Happy New Year to all of you and HELLO 2019!!!  I’m really excited for this year and for some of my goals I’m going to continue working on.  I just know it’ll be a great year.  Today, some friends of mine (linked at the end of the post) are getting together to share our top 10 blog posts of 2018.  So here we go!  My top 10 blog posts of 2018 including interiors, fashion and lifestyle. 

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Top 10 Posts of 2018

1 – Loveliest Looks of Christmas Tour  Somehow I knew this first Christmas tour of the year was going to be a favorite.  I invited some of my favorite blogger friends to join me in this tour that Pottery Barn sponsored and we had a blast!  Those mercury glass trees in my entry were some of your favorite pieces (and mine too).

We not only shared beautiful Pottery Barn holiday decor throughout our homes but also their faux furs, like this robe and slippers, which are some of my favorite little luxuries during the winter months.  I was overwhelmed with delight to get so much feedback from all of you telling me that you were obsessed with the robe and slippers and it was either A) on your Christmas wish lists or B) you were gifting them to yourself.  I hope you all got some furry prezzies like you hoped!

2 – Whimsical Glam Christmas Living Room In Pastels  This was one of my favorite Christmas trees and mantels I’ve ever decorated because I designed it for my children.  I have my entry and office trees that are all glammed up the way I like them.

However, after seeing the new Nutcracker movie, I was inspired to create a soft and whimsical living room (and also kitchen) that would bring a little magic to our Christmas.

My whimsical theme carried into the kitchen as well. Search for my Whimsical Christmas Kitchen to see more.

It still had the glam factor but the kids absolutely LOVED it and I was so grateful that you all fell in love with it as well!

3- Master Bedroom Updates For Fall & Winter  I loved partnering with my darling friends at Pom Pom At Home when they asked me to share their gorgeous bedding.

It also featured a few of the pretty pumpkins that HotSkwash sent me.

 

4- Master Bedroom Summer Refresh  I love being in my bedroom and I’m glad you all loved another master bedroom post as well.  Thank you so much!  

Click here on the post to see more on my new nightstands and other details.

5- Free Printable 2018 Calendar  I couldn’t believe how many of you visited the blog for this calendar all through December!  I was so pleasantly surprised. Guess what?  My 2019 calendar will be available on the blog TOMORROW so make sure to check back for it!  It’s going to be beautiful!  I hoped to have it available last week but we decided to go home to California for the holidays so I’m a tad behind.

6- The Prettiest Ways To Style Pumpkins For The Fall  This was fun because it’s really the first year that I’ve truly been excited for fall decor.

I had so many fun glam pumpkin vignettes but the blush pumpkin table might have been my favorite.  The best part was getting your emails and messages with pics of your “pink fall decor” in your home after feeling so inspired by my posts.  See!  This is why I love creating and sharing!  We all grab inspiration and ideas from each other and can create our own versions in our own homes.  It’s a beautiful thing!  Keep sharing your homes with me.  I love it!

7- Blush & Gold Glam Office Reveal  Y’all were sooooo sweet when I revealed my home office at the beginning of February.  We had only been in our home for a couple of months after it was built and it was so fun to finally share my very own office.  Your love for this space put the biggest smile on my face (hey, that rhymes! lol).

It was a fast design but I liked it. Then, a few months later, I decided I really wanted blush pink walls.  So I hired a painter (since my tennis elbow was at it’s worst) and revealed it again in this post.  I know!  I’m crazy haha!  Want to know something even crazier?  It’s about to get its 3rd and final makeover in a year {face palm} and this time it’s going to be perfect.  Just wait! 

8- Tween Girl’s Bedroom In Blush, Gold & Grey  Almost a year after moving into our home, I finally shared Brooklyn’s tween bedroom with you and your kind words meant so much to me and especially to her.

Brooklyn’s about to turn 13 and she chose everything for her bedroom, with very little help from me.  These bow lamps might be my favorite thing in this room. I was tempted to steal them for my office but I resisted.

9- Loveliest Looks of Summer Tour  In every new season, I host a “Loveliest Looks Tour” of the current season’s fashion and decor and this one in summer was a favorite all year-long.

