Love the idea of beautiful panels of color sweeping across your walls, but fear is holding you back from attempting it? Don’t let the idea of painting straight, clean, level stripes intimidate you. There is an easy way with NO measuring! Start with a few rolls of painter’s tape of varying widths and a level. These will help determine the…
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The Opryland Hotel & Conference Center in Nashville, TN hosted Blissdom 2011 this past week. Approximately 650 women and men gathered to connect, learn, share, network, and celebrate blogging. The creative energy oozing from these bloggers felt like an electric current powering Opryland! Bloggers form many online friendships from being each other’s subscribers, through Twitter, and Facebook. We all know…
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When Valentine’s time arrives each year I bake up delights like Red Velvet Whoopie Pies and Chocolate Raspberry Croissants, but rarely have I ever decorated for Valentine’s Day. Go ahead, call me Scrooge… wait…wrong holiday. If you love all things frilly, lovey dovey, pinky, sticky sweet, heart covered, cupid cuddling decorating, then girlfriend, more power to you! I….just…can’t. But I…
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This Valentines I’m combining my two loves, red velvet cake and whoopie pies. My mom made my sisters and I chocolate whoopie pies for special treats growing up, and red velvet cake was always MY birthday cake. This combination is LOVE at first bite! Though I have my mom’s classic red velvet recipe I could make from scratch, I chose…
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What is our obsession with sisal, jute, and sea grass? The sisal in the Sand & Sisal homestead is well represented, and thankfully, decorating trends for 2011 keep these natural fibers in the forefront. Our homes are filled with sisal and sea grass baskets with varying colors and textures. Rugs with combinations of sisal, jute, and sea grass adorn our…
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