Got right back to design work Saturday, my only day between travels.

Checked on my booth at H&G and picked up a load of recent design work from my seamstress. She just completed all the makings of a beautiful bed including a sumptuous duvet, king shams, euro shams and decorative pillow. I am officially lusting after this bird fabric which incorporates a lot of my client’s colors throughout her house.  And, well, it’s birds so what’s not to like? 

The duvet and king shams are the bird fabric, the euro shams in front are a silk check with beautiful, coordinating striped trim. There’s a third fabric on the decorative pillow that pulls out the red from the bird fabric – not shown.

I LOVE my seamstress as her work is divine.  Hidden zippers on all pillows, perfection in pattern matching and my favorite thing? 

***DEIGN TIP ALERT***

You know how the duvet insert always seem to move around so you feel like you’re left hanging onto a piece of cloth in the middle of the night, instead of a fluffy blanket?  Well, she sews buttons onto the duvet insert and puts button holes into the seams of the duvet cover so it’s buttoned at the top and bottom (3 buttons on each end). Hence, no more duvet shifting. Such a simple, but brillliant solution.

She also makes sure the fronts and backs of pillows are an exact pattern match so they can be flipped and look the same. I appreciate her attention to detail and her very fair pricing which I pass onto my clients.

The rest of the master suite? Gorgeous deep aqua on the walls, natural sisal rug for floors and waiting on headboard that is being fabricated in a golden linen to pull the whole room together.

Spring break for the kiddies so we’re in the car on the way to D.C. Don’t worry, Mr. F&F is driving. I do a lot while blogging but driving is not one of them. We picked up our lovely French exchange student, Jessica, at the airport at noon. She and middle child conversed until they fell alseep in the back seat. Mr. F&F scored some Springsteen tickets this evening and a tour of the White House on Tuesday. This child can’t say she didn’t have an American experience. Born in the USA and all that.

We’ll leave Wednesday and head to Asheville, NC, land of hippies and artists and a completely different American experience from buttoned-up D.C. And, of course, we’re Canadian, so that makes her visit multi-cultural as well.

NYC in a few weeks and more inspiration and maybe a few nights in my own bed inbetween?