Articles for October 26th, 2007
Kingsbridge Home Tour This Weekend
Last week it was Park Cities, this week it’s Lake Ray Hubbard.
RE: Ebby & Dave Party
Oh forgot: Dave promised to keep on selling like he and his team have been sellin’ — $100 million during his first 100 days with Ebby — if Ebby promises to give him the name of the vitamins she takes to keep going at 96!
RE: Ebby & Dave Party
Oh forgot: Dave promised to keep on selling like he and his team have been sellin’ — $100 million during his first 100 days with Ebby — if Ebby promises to give him the name of the vitamins she takes to keep going at 96!
Ebby & Dave’s Party of the Year
700 people were invited to The Mansion last night to celebrate Dave Perry-Miller’s new union with Ebby Halliday Realtors. Foie gras, skewered lobster, and photos with Dave and Ebby who was on hand, partying ’till the wee hours. (Dave probably asked for the lobster to remind him of Nantucket!) Let’s just say the Mansion overflowed… but the valet was flawless. There: all of the Perry-Miller team, tons of Realtors and industry buds like Phil Dettle from Northern Trust, Darryl Tyson from Fidelity National Title, clients galore like Shelly and Richard Stanzel, owners of Archiped Classics, plastic surgeon Dr. Warren Katz and his gorgeous wife Jil, top appraisers Brad Edgar and D.W. Skelton and spouses, you name a Who’s Who in Real Estate and they were there, drooling over the Bentleys. Update later on who won the chauffeured Bentley for the weekend, the $2000 Michael Faircloth gown and the Mansion get-away.
Ebby & Dave’s Party of the Year
700 people were invited to The Mansion last night to celebrate Dave Perry-Miller’s new union with Ebby Halliday Realtors. Foie gras, skewered lobster, and photos with Dave and Ebby who was on hand, partying ’till the wee hours. (Dave probably asked for the lobster to remind him of Nantucket!) Let’s just say the Mansion overflowed… but the valet was flawless. There: all of the Perry-Miller team, tons of Realtors and industry buds like Phil Dettle from Northern Trust, Darryl Tyson from Fidelity National Title, clients galore like Shelly and Richard Stanzel, owners of Archiped Classics, plastic surgeon Dr. Warren Katz and his gorgeous wife Jil, top appraisers Brad Edgar and D.W. Skelton and spouses, you name a Who’s Who in Real Estate and they were there, drooling over the Bentleys. Update later on who won the chauffeured Bentley for the weekend, the $2000 Michael Faircloth gown and the Mansion get-away.
Re: Galante Glamour
Andrea Tomek, our art director, had the best description of this chair: “It looks like a can-can dancer exploded on it.”
Galante Glamour
Italian showmanship is at its best right here in Dallas at
Scott + Cooner this week. Wednesday, Maurizio Galante for Baleri Italia launched the most amazing collection I’ve seen, complete with models in matching dresses. This chair is a basic campaign style - on acid. Interlacing ribbons of fabric cascade off the seat, and bouquets of fabric calla lilies cascade off the back. Its crazy, beautiful, and comfortable.
Great Home In Fairview
So I hear from a super reputable source. Who also tells me you will need to “claw” off the wallpaper, which ought to be a cathartic experience. (But she says the views are to-die-for.) That reminds me — keep your hatchet under lock and key. Not that Halloween is around the corner, but I went a little nutso once in one of our homes after the master shower leaked for the third time. (To this day I look up to ceilings and expect to see a drip.) It was 11 pm at night, but I got out the hatchet and just whacked away at the ceiling determined to find the source of that water. Ended up taking out half the ceiling, and woke up my husband, who was a little afraid, I think, to meet me in the kitchen with a hatchet.
Ca. Wildfires
I’m blogging because we should be counting our blessings. We are so fortunate to have lovely homes intact — here is an email from a California friend near the widfires. I just cannot imagine leaving my home and all the memories intact. Why the Maytag man is coming (for the third time, I have to add) Monday. (Question: how long should a washer — a $1200 washer — last?)
From our dear friends, the Huyens, in southern Ca:
“Thanks for for all the phone calls regarding the fires in San Diego and checking up on us!
CNN might give up-to-date details of where the fires are heading (north and east), but I will give you specific update affecting our area:
We left town (went to Disneyland and stayed with relatives in Huntington Beach/Orange County) since Sunday. Though the fire did not get near our neighborhood, but the strong wind and smoke were heading our way. We did not take a chance with the kids being not comfortable with the air and locked up in the house with AC on, so we headed north.
The fires did get some of the homes in Rancho Santa Fe, but no further west than that to get to us. Many families/homes on the east side were not so fortunate. The fires started going north and east on Tuesday as the strong wind changed direction, and the heat subsided somewhat. By Wednesday, more help arrived to put out the fires which is good.
We returned home today and everything is fine in our area, except ashes are everywhere. We just need to wash everything down. In general, everyone was very calm around here with many well-run shelters. Schools and work were closed and we have relatives next to Disneyland, so we just relaxed with the kids.
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