Kit Davey, Interior Designer
18 Years in business - Over 2,600 homes transformed!
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News from "A FRESH LOOK" March 2010
1. Quote
2. Recipe
3. Classes
4. Best Shops for Home Accessories
5. Request
for Castoffs
Quote of the quarter
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that
the necessary may speak.
Hans Hofmann
Recipe: Recipe: Cheap, Low Calorie, Starbuck’s-like Cocoa Mix to Make Your Own Café Mocha
Ingredients:
½ cup cocoa powder (unsweetened; Trader Joe’s sells it for $2
a tin)
3/4 cup granulated Splenda
1/4 nonfat powdered milk
1 tbsp. cinnamon
¼ cup milk
1 cup your favorite brewed coffee
Directions: Mix all ingredients in a Tupperware container (so you can store it after making it. You’ll have plenty to use in about 30 cups of coffee, or to mix with hot milk for plain cocoa). Pour ¼ cup milk into your favorite mug and heat it up in the microwave for 20 seconds or so. Put a heaping teaspoon of the cocoa mixture into the milk and stir. If you have one of those frother wands---use it to get a good froth into your milk. Pour in piping hot coffee, stir and slurp.
Class: Interior Design for Beginners
Saturday, March 27th, 9:00 am to 12:30 pm
De Anza College, Room G-5, 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino
Cost: $65, plus $7 materials fee. Bring $2 in cash for parking
Call 408-864-8817 to register by phone or
visit www.CommunityEducation.fhda.edu.
Get step-by-step basics of how to create
a beautiful and comfortable home, including:
- How to define your personal style
- How to create a furniture plan that works
- Selecting a color scheme
- How to select area rugs, artwork and accessories
- Lighting basics
- Suggestions for picking wallpaper and paint color.
Whether you’re filling a room with new furniture, redecorating a furnished space, or just want some ideas to enhance your home, you’ll get cost-effective, easy tips and useful handouts.
Fun Art Class: Shadowbox Altars
Saturday, April 24, 9:30 am to 12:30 pm
Palo Alto Adult School, Room 1708
50 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto
Please call to register: 650-329-3752 or visit www.paadultshchool.org
Cost: $35, plus $10 materials fee. Free parking!
Have fun with a new art form—the shadowbox altar! This class is perfect for beginners or for those who have lots of art experience. I guarantee it will be easy and fun! You’ll learn how to create your own 3-dimensional work of art. Our theme will be “In My Garden”. We’ll use a small, sturdy box to house our “altars” and add layers of depth with paper, ephemera and found objects. You will be pleased with and amazed by your creation! I will provide most materials, but please for supplies to bring to class.
To see samples, go to: www.found-object-art.com; click
on “Assemblage”.
Questions? Call me at 650-367-7370, or
.
New Art Class: Playing Card Art
Saturday, April 24, 1:00 to 4:00 pm
Palo Alto Adult School, Room 1708
50 Embarcadero Rd., Palo Alto
To register, please call: 650-329-3752 or visit paadultschool.org
Cost: $35, plus $5 materials fee payable to instructor. Free parking!
Everyone has a deck of cards somewhere with a card or two missing. Now you can use those old cards to make art! Come learn 10 ways to use playing cards in quick and easy art projects. I will demonstrate how to alter, cut, fold and bend the cards in unique ways so you can create amazing little masterpieces. We’ll make tiny boxes, wall hangings, mini-books, bookmarks, paper dolls and more! No art experience is necessary! Please for a list of materials you’ll need in class. Questions? Call me at 650-367-7370, or
Everyone has a deck of cards somewhere with a card or two missing. Now you can use those old cards to make art! Come learn 10 ways to use playing cards in quick and easy art projects. I will demonstrate how to alter, cut, fold and bend the cards in unique ways so you can create amazing little masterpieces. We’ll make tiny boxes, wall hangings, mini-books, bookmarks, paper dolls and more! No art experience is necessary! Please for a list of materials you’ll need in class. Questions? Call me at 650-367-7370, or .
My Favorite Shops for Home Accessories
I love shopping at places with well-displayed, unusual things that you can’t find anywhere else. My favorites:
- The Garden
Shop at Filoli Center, 86 Canada Rd., Woodside.
650-364-8300, ext.505. You don’t have to pay the entrance fee if you are just going to visit the shop! - Emily Joubert, 3036 Woodside Road, Woodside, 650-851-3520.
- Roger Reynolds Nursery’s Carriage Shop, 133 Encinal Avenue, Atherton. 650-323-5612
- Ladera Garden Shop, 380 Ladera Shopping Center, Alpine Road, Portola Valley. 650-854-3850.
- Menloville, 1902 Valparaiso Ave. Menlo Park. 650-324-2455
- The Dressed Room, 1014 Alma St., Menlo Park. 650-462-1600
Request for Your Castoffs
Many of you know that I am an artist, as well as a designer. I do assemblage, collage and altered books. I am always scrounging for found objects to use in my art and to share with my students. If you clean out your drawers and closets and run into anything on this list that you no longer want, please send them my way! I can either pick them up, or you can drop them off at your convenience.
Things I can use are:
Buttons, postage stamps, rubber stamps, playing cards, cigar
boxes, old letters and postcards, dice, dominoes, marbles,
ribbon, tags, brads, embroidery thread, music books or sheets, tracing
paper, clear acetate (view foils), vellum, exacto knives and
blades, maps, mahjong or chess pieces, game markets, bingo
cards, old broken jewelry, beads, pre-1960 magazines, pre-1930 books,
crossword puzzle books, small wooden boxes…you get the idea!
Your contributions will show up in a piece of art someday soon!
Beauty, order and harmony,
Kit Davey
Telephone: 650-367-7370
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