It can be hard designing a room with the color palette of brown and orange. Often these two colors can come across as drab or even make a room appear to be "cave" like. It can be pulled off quite well if used with the right lighting, accent pieces and furniture. Start off small and add a punch of orange with bold dining chairs. Keep the walls white then ease into Continue Reading
Labor Day Rules
Not Labor Day rules as in something to follow by the rules but as in it's awesome, as well as referring to weird rules about not wearing white. I never understood this myself so I had fun doing a little research for this post. Labor Day Rules about Wearing White According to WiseGeek and Fletch (AskYahoo.com), the "it is not appropriate to wear white after Labor Continue Reading
Inspiration For Your Grand Baby
Play on last post's Baby Grand with Grand Baby Great minds, they say think alike. I don't know about great minds, but mothers and daughters often think alike. Lindsey just did a post on nurseries Wednesday so this will be a second look at the same subject from a different perspective. Last Wednesday her post was titled Inspiration For Your Baby Grand so mine is a Continue Reading
Nursery Basics
Nursery Basics This Time Round Baby number three is due in a few months and this time around I'm definitely doing things differently. Usually Mom's go all out crazy with nursery decor with the first child and by the time the third or fourth arrives they're lucky to get a crib to sleep in instead of a drawer. Keep the decor simple and pretty neutral so there isn't Continue Reading
Carrying it all
Carrying it All with Hurricane Katrina in Mind If you haven't heard already in the news, August 29 and this week is the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. With my partners and I originally being from New Orleans, we don't want to burden our readers in carrying it all with too much weight with this but we'd like to make note of this important anniversary and Continue Reading
