Oh My! Tonight is the {Oh Yes!} party! Oh, how I can’t wait! {okay, you get the idea…} I have eleven fantastic products that I love and can’t wait to show you! And I’m starting number one EARLY. Whitney of Whisker Graphics *bumped into* my blog a while back, and after a few emails, we realized we live quite close to each other and have chatted quite a bit since. I have shared her stationary and etsy shop on a previous post, but I cannot *GUSH* enough about this wonderful product that she has: PRINTABLE fortune cookie invitations. Oh-so-brilliant! {You [...]

Yep, another friend having a baby. Fun for me because I got to do another round of cute baby shower invitations. I’m planning the shower with a friend, and couldn’t help but use a graphic of an umbrella {Not that it hasn’t been done before, but I thought it would be fun}. I drew an outline of an umbrella in Photoshop, and purchased different patterns from istockphoto to place in each part of the umbrella. The shower’s guest of honor, Nicki, is a great quilter and scrapbooker, so I knew this would capture her style. Plus who doesn’t like the [...]

My friend and I are throwing a baby shower for our friend Shannon. We decided on a little birdie theme for her baby boy. After having seen these adorable invitations from Jordan Ferney, I HAD to make them. These are the birdie invitations I made: Since it was birdie themed, my sister, mom and I came up with these little wording changes: Please help us get {mother}’s nest ready, baby {last name} is ready to hatch! -and- A little birdie told us she was registered at… I used: All white jordan almonds for the filler candy because they look like [...]

My sister, decorative painter and interior designer, was featured in this month’s issue of Sunset Magazine. In the article, she helps Sunset’s editor, Allison Arieff, choose a wall color for her dining room. Allison’s sister is daring with color and picks palettes on a whim and it always turns out great. Allison has had bad luck with colors, but was ready to take the plunge. Here is an exerpt from the article: So what does Kaye suggest? Well, it’s somewhat ironic, really, because in this case, the color consultant’s cure-all is the very antithesis of color. “You have a lot [...]

Picking a wall color seems to stump everybody. I get asked to pick wall colors frequently and I always use the same logic to pick the right wall color to suit a client/friend/family member. Unless it’s a brand new room, I don’t pick any random color in a deck. It has to make sense. I will look around the space, and find things that the homeowner is most fond of that has patterns or colors that they feel signify them and the feel of their home. This is usually a pillow, painting, rug or other piece of art. From there, [...]

Well, thanks Christine for asking! Sometimes painting lines can be tricky on walls, especially on a heavily textured wall, but it doesn’t have to be. You will have to forgive the terrible pictures, but hopefully you will get the idea. Here is the step-by-step process for painting your own panels. 1. Choose how large you want your border to be around your panels. I chose 4 inches, and my sister chose 5. I took the smallest wall that I had in the room, and made the border as large as possible without making the panel look funny in the room. [...]