wallpaper borders

so...i received THIS in the mail last week:"your request for an additional year of subscription or gift subscription at this time would exceed our systems maximum number of allowed issues"apparently, i have exceed the number of years that i am ALLOWED to subscribe to house beautiful.so what if my subscription is good until may 2018?shouldn't they take that as a compliment??gheesh.it kinda made me...

i thought i would share some random snippets of last week:i stopped by the DENNIS PHILLIPS GALLERY, where i found some affordable art. (i will share more on that next week) found some goodies at WORLD MARKET:isn't this mirror cute? you may remember this mirror from this project. it is a great sized mirror for a really great price. they have a fabulous select  of colorful pillows,...

several months ago...(ok, maybe even closer to a year), candace, from crafty sisters blog hired me to do a design plan for her master bedroom.both candace and nicole are AMAZINGLY handy, and so when it came to redesigning her bedroom, she said she was on a tight budget, and was up for any type of diy challenge.you better believe that i put her TO WORK!(nicole is my sister in law, so that makes candace...

(sorry---i just HAD to sneak in a reference to the hunger games! i read the books about two years ago, and i have been super excited to see the movie! i am taking my 12 year old daughter out for sushi and the 7pm showing tonight.)one of the principles of interior design is balance. i know when a lot of us envision "balance", we think in terms of pairs, and this IS a WONDERFUL way to create balance....

one of my favorite classes in college was an interior design history class. the class focused on the last 100 years of interior design, and one of the elements that i enjoyed the most was the section on modern classic furniture. there are literally hundreds of chairs that are considered "modern classics", but these happen to be my favorites, and the ones that i feel blend most effectively into a more...