos often look tempting, but that's not a good enough reason to clutter up our bookshelves.

blades of green

This April marks our 2 year anniversary in Morningside! So far every summer we've had a terrific tangle of five foot high weeds in our backyard. Now we have grass for the very first time. This summer it'll be perfect to roll out of the hammock and step onto our soft lush green carpet.