I’ve had a pair of black resin planter boxes out front for a while now and they keep getting these weird white marks on them that don’t really clean off. Every time I walk by them I make a mental note to do something about it. Then I saw this image on Pinterest:

White! Glorious, bright white. So fresh and so clean. Why fight the mysterious white marks and why spend big bucks on new planters when these are fine?

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I was stocking up on some gold leaf at the craft store last week and saw this variegated rose gold leaf next to my regular yellow gold stand by. The wheels in my brain starting turning and I knew I had to use it for today’s vase project!

I worked with a great online florist called The Bouqs on this post. I used their company to send one of my friends a bouquet recently (they have a promotion right now where you get a free bouquet with your first order!) and she was super impressed and begged to find out where I could find such pretty ranunculus at this time of year.

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Christmas is just around the corner. I love (LOVE) giving handmade gifts to my friends and family, but I just haven’t had the bandwidth this year to go all-out. So, rather than making everything, I’m cheating the system a bit by adding just a little handmade twist to each of my gifts. Really just enough effort to get handmade credit. :)

I got my sister, Heather, who knows not to read today’s post (!), a Golden Tote for her Christmas present this year.

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What kind of blogger would I be if I didn’t regularly sing my praises of Jenna Lyons and her chic office? There’s a reason everyone loves this space. She is the coolest.

I realized I was subconsciously channeling her office style while doing some updates to our studio space this month when I had the thought to dye this little faux flokati throw pink.

It was a super easy project and here’s the how-to:

I picked up my throw at HomeGoods (it was made by Safavieh) for about $15.

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