Thank you, One Kings Lane

This arrived in my mailbox yesterday, two bars of Claus Porto soap. The note said "Thank You". Apparently One Kings Lane has been making some upgrades and wanted to thank their members for their patience. Pretty darn impressive indeed! I've only made one purchase from One Kings Lane so far but there has been a LOT of drooling and dreaming. If you love deals on high end, quality, interior design goods... sign up, you won't be sorry.

Second Birthday

Lunch:

• salad - green beans, sliced onion, spring cherry tomatoes with a simple balsamic vinaigrette spiked with honey
• slaw - red and yellow cabbage, shallots, carrots and minced quick pickles with a vinegar base infused with salad burnett
• Caw Caw Creek Farms keilbasa
• Caw Caw Creek Farms pulled pork shoulder, smoked by my husband for 14 hours in hickory and cherry woods.
• Two barbecue sauces both with a hint of honey

Dessert:

• Two honey beehive cakes.

Gift bags:

• honey/gingerbread cookies in the shape of honeybees
• honey sticks from Honeyrun Farm

Feast in the Field

This past Sunday evening Andrew and I were lucky enough to accompany several friends to a really wonderful event at Claverach Farm; our local Slow Food, Feast in the Field.

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The bad news is I am not in good practice of bringing along when camera when I really should. The good news is that another local blogger, Stacy from 'every little thing', did a wonderfully detailed description of the evening. I give her full credit for all of these great pictures. Please go check out her blog for a full description of the event.

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My first favorite dish! The first course, Winslow's Jar of Peas, from Cary McDowell of Winslow's Home. Spectacular! Mom, remember when peas were the vegetable I hated the most as a kid? What was I thinking? These peas were from heaven.

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My second favorite dish. Fifth course, Anthony Devoti from Five and Clara Moore from Local Harvest Cafe. Garlic braised rabbit saddle and rabbit rillete stuffed grape leaves. Awesome!

The other highlight of the evening was running into our wedding coordinator, Christy Augustin, from 4 years ago! (It really is a small world.) Christy was there volunteering on behalf of Le Cordon Bleu and made THE most amazing bread for the event.

Congrats to all of our friends who planned, organized and worked so hard to make this event happen. You all did a wonderful job! I'm so glad we were able to be a part of it.

Playing in a Tree house

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I've been busy here with laryngitis, pink eye, coughs, sore throats, runny noses, etc. Oh, summer colds how I wish you would take a hike.

I have also been busy designing an attic play space for two close friends and their two little ones. The attic is pretty small and squeezed into the eaves of the house with two large dormer windows. There is barely enough room for me to stand up straight. This space is truly meant for children! My first reaction was, "this is like a tree house". Which reminded me of the pillow shown above that I have been coveting on Etsy for some time.

My inspiration was born, this space would be a tree house. Some other tree house inspired elements I wanted to incorporate were some faux bois fabric, faux bois carpet and vinyl tree decals.

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Unfortunately the faux bois carpet blew the budget and we had to switch to Plan B for the flooring but everything else is coming together. Can't wait to show you the finished space!

If you are interested in working with Clover Hill Interiors to create a space that you love contact sara@cloverhillinteriors.com.