Elegant Decorating

M-J's Miscellany

Make a Wreath

Posted on December 12, 2011 at 10:05 AM

Lowe's Home Improvement has a lot of ideas for making elegant Christmas wreaths with ordinary things--click here for photos and instructions. Pictured above is a wreath made from wrapping-paper scraps.

A trio of Auguste Renoir roses from my garden sit in green glass vases on the kitchen windowsill. (When does a Jalapeño Tabasco bottle become a vase? When it has an elegant rose in it.) ©M-J de Mesterton

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:45 AM

The Swing, by Innovative Rococo Painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard

of the French Enlightenment Period

Circa 1767

A Brief Biography of Jean-Honoré Fragonard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Perrin Stein

M-J's Rock and Gem Painting Tops Google Results

Posted on January 13, 2010 at 6:18 PM

In a search for color paintings on Google...M-J de Mesterton's big rock-and-gem painting, "Color-Field" topped the list today, and showed up as a large photo on the web results page.