July 2010

I first discovered Michael Graves' designs at Target more than ten years ago, and immediately fell in love with them. Over the years I have enjoyed seeing the new items he has designed for Target. Michael Graves has made Target feel more like a museum experience for me as I stroll the aisles wondering what new Michael Graves pieces are in the Target gallery. read more...

The video shows the town of Monroeville, Alabama, where author Harper Lee grew up and spent 2 1/2 years writing "To Kill a Mockingbird". According to Wikipedia, she once became so frustrated with the manuscript, that she threw it out into the snow .When you look at this video, you can just imagine the manuscript quietly landing in the snow, as the snow begins to fall on what would become an American classic.  read more...

Tiny Tears will always be a sweet little cry-baby, even though she is turning sixty years old this year. She was one of the most popular dolls of the 1950's, thanks to people like Mary Frances of Ding Dong School and Shari Lewis for promoting her. She was also popular, of course, because of her tear ducts, which allowed her to cry little tears. Her eyes were able to cry if mommy gave her a bottle of water. Then, mommy could later press baby's stomach and tears would come out of her eyes. This is what made little girls love Tiny Tears so much.  read more...

Home decor can be influenced by global changes or world events. In the last decade, we saw this happen after September 11, 2001, when stars and stripes and patriotic colors and designs were suddenly more popular than they had ever been before. We also saw America become more "green" - literally. Going "green" meant that we were making more of an effort to take care of our environment, but the color green also became popular at the same time because it made us feel pure, and clean, and "green". read more...