The Designer Gardens
Workshop: Nurture with Nature
Introduction to Aromatherapy
Get back to basics and let nature nourish you. In this workshop, you’ll learn how you can live cleaner, greener and healthier. Nature has the answers, and working with powerful aromatherapy essential oils extracted from plants can nurture you thoroughly — body and soul.
You can soothe conditions, boost wellness, care for your face and body, create throughtful gifts, plus clean and disinfect your environment while having fun with uplifting, wonderful aromatics. A
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot like Christmas ….
Just a week to go & no tree in the house yet … busy making drapes for a front room. But have managed to do a bit more decorating, as my OH scrambles about in the loft with a dodgy painful knee, trying to find the boxes which contain all the glittery stuff …. I’m still in the recovery phase of my gall bladder surgery, so not much help with the scrambling about on my hands & knees & shifting heavy boxes about. Finally, the lounge is looking a bit Christmasy, even if the tree has even been bought yet. A tri Read more…
8 Ways to Decorate with Table Lamps
Table lamps often have been treated like the prime maiden aunts of the lighting world, but as these examples show, they’ve recently undergone something of a makeover and are turning up in surprising roles in surprising places. Most people think ceiling fixtures when planning illumination for their dining areas, but in intimate—read, tight—spaces a table lamp creates a café ambience, particularly when they’re painted in unexpected contemporary colors. A nightstand lamp is a must, of course, but there’s no reason not to mix and match styles and to introduce styles usually reserved for more formal spaces. Here are m
Five quirky finds for pet lovers
About half of U.S. pet owners will buy holiday gifts for their pets this year, according to an Associated Press-Petside.com poll conducted in October.
Sixty-eight percent of pets will get toys, and 45 percent will get edible treats.
Spending is predicted to be up slightly, with shoppers likely to spend an average of $46 on gifts for pets compared to $41 last year.
10 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I First Started a Design Business
My friend Linda Merril, who is a local blogger, wrote this article hat appeared in the Williams Sonoma Designer Pages called, 10 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I First Started a Design Business.
I agree with some of what Linda says, but not all. Here’s my top 10.
1) Do not work for free. Learn how to bill. If you don’t respect your time, no one will.
2) Trust that you can succeed. I had a few careers before this and had all the background, but not all the necessary skills, so I read everything I could get my hands on and took classes.
3) Ask for help. I never worked for another designer. I am glad I never worked for another designer as this way I could build the kind of company I wanted.