Have I mentioned ......

How much I love Alexa Hampton????? She is fabulous!!!! Her new pieces at Hickory Chair are on my order list!!!!!

from high point nc

On my way......

So I'm sitting in the Charlotte airport at 6 am waiting to catch my flight to Greensboro and the High Point market and I have nothing better to do than go through my photos and delete things. So then I find this old picture of Stella and it totally cracked me up and I had to share. Of course I am a bit punchy after a red eye.......

OFF TO HIGH POINT!

YIPPEE! Tomorow we're off to the High Point Furniture Market for the 7th year.......soooooo much to see and get for the shop and for clients! Visiting with Hickory Chair, Visual Comfort, Soicher Marin, Design Legacy, Bernhardt........and on and on! Lucky enough to stay at the Proximity Hotel in Greensboro and have reservations at Print Works Bistro - every night - the perfect place to wind down after a long and tiring day at market (with a cocktail, of course!)! YIPPEE!!!!! Stay tuned for photo documentation of what new stuff we're looking at........

April showers...

.....will bring May flowers......but in the meantime, don't you need a super stylish umbrella? I could not resist these 4 lovelies for the shop......so sophisticated! I kept a black pagoda umbrella for myself....although it was a difficult for desicion between it and the black ruffled one...... get out of the rain........please stop by and test one out!

We did it!

Yesterday we opened the "out" side of digs inside& out - a whole new shop right next door! We added 870 sq ft of outdoor furniture and accessories- yippee!!!!! You should really come by and take a look!!!! The weather is getting nicer and don't you need something nice to sit in outside?????

WE'RE EXPANDING....and it''s about time!!! Read on.......

How cute is this chair?

I just found this photo of a chair we did for a client. So freakin cute!!!

A visit to Flora Grubb.

Beautiful nursery. Great plants. Great merchandising.

Beautiful tables....

......at The Gardener in Berkeley..... Truly lovely shop.

Amazing Flowers!

Beautiful flowers on cactus at Cactus Jungle.

More things that do not suck....

Agave Ferdinand Regis at the Ruth Bancroft garden last week. Stunning. Look at those gorgeous black spines!!!!

Things that do not suck.

Agave Americana varieagata at the Ruth Bancroft garden last week. Sigh.

Just ordered these for the shop...

Just ordered a pair of these lovely mustard yellow chairs from Bernhardt. Fabulous color!!!! Great shape!

Perfect end to a perfect trip

Bouchon in Yountville. My favorite.

End of a great day

So my travel buddy, miss Loree noticed that my mention of Chez Panisse autocorrected into Chez Pansies yesterday. So damned funny that I can't bring myself to fix it. Then I opened my Facebook and miss Sabrina noticed it too. Hilarious. Anyhoo, it was DELISH. Then we went to trader joes and I found this beer. Must buy at home. Saw the sunset at the cliff house and went back and drank almost a whole bottle of champagne. Perfect end. Perfect day. We are headed to Flora Grubb right now then it's off to the garden show! Look out!!

A great day so far!

Ruth Bancroft garden in the morning and chez pansies for lunch! Yippee!!!

Now it's off to Annie's annuals. Nor shopping..... Look out!!!!

How cute is this face?

Jacques is such a sweet boy! Here's to shelter dogs!!!!

Look what I got!!!

A pristine matching pair!!!! Yippee!!!!

Nerd Night 2012

Yippee!!!! It's that time of year again. It's Mike Darcy's KXL Nerd Night!!!!!!! Xera Plants ( my very favorite) is talking now. I can't believe I only bought 2 plants!! I must be ill.......

Fwd: Such a beautiful day!!!

Sent from my iPhone,  so I apologize if there are spelling errors. 

Begin forwarded message:

From: "jj@digs inside & out" <jj@digs-pdx.com>
Date: March 4, 2012 5:54:19 PM PST
To: Blogger Email <shop121.18293447@blogger.com>
Subject: Such a beautiful day!!!

I cannot tell you how beautiful it was in Portland today!!!  Alberta street was loaded with people just wanting to get outside. The line at Salt and Straw ice cream shop was out the door!!  So in honor of such a lovely day I thought I would post some photos of a stunning yellow crocus, a stately pitcher plant and an edgeworthia in bloom in the garden of a client. Dare I say that spring is on the way???  Yippee!!!

Sent from my iPhone,  so I apologize if there are spelling errors.