I Heart Hable

Scented, heart-shaped sachets for your valentine from Hable Construction.

Photographic

Photography by Rinne Allen.

Decorno's call for "Original Content Week" has lead me to two startling realizations:

1) My house is nowhere near being camera ready. (Actually, this is not that surprising).
2) I don't know how to use a digital camera.

I know this may seem impossible in these modern times, but somehow I was absent on the day that everyone, including my technologically challenged parents, learned how to operate one of these newfangled gadgets. Of course I know how to take the photo, but since it is usually on one of my husband's 10 different cameras, I am still lost as to how it arrives neatly in my computer file, if not emailed to me.

While I am experimenting with ports and data cards, I will leave you with the beautiful, macro-organic photographs of a much more talented artist, Rinne Allen. You may recognize her environmental photos from the Hable Construction website, but she was also the photographer for our small backyard wedding in 2005.

Yours truly with bouquet of hydrangea and fiddle head ferns. Photography by Rinne Allen.

Shelling Out

I am heading to the Georgia seashore this weekend with shells on the brain. As Labor Day signals the end of summer on the East Coast, I am suddenly feeling not-quite-ready for the season to be over.


Lettuce coral is the centerpiece for a table set by Hable Construction founders, Susan Hable Smith and Katherine Hable Sweeny. (Image from Southern Accents).



Michele Oka Doner's collection of shells and shell books in her Miami Beach Library (From At Home with Books).


Ornithological prints framed in ocean-motif decoupage (from Decor Fall/Winter '07).