Williams & Williams, Bunny and I are Tight

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Okay not really.

I have admired Bunny Williams for many years, but I have never met her........

Unlike my friend, Joan, who was the envy of all design bloggers everywhere when she went to lunch at Bunny's here!

I just ran across something at her shop in NYC, Treillage, that I must call your attention to. 

Yes, call me smug.

Wonderful charger and fish plate at Treillage

Charming little egg bowl from Treillage.

Love this fish dish!

You could use this for all kinds of things from appetizers to dessert!

Great rimmed soup bowl.

All the above from Bunny Williams' Treillage.


The reason for my smile and this post is that I have collected Mexican pottery for many years - like 25 or 30 years.

I collect vintage pottery, but started with the pottery of Gorky Gonzales, a very talented potter from Guanajauto, Mexico. I bought my first pieces on a weekend trip to Nuevo Laredo in 1976.

I posted a little about it when I first started blogging:

See all those plates above the window - yep, all Gorky. See the three on the left - kind of square rimmed bowls - they were my first purchase. I still love them today.

Here is my dining table as it looks today.......

Love my chicken on top of my cook top. Sometimes she holds cookie cutters for me.

And here is where I make my coffee or tea each morning - one canister holds the coffee, the other holds tea bags.

Enough, you say? Okay, okay....... 

Maybe it's overkill ,but I do love my pottery and to see some of it on Bunny Williams' site is just sort of validating, ya know? 

So, like I said, Bunny and I are tight......

I wish.

That's it!

Well, I have had just about enough about me! I do want to share with you the above photo of an old sign I bought once at the Heart of Country Antique Show in Nashville. I think it must have come from an old furniture store. I love what it says FIRST FURNISH YOUR HOME......IT TELLS WHAT YOU ARE Isn't that great! Just one of my quirky finds that I HAD to buy and then figure out what to do with.......

I was reading from "Dwellings" by Stephen Sills and James Huniford this morning and I quote "We all have a broad array of objects,periods, styles, and colors that we like and respond to, but selecting those we really want to live with on a daily basis, and to spend time and money on, is a difficult process."

I'll say!! This may well be my greatest decorating issue - I like way too many things and although, I do believe that our homes should reflect WHO we are - and that some rooms that are strictly put together by designers look exactly that way - the whole process of focus and editing is very hard for me. My love of country and folk art, in a great, clean space, draws me to Karin Blake, and my tendency towards warm, cozy and fabulous (and dogs!)makes me want to visit Bunny Williams. Did I mention Cindy Smith in Charlotte or Charlotte Moss in NYC? Do you think I have a problem? Oh! and I love the work of Mariette Himes Gomez and Susan Zises Green........and I would move right into Kathryn Ireland's California-Spanish house!

So, my design and decorating journey continues............I hope to share something totally new and interesting from the hill country with you later this week while I continue to learn from all of you talented bloggers who have welcomed me so warmly! Stay tuned.