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Shop The Space

Shop The Space

by | Jul 3, 2015 | #PIinspired, All Things Furniture, blogging, built by Matt, Chairs, decorating, design, Design Board, dining room, eye candy, hardware, Inspiration, Living Room, Uncategorized

Good Morning from the beach! I’m sitting outside enjoying my morning coffee and wondering if I ever have to come home. Do I??  Maybe nah. We’ve been digging around for inspiration while gearing up to work on some projects both at my home and for...
Vintage Market: the prep

Vintage Market: the prep

by perfectlyimperfect | May 22, 2013 | antiques, CHALK PAINT, decorating, DIY, eye candy, Project Gallery, Shop Talk, Styling

I’ve been so ready to share more details of our Vintage Market weekend with you!  We literally worked like dogs to get it all ready, and by Wednesday, closed the shop so we could get it all finished. On Thursday, we had vendors begin coming in, and I finally...

coastal design inspiration

by perfectlyimperfect | May 21, 2013 | decorating, design, eye candy, Project Gallery, Styling

Good morning, friends! I didn’t really mean to disappear last week, but it was actually a happy accident. After the market, which I’ll blog about very soon, we were exhausted.  I had a lot of resting, cuddling, and reading to catch up on, plus lots of...

lighting for the writing room

by perfectlyimperfect | Aug 6, 2012 | decorating, design, eye candy, Project Gallery, Styling

So, it went something like this. Matt:  The room looks AWESOME, honey. Me:  Thank you, I love it!  Are you glad we did it?? Matt:  Totally–you’ll really be able to work in here now.  I love the _______, and the ________! Me:  Aw, thanks, sweetie. Matt:...

wood walls

by perfectlyimperfect | Jun 26, 2012 | decorating, design, eye candy, Our House, Project Gallery, Styling

It’s been a while since our latest home reno, and Matt and I have enjoyed the little break of just living. Ya know what I mean? However, our built-in building, room-painting, nail-gunning fingers are twitching to get started on a new project. Our list is looong,...

furniture & diy eye candy | 508 restoration and design

by perfectlyimperfect | Feb 28, 2012 | DIY, eye candy, Furniture Makeovers, Project Gallery

