Sandy Roth - August’s BSSF Home and Garden features Vice-President Sandy Roth’s home. Sandy was born right here in Miami at Jackson Memorila Hospital. Sandy has a five bedroom home built on a little more than a full acre corner lot near the Falls. The Home has been owned by her family for 40 years. Sandy is descended from White Russians, Scottish English and Columbian / Costa Ricans.

Today Sandy runs her own business, Sandyscapes. Before that she worked for 13 years in mens apparel and then in Real Estate. Sandy has always been artistically inclined and one day she was asked to make a bid for landscaping and decorating a home. She won the bid and Sandyscapes was born.

I asked her why Sandyscapes and she said “well like landscapes but Sandyscapes”. I didn’t understand at first but as I got to see the home and the garden I began to understand. Sandy has a style that I can only describe as Sandy; lots of mosaics she makes herself, lots of collections of similar thing arranged in clusters, faux finished walls, bird baths, statues and she likes to make special places. Sandy says she likes to tell stories with her Sandyscapes.

Sandy has a gratitude garden which I think exemplifies not just her style but her “path”. This garden is a small part of her total space but that doesn’t reflect it’s importance. Near her front door but partitioned from the house by plants Sandy has made a bench of coral rock cemented together that is covered with a rustic layer of cement incrusted with multicolored beads. Here Sandy goes to be grateful and recite a mantra that roughly goes something like – “I thank you God for the beauty that surrounds me. I am grateful for the opportunities now and in the future to create and turn yards into gardens and houses into homes and make people happy.”

At a catechism I was once taught by a Catholic Father that “You will never meet a grateful bitch.” This isn’t just a joke it’s a tautology of how a person in the state of gratefulness in incapable of being a complainer (bitch).

That is Sandy Roth in brief. I hope these images both in the advisory and on our web page capture this spirit.

Also please take a look at the different photographs on the web as well as the ones I have include here in the advisory of Sandy at different ages. There is a wonderful song by a band called Five for Fighting named 100 years. After interviewing her I was listing to the song and the two merge so that I was struck with the thought that it is so beautiful to grow older. Maybe you’ll see it too.

I hope these images both in the advisory and on our web page capture this spirit.

PS Did I mention Sandy is into yoga?

Namaste’ is a Sanskrit word Sandy has written on her Ford. It is both a greeting and a farewell that means I recognize the soul within you – the real you. Or I honor the divine in you. (It’s really hard to translate ontological words from other languages, let alone explain them).

PSS Ms Roth stays real busy doing about fifteen jobs a month.