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Creativity Is All About Loving Life!
This is a fast track to a more artful life: love it more. Love your days more. If you just don't love your life, its time to change that before you beat yourself up and think you have no talent or intrinsic motivation to make cool things happen. Chances are,...
Soft Stuff That Creates A Luscious Home
(via) Not just for the cold months, but all year round there is a great value in softness. Textures bring rooms to life and create a mental as well as physical love for a space. It takes very little to get "softer" in decor, and yet the echo into your life is a more...
How To Stop Your Own Self-Sabotage & Start Moving Forward!
(via) I see this everywhere around me. I've lived it far too many times to count. Are you doing it right now? Self-Sabotage looks something like this: You are gifted with time and money to make a piece of art and discover every way to blow off your creative time...
Take The First Step!
You might be in a transition, or wantto be in one. Step by step, go for it!!! xoxo Dana
Flower Meanings By Color!
(via visual.ly) I just love charts! And while I believe you should give and get flowers that strike you as perfect for the moment, there's something so cool about giving flowers that have a story to tell! Enjoy this!!! xoxo Dana
5 Killer Home Decor Projects Made By A Crafty Genius!
(aunt peaches) Welcome to my obsession: Aunt Peaches. Her craft projects are off the charts. I can't keep up with everything I want to make! I am actually headed to the craft store for extra baubles to make these wreaths… And, thanks to her, my refrigerator is...
Fall In Love With Gemstones Splashed Out Everywhere!
(matchbook) Not long from now I think my home will be consumed by enormous crystals and gems. I'm dying for an enormous amethyst geode that charges everythng near it (I foolishly one go, it was perfect and a steal), a rainbow assortment of little tumbled guys to...
The Four Agreements!
So simple and powerful. One of the books on Jason Wachob's Top 40 must-read book list. Read 'em all! xoxo Dana
The Shimmering Moroccan Wedding Blanket
Even me, the purveyor of nightstands and bedrooms with solid headboards, just couldn't resist posting this image of a luscious Moroccan wedding blanket known as a handira. Here's a beautiful bit of history about the handira from Designers Call: "They are woven on...