Your Favourite Posts in 2021
12/22/2021I don’t know about you, but I’m kinda ready to put 2021 behind us and look ahead to a fresh start in 2022. Still, it’s worth looking back to appreciate the highlights and what we’ve learned. And it’s been a big year for learning. Patience and perseverance are the big lessons. As well as faith….
The Best of Colour Me Happy 2019
12/29/2019Happy 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,…
Best of Colour Me Happy 2018
12/29/2018This 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…
All the fabulous rooms from the One Room Challenge have been posted and today I’m sharing the most colourful! I’m starting with Linda Holt and I will admit I’m totally biased because not only is she a fabulous designer and stylist, she is a photographer AND a True Colour Expert. She was in my very first…
Best of Colour Me Happy 2017
12/30/2017Here’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…
Best of Colour Me Happy 2016
01/04/2017It’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…
Best of Colour Me Happy 2015
12/29/2015It’s time for my round-up from 2015! Hope you are enjoying this holiday week! Maria Killam’s Trend Forecast for 2015 Here’s the first one. Read and tell me if you think I nailed it or not ; ) source My Creative Business Model and How it’s Evolved Here I’m talking about how less is…
Best of Colour Me Happy 2014
12/27/2014It’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….
Best of Colour Me Happy 2013
12/30/2013It’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…
Colour Me Happy Link Love for March
03/31/2013This 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…
Best of Colour Me Happy 2012
12/28/2012It’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…
Top 8 Posts by True Colour Experts
09/28/2012I’ll be in Toronto next week leading my Specify Colour with Confidence course! I’m so excited to meet a whole new group of True Colour Experts! source Traci Zeller gets the first spot on this post because back in May 2010 whenI first launched my True Colour Expert Workshops she was the first one to register. I…
Where I’ll be in May & Some Must-Read Posts
05/02/2012On Mothers Day weekend, I will be at the Pure Painters Booth at the EPIC show at the Vancouver Convention Centre West. Here’s what you’ll find at the show: – Sit and listen to visionaries, thought-leaders, musicians, artists and even comedians – Eat and drink your way through 90,000 sqft of local and organic goodies – Shop for…
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…
The Best of Colour me Happy 2010
12/31/2010source 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…
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