So I realize I might be jumping the gun a little bit with this Spring Bloom Palette, but I just couldn’t resist. My theme on the blog this month is “Spring Refresh” and when I saw this picture, it seemed to fit perfectly. I’ve also realized that I really like cherry blossoms, because as I was going through my archives, I found two other similar palettes. Oh well, you can’t have too much of a good thing, especially if it’s color! It doesn’t feel much like spring yet, but this is the time of year that I start longing for warmer weather, more sunlight, and greener trees. Oh, and summer… Keep Reading
Ancient Pink Plaster Palette
I’ve been enamored with all things pink since writing last week’s DIY Pink Himalayan Salt Scrub post. I’m not usually a girly girl, and my favorite color has never been pink (it’s green) but something about this salmony pink color has grabbed my attention lately. I think what I loved about the pink Himalayan salt is the variation in color, and that’s what I love about today’s palette as well. As much as I have a thing for painted front doors, I also have this thing about layered plaster on old walls. I think there must be so much history covered with each layer of color. If these walls could… Keep Reading
Blue Door Palette
I love front doors. Like the wrapping on a gift box, they are full of possibilities. What’s inside? Do the people living there have a cozy home? Does the personality of their front door reflect the personality of the inside of their home? Is it weird that I think of these things while looking at a door? I was re-watching Love Actually again recently, and realized that one of my favorite characters is actually a door. There’s a brief moment when Natalie is standing in front of the Prime Minister’s door at 10 Downing Street as it slowly swings open. It’s got this beautiful deep black gloss that you just… Keep Reading
Farmhouse Christmas Palette
I love everything about the winter, except the cold. I love the holidays, the merriment, the kids being out of school (at least for the first few days). I love shopping for Christmas gifts and making the house look festive. And I love the smells. Candles burning, cookies baking, fresh pine trees. I love it all, but every year I keep finding myself wanting to simplify. It’s so easy to get caught up in the rat race of holiday preparations and completely miss the simple beauty of the season. That’s what I loved about this photo when I saw it. It’s a simple subject matter, and a very restrained palette…. Keep Reading
Pumpkin Palette
Pumpkin Palette It’s Fall y’all! We are deep into planning Halloween costumes, decorating with pumpkins, and buying candy. And by “buying candy” I mean buying bags of candy for the trick-or-treaters, which will be eaten by us in the next week, and then going out and buying more candy to actually give the trick-or-treaters. Candy corn should not be made available for purchase before October 29th, as it invariably signals the official beginning of my end-of-the-year diet fail. But I digress. My kids asked for one thing this year – tiny pumpkins. They fall in love with them every time we set foot in a grocery store. And I can’t… Keep Reading
Creating Paint Pouring Art for the $100 Room Challenge
Have you heard of paint pouring? Maybe you’ve seen the mesmerizing Youtube videos of people pouring paint onto canvas and making amazing creations? I’ve been captivated by the idea for a while, so when I started thinking of how to decorate our office/guest room for the $100 Room Challenge, I knew I wanted to give it a try. If you haven’t yet read last week’s post, check it out first to see where this room started, and where it’s going, as well as read all about the $100 Room Challenge and how it works. My main complaint about this office is that it’s a little drab and boring, so I… Keep Reading
Lilac Palette
Lilac Love I have this thing with Lilacs. I love them, but they don’t love me back. It’s unrequited Lilac Love. It may not be anything personal since most all plants don’t love me back. That might be because they sense they’re not safe in my presence. I do have a black thumb, but I have the best of green thumb intentions. In our last house, we had a beautiful lilac bush near a window on the back of our living room. When we needed to add a concrete patio there, we decided to try to save the lilac by digging it up and moving it to a safe location…. Keep Reading
Pretty Pink Palette
Some days you just need to send yourself a bouquet of flowers. I love flowers of all kinds, even weeds. I especially love the flowers that I don’t have to take care of. (Never give me a living plant as a symbol of our friendship. I will let it die and it’ll be awkward for our relationship. However I’m happy to accept gifts of cut flowers since everyone knows they’ve got one root in the grave already, so I bear no responsibility.) Pretty Pink Palette Sometimes with art and design, we get all serious and esoteric about form, function, and the role of existential philosophy in post-humanistic expression. Yeah that… Keep Reading
Eggshell Palette
I love Easter Eggs. I love the pretty colors, the happy messes, even the smell of vinegar from the dye. That’s probably an indication of how much I love Easter, because usually I hate the smell of vinegar. And I don’t normally get excited when my kids ask to make anything messy at the kitchen table. (True confession.) Easter is my favorite holiday. Really, I love all holidays, but Easter is the best. And not just because of deviled eggs. (Odd that we celebrate the day of heaven’s redemption with a snack named after the devil, but that’s a question for another day.) I love Easter for what it means…. Keep Reading
Reflecting Pool Palette
In a season full of running around, shopping, decorating, and baking, I thought we could all use a little calm in our lives. What, you’re already done with all your holiday shopping? You’ve made your cookies for the cookie exchange? Your handmade pinterest-worthy teacher gifts are finished and wrapped? Well, OK then, maybe it’s just me. I could definitely use some calm in my life, so I’m finding it and sharing it with you. When I stumbled across this photo on one of my favorite Instagram feeds, @PunkRockFoto, it felt like a breath of fresh air. She perfectly captured the movement of the water that feels so calming, and the… Keep Reading