by Sue Schlabach | Sep 15, 2017 | Artisanal Living, Creativity, Design, Family, Vermont
There is a little village near here where my family lives. My brother and his wife moved there in 1995, and this small town—with only a couple hundred residents—took them in. My parents bought a house around the corner from my brother in 2004, and also became active...
by Sue Schlabach | Dec 21, 2015 | Artisanal Living, Design, Scandinavia, Vermont
A few weeks ago I was invited to journal for a week as a friend of Gudrun Sjoden, the Swedish designer whose art, home and clothing lines epitomize everything I love about design. Her art is infused with color, pattern, whimsy, beauty, ethnicity and a nod toward...
by Sue Schlabach | Dec 9, 2015 | Artisanal Living, Chickens, Paris, Vermont
There are places where you expect to find a velvet Victorian sofa. A chicken yard isn’t generally the place. There are places you expect to see a chicken. AÂ Paris dress shop might not come to mind. In the back garden of a house on the edge of South Strafford,...
by Sue Schlabach | Jun 30, 2014 | Artists, Travel
Marie-Elaine Cusson lives on a street just off the bustle of Sherbrooke in Westmount, Montreal. The quiet of her upstairs rooms belies the action just around the corner. But the quiet is mostly in the late night hours when her family is sleeping. Then she and her dog,...
by Sue Schlabach | Mar 28, 2014 | Color, Creativity, Design, Interior Design, London, Vermont
I feel well familiar with whiteness right now. Our landscape remains monochrome, blanketed with snow. But I leave for London tomorrow where the grass is green and the air is mild. Mild never sounded so good. I’ve been remiss in writing about an afternoon I spent...
