A Designer's Thanks

Welcome into my favorite time of year, from Thanksgiving through the Holidays, my beloved Christmas and the New Year's Celebration!



I think it starts out with lots of thanks being given for all our blessings whatever they are this year. That has to be coupled with delicious home cooked meals of a grand nature with lots of left-overs. It then proceeds onto giving thanks to a loving creator for our lives, our relationships, then giving our time and gifts during the holidays and sharing our presence with family, friends (I said presence, not necessarily presents!) It culminates with a celebration of the New Year which ushers in new ideas, plans and goals! November and December are recap months for the whole year, remembering the positives, giving thanks for same, sharing with others, and then getting back on the horse for a new and celebratory ride into 2011.




REMEMBERING: Remember what some of your rooms looked like before we designed them anew? Here are just a few....you'll recognize yours if it's here on this post. If it's not, look for it in another post soon. What a great time we had working on these together. I have great design memories of all kinds from way back in the SF Bay Area, FLA and NC. I only wish I had photos of every before and after. Remember your accomplishments and fun times. It's called cumulative joy!




THANKING: I am ever so thankful to be able to even do this blog! Who thought I could take the time to do a blog? But in those slower months, it allowed me to use my creative writing talent to give back knowledge, new design info and these photos for your enjoyment. I look forward to each post. My most important thank you? Of course always health & prosperity, your client projects, the teamwork support from my husband Chuck and my feline design assistant ... well, she's really still in training.




FEEDING: Spiritual feeding goes without saying and is the most important but we'll focus on cooking for a minute. I love to cook new meals ... it's a very creative process. The combinations of healthy ingredients, flavors, herbs and spices are important for the meal's success. Desserts are far and few between for me these days, so I choose them carefully ... from a simple dark chocolate bar with raspberry to tiramisu, a carmelized flan to a strawberry shortcake with whipped cream. A good friend of mine reminded me that "stressed" spelled backwards is "desserts" spelled forwards. So now we all know why we're driven to binge on something sweet! In my design projects, the dessert would be the last phase which is the "spice up the room" Phase III Accessories and Artwork. The meal just isn't complete without the sweet, and that pertains to your designs too! So let's finish up some of that accessorizing soon. It will make a big difference on the "oohs and ahhhs" you hear and feel yourself.




GIVING, SHARING: Seems these are in a perfect circle. Giving as much of your help, ideas, encouragement and knowledge is always a good thing to share with others. If we didn't have a monetary system in place in order to survive and prosper and if commerce all happened in a barter type society; would you then choose the same job you have now? If the answer is yes, then you must love what you do. If you love what you do, that pours more energy into your life and profession/practice to succeed. Your Gifts: 1) practice them 2) share them, and 3) they give back to you again to use!





DREAMING: This one is my specialty. I am a dreamer mostly...I always shoot for the creative stars at first. That is what starts the project off on the right foot and creates the unique concept and blueprint for the job, then tying together the details all the way through. But my practical and organized side brings the project back into line with the reality of function and budget! Thank goodness for a balanced left and right brain. Dreaming is positive creativity and planning assures it's positive reality. What's new for you in 2011?




CELEBRATE: Acknowledging a fresh new beginning is exhilarating and something worth celebrating. How about a brand new year, twelve months full? We all love new starts.




TAKE A RIDE: Riding the rollercoaster of life, ups, downs and sideways. It's "all good" is a saying of one of my old friends and what I like to say is "enjoy the ride", since most of us did dream about it and planned most of it anyway, driven by a lot of heart desires and divine guidance. Just think how great the ride would be if we really "visually designed it all" ahead of time for the best outcome and result, just as my design projects are handled? SOME AWE in that statement! Celebrate Design.



THANK YOU,

Designer4You4Ever

Pamela Farnsworth

AVALLON DESIGN
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Pamela is an IIDA Professional Interior Designer in Northern CA. Her most current projects are in the Sacramento area, Roseville, Granite Bay, Rocklin, Lincoln, El Dorado Hills, Lake Tahoe, Truckee, Napa Valley and Sonoma. Having had a showroom for 16 years in the SF Bay Area in Woodside and Portola Valley, Pam still travels for clientele as requested from Marin down to Carmel. Pam has also owned a design gallery in North Carolina for 9 years, a design office in Arizona for 4 years and worked in the states of Florida, Texas, Virginia andSouth Carolina, designing custom residences, vacation homes, luxury model homes, country clubs and reception/sales centers for golf developments.



"I didn't choose this career...it chose me when I first moved to California. It lit a fire inside me that has been burning now for over 30 years and thankfully, it is a career that moves and changes with me. Since there are so many branches of design within our industry, it allows me to continually learn new information to apply to my projects. My clients are all unique and their styles are as well. Reaching our design goals for their living environment is paramount, while creating a sound enjoyable design journey for them along the way. We become a design team. With design in mind and desire at heart, we transform spaces into living art."

CELEBRATE DESIGN!