More color inspiration for the next makeover–this room is the den.  I’ll be painting the fireplace and old dark paneling white to give the room a fresh clean and updated look.   The curtains, cornice, pillows will be made from the fabric you see here and the old sofa will be slip-covered in a neutral beige. 

 Sorry old carpet–I’m bringin’ in some blue!  This awesome rug from Sawgrass Mills will replace the dated gold carpet along with some new wood flooring and  that big honkin’ recliner has to go.  There some great furniture pieces I’ll be making over too.  ( more photos later)  stay tuned for the big reveal!

Let me know if you like the color combos!

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Today’s Duetica Design is about as easy as can be.  But the key word  (or lettering) here is CUSTOMIZATION with just a few key strokes!   Duetica has made monograming so easy with all their fun and elegant font styles.   This font is called Piper- GOO but look at the other style you can mix and match with the Piper font.

With so many fonts styles to choose from, it makes my job as a designer pretty easy to customize a look!  Keep it simple or add a swirl here or there—it totally up to you! 

Stay Inspired!

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Many people often ask me where I get my color inspirations from and honestly it’s different every time.  You see, I get inspired by color itself!  And when I found this thrift store find—an original water color by artist Margaret Hoybach from the early 70′s—I knew this would be my color guide for my next big makeover.

Yep, I’m gearing up to remake a late 60′s home that needs a lot of color inspiration!

The fun part of this project is also one of the more difficult in the design process.  When you’re working with specific colors, the fabric shops don’t always have what exactly what you need. 

However, after shopping around 3 fabric stores, I hit the jack pot!  This water color painting, and five fabric choices will be used to remake a guest bedroom right off of the den.  The walls will be painted white with one blue accent wall to frame the artwork.  Lots of sewing on this project will be needed.  I”ll be making drapes, pillows and hand decorating lampshades but I’m really looking forward to this project.  In about a month or two from now, I’ll be showing you the before and after shots. 

PAINTED FURNITURE: 

I’ll probably combine both the blue and green paint onto furniture and other accessories as well and maybe–just maybe I’ll sneak in a little bit of yellow too.

Be sure to come back and visit my blog again  to see room # 2 of this 9 room color inspired design project!

Stay Inspired

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Three Geni’s in a bottle say Live Love Laugh!  This is one of my favorite photos displayed in a candy jar and it says  so many words!

With that “said”  I’m pleased to announce that I’m part of the Duetica Design Team.  Duetica you say?  Yes, Duetica—it’s a delicious new FONT system that allows you to say it in so many way!  The font system is very easy to use but what I LOVE about it is that you can alter the fonts with all sorts of swirls or not!

Here’s just one example of how you can alter Duetica’s font. This one is Mandolyn 1 but you can see how you can vary the look to customize everything from scrapbook pages, party favors, home decor, and so much more!  Oh and there are plenty of other style choose from too… From funky to fancy!

So let the party begin!  This system is so easy and fun to use–and it’s very affordable!  Now be sure to check it out at www.Duetica.com and test drive this fab find today!  And get your craft on!

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Last week I was in Novi, Michigan (Detroit area) guest speaking about creativity at the Michigan International Show!  I stopped by the Flip-Pal booth to say hello—and boy did we have fun.  Jill Evan’s, a fellow designer friend are now Flip-Pal friends forever! 

Then after a long day of speaking,  I bumped into Miss United States Jessica Black.  Jessica was just the sweetest person and as she was MC  for the Ms. Michigan Pageant she gave me a very heart felt intro for being one of the judges at the event!  Plus she stopped by the Flip-Pal booth for a quick photo op!

You meet a lot of fun people when you make scans with the Flip-Pal mobile scanner—here I am with the Fireside Coffee man!

You can scan anything your heart desires!  What fun!   wooo-whooo!