There are lots and lots of new things at Annie Mame including a pristine 1940′s art deco style, bake lite, coffee service, just beautiful. Just plug it in and it’s as if Auntie Mame herself is serving. I found the urn and creamer and sugar and platter and flipped over it. It has never been [...]

This event on Sunday, May 20th from 1 to 4 pm is going to be awesome! It will be creative and fun and the outside of Venetucci Home in Westbrook, Connecticut will be wrapped in scenes of Paris including The Eiffel Tower, L’Arc du Triumph, Versailles, sketched in black on a pink background. This event [...]

Being a journalist on constant deadline, you always need a watch, yes, I know the iphone has the time right there, but i’m used to telling time on my wrist and sometimes you just need that instant glance. So I found this stretchable safety pin watch, yes safety pins, and I am wearing it all [...]

Everyday, I mean everyday the seaside Venetucci Home is changing and that is why I love being on the ground floor of what Tony Venetucci is creating in Westbrook, Connecticut. Not only is there a furniture store and a gourmet market and a Parisian-style boutique hall in which I have Annie Mame, but now “the [...]

Well this was fun, Annie Mame and Allusions Salon and Boutique became a recording studio for a Sunday afternoon. Yep, we were invaded by the Real Life Survival Guide gang headed by long time former WPLR radio host Bruce Barber. The deal is Bruce runs around putting all kinds of people together in all kinds [...]

The great thing about having a boutique mate is that the products expand and in this case Annie Mame and Allusions Salon and Boutique is becoming a little department store. Francine Piscitelli has wonderful clothing. One of the lines that Francine is carrying is Velvet, some of you may be familiar with that line as [...]

This is just so fun really. I went to the opening of “Mame” at Goodspeed Musicals on Friday night, April 20th and was delighted by the show. Of course I would be loving everything about the character of Auntie Mame, because that’s the personality and the era (1920′s-30′s) of my shop Annie Mame. Following this [...]

I can’t believe these gorgeous glitter deco hand-stenciled canvas panels are up in Annie Mame. I have to thank Ceasar at Venetucci home for his amazing help today in getting these up. Wait until you see these close up. I discovered this artist, Cynthia Davis at the Festival of Trees show house in Fairfield over [...]

A video of Annie Mame’s opening was shot by a friend, Stephen Krauchick of “Doing It Local” and I just want to make sure to thank Stephen for doing this, it was very kind and I will always look back on this fondly. Thank you too to Kristen Cusato for her reporting skills, hmmmm wonder [...]

I’ve been stocking the shelves in “Annie Mame” really since the first of 2012 knowing the Grand Opening of all the little boutiques at Ventucci Home in Westbrook, Connecticut would be on April 1st What I have found is that I am building an old fashioned department store, that’s something many of the newest generation [...]

My little vintage boutique is in Westbrook, Connecticut, a town that was settled all the way back in 1635, imagine that? You’ll find my place on Long Island sound inside Venetucci Home, just a touch past is Brewer Pilot’s Point Marina, one of the biggest marina’s in New England with nearly 900 slips. As you [...]

It’s the darnedest thing this cute birthday candelabra, I loved it and got it for the boutique but didn’t know if anyone else would love it. Turns out it’s flying out the door. I put one of the candelabra’s on top of a cake that I bought off ETSY and glittered the candles and voila [...]

In the mail today I got a little bit of Christmas. Since I love that time of year, that’s fine by me. My brother told me about these beautiful handmade safety pin crystal trees, that’s right safety pins, being made by a group of women in Tennessee, so I sent for one and it is [...]

These adorable dolls are all set to be loved by any little girl. My Grammy Waggoner (Anna, for whom I am named) used to make rag dolls with her sisters and I had one very much like this with yarn hair that I dragged around forever and is still in my closet today. I called [...]