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Consider Color and Scent When Choosing Flowers For Elderly
Among the challenges of aging is how your eyes can cloud and seeing the vivid joyous colors of flowers can be impacted. According to the National Eye Institute, by the age of 80 more than half of all Americans will have a cataract or have had cataract surgery. A cataract is a clouding of the …
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Why Victoria Hagan Sprinkles Flowers Throughout Her Work
By Jill Brooke Veranda calls Victoria Hagan “the reigning queen of restrained elegance.” Architectural Digest compares her to Katherine Hepburn, “strong yet restrained, crisply enunciated and charged with a robust optimism that is uniquely American.” The New York Times called her “cerebral,” but not sure what that means except you know it’s a big compliment. Oh …
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Birthday Boy Pierre-Auguste Renoir and His Love of Flowers
By Jill Brooke February birthday boy Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a talented singer, but his parents couldn’t afford continuing his lessons. With that dream sidelined, he apprenticed at a factory painting flowers on porcelain. He discovered not only his talent but a lifelong passion for flowers. “It’s with my brush I make love,” he said. Well, …
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How Gardener Nancy Lancaster Created This Grand Wallpaper
By Jill Brooke When Nancy Lancaster, the 20th century tastemaker credited with creating the English country-house look, visited a ballet in Sweden, she was struck by a snow-white flower pattern on the prima ballerina’s dressing room wall at the Drottningholm Court theater. Because Lancaster was in the same social set as the King of Sweden, he later sent her …
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Anna Weatherley’s Dinnerware Is Treasured By The White House
By Jill Brooke My first experience eating off an Anna Weatherley plate was at the home of my friend Catherine Crier, a fabulous woman who was the youngest Texas female judge and later a TV anchor and best-selling author. In fact, when Catherine asked me what I would want in her will, I mentioned her …
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The Great Floral Moments From 2018 Celebrity Weddings
By Jill Brooke Why do we love looking at celebrity weddings? Because they have the type of budgets we dream about as well as a team of professionals offering a potpourri of possibilities. Looking at last year’s crop, there were some highlights besides the beautifully executed showstopper of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. How can …
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Bar And Bat Mitzvahs Are Never Boring with Victoria Dubin
By Jill Brooke Victoria Dubin will always have a special place in her heart for Bar and Bat Mitzvah celebrations. It began after the Cornell graduate, and owner of a creative basket company called Not Just a Basket, planned and designed her own son’s Bar Mitzvah. Completely thrilled with how it all turned out and being …
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Flowers Have Same Healing Effect as Valium, Study Says
By Jill Brooke In folk medicine, it has long been believed that compounds derived from plant extracts that have a particular smell can have medicinal effects. Turns out lavender is one of those magical elixirs. After all, flowering plants are the basis of chemical combinations that create medicines in laboratories around the world. In a scientific …
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Jenny Tobin Finally Got Credit for The Allure Of This Film
By Jill Brooke It’s not every day one can say, “Oh yes, six of the movies I worked on this year were nominated for Oscars and other awards.” “It’s a very exciting time,” says Jenny Tobin, the sought-after British florist whose work is currently seen in “The Favourite,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Fantastic Beasts,” “Finding Your Feet,” …
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Penelope Cruz Graces Last Chanel Show Of Lagerfeld’s Work
By Jill Brooke The world’s fashion royalty turned out on March 5, the last day of the women’s fall-winter 2019-2020 haute couture shows in Paris to witness the last Chanel show designed by Karl Lagerfeld, and mourn his loss. Lagerfeld’s favorite models – Cara Delevingne, Luna Bijl, Soo Joo Park, Mariacarla Boscono, Anna Ewers, Farreta …
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