Excerpt from Sister Parish Design On Decorating, by Susan Crater and Libby Cameron, illustrations by Mita Corsini Bland. "In the early days of Parish-Hadley, I would often drive my sporty Sunbeam convertible to Maine, to spend...

An interview by Jackson McCard, Head of Sales for Sister Parish Design, with Susan Crater, CEO of Sister Parish. You know, when you spend time working with people you like, sometimes you just have to...

Derived from the French word “decouper,” meaning “to cut out,” decoupage has been a mainstay for artisans and artists alike for centuries. At its core, decoupage is decorative .It can be about storytelling if a particular theme or period is evoked, but generally...

Ah, May! The very name conjures up images of gardens and that irresistible urge to refresh, renew, make better! There is a song in my parent’s favorite musical, Camelot, called “The Lusty Month of May,”...

There are so many books and articles talking about raffia and wicker these days. We have been on that bandwagon too with the recent launch of our stunning new Raffia Collection. I am a business...

Our mother-daughter-grandmother dynamic brings a unique flavor to our Mother's Day presents. For Eliza, I want to give something passed down to me at every opportunity I can- same goes for what I want from...

Besides an occasional ski trip, my familiarity with the West has pretty much been an obsession with Westerns. Yellowstone, 1883, and recently American Primeval have had me hooked for a while. This spring I headed to...

New Orleans is a city of storytellers. It's where my own story took a significant turn as I met my husband there in my twenties - in a bar no less. As a teenager, I inhaled Southern...

Let's face it Behind the Seams is a corny name for a blog title, so Elliza and I came up with a new one: The Fabric Chronicles. Our Sister Parish community is not only our clients, our amazing artisans, our...