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DIY: watercolour heart cookies
I have a post that will make you smile today. If it doesn’t then you’re dead on the inside. Whether you love or hate Valentines Day you can’t deny your love for these pretty watercolour heart-shaped sugar cookies. This project marked a few firsts for me – first time successfully making sugar cookies and royal…
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COLOUR STORY: 50 shades of grey
In honour of the titillating upcoming release of 50 Shades of Grey and the colour of the landscape during this winter I’ve put together a grey colour story. It’s amazing how stunning something so blah could be. 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 /…
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DESIGN: major heart on Valentine print & download
Looking for a little somethin’ somethin’ for your sassy lover or (not so) secret crush this Valentines Day? How about just putting your feelings out there with this print? It’s now available on The Sweet Escape Etsy Shop as a print or you can save time & shipping costs and purchase as an instant download…
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PRETTY TECH: Free Valentines Desktop Wallpaper Download
Lucky you, hearts two days in a row! I think these days we’re in love with our technology more than anything so it’s appropriate to give it a pretty wallpaper for valentines. Here’s a little something I designed for Wayfair. It has a calendar to keep you in check and the 14th is lit up…
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DESIGN: heart on
Hey lovers! Valentines is around the corner and if you don’t have a love in your life doesn’t mean you can’t get a heart on. There’s something simple and classic about a heart. I decided to keep it really simple and create some graphic heart designs for my Sweet Escape Society6 page. They happen to…
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LIFE: let’s talk depression
I didn’t even know I was going to write this post until I started writing it this morning. I was quickly reminded by all forms of social media when I woke up that’ it’s Let’s Talk Day – a mental illness awareness campaign by Bell. Not that there’s any rules when you have your own…
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Winter Fun in the Country
Hey there Monday. How was your weekend? I admit there’s some irony to me writing a winter fun post while kicking back in sunny Florida while it’s – 20 degrees at home. I know, not fair. For the record, I actually don’t hate winter but to me, winter must come with snow. Without the snow,…
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SPACES: my top 10 most popular Apartment Therapy posts
I can’t believe it’s been 1 year since I’ve been contributing to Apartment Therapy. It’s been so great to share my passion for home decor with so many people through AT’s huge audience. I don’t have access to stats the same way I do my own blog so, with the exception of comments, I’m never really…
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DIY: a mini succulent garden to cheer you up
There was a particularly grey day that was making me feel particularly blah last week. In my attempt to get my sh!it together I had good intentions to make it to yoga class for the first time in months but was embarrassingly late so………I went to Home Depot instead. Well thanks to the rows of…
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KITCHEN MAKEOVER: How to make a DIY waterfall butcher block island
And we have crossed the finish line people! The kitchen is done! All that was left was the not-so-small job of making the waterfall butcher block island which I was secretly not looking forward to so there was some procrastination. Here’s what the island looked like before. I love the space it gives me but…
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PRETTY TECH: Wild One free desktop wallpaper download
I’m getting back to basics this week with a few regular features that I’ve neglected recently. Weren’t you like “when the hell is Melissa going to design a new wallpaper for me?”. I know, major slacking over here in the wallpaper dept. To make it up to you I have this free desktop wallpaper download…
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KITCHEN UPDATE: DIY Kitchen open shelving
We are on a role people! Two kitchen makeover updates in two weeks, and I even have another one coming before the final reveal at the end of the month. We hit a little speed bump but now we’re zipping along. The idea of creating some DIY kitchen open shelving was there from the start…
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GOOD EATS: then & now recipes / 02
Yup, still easing into this new year of blogging. I’m also easing into getting back to eating like a normal person. Baby steps. So I don’t have a bunch of really healthy recipes to kick off the year BUT I do have another instalment of Then & Now recipes. No wonder it’s so hard to…
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KITCHEN MAKEOVER: How to tile your kitchen
Happy new year all! So what will the first post of 2015 be about? My kitchen makeover that started in Feb 2014. It’s a little embarrassing that it’s been almost a year and it’s still not done. But we’re on the home stretch! It’s actually just one task away from being completely finished but I’ve…
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Some thoughts & entertaining for New Years Eve
Welcome to the last day of 2014. What kind of year did you have? What are you looking forward to most in 2015? I’ll be totally honest – I decided to disconnect digitally for Christmas and I’m having a really hard time connecting again. I’m such a live in the present type of person, which…