This is a bit of shameless promotion…sorry not sorry! A kitchen I designed is featured in and on the cover of the May issue of HGTV Magazine.  I am so excited and thankful to all of you for your support! I love getting your feedback, responses, comments, stories, hearts and likes!   I am hoping to launch […]

Why It’s Important to Organize and How to Actually Do it! It’s time for Spring Cleaning!!  Don’t worry, I’m not going to insist you read the “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” but I will encourage you to PURGE and let go of items you no longer need, use or want.  Why?  Making your life more tidy and […]

    Spring cleaning!! Guess what? It can be used on more than just tidying up your house. Decluttering your mind can do wonders for you home too. Specifically, I’m talking about decluttering other people’s opinions. The ones that stick in your brain and weigh you down like a closet begging for a donation box. […]

If your home is an extension of you, then your mental and emotional health will inevitably affect your home.  It affects how you care for it, view it and whether or not you share it. I found this to be true in myself over the past few years. Stick with me here because I’m going to […]

A few years ago I gave up on “New Years Resolutions” and started to create Goals instead.  My reasoning is, Resolutions feel so grand and intense that I would get overwhelmed and fail at them miserably and then feel guilty for being such a failure!  With goals I can declare the goal and break it down […]

In December, I talked about it being up to us to make our homes special. After hearing all of our positive responses, I thought it might be nice to expand on this idea as we head into the new year. There is an element of the old “Chicken or the Egg” adage when it comes […]

I am so excited to have one of my favorite kitchen projects featured in the Holl and Lane Magazine blog.  Check it out here.

Okay, maybe not quite what Ella Fitzgerald (and Sublime) sang about but oh, how I love a good picnic. And in sunny Southern California there are so many easy opportunities to bust out that basket: Shakespeare in the Park, Cinespia, The Hollywood Bowl, The Vineland Drive-In, not to mention the park and beach. Once, I […]