Could it be all the peonies we get to enjoy from May to June?  As I’m writing this, I’m sitting here in fuzzy warm socks next to the fire and wishing it was summer right now and wishing I had some fresh peony flowers.  Between the summertime decor and flowers, recipes and sundresses….it just might be my favorite season.  Who am I kidding?  It’s definitely my favorite season. 

After all, I was born in the summer and on National Pink Day so it only makes sense.  I turned 40 this last year so it was definitely a big birthday and a fun one.  Ok!  Moving on to our last of the top 10 posts of 2018!!!

10- French Inspired Back Patio Dining Even into the winter, this post was being read and pinned over and over.  So, I think we can all agree that there’s something special about being outdoors in a beautiful setting and enjoying delicious food while the sun sets.  That was our summer here in the Pacific Northwest (notice all the new and small flowers I had just planted) and it was divine!

After living in Texas most of the last 15 years (I’m a Cali girl who married a Texan and we’ve mostly lived there) and a couple years in Vegas, it has been soooo refreshing to live in such a gorgeous green area where you can grow almost anything and it actually cools down in the evening and eating outdoors is pleasant and delightful.  I love it here and I can’t wait to keep landscaping our back and side yards and eat outside again!  We also added a striped french-style retractable awning that extends over the patio and I’ll share it with you this spring.

Stay tuned for lots of fun outdoor additions, including a step-by-step tutorial on this DIY putting green that I secretly made in a day for my husband for Fathers’ Day last summer!  Beckham’s trying it out here.  My husband LOVED it!!!!  I thought he was going to cry!  He was soooo surprised and I think it’s his favorite gift ever.  I almost paid a few thousand dollars for someone to build me one BUT I decided to do it myself for under $500.  Look for this in March or April 2019.

That’s all folks!  I hope you’ll take the time to visit my top 10 posts of 2018!

 

Now please take a minute to check out my DIY and Home blogger friends top posts in 2018! This is the very best the web has to offer!

TIDBITS | Miss Mustard Seed | Farmhouse on Boone | Maison De Pax | A Burst of Beautiful

Simply Designing | Bless’er House | Taryn Whiteaker Designs | Designthusiasm | Unskinny Boppy

Live Laugh Rowe | Kendra John Designs | House by Hoff | So Much Better With Age | Life On Virginia Street

ZDesign At Home | Town and Country Living | Shabbyfufu | Happy Happy Nester | Stacy Risenmay

Cherished bliss | Clean and Scentsible | anderson + grant | The Happy Housie | Summer Adams

Decor Gold Designs | Maison de Cinq | Seeking Lavender Lane

 

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It’s 2017 and I can’t believe it still!  Is it just me or did 2016 come and go with the blink of an eye? It was a good but busy and big year for us.  We moved from Las Vegas, Nevada back to Dallas, Texas…a very good move for our family.  With lots of fun DIY’s in our Vegas home, soon came packers and movers and then a home in Dallas to decorate.  There have been many projects and lots of entertaining and holidays.  I’ve shared several of them on the blog with you so I thought it’d be fun to round up the top 10 blog posts of this year and share them and re-live some of the fun!  So here they are…the Top 10 Posts of 2016!

Simple Bathroom Solutions That Make A Statement

While in our Vegas home, I shared how my DIY shelving transformed an awkward space in our master bathroom next to our tub.  I also shared a bunch of other bathrooms and how they used simple storage solutions to transform their spaces.

Framed Wallpaper Panels

This has been one of my favorite (and your favorite) DIY projects.  I love framed wallpaper panels if you’re not wanting to commit to a whole wall or room OR if you’re renting like we are and know you’re moving soon.  I think you’ll love my tutorial, as well as the other rooms and examples I shared.

Back To School In Style

I loved sharing our back-to-school dinner party with you!  I’m so glad you loved it too.  Visit this post to see what I made my family (this was a surprise dinner for my family) and how Brooklyn also went back to school in style.

Harvest Haven Fall Tour 2016

This was my first year of putting together this annual blog hop.  Visiting all of these beautiful fall homes was the best way to kick off the holiday season!

