Monthly Archives: May 2009

Year: 1950. Location: California. Headline: Homosexuality is a growing social problem. Check that year. 59 years later and yesterday’s supreme court ruling in California to ban same sex marriage could easily be a headline from a 50’s newspaper. This is the country that took us to the moon, developed the micro chip and voted for […]

Recently my husband told me that the radio took 38 years to reach 50 million users, television took 13 years, the internet 4 years and facebook 2 years. Spreading the word about your business or music or blogging about your life and interests is easier than it ever was and sometimes It feels like there […]

I recently designed a Grace Kelly inspired wedding cake and whilst browsing the internet I came across an article about MGM’s designer costume designer Helen Rose. I read that Helen had been Grace Kelly’s wedding dress designer. Helen Rose was hired by Twentieth century fox in 1942 to work on their musicals. By 1956 she […]

I just love the glamour of iconic weddings. Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier, Elvis and Priscilla and here, Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart. Married On May 21, 1945, their wedding and honeymoon took place at Malabar Farm in Lucas, Ohio. It was the country home of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis […]