Mother’s Day’s Ideas (x4)

1. Time with Mom: Swiss Avenue Historic District Mother’s Day Home & Garden Tour, May 10 and 11. Promote historic preservation and citizen involvement while securing the title of best child. $15 in advance, $20 at the door.
2. Sweets with Mom: Cakes from La Duni Latin Café are now available online with a 5 percent discount. Order favorites such as the famed Quatro Leches Cake, and save yourself half the calories by splitting it con tu mama.
3. Flowers for Mom: See No. 2. La Duni now offers signature arrangements (at left) of Amazon roses, tulips, lilies, and orchids online. With 72 hours notice and a few clicks, La Duni’s signature arrangements will be made to order at $20 and up.
4. Best choice: All the above.

What Can’t Eve Reid Do?

Eve Reid and daughter Claire, lounging at home, were on our first cover. That was eight years ago and the image still holds up as one of our best, don’t you think? Since then, she married Sotheby’s chairman Warren Weitman, bought an apartment in New York, and as an investment, purchased this fantastic example of 60s modernism by architect Glenn Galaway, who trained with Philip Johnson. Galaway designed this house for himself and it stayed in the family until Eve and Warren bought it last year. It’s a time capsule of design from the era, with the original paint, flooring and cabinetry. The kitchen hasn’t been touched. Eve put some money into it — shoring it up basically by fixing the roof and a few other necessary improvements. They located the original blue prints and documented it on paper and in photography. Read all the mod details in our November Architects’ home issue.

The Sod Man Cometh

I like to do home projects, I just do. However, what I don’t like is probing accusatory questions from the Trophy Husband, such as, “Did you bite off more than you can chew this time? How much was your copay at the emergency room?” You know, stuff like that.

Don’t tell him, but…this time I did bite off more than I can chew.

I was feeling froggy last week, all a twitter about spring. I was going here, and there, and everywhere, choosing colorful annuals to punctuate my garden.

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