Artist Spotlight : Lynne Millar

One of the first blogs I ever stumbled across was called Sugar City Journal, where two sisters-in-law shared sewing, craft and art projects that they were doing on opposite sides of the country. It was such a sweet and soulful and inspiring read for me. Since then, I’ve loved following one of the sisters, Lynne Millar’s career as an artist. Her work reminds me of one of my very favorite artists, Mary Cassatt. Lynne paints beautiful florals and the sweetest portraits.

Right after I had Margot, Lynne stopped by the house and took some photos of my big girls holding their brand new baby sister. A few weeks later this sweetest treasure of a painting arrived at my front door. Every time I walk past the painting in my entry hallway I get all the feels. I LOVE IT and I love remembering all those tender feelings we had at the special time for our family.

I just want my whole house to be covered in Lynne’s artwork. :) We put one of her florals in my mom’s kitchen and it’s the perfect little hit of color and texture!

Lynne shares snippets of her beautiful work and lovely home on her Instagram feed and has so kindly let us share more photos here. Her spaces are well-curated but completely real. Seeing these photos was a breath of fresh air for me and I hope you enjoy them as much as I have!

Lynne lives in central California with her husband and four kids. She says “I have spent most of my life chasing beauty creatively – exploring, in one way or another, how best to express and process my life experiences. When my kids were younger, I had a major design/sewing phase and spent a few years blogging with my dear sister-in-law on our extinct blog, Sugar City Journal. Now that my children are old enough to reliably not eat solvent and oil paints, I’m back to painting, which feels just right.” Continue reading “Artist Spotlight : Lynne Millar”

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LGN Hashtags!

Greetings from NYC! Michael and I both have work events/projects here and we thought it would be fun to come back with the kids for a couple of weeks. We got here on Monday and have been going non-stop since with meetings and play dates with old friends. Lots of productive fun! It’s turning out to be pretty much the perfect vacation for us, though we have plans to try and slow down a bit while we’re here and do some life evaluating. (**dramatic music!!**)

The past few months especially have been good, but completely, completely nuts. We spent a ton of time doing some filming for a fun project and of course we had quite a few big design installs out of state and locally. I also got to help put on girls camp for my church and not to mention Heather’s wedding reception at our house! I’m getting winded just writing out this list. :) The craziest part of the summer is over at this point though and we’re starting to get some of the photos back from the installs and the wedding, which is pretty much the best cherry on top and makes it all worth it. It’s like going through labor and while you’re in the middle of it, you’re like, WHAT HAVE I DONE. NEVER AGAIN. And then as soon as the baby is in your arms, you’re like, hey, that wasn’t so bad! I’m a freaking champion. Let’s do it again! (j/k about that last part – too soon)

All that to say, I’m proud of the work we’ve done the past few months and I can’t wait to share. In the meantime, there are a few sneak peaks on my Instagram!

Speaking of Instagram, I think it’s HIGH TIME that we have a couple of LGN hashtags!!

#heyLGN – pretty self explanatory- I just want to see your pretty photos! I’ll be reposting and doing mini round ups here on the blog. So if you have a post or see a post that feels like something we all would love, hashtag that baby!

#LGNprojects – I want to see your DIY! I get to see a few when people tag me, but sometimes that gets lost in the mix and I want the chance to see and share these projects!

You can also shoot me an email with photos. I’m hoping to do a few round ups a month with some awesome reader projects. Hello at littlegreennotebook dot com.

Sending all sorts of virtual hugs and high fives to you all. Thanks for sticking with me through all the craziness! xo

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DIY Kitchen Backsplash

Kate and I have been working together for a few years now. She has a beautiful baby girl, who is just a few weeks older than Margot, so Kate mostly works from home now, but she still does a ton for me and my design business. She is just the best there is – she makes any project more beautiful and infinitely more FUN! Kate and her husband recently were ready to take on some kitchen projects and they were kind enough to document some of the process for our viewing pleasure. I love the cheerful results! Enjoy!

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Hi! Kate here. We moved into our house 18 months ago and have been systematically tackling the renovations, room by room. Floors, popcorn ceilings, new fixtures, and a few walls knocked down. The kitchen was in pretty rough shape as you can tell, but a full-blown renovation wasn’t in the budget or timeframe.

We raised the ceiling, painted walls and cupboards, ripped out one set of cupboards, painted our countertops (a post in itself!), laid a super inexpensive gray floor tile and there you have it- livable and neutral until we checked a few more pressing things off our to-do list. This is where we landed: Continue reading “DIY Kitchen Backsplash”

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Room Vibes : Powder Blue

Move over, mint green! Everywhere I turn lately, I’m seeing icy, powder blue – and I’m loving it! We’ve been using the color a lot in some of the client installs we’ve been working on the past couple weeks. (I can’t wait to get the photos back from the photographers to share with you! :) Here…

And since it’s on the brain, everything I’ve bought for myself lately seems to be some shade of light blue! Here is a round up of my recent favorites…

FOR YOU:

1: This swimming suit! I saw it on another woman at the beach a few weeks ago and it is SO cute in person.

2: Sunglasses. The shape, the color, YES PLEASE. (On sale for under $10!)

3: I may have ordered 3 of these hats last week. The perfect summer baseball cap for under $5! (Even though they aren’t prime, the came within the week!)

4: Perfect Gladiator Sandals

5: A summery beach towel

6: Sweet blouse

7: Hat, to wear at the pool all summer!

FOR YOUR HOME…