48 Hours in New Orleans

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...

A Month in Florida

Our Sister Parish community is not only our clients, our amazing artisans, our team, but also the story of a female-founded and run business that involves multiple family members from Apple (age 91) to Eliza's...

Hosting A Spring Lunch With Style and Panache

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...

How to Design a Unique Nursery

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,...

Wicker: A Love Story and Where to Shop

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...

Dollhouses: Tonic for the Soul

Last fall, my husband and I were visiting Amsterdam and stumbled upon the dollhouse exhibit at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. They were unbelievable and fascinating, to say the least. One was oversized - almost a playhouse - and you...

Jackie Kennedy

Jackie Kennedy I met Jackie at the Boston airport to take a short jump flight to Hyannisport. It was early spring and she was young, gay, and bursting with enthusiasm. Her husband was a Senator....

A Country Style Family Room

In Eliza's living room she wanted to play with the concept of ‘cabin fever.’ Eliza employed shades of blue and green from our Sister Parish Performance fabric collection to bring light and airiness to the...

A Fresh Start

January is a month for digging in and taking time to prepare and look ahead to what we have planned for a brand new year! We kicked it off with an all team meeting in Litchfield,...