This Week I was @.........

............Bellwether Landscape Architects, San Marco USA, Scout For The Home and a Photo Shoot.

The thing about blogging is that you can go for several days without writing a post, you just might not have been inspired and you just shouldn't force writing if your heart is not in it.  Then all of a sudden you have so much to write about at once so it makes up for your writers slump.  This was me this week, too busy to stop and smell the roses but Wednesday it hit me!!

I spend my Mondays with Missy, Todd, and Sarah at Bellwether Landscape Architects.  Their new office space is great and it is always fun to see the new renderings that Sarah has created.  I will post some of them sometime but for now, you will just have to visit their website, www.bellwetherla.com.

Tuesday I was at San Marco USA and my friends Chris Holt and and Cindy Kauffman of Holt Interiors and Iron Studio, www.holt-interiors.com, came to check out the product.  I know that a lot of designers and architects are embracing these mineral based paints and plasters but I determined to keep spreading the word.  I am doing some writing for Chris and Mike at San Marco and I have to say that this has been one of my more interesting projects, I learn something new every time I am in their studio and I just can't believe that these products aren't more mainstream.  Follow their blog, sanmarcousa.wordpress.com, you will recognize a lot of the project photos featured there.

Wednesday I was at Scout for the Home while Nancy was out meeting with clients and could not help but focus on certain silhouettes, colors and textures surrounding me.  Take a peak........

Love these lamps!

Of course, Jennifer Bates pottery, great silhouettes, texture and color.

Love this new table!

These pillows are such a great combination of texture and color, you just want to touch them.

Beautiful Leaf Bowls......

and driftwood bowl.

These cotton placemats are another great combination of color and texture....

as are these burlap ottomans.

I ended yesterday with a photo shoot for Ryan Duffey and Cameron Thurman, you will have to wait to see the pictures but it will be worth it!

Happy Friday!!!

Tonight I am @.....

..the voting polls for the Beacham ad space contest

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I need all of my friends to go vote for our good friend Ryan Duffey of J. Ryan Duffey Design.  Please click on the above link and help him win ad space in the fabulous publication that is the Beacham Series.  You can also click on the link to the right to vote.

Last night I was @.....

.........Taqueria Tsunami, www.taqueriatsunami.com. 

Last night was the first of many networking happy hours.  Help me come up with a name for it please.  Anyhow, the owner of Taqueria Tsunami is the nicest man and was kind enough to allow us to meet there. Hopefully a win, win for everyone; business for them and a place for all of us to catch up.

I have had requests to make this a monthly event so I will let you know as soon as I set the next date.  Thanks to everyone who came, I had fun and hopefully you ran into some people you didn't know or haven't seen in a while.

Monica Murphy-Perez and her brother Chef Matthew Murphy, of Three Blind Mice, were there and I wanted everyone to share their latest accolade in the AJC.  Be sure to read the article to the right and I posted the picture below.

This is making me hungry!

If you or anyone you know need help organizing any sort of events, please call or email me and I would be happy to help.

404-213-6606, kristinmayfieldmeredith@gmail.com

Rodolfo Castro

Hey Everyone,

Rodolfo Castro was chosen for Houzz Best of Remodeling 2012.  I have tagged it on the right side of my screen, be sure to take a look, it is the 3rd picture.  Click somewhere on there and I am sure it will take you to the actual page, it's my first time to imbed something so let me know if you have any problems.

Yay Rodolfo!!

one more thing

I want to add that San Marco USA is here in town and located at 554 North Avenue.  You should come check out their products if you are working on any projects that could be a fit.  Their website is san-marcousa.com.  And do read their blog so you can see what the buzz is about!

Last night I was @.....

.......well, actually, "in", my bed.

This post is for, but not limited to, my friends in Architecture.

I know I am not the only one out there who wakes up in the middle of the night with a racing mind.  I have to keep a notebook by my bed to write down ideas when they come and then I pick up my kindle and read myself to sleep.

Last night I was between books, I just finished The Hunger Games, and needed to start a new book.  The time I have for reading is so limited that I will spend more time choosing a book than it would actually take to read it.  Nonetheless, I keep my kindle loaded with classics for situations like this and last night I chose to read Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady.  

I have been doing some writing and blogging for San Marco, which is originally an Italian company that creates sustainable paints.  I was hoping to find a book that inspired me; a period piece, based somewhere in Europe.  After I exhausted myself on Amazon, the already downloaded book I chose happened to be just what I needed.  I read, and re-read, the preface a few times, making notes.  Henry James was comparing the development of a character to architecture, piling "brick upon brick for the creation of interest".  More importantly, he was referring to Venice throughout the Preface.  While I was craving inspiration, he was writing about his.

James speaking of places like Venice:  "How can places that speak IN GENERAL so to the imagination not give it, at the moment, the particular thing it wants?"

James describing the outcome of The Portrait of a Lady:  "erecting on such a plot of ground the neat and careful and proportioned pile of bricks that arches over it and thus to form, constructionally speaking, a literary monument."  

There are so many more great quotes in the preface alone.  I have read some of this book before and recall that a portion takes place in Italy, once again I almost missed the obvious.

Feel free to send me any of your book recommendations.  Also, follow the San Marco blog, www.sanmarcousa.wordpress.com.

Thursday I was @.......

.........Holt Interiors

Interior Designer, Chris Holt, www.holt-interiors.com, is one of my very best friends from home.  We grew up together in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and luckily both ended up in Atlanta together.  

He will probably kill me for selecting this picture but it sums up our relationship, always making each other laugh.

In addition to making homes beautiful, Chris is also the co-owner of The Iron Studio, www.iron-studio.com.  I am going to help him with some new marketing pieces so we were meeting to discuss our approach.  It was so much fun to catch up with his fabulous assistant, Cindy,

and of course the Holt-Interiors mascot, Birch, such a cutie.

The first thing on my checklist was to head to The Iron Studio and take some pictures.  I will let you take a peak at a few.

I love all of these basic round finials.

These are the different finishes you can choose from.  

The Iron Studio can make just about anything, from brackets, rods, and finials, to furniture and planters.  

Stay tuned, I will send you one of the postcards when they are done.