why I always embrace being a beginner

{photo credit: instagram_peterchanur} I only discovered meditation about five years ago, and I only really started learning how to tune into, and turn on, my own intuition in the past two years. For me it’s been a pretty profound journey… discovering more about the world, and also myself… what’s working, what’s not working, and making more space in my life for the things I really want to come in… Recently I was telling a very close friend of mine about some new classes starting at my school, thinking they might be interested… and they joked that beginner things aren’t for…

bedroom refresh… take three?

I think that there might be this idea that people who work in design are always super clear about what to do with a space and that we are infinitely inspired all the time. I wish. Personally I find that it’s often easier for me to tune into my client’s energy and have clarity for what their space should look and feel like to be a true reflection of them than to do the same thing for myself. I love a lot of different looks and it can be surprisingly hard to settle on one for my own space. So…

The Magic of the Gift Basket

Gifts is not my first love language, it’s actually dead last on the list for me. I’m a quality time girl (quality conversation to be specific) all the way… but one of my close friends just had a new baby (wait, is there such thing as an old baby?!) and gifts is close to the top for her, and there are few things more important than telling people we love them in a language they can hear/feel, so I had some fun over the past couple of weeks putting together a surprise gift basket for her. It was supposed to…

being better than ‘real estate beige’

Just one of the many things that I find fascinating about real estate is that once upon a time, some super helpful loud mouth realtor out there told someone that their place would be more appealing if they painted everything this (horrible) ‘neutral’ shade of gross tan beige color – also known as ‘real estate beige’. Because it’s ‘neutral’ and you want your place to appeal to as many potential buyers as possible. I’m not really sure I agree with the idea that any space (or anything) can appeal to everyone. Or that a coat of bad beige paint is…