Hey everyone, hope you all had a great weekend! I’m finally feeling caught up after all that traveling, and today wanted to share a technique with you on creating inspiration boards by layering furnishings on top of one another for better visualizing spaces. For years, I had admired the Photoshop skills of others and especially…
One of the things I’m looking forward to most in summer is lingering outside with friends and family on a warm evening while we sip beverages, barbeque, and enjoy the cool breezes that blow through the yard. I’m sure you feel the same about your summer evenings too! I invited my friend and fellow blogger…
Hey all, I had a crazy cool weekend and a mini getaway to the southern part of my state. For anyone who hasn’t visited California yet, the South and the North are like night and day. I don’t get down south as often as I like to, but it’s such a fun place to visit. …
You all know I love a great DIY project, and for Mother’s Day it’s so nice to take the time to make a Mom feel special with something handmade (or semi handmade). Here are some ideas I’ve found around the web that I absolutely love and they all make wonderful creative gifts for Mother’s Day. …
I’m sitting at my desk realizing there are a lot of people to thank this week, people who have picked me for some lovely features and so I want to say it out loud right here. Thank you to Natural Home & Garden magazine for featuring the story of our cabana in their May/June edition!…
Hey there, hope you had a great weekend! We did some organizing and gardening and had a big birthday party for both the kids at the local park – it was a lot of fun and also relaxing too! I can feel summer coming with the warmer weather and everything in bloom, and we’re loving…
Hi everyone, happy weekend to you all! Last night I was in Roseville and I gave a presentation for Home Depot in partnership with their resident garden expert Skip. He taught us all a few new things about container gardening, and I chimed in the creative side, sharing some ideas on how to spruce up…
One of my absolute favorite topics on earth is kitchen renovation, and even though we finished our own several years ago, it’s still one subject I never get tired of. Today l’d like to welcome fellow home renovation lover and blogger Liz from It’s Great to Be Home on the subject of choosing kitchen cabinetry…
Okay friends, time for the project breakdown on the playroom reveal earlier this week. I’ll tackle the four projects from easiest to most challenging, here we go! The Play Table: After shopping around online and finding only plastic tables in my budget, I spied this ad on Craigslist the weekend before the install and literally…
Hi everyone, I want to say thanks for all the kind compliments on the kids playroom makeover, we appreciate your support so much!! It’s time to say hello to May and so long to April so here’s a roundup of the top ten not to miss articles from last month! 1. Organized Paints for the…
Hi all, it’s time to share what we accomplished during our weekend at the Alma Project, and I’m so excited about this space! We started with this room which is dedicated to the kids but was acting more like a storage space than a playroom, and in need of practical kid friendly solutions. Over the…
Hello all, hope you enjoyed your weekend! Like we’ve been planning for months, we spent ours at our house we adopted this year, transforming the playroom and doing a lot of other painting and sprucing too. I’ve mentioned before that this project is near and dear to our hearts, it’s the opportunity to give back…
Hey there everyone, time for another roundup of some inspiring projects gathered up from all around the blogosphere, enjoy these links and projects on this lovely Sunday! Dark and dramatic was the choice in this kitchen cabinet makeover by Decorating Cents, and what a smart choice it was, especially with that beautiful backsplash. Speaking…
Greetings all and happy weekend! I’ll be spending the next three days at our Alma Project house sprucing up a few rooms, it’s a lot of work but I can’t wait to get it all done with the help of a small crew of volunteers! Also, next week I’m co-teaching a gardening workshop in partnership…