Oh autumn, you’re so seductive. With your crisp mornings, alluring colors, turning leaves, and pumpkin everything, you entice us every time! I write this post as I start my afternoon ritual of lighting a three wick pumpkin vanilla spice candle to fill the air with its scent. :) Soon there will be an abundance of…
Friends, how are you? Well, I hope! I’m knee deep in a massive project, one I’m hoping to launch next month, so I’m working busily behind the scenes. It’s a project I’ve dreamed of finishing all year, and I can’t wait to share it with you. Travel and family obligations slowed my progress earlier this…
I’ve painted walls and furniture black, and installed black (and white) wallpaper, and bought black furniture, and used black hardware on cabinets, but I’ve never considered a black tile backsplash, until now. A tile backsplash is far more permanent than wallpaper or paint which is why I’ve hesitated, I mean, it’s stuck to the wall…
Hello! This weekend is a relaxing one for me, the kids are back in school so I’ve settled into my routine. The weather is still so warm so I’m off to a barbeque to hangout with some old friends today, and tomorrow I’ve got a date with a to do list I’ve been neglecting. Hope…
My friends, I’ve arrived! Today I’m in Cusco, Peru wandering around this old city, and tomorrow I’m attending a wedding as a guest of one of my dearest friends in a magnificent old hotel. I’ll be sharing scenes in my stories on Instagram! How exciting to be in a new country tasting the food, seeing…
I’m really enjoying the last month of summer but always looking ahead to the next season. Entering fall, richer colors and jewel tones return to our attention: those deep greens, blues, wine and amethyst hues. In a library space I’m pulling together (slowly) I’m waffling between a deep green and a deep blue and these…
*This project brought to you in partnership with Arrow Fastener™ tools. It’s garden season! I don’t plant a big garden every year, usually just a few tomato plants, some green beans, maybe some squash and that’s about it. I do love having home grown tomatoes, especially cherry ones, they’re like candy to me and once…
Hello friends, how was you June? Mine was a little extra lazy as June should be, right? ;) Today I’m finishing up a garden DIY project that I’ll be sharing soon, it’s one of those kinds of projects where you have to wait for your vines to grow so you can photograph it. :) Fellow…
The Algarve is the southern region of Portugal, famous for its beautiful coastline on the Atlantic Ocean, and I spent four days exploring it in late April of this year. We were really fortunate with the weather, it was perfect sunshine in the 70s, all the more reason I’m an advocate for traveling to Europe…
It was a slow week on the blog, I needed to take some time off and focus on a few things behind the scenes. This year is flying by and I haven’t achieved certain goals that I set out to do in the beginning of the year, so I took a few days to get…
I finished a fun little DIY project over the weekend. It’s been driving me crazy that I didn’t have a place to hang my backpack, hoodie, and hat each day, so I built a unique solution! Let me introduce you to a hat + coat rack I pieced together, painted, and hung behind the front…
Hawaii is a magical place that fills the soul and has healing properties. Every time I visit, I return with a little more aloha in my heart. Back in March, Matt and I took our teens on a vacation to the Big Island of Hawaii. I didn’t have any input in the details of this…
*in partnership with Lowe’s Over the weekend I finished up a porch refresh for a great friend of mine. Naomi and I met five years ago in a fitness class, she is a single mom who works full time to support her family. She has two kids in elementary school and no spare time to…
Happy weekend friends! I’ve been spending this week in Portugal, tasting the food and seeing the sights of small towns in the Algarve, and the capital city of Lisbon. Portugal is *filled* with inspiration, check out my Insta stories today with pictures of tile on the buildings around Lisbon and at the Tile Museum. Today…