Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
Happy summer, Gentle Readers! I don’t even care that it’s rainy right now; my garden needs it, and I’m just happy to put spring in the rear-view mirror. May was roughly 3 months long, so I’m ready to move on! We don’t have any dramatic summer plans, but we will be seeing lots of friends. …
Happy New Year, Gentle Readers! I hope you had a wonderful holiday season. Bonus points if neither you nor anyone close to you got COVID. (If you’re in or around D.C., that’s a tall order right now.) We haven’t taken down our Christmas tree yet, and to be honest, I might just wait another week. …
Soon, Gentle Readers, we will be eating outside because we WANT to, not because it’s the only way we can see our friends safely. Isn’t that exciting?! There’s so much fantastic unbreakable dishware out there, and you should feel free to get some if you want. BUT I’d like to make the case for bringing …
Trays. I spent much of this past weekend looking for them. I needed one for my daughters’ bathroom to corral their innumerable bottles and jars and sprays. I need one or two for a photo shoot. I need one to put on a client’s foyer table for keys and mail. I always need trays for …
I'm one of those people who thinks it should be illegal even to THINK about Christmas before Thanksgiving.
Usually.
But ever since my highly organized sister-in-law asked me what I wanted this year (dessert plates and Steve Jobs' biography, if anyone's listening), Christmas has been on my mind...
Dear Gentle Readers,
I apologize. I didn't intend to get out of the posting groove, but as you can see, it happened anyway. Rather than continuing to disappoint you every time you rush to your computer in excited anticipation of bossy color blog's next installment (I hope the gentle sarcasm is coming through), I am going to declare, officially, that bossy color blog is on hiatus this summer...
The other day I was talking to the wonderful Sheila Hagar of the Walla Walla Union Bulletin, and she casually asked, "So how's your living room looking these days?"
Egad! I thought. (Or something close to it.) Things have changed! Not too much, but still, enough for an update....
