Archive for May, 2010
Creating a room of your own- Sarah did it in her closet…..
Monday, May 31st, 2010
Are you being expressed fully in your own home? What woud happen if you claimed a room- or even a corner that was just for YOU? Sarah created a space to delight herself in her closet….is there a place in your home that is just for your own delight? Grab a few thing you love, a cozy chair, some photos, books- whatever feeds your soul and create it today! A great book to explore the connection betwee living spaces and your spirit and your life is Sarah Susanka’s ” The Not so Big Life” …..this book is amazingly rich and chock full of wisdom!
Tags: book, closet, home, joy junket, not so big life, room o yuor own, sarah seidelmann, spirit, susanka, suzi vandersteen
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What it’s like to be coached by Martha Beck (America’s most famous Life Coach)
Friday, May 28th, 2010
A xylophone is my new best friend. A limiting belief that once tortured me became a playful colorful musical instrument on that day. Ok this is an obscure one- I will get to the xylophone in a bit. I am a Life Coach (and part time interior designer, part time MD- I know it might seem odd but its perfect for me) – and to me there is absolutely nothing better than working with my coaching clients! They are some of the most amazing, courageous, smart and (more…)
Tags: career, coaching, jenny mcCarthy, life coach, limiting belief, martha beck, md, medical, oprah
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Your home is a metaphor for your life: Lightening my own load.
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
Hey- its Sarah here. Many of you may already know that I was coached for several years and then myself got trained and certified as a Life Coach. Being coached MYSELF helped me to transform my own life and look at myself in a whole new light. I began to feel a huge new world of possibility. The transformation began to take place WITHIN me- I began (more…)
Tags: apartment therapy, authenticity, down sizing, interior design, life coach, martha beck, metaphor
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Dedicating work to a higher goal: ESSENTIAL SPIRITUALITY- a fabulous book by Roger Walsh
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
We LOVE this book…. by ROGER WALSH, our good friend Jen recommended it. The author sort of boiled the great religions down until there were some essential threads that all shared. He shares these common points and gives you several excercises, meditations, visualizations etc. for each area. We cannot say enough how much we enjoyed reading it! So much so that we actually (more…)
Tags: book club, essential spirituality, higher goal, meditation, mindfullness, roger walsh, spirit
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It is the soul’s Duty….
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
It is the soul’s duty to be loyal to it’s own desires.
–Rebecca West
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Style emerging…..
Sunday, May 16th, 2010
Why is it that it’s so difficult to tell an emerging weed from a flower early on in Spring?? For all I know I’m hacking out my perenials and preparing a fabulous bed for dandilions and other nasty greens. But I tend to get so excited about working in the garden that it’s hard to me to wait around and see what’s what before making any decisions about what stays and what goes. And let’s face it, sometimes the weeds don’t look half bad! (more…)
Tags: Authentic Style, beauty, interior design, repurposing items, style, weeds
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Dingy, Old, and Dangerous, but Mine!
Friday, May 14th, 2010
I imagine we all have an area of the house that daily begs for a redo. For me, it’s my back door, and the stairs leading down to my farmhouse basement of unknown age.
When we first moved in, I had romantic visions of welcoming my friends through our unusable front door. The door opens out onto an ancient moss-covered concrete stoop with no attached sidewalk. The walk back to the car seemed to deter even outdoorsy types. This dream lasted about a week. (more…)
Tags: creativity, insipiration, interior design
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Color me Hungry….
Sunday, May 9th, 2010
Dunmore Cream, Toasted Bagel, Spiced Apple, Pecan Pie….. It’s NO WONDER I feel like running to the nearest bakery shortly after selecting paint colors for a favorite customer!!!! Really, they make these colors seem sooooo irresistible that what could go wrong when we pick something called Lemon Pie… only to put a little of it up and run screaming from the room??? Yep, that’s the dilemma of selecting paint, we know because let’s face it, we’ve been there too… now and then even I pick a stinker. (more…)
Tags: creativity, design, how-to, interior design, paint selection
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Getting to know your own style…..here’s a great tool
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
“Your style is the place where you can still exercise the creative power to shape your world and design yourself.
-Barbara Sher Wishcraft
Play detective, snoop around your house as if you were a private eye trying to determine who lived there… See what you can tell about the person who lives there by what they surround (more…)
Tags: authenticity, creativity, insipiration, spirit, style
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Simple are ideas best.
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
One day I was looking for an accessory for this table.. hmmmm, a bowl here, some horns there, put it all together and Wow! Looks great! (at least I think so…) As much as I LOVE to complicate my life… I’ve started to learn that simple ideas really are best. Design can appear complicated in as much as there are times it LOOKS (more…)
Tags: authenticity, design, insipiration, interior design
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