I still need to paint the ceiling in my little home office because I can’t possibly live with the current color (cream). I started to paint it last night with a color I picked out solely because it was called “Burlap” and I had fantasies of burlap...
It all started with me cleaning out my art hutch. It was a smallish hutch with so much crap piled in it that things like ribbon and glue guns fell out when I opened the doors. The cute little hutch is in my cute little home office. Which I then decided needed to be...
It’s almost too easy to connect in our world of Evites, Facebook and Twitter. I love being in contact with my friends around the world, the kids away at college and all of my girlfriends but there is just no substitute for a handwritten note. I’m a hold...
If you’re like me you always have a project going on. Sometimes it’s a big project, like remodeling part of the house and sometimes it’s small, like going through old photos and putting them in albums. The weather is always a factor when I’m...
Starting January 1, 2012 we can no longer use plastic grocery bags in our hood. We have the option to purchase paper bags or bring our own re-usable. I totally support this movement toward improving our environment but of course I went to the grocery store yesterday...
If your kids are involved in any kind of team or club, chances are good that there will be a team party at some point. Once they get to high school, a lot of teams have weekly dinners the night before game day so all of the parents have an opportunity to feed the...
This is not a preachy post about giving out fresh granny smith apples from the organic farmer’s market instead of candy for Halloween. People who do that deserve to get TP’d. Halloween is an opportunity to be absolutely ridiculous, with your diet and your...
I posted a how-to article for fabric covered pumpkins a few weeks ago and a local Girl Scout Troop decided to try the project. We gave them fabric from our Juicy Blossoms collection and look at the fabulousness that happened! Girl Scout cookies, Thin Mints in...
Anyone else have a high schooler going to the big Homecoming dance? If you do, you know that taking pictures of the kids before the dance is almost as big a deal as the dance itself. Here are a couple of tips: 1. If you can take the pics outside, do it. The overall...
I’m a native California girl and I live for Summer. I can’t wait for it to arrive, and I’m depressed when it ends. I realize I sound like a whiny-ass, but it’s not my fault and it’s not fair that we can’t have sunshine and 78...
So my friend Linda brought me this totally hot pumpkin because she said the black and white fabric reminded her of me. I already loved it and then she told me she made it for me so now I love it even more. What an awesome hostess gift, teacher gift, or fall decoration...
I was inspired to have a Country Western themed party for my husband’s birthday because he loves country music and I would able to sport blue jeans and boots instead of a dress (ack) and high heels. Of course my husband wondered if I would be inviting hoes to...
I feel like summer just finally arrived and my kids are already back in school. I’m just not ready to hang up the beach towels and frosty drinks and pull out my winter boots yet, in fact the idea just totally pisses me off. I’m going to be dragged into...
While enjoying lunch at an outdoor cafe today, I began to feel nauseous. At first I thought it must be my sandwich, then I realized that it was the couple behind me talking baby talk. But there was no baby, it was a dog. You have probably seen my references to my...
We have a love/hate relationship with the first day of school at our house. We’re pretty pissed that summer is over and homework is starting. But it’s always a little exciting to see which teachers the kids got (the scary science bitch from hell, or the...
I can’t believe it’s already time for the kids to go back to school. On the one hand, WOOHOO!!!!! On the other, we haven’t fit in every fun thing I wanted to do as a family this summer. So last weekend I had a summer fun bonanza and did things...
We are really excited about our new stationery partner, Expressionery.com. They are carrying our designs in easy-to-customize invitations, notecards and calendars that can be personalized. So check them out if you’re hosting a party this summer. Or if you are...
For those of us lucky enough to be near a beach, a good chair is a must. I’m willing to nap on a beach towel in the sand under certain circumstances but I definitely don’t want to read my book or have a sandwich anywhere near a path where wild children and...
4th of July barbeques are an American tradition and a great day to celebrate our freedom and appreciate our friends. The color scheme is always gonna be red, white and blue but maybe this year you could get even more traditional and go back in time with your...
Someone recently told me that often a woman’s home is decorated in the colors that she prefers to wear. I had to respectfully disagree. My home is in earthtones, comfy colors that don’t scream at me when I get home from the studio. My wardrobe, on the...
I don’t know about other people, but I find that I need my own “spot” to relax in. I have a chair in a corner in the family room, next to a sunny window. It’s got a comfy ottoman so I can sit and read or even grab a 10 minute power nap in it....
I’m loving the mango-peach-coral tones that I see everywhere right now. They are positively delicious, makes me wanna dress like a fruit salad, I actually went out of the house in a coral tank top with a tangerine cardigan last week. I did not wear hot pink or...
I’m redefining “hot flash.” Instead of a sweaty, feverish, hormonal attack that drives an otherwise normal woman to strip off all her clothes and fan herself with whatever is closest with a crazed look in her eyes, it’s just going to be News...
Cruising through Times Square at night feels a little like being shrunken down to shot glass size and dropped in a pinball machine. The experience is total information overload. Between trying to see every crazy lit up sign and taking pics while protecting your wallet...
We expected to see some seriously high fashion while in NY but what a great surprise to find a runway right in the middle of the National Stationery Show and Surtex. These fabulous dresses are made from – are you ready for this? – PAPER! Various designers...
