NEXT, A WET NURSE!

I know we are in Turkey mode, but I ran into a good friend/graphic designer at Tom Thumb while gathering food for the feast. Just gotta share this: he is making a bundle freelancing for parents of Hockaday and St. Marks students who hire him to…get this… design their child’s yearbook pages. I kid you not: one mother paid Jason $500 because she just “could not deal with all this”. Then the Daisy told her boyfriend and now Jason (my pal) is up to his eyeballs in layout design. This reminds me of the Hockaday mom during our era (Peggy, you know who I mean) who hired a professional to pull a marathon scrap booking session to get her daughter’s book complete by graduation day. Word was that cost her a pretty hefty penny.

OK, I confess I have not opened the scrapbook supplies since graduation (in fact, where are the scrapbook supplies?) but still, isn’t the whole point a trip down memory lane…YOUR memory lane, not a client’s?

Happy Thanksgiving to one and all!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Since food is more important than blogging, and family is more important than food, we will close down for the holidays and resume chat on Monday, November 28. Blessings to one and all.

CLUB MONKEYS

A new chair at Allen Knight’s is bound to make its way into the club circuit. By Cote d’ France, the black leather traditional frame wing chair has French photographer Maurice Renema’s black and white photos of monkeys screened onto the fronts and backs of the chairs. Eek, they sort of glow in the dark, it’s like sitting on some erie negative of a Rollo Wilson painting.

COTTAGE-STYLE

Best buys for empty nesters who aren’t ready for the high rise thing: the M Streets and Devonshire area, west of University Park. Savvy real estate agents are showing these houses to boomers, touting a happily-ever after vibe in one-story cottages. Which I guess is agent-speak for dinky six-figure ranch houses. In any case, D.W. Skelton, a top local appraiser, predicts these neighborhoods will be hotspots in 2006, “real neighborhoods,” with young couples, elderly people and baby boomers. I like it.