USVI-On-Line

What have you done to bring STJ home with you????? What are the STJ reminders you have in your home?


When we decided to build our home...we designed and decorated our bathroom to feel like the outdoors bathroom at Gull Cottage (the first villa we rented)...... using tiles with embossed shells and the colors of sand, lamps and other pottery from Donald Schnell.... and since have added art by STT and STT artists there and throughout the house....on the cold, midwest days...our imagination can have us back in the USVI.......

Every year we go to Coconut Coast Studios. I have several of Elaine's prints hanging in my home. Some I have professional framed and others I have done myself. I really love her work. I have a beautiful one of Cruz Bay which Elaine has signed and dated for us. I never get tired of looking at it!!!

Great question! As we speak, we are renovating our bedroom at our beach house in new jersey to look like our favorite bedroom from Casa Del Sol. Our friend is doing the work and he lived on St. John for 9 years. The floor is mexican terra cotta and the bath is natural tumbled stone with glass accents. It's small so the whole room is the shower - it's very cool! We have new windows that are stained dark wood and we'll get a four post caribbean style king bed. We purchased some artwork on this past trip that we'll have framed. It looks awesome and it's not even done!

At home, we have artwork by Les Anderson that we love and we have the lizard mugs that we love drinking our Voodoo coffee from St. John Spice out of.

We really are St. John obsessed because I'm sure there are other things that I'm not even thinking of.

I've put two large framed photos from my last trip on my office wall

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I think I still have one coconut shampoo left from our trip to Caneel in 2004. You are so right, that is one evocative scent. I ended up buying more online from the supplier, whose name escapes me.

We have framed photos around, and also a large painting in the dining room. The wallpaper on my husband's laptop is a photo from Caneel. My office desktop is a view of Coral Bay from Orchid Knoll villa.

Ummmm, I have at LEAST one Caribbean thing in every room of my house. Do you guys think I have a problem? The last two rooms we painted now have Caribbean themes . Now, if I can just find a pelican picture for the bedroom....

rocks.
that's it.
lots of rocks.

I don't have much specifically "St. John", but my home office has a beachy/tropical feel. I have a couple of Jonna White prints and other beach scenes (ooh - one is a hammock at Caneel). Oh and lots and lots of flamingoes

Let's see....Schnell sconces inside and out, large Simonsen print framed and on the fireplace, framed trip photos throughout hanging on the wall. Oh, and one year we stayed at Peter Bay gatehouse and I loved the semi-circle deck railing. So, my deck has a semi-circle railing. Bummer though cause even on a clear night, I can't see Tortola. Ali~

We always bring home coffee (Kiss of the Jumbie) and other spices. We have brought home everything else from a large stained glass barracuda from schnell and a large stuffed lobster for my daughter.

I think the most interesting "souviner" we brought home was a lizard that decided to pack himself int he suitcase. Unfortunately he did not make the trip and I had lizard guts in my dirty clothes!

The coconut shampoo from Caneel is by Lady Primrose and they still offer it in the guest rooms. I just finished my little bottle that I brought home two weeks ago. Immediately went online to see how I could get more. Just love it.

I also got hooked on the shampoo supplied by Disney's Grand Floridian when we were there last summer. I bought a big bottle of that too. I think I have a problem.

My sweet Amy & I have several tourists in/out of the property all of the time.
It's a little exhausting, but cool, man.

Actually, I told her we should start a thread about our/my STJ obsession, and photos from home about it- guess you beat me to the punch!
Photos soon come!
Smiles-
MJ

I'll chime in that I'm a shampoo hoarder (sp?) as well. My 8 yr old would only shampoo with caneel shampoo for months after our last trip. I found some other coconut smelling shampoo as a replacement, but shweeeew, that was a close one!!!
On a side note, my favorite shampoo is from Parrot Cay in T&C. Very distinctive smell. The whole resort has that aroma. I tried to order it online but it's from England and by the time you pay the exchange rate and shipping on an already overpriced bottle, it's like $60 a bottle or something rediculous!! Okay, done venting.

When my spouse and I first went to St John, it was a much needed vacation and the first real vacation we had ever taken alone after 23 years. We had such a great time, the following summer he built a beach bar in our yard, in NE Ohio. I've redecorated a 150 year old farm house with more of a beach feel (yellows, blues and white) with overstuffed light colored furniture and have photos from St John intermingled on the walls with my grandchildren. Also add a Keep Left Drink Right bumper sticker on the pick up truck and my obsession is more than a little obvious. The bar in the yard is a blast even without the scenery. I know, my obsession is showing! (So is Jims, he just doesn't write about it!)