Make Yourself at Home

Why Didn't You Think of That?

Putting It Together

Design for Living

OUT AND ABOUT

We visited the Hartsdale Pet Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York - founded in 1896; it's the oldest pet cemetery in the country. While there we learned that gardening takes on a whole new meaning when it's for a memorial park. There are always things to be done in the park, no matter what the season - from decorating the graves to maintaining the trees, nothing is too good for these cherished companions. I helped decorate the grave of a pooch named Alka (from a family by the name of Seltzer), ran the leaf blower and helped Trevor Gill, the resident gardener clean up the grounds. It was very satisfying.

HELP ME BRINI!

What do you do when a friend or neighbor borrows your tools and doesnt return them? Try dipping the handles of your tools in brightly colored paint to identify them. That way you'll immediately know what tool is whose.

RANDOM THOUGHTS

The big white chair seen in the conservatory room was a bit of a snag for completing this episode. We had the chair reupholstered in the white fabric after I bought it at a Salvation Army. If you remember, it was used in several other episodes in different incarnations as well. For this one I had wanted a corner of the cushion embroidered with a green floral motif, so my friend Chad Evans, who did some of my clothing for the first season sent a piece of the fabric off to India to have the embroidery done. Julia from the art department was going to create a mock cushion cover when the piece returned. When my producer Julie got wind of this, she never let me live down the fact that something had been sent off to India, especially when the piece didn't arrive back until after the segment was shot. You'll see the embroidered panel worn as a skirt in the Colonial episode of the second season of the show.