The Sandpit from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo.

This video makes me so happy, I just had to share. It was created using tilt-shift photography which makes the city looks like it's in miniature. So amazing! It sure does make me home sick for New York, but in a good way.

One of my clients had purchased some Pottery Barn bedding through eBay for her young girl's room that she's redoing. Recently she fell in love with a headboard from the Dwell Studio collection at Target. Since she couldn't return the bedding, she was wondering if it would work with the headboard. I suggested adding brightly colored pillows to help balance out the heavy contrast of the stripes. These pillows from Target would be perfect and now she can safely buy the headboard she's been coveting!

Kyle Burke via ABC15

Joey and I recently participated in the Give a Day Get a Disney Day program through HandsOn Greater Phoenix and it was such a great experience! We helped to spruce up Starshine Academy by refinishing picnic tables where they eat lunch, installing new benches in the garden and on the playground, making new wooden bins for trash and recycling and painting a mural. Since Starshine Academy is in our neighborhood, it was an added bonus that we could help within our own community. It was great to see so many people and lots of families out volunteering. Mickey and Minnie were there too!

Not only did we get a couple of free Disneyland tickets for our efforts but, more importantly, we felt really good about what we did and it was a great way to spend some time together.  We can't wait to sign up for another day of volunteering!

Domino

Domino

House Beautiful

House Beautiful

Elle Decor

Elle DecorLiving Etc.

One of the next projects for the bedroom will involve painting my dresser and adding new knobs so I've been looking at the selection at Anthopologie. Here are some of my favorites...

The perfect tote made by Pins + Paper. This would be great for sewing, gardening, shopping...or perhaps for my prop styling tools! It comes in different fabrics too.

I saw this over on the Knack Studio's blog and couldn't resist sharing! It's made by KnitStorm and you'll find lots of other cozies at her store too.

Paper & Inkling via etsy.com

Somehow the numbers 2010 look so much more futuristic than 2009. I'm looking forward to another year and what it has in store! I know that there will be lots of home improvement to be done since I really want to finish many of the projects on my never ending list. Next up, we've decided to make our bedroom smaller by creating a walk in closet (but think of all the storage we'll gain!). We'll have the help of my Dad and his neighbor, who's a retired handyman. After that, we hope to remove the 33 linear feet of floor to ceiling mirrors that greet you when you walk in the front door and don't leave until you walk out the back patio. So look for some home improvement blogging coming soon...

Wishing everyone a wonderful and prosperous 2010!

Living Etc.

Wishing you a warm, wonderful holiday where ever you are!

Here's what the room looked like before they started the project...

Living Room Before

And here are the e-Decorating floor plan and concept boards...

Floor Plan

Living Room Concept Board

Dining Area Concept Board

And here's what the living room and dining areas look like now...

Living Room and Dining Area After

As you can see, they still need to get a few pieces (a rug, side tables and lighting), but they were able to easily follow the e-Decorating plan and put the room together themselves. You'll notice that a couple of pillows are different than in the original plan. That's what's great about e-Decorating. It gave them a really good idea of what kinds of things to purchase and they were able to find something very similar that worked really well.