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Happy holiday week everyone! Last year for Christmas, Terreeia bought us meet and greet tickets to see Michelle Obama in Vancouver (in March) during her book tour, it was one of the highlights of my year! When you were standing in the room, waiting to meet her, it was clear there was a star nearby,…

This year I celebrated 10 years of writing the blog. And in the last six months of the year, we travelled to Chicago, Vegas and Fiji, participating in Tony Robbins events. If you want to learn anything (Tony says) you need to learn from the best to even get half-way good at something. The infinity…

Here’s to a great 2018! {source} Another year has passed and I realized a few weeks ago that I missed writing about the 9th anniversary of the blog which happened in October. Clearly, I’m having so much fun, I forgot that the date came and went. I started writing my blog October 31, 2008, here’s my…

It’s time to recap another year in review. 2016 where did you go? It was a busy year with more Specify Colour with Confidence events than ever, my new website under construction and some interesting trends to unpack. At the beginning of the year, I got out my crystal ball and made my trend forecast predictions…

It’s time for my annual round-up of best posts for 2014, here they are: 1. My White Kitchen Inside Style at Home   {Maria’s Kitchen} It was pretty amazing to have my house on the cover of the April issue of Style at Home this year. See the before’s and after’s of my kitchen here….

It’s time for my annual round up of the best posts of 2013, here they are: 1. How to be Smart in a World of Dumb Designers This homeowner was so generous to share her mistakes with us and this photograph illustrated my never changing advice about combining colours and fixed elements accurately. 2. An…

This weekend, Terreeia took my laptop into MAC because it’s been sooooo slow and spinning, and spinning, and they said “You need a new hard drive”. When we arrived the next morning to pick it up, they said “Your old hard drive is corrupt, so you have nothing” Well, Terreeia is the techie in this…

It’s time for my annual round-up of the best posts of 2012: 1. What NOT to do with Your Kitchen Island Design House Beautiful This post has a great example of what to do with a small, dinky island if you have one in your kitchen. 2. How Light Affects Paint Colour   source If you’ve…

It’s almost the New Year and here is this year’s round up of my 10 most popular posts: Image from Ralph Lauren Home Maria’s Guide to Starting a Design Blog How-to posts about blogging are always popular and this post rounds up all my posts about blogging. If you have decided that 2012 is the year…

source It’s almost New Years and I’m off tonight to celebrate. Dinner with friends downtown and a night at the brand new Fairmont Pacific Rim with the love of my life. So here’s the round-up for this years posts that got the most comments, tweets and links in case you missed one:     source…