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 parents favorite musical Camelot called "The Lusty Month of May," which is sung by Queen...

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 owner, but also,...

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...

During the eighties, my husband and I often accompanied my grandmother, Sister Parish, to Sunday lunches with her friends and clients in " the country." On many a spring Sunday, we would meet at her New...

I'm often asked a question that I love: "How do you design a unique nursery?" February is my hunker down month so I have had time to think about this and dream. As we like to say,...

My husband gave me a wicker basket for Valentine's day, because he knows I love old wicker and can never seem to have enough. When people say it's not my grandmother's such and such, I can not agree. It is my...