Time to come home

We have been on vacation for two weeks. It is time to come home. Our family has enjoyed our time away and we are ready to come back to Ft. Lauderdale. We miss our puppy, our friends, our home and our church. I do want to give you a fish update. I wrote in my last blog about our beach house here in Ft. Myers and the tacky decor. You know as a designer, it is hard for me to not comment on certain unpardonable design mistakes. I mentioned that our rental home had been decorated in a fish motif, well, we counted them! I am happy to announce that after looking in every room in this three story home, we recorded 1,043 fish. Time to come home; no fish at my house.

Beach house tacky

Our family is in Ft. Myers celebrating my in-laws 50th anniversary. We arrived yesterday and I have had 24 hours to absorb the interior decor of our rental beach house. Let me tell you what I have learned. Sometimes you CAN have too many fish decorations. We are going to play a game later tonight to see just how many fish the kids can count. The first to get to 200 wins a prize.

As a set designer, I am reminded that it is easy to go overboard with a series theme. If your theme is "sheep and shepherd", for example, maybe 35 sheep on stage is alittle excessive. Less is best in most cases, or atleast be subtle. I think this decorator should have scaled it down a bit. Maybe I should hook them up with some design advice.

Stay tuned! Tomorrow we are talking lighthouses.