Tamara Robbins Griffith (TRG) has been giving me reliably good décor advice for more than a decade now. If you ever watched her on CityLIne, you can probably say the …
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Auntie Vicky Award 2018 goes to an artful television
Folks are rightly excited about the big tech show going on in Las Vegas. There’s bound to be cool stuff. A lot which you could probably find on my newsfeed, …
Dear Auntie Vicky, A water-cooler conversation at work about whether or not to use a top sheet recently got very ugly, very quickly. Things were said that cannot be unsaid, …
Blue skies reflected in summer decor
Dear Auntie Vicky,
I am in such a walloping tizz about which colour to pick for my summer accessories. I feel like I am drowning in choices. Throw me a lifeline?
Signed,
In a Quandry Over Colour.
Dear IAQOC,
I love you, dear reader, but – don’t be ridiculous. There are 9,677,844,321,798,651,244 things to be more worried about than your summer decor colours! Pick whichever ones makes you smile. Having said that, there’s an ocean of lovely blues out there and I, for one, couldn’t be happier. Is there really a better colour for the season? And does anything pair better with summery greens? Here’s a pretty selection of pieces, including some at the darker, inkier end of blue, from Lowes.
Souvenirs as decor – yes or no?
Dear Auntie Vicky, Usually we head down to Florida at this time of year to visit the in-laws before they head north for the season, and I go CRAZY in …
