Sleeping Beauties: Newborns in Dreamland

I was looking through a magazine this week and was immediately drawn to the ad for the new photography book by Tracy Raver and Kelly Ryden.  Sleeping Beauties: Newborns in Dreamland was just released this April.  These Nebraskan sisters have made a name for themselves taking adorable snoozing shots of infants that everyone would love.  You must visit their blog as well.  The precious photos go on and on!

{photos via here}

DIY - Coffee Table Book

If you can snap a picture, then you can easily navigate this easy to use site, which helps you create a gorgeous, professional looking photo book.  Choose from 10 book styles and more than 200 layouts, then just drag and drop images into the page templates.  The software is free at My Publisher.

Capture love stories, vacations, babies, or families and have a gift forever.  Go to Mypublisher.com for all the details!

{photos via Mypublisher.com}

Have a Nice Weekend

Things have been so busy and hectic these last two weeks, and I hope you can relax over the weekend.

One of my favorite gifts this year was a beautiful, autographed copy of the book, Tablescapes Setting the Table with Style by Kimberly Schlegel Whitman.  The photographs are beautiful and she has amazing tasted in all settings.  The photo above is from her book.  I am sure I will be sharing many more.  It is available at Amazon.com.

Dazzling New Design Books

Wonderful Christmas gifts or treat for yourself.

1.  Style and Substance:  the Best of Elle Decor (Filipacchi, November 2009, $45)  Elle Decor magazines chic editor Margaret Russell has put together some of the most glamorous rooms that have run in the past 20 years inn Elle Decor to make one chic book.

2.  Glamour:  Making it Modern (Filipacchi, May 2009, $40)   This books makes modern glamour more accessible, less daunting, relaxed and effortless... just as true glamour should be.

3.  Sister Parish Design: on Decorating ( St. Martin's Press, November $35)  Sister championed and invented American decor ... shabby chic before it was chic.  

4.  Jacques Grange Interiors  ( Flammarion, September 2009, $75)  This book goes where we all wish we could venture.   His clients include Valentino, YSL, Princess Caroline of Monaco.  We can gaze at Grange's rococo-meets-Marrakech-meets-North African interiors.

(check out Amazon.com for these books and many more gift ideas)