The Creative Exponent
I met Shaunna about 9 years ago at the Blissdom blog conference and we hit it off almost immediately. As fellow “furniture girls”, we knew of each other, but we hadn’t connected until that event. Since then, we’ve been like peas and carrots. We’ve done speaking engagements together, taught workshops on paint and creative business, […]
mini landscape “place cards” & a giveaway
While the boys were at the climbing lessons, I mingled around the nearby , looking for inspiration and pieces to use in an upcoming post about a summer table setting. I found beautiful as a great launching point, but I wanted to add a whimsical element to the table beyond fruit, flowers, and a pretty […]
Master Bathroom Ideas
It’s looking like we’ll start working on our master bathroom in late fall. We’re just in the early stages of getting quotes and figuring out what we’ll do ourselves and what we’ll hire out. Similar to the master bathroom makeover in our previous house, it will be a hybrid of DIY to keep costs down […]
Bathroom Shutters
I’ll warn you upfront… This is not a post filled with pretty pictures of a finished space. This is a post about making a small change that improved the looks and function of the window coverings in our bathroom. Here is how it looked when we first moved in… We have this awesome soaking tub, […]
Would you like me to buy you something in Lucca?
In just under a month, I will be heading back to Europe! I am so excited! It was such a rejuvenating, inspiring trip and I loved seeing Europe as an adult. (I grew up in Germany, so I got to see a lot of Europe as a child, but it’s completely different as an adult.) […]
parsons chair slipcovers
The time has come to make some slipcovers for the parsons’ chairs at either end of our kitchen table. Well, technically, they are sort of hybrid mini-wing/parsons’ chairs. I lucked out when I bought them in that they were listed as a pair even though the price was just for one. So, I got two […]
cow/calf pair
A couple of weeks ago, I painted a cow-calf pair. If you follow me on Instagram, you would’ve seen some of the process as well as the final painting shared on the grid. For those who don’t follow me there, here is the underpainting… …and then the finished work… I didn’t have plans to keep […]
climbing up weeds
Walking has become one of my best tools for generating ideas. In the past, I sort of felt like walking was an alternative to “real exercise”, but since I’m still limited by my shoulder (I’m still doing PT), walking has been what I can reliably do. And I’ve seen and felt the benefits of it […]