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!
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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I am looking for the curtains you had in your bedroom in 2018 post. Thank you
Hi Linda, those were a HomeGoods find. I looked everywhere for them online to link them for you but couldn’t find them. So sorry!