Autumn’s In The Air Fall Tour

Another fall tour but this one included one of my favorite tablescapes.  Blush mercury glass and glitter pumpkins with fresh white roses….it doesn’t get better than that!

Advice For My Daughter

This is my MOST visited blog post this year.  It’s MY favorite and I’m so so glad it is YOUR favorite!  It was written from the heart and means more to me than any other blog post I’ve ever written.  From homemaking to self-esteem, fashion to courage…..it has it all in one post. Stay tuned for another blog post this year that I’m writing for my son.

Winter Wonderland Party With Pottery Barn Kids

One of my FAVORITE parties of all time for my kids!  And I had the help of my friends at Pottery Barn Kids! Check out our Winter Wonderland Party and how you can throw your own!

Holiday Living Room Tour

This was one of my personal favorites because it included one of my new trees this year.  It was blush and gold and I loved it!

Home For The Holidays Blog Tour

My second Christmas tour was so fun because it included our new lovely “Winter Wonderland” tree.  Come check it out and make sure to pin it for next year!

How To Make Sparkly Marshmallows

When one of your posts goes viral quickly and you see it pinned over and over on Pinterest, that’s when you KNOW it’s a favorite!  That would be the case for this one.  These sparkly marshmallows almost look too pretty to eat but they are delicious!  Not only is it a fun treat during the holidays, but it’s perfect for all winter!

I don’t know about you, but I think 2016 was fantastic!  It was full of fun projects and memories and I learned so so much.  I hope you did too!  Whatever your plans are for 2017, I hope they bring many happy times together with the ones you love and I hope you are successful at whatever you do! I would love it if you subscribed at the top of the page in order to receive my weekly emails of all my latest posts.  You can also follow me on Instagram, Pinterest, and Facebook to see what I’m up to in creating a home and lifestyle of inspiration!  Hope to see you soon!
Please visit my other favorite blogger friends {below} and see what their top 10 posts were.  I hope you’re pinning away because there is more than a year’s inspiration between all of us, ha! So many fabulous and inspiring ideas!

xoxo,

Instant DIY Pure Vanilla Extract by TIDIBTS | Farmhouse Breakfast Nook Reveal by Nina Hendrick Design Co | Real World Organizing: How to Keep Your House Tidy by The Happy Housie | How To Clean Your Home In 30 Minutes A Day by StoneGable | Modern Farmhouse Paint Colors by A Burst of Beautiful | Summer Tour of my New House by So Much Better With Age

Before and After at our House by Zevy Joy | How to Build Industrial Shelves by Beneath My Heart | Is the Family Room Your Shining Star? by Decor Gold Designs | My Fresh New Blue Kitchen Reveal by The Wicker House | How to Frame a Bathroom Mirror by Cherished Bliss | Dramatic Kitchen Renovation without Removing Cabinets by Designthusiasm

Why Won’t My Hydrangeas Bloom by Kelly Elko | Sherwin Williams Poised Taupe – Color of the Year 2017 by Setting for Four | How To Make A Farmhouse Mason Jar Chandelier by Shabbyfufu | U-Pick Apples Free Printable by Paint Me Pink | Christmas Home Tour 2016 by Town and Country Living | How to Organize Every Space in Your House by Just a Girl and Her Blog

Paint Color Home Tour by Maison de Pax | My Home Tour by Nesting with Grace | DIY Sign for Fall by House by Hoff | Floral Printable Birthday Gift Tags by Live Laugh Rowe | How to Build a No Sew Teepee by Julie Blanner | How To Design A Room You Love by Life On Virginia Street

How To Get A Beautifully Organized Closet On A Budget by Fox Hollow Cottage | Entryway Essentials by Lindsay Hill Interiors | Summer Home Tour by Migonis Home | 13 things to do before you list your home by Style House Interiors

Decorated Office/Craft Room by Sunny Side Up | Summer Home Tour 2016 by Finding Silver Pennies | How to make a tufted headboard by Place of My Taste | Tips and Tricks for an Organized Pantry by Not Just a Housewife | Back To School In Style by Summer Adams Designs

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