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Pinterest Like a Pro

01/13/2022
Pinterest like a pro
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Whether you’re a design professional or a homeowner, Pinterest is one of my favourite platforms for finding inspiration. Here are a few of my best Pinterest tips for growing your business or starting your next design project.  Celebrating a Pinterest Milestone Woohoo! Huge milestone alert: I’ve reached 100K followers on Pinterest! I want to pause…

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10 Happy Years of Colour me Happy!

10/31/2018
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source I can hardly believe it’s been 10 years that I’ve been writing this blog. It was not at all planned that my first post would go live on Halloween, October 31, 2008. It’s an odd anniversary because it’s definitely not my favourite holiday, it just happened. I wrote five posts that first weekend and…

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My 5 Rules for Life

01/13/2015
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{via pinterest} Have you ever thought about this statement with regards to an area in your life? “Every single day people stop when they don’t know what to do.” I talk to clients every day who tell me they have stopped shopping for their house because they’ve bought so many mistakes in the past and they…

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Two Reasons to ALWAYS Keep Learning

09/21/2014
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In the last year, I have been travelling and spending a lot of time in hotel ballrooms learning how to take my business and website to the next level. Finding the right guru to get you there is not an easy task, let me tell you! I’m always the ONLY colour expert/decorator in a room…

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3 Burning Questions Answered (Finally) at BlogHer14

07/26/2014
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Outdoor decor at the McDonalds closing party at Blogher14 Since I’ve blogged for over 5 years now, I come to a blogging conference because there’s always more to learn. There’s lots of beginner information that I’ve sat through in hotel ballrooms all around the country, but then someone says something that makes it all worthwhile. Here…

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How to Sell Toilet Paper and Learning to say No

07/24/2014
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So I’m here at BlogHer’14 in San Jose with my good friend Barbara Miller from Yes Spaces. We had registered for the conference months ago but I am so bad because I usually only read what I absolutely have to read. So I don’t check out the conference agenda until the night before my flight and I…

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Your Laptop is the New Mom & Pop Shop

03/16/2014
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I’m constantly hearing statements like “I should’ve started my blog when you did”, or “It’s too late now, look at how many new blogs are launched every day!”.

So, just in case some of you thought you were off the hook, or fully believe it’s too late, I’m here to tell you that the majority of people in the world are not even on-line yet. And three billion more will be by 2020.

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