SPRING
This category offers tips, inspiration and solutions for Everyday Living during the Spring Season. Design, Decorating, Recipes, Tablescapes, Entranceway Design, Gifting and more. All about living with the season.
- Calendars, ENTERTAINING, EVERYDAY LIVING, GATHERINGS, HOLIDAYS, SEASONAL DECORATING, SEASONAL LIVING, SPRING, Summer Entertaining, Summer Gardens
Summer Seasonal Inspirations + the June 2016 Printable Calendar
The June Calendar is here in all it’s glory! This month we celebrate by spending time in the garden, dining outdoors with friends + the heat of Summer Entertaining season. Just a few of the special days in June are :: Gourmet Soiree, Father’s Day, Summer Solstice and SO many more. It’s here! My June 2016 printable monthly calendar just for you. Print it out + mark the reminders in your day planner or digital calendar. I hope this calendar inspires you to find new ways to celebrate everyday of the month + season! Click here to download your June 2016 calendar + to automatically receive new updates. Celebrations…
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What is May Day Anyway?
According to history…. “During medieval times, May Day festivities took off in England. At the crack of dawn everyone would “go a-maying,” gathering flowers and greenery and choosing a Maypole. Women would also wash their faces in fresh spring dew to improve their complexions — and men would try to seduce them. (Many poems about May Day festivities have made it into the scholarly canon of English Lit., and thus college classrooms — and almost all of them are not-so-subtle efforts to seduce a virgin.) Children hung flower baskets from door-handles, whether to fend off evil spirits or spread joy. And there were games, contests, dressed-up cows, sports, jesters, and…
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Mapo Tofu Recipe from #SteamyKitchen Healthy Asian Favorites
Jaden Hair, first “came into my life” in 2009 at the social media conference Social Fresh . My boyfriend at the time, now my husband, was representing an online course and she had stopped his table to get more information on SEO and building an online presence. She obivously made an impression, after the event he gave me her name and said I should look her up. A few months later, after I had moved to Florida, I went to my first networking event and it just so happened to be the book launch for her first book, 101 Asian Recipes Simple Enough for Tonight’s Dinner. Last year I attended…
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Seasonal Decorating: Styling a Spring Coffee Table
Dilemma: “I want to bring the feeling of Spring into my home decor but my budget is small and my available time is even smaller. Can you help me?” Solution: I hear this dilemma quite a bit during workshops and classes. You want to refresh your home each season, and although you want it to look like a million bucks, you don’t necessarily want to invest a lot of time or money doing it. Creating a seasonal display on your coffee table is an easy way to bring Spring into your home and many of us already own these suggested items. Wooden Tray Your Favorite books or magazines Decorative…
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Weekend In Paris
This weekend many design enthusiasts and professionals made the pilgrimage to Paris for the Maison + Objet. Although 1000’s of miles away I am dreaming of the day when I can again visit Paris in the spring, attend this amazing event and walk the streets for inspiration. For now images will have to do. The Street Markets. The Cafe’s. The City Gardens. Until this dream becomes reality, a girl can dream. What is on your 2013 dream board? See our on Pinterest now.
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Design Finds: Casa Nova Tampa
Lastnight I attended an event at CasaNova in Tampa, FL for a networking function {and if truth be told to stare at all their beautiful home decor items}, and found a few new favorites to put on my growing wish list as well as an item or two for a client’s office re-style. This Bird Nest Pillow would make an excellent addition to the 75 other pillows currently on my bed, after all I don’t have one with a nest and eggs on it… And the whole bird trend is so hot right now. If you follow my blog at all you know my love for Natural Design inside and outside…
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Asparagus Soup… Cold Spring Trend
We all know there is more than one way to do pretty much everything but when I came across “Asparagus Soup with Poached Egg” twice in two days and thought it was worth testing and sharing. The first one is from Williams-Sonoma and I found it when I was at my local shop drooling over pretty much everything in the shop. They had recipe cards on the counter and this one caught my attention as someone in my house is a poached egg freak. So I am always looking for new recipes to make. The second came to me today via email from the About.com Food e-newsletter along with other tasty cold…