I love those days where the click, click, click of my keys lands me somewhere spectacular. Don’t you?? When I landed on 508 Restoration and Design, I knew I found something special. When I saw this yellow chest of drawers, I thought I might faint.  Until I saw...
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Hey lovely humans...hope your 4th was filled with Hey lovely humans...hope your 4th was filled with good moments and time with family and those you love.⁣ ⁣ ....⁣ ⁣ Some fun updates this week coming to you...a tutorial for mixing paints with pigments (you guys asked over @thecreativeexponent too), the next update on our house and the living room/common spaces design board, a new chapter reading of The Middle, and I'll be sharing some TCe Community happenings here so you can see what we're up to there. Pop over to my stories this week to get some house updates when we go meet with the builder!⁣ ⁣ ....⁣ ⁣ Also, can't get enough of this green and my dining room studio situation. Been such a gift to have a space downstairs to work in! Off to make moves. Lots to attempt today. 😉⁣ ⁣ #paintpigment #naturalearthpaint #apothecaryjar #paintpalette #painter #paint #studio
Just a happy, lazy Sunday afternoon from Oliver to Just a happy, lazy Sunday afternoon from Oliver to you. 🤎 #chocolatelabradoodle
I was lucky enough to steal a few minutes away in I was lucky enough to steal a few minutes away in my “studio”/dining room this week to mix up some pigments and begin working on new color palettes. Sometimes the best thing we can do is to play, even if for just a few moments. #paint #paintpigment #paintersofinstagram #paintpalette #colorpalette
Sometimes love is all there is. And it moves EVER Sometimes love is all there is. And it moves EVERYTHING. From the next chapter of The Middle, hopefully coming out this week. I have learned that in my business, and in my life, to soak up my moments of love, and the hope it brings with it...to soak it up thoroughly.⁣ ⁣ It's so easy, right? To get busy and be about the to do's and not see just how incredible the easy, good moments are. But mama, if you have a few (or many) really rough years, then you look at the "good times" a little differently, right??⁣ ⁣ So when I say this, know I mean it with absolute sincerity: Thank you for this time in my work. This time of good, and easier, and fun, and encouragement...it takes all of us and not just me. I never thought I would find myself back in the online world, and now that I'm back here, I find that I'm so surprised at how welcoming you guys were and are. How much you have spoken life into my life this year.⁣ ⁣ So see? You did it, too...you gave the "love is the only option" gift. And you brought with it hope. ❤️⁣ ⁣ #hope #love #quote #quotesofinstagram #writer #writersofinstagram #themiddle
Hey lovely humans. Well, it's HERE. I released t Hey lovely humans. Well, it's HERE. I released the Magic ＋ Landscapes collection of oil paintings (there's one acrylic 😉) today!!!⁣ ⁣ I keep saying it, but there is magic in beginning again. You know I fell in love with painting again last fall, and as I wrote The Middle, and specifically the chapter, Longings, I fell into a remembrance of all the longings I had and have for deep love, connection, meaning, joy, crazy colored lands and seas, and MAGIC. Hence, the name of this "debut" collection.⁣ ⁣ Swipe to see some more pics of the collection, and if you want to shop follow the link in my bio that says SHOP ORIGINAL ART.⁣ ⁣ P.S. the larger pieces are listed auction style for 3 days, and the smalls and minis are all buy now...16 pieces total. THANK YOU, THANK YOU AGAIN for all of your incredible support and love!! ❤️
However you create, with whatever medium, create t However you create, with whatever medium, create this way. 💙⁣ ⁣ P.S. I made a couple of quick announcements in my stories today about my painting release tomorrow...follow along there if you want to snag one. I'll say it tomorrow, too, but thank you guys. Thank you is small. 😊⁣ ⁣ #artists #responsibility #quote #artistquotes #quotesofinstagram #inspiration
Thank you sweet baby Jesus for Friday's. I'm chuc Thank you sweet baby Jesus for Friday's. I'm chuckling as I write, because it was a long week. A good, hard, trying, beautiful long week. I spent a chunk of time in this dining room turned studio of mine, shooting paintings and mixing new color palettes, and moving to the "office" end of the table to make graphics and edit photos for the release next week. (and noticing how the paneling on this wall needs to be addressed.)⁣ ⁣ I love working in my dining room so much that I've decided we need no formal dining space in the new house, much to the chagrin of all Southern women who've walked before me. The dining room will be our studio...and the only tables present will be for paint spilling and splatting, and the setting will be loaded with brushes and canvas and paper and room to make.⁣ ⁣ I can't wait. 🧡⁣ ⁣ #studio #art #easel #painting #landscapes #colorchart #create #creativeliving #creativespace
The ways we learn to stop listening to ourselves c The ways we learn to stop listening to ourselves come subtly. They come to us in the form of small insecurities, the searching for faith, the searching for us. We look to almost everyone around us to tell us we are right, we are good, we are true. And sometimes, little by little, we begin to hear every voice but our own.⁣ ⁣ I remember realizing how very little I was listening to myself when I began to tell people I loved I was getting a divorce. I wanted SO badly for them to see, for them to understand, for them to believe in me, in my goodness.⁣ ⁣ So much so, it became almost impossible for me to trust myself. So much questioning, so much doubt. But through a long, hard winter and the shedding of a lot of agreements I'd made in this world of mine with everyone else...but myself...it came. The honoring of myself.⁣ ⁣ It took quite a while to realize: my dear one, you are good, as you are now. Trust yourself. That voice you hear inside? Is your closest guide. It is you, unfiltered. And you are good. Trust the goodness of who you are, right now, in this very moment.⁣ ⁣ #goodness #trustyourself #writer #writersofinstagram #quote #wordstoliveby

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