Passions & Projects

Everything that sparks an interest with a will and a way to achieve it.

DIY Sharpie Wallpaper

Ok, so call me crazy but here is where my happy is leading me today.  I want to try the DIY Sharpie “Wallpaper” I’ve seen popping up all over my favorite sites.  And just this week the perfect idea popped into my head.  I was flipping through Happy Handmade Home by the super talented and oh so clever sisters behind A Beautiful Mess and  it hit me.  In the book, one of their bedrooms is displayed with a stunning hand made accent wall.  It’s gorgeous.  And I want it. So here’s my plan,  I want to replicate this look in our guest house with the phrase “be my guest.”  Currently I just have wall decals above the headboard, I know,…

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Waiting Game – Bringing Nicasa to life one DIY at a time!

This is always the hardest part of any project, waiting for all your goodies to arrive, the excitement of opening all the boxes combined with the slight anxiety of evaluating your purchases — I love it.  All of it.  Even the anxiety, because that’s where I’m forced to get creative, even if only in my minds eye and everything ends up better than expected in the end.  But if I have any doubts, the waiting game allows me to get my own game plan going, think of solutions to marrying styles, textiles, colors, you name it.  Waiting also allows me a chance to get all the prep work done, and there’s always more than you think before you can start…

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While you were sleeping…

…I made these pretty little guys!  Remember these heads from my Home Goods score?  Well, here they are all dressed up and ready for Nicasa! All I used:  faux flowers, yarn, my trusty scissors, a needle and thread and in once case, some metallic paint and therefore a paintbrush. Other than that, no rules, no instructions, no real how-to adorn your faux head with flowers or how-to add flowers to antlers.  Just start creating what makes you happy.  Seriously, it’s that easy. I didn’t even stick myself with the needle (this time)! And all while you were sleeping.  🙂  

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  • clowns

    from a photo

  • art print

    from an art print Society6

  • sebastian

    Sebastian's gallery wall

  • school art

    from our doodles

How-to Turn Your Photos to Canvas Yourself

When trying to decide what my first DIY du jour project would be, the decision was a happy no brainier.  Ever since I stumbled on a post a few months back (while sitting at my desk at work, clearly distracted) on how to turn your photos to canvas I haven’t stopped doing it.  It’s crazy cheap, requires all of 6 things, and you defiantly already own 4 of them.  And the BEST part is you don’t have to stop with photos.  If it fits on canvas (or at least some part of it), you can pretty much “turn” it into canvas. This project is an amazing way to display your fondest memories or give as gifts and a let minute…

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Gettin’ by With a Little Help From My Friends

I didn’t see the text that came in at 7:11 this morning from my friend Kim because I was asleep.  Not that that is unusual for many but for me, a mother of 3 toddlers, it is.  I was asleep because setting up this blog while having 3 toddlers means I do it when they go to bed and therefore I don’t.  Not as of now anyway, I’m learning just how steep this learning curve actually is.  But this morning my husband was home and the kids were all good (I’m assuming as I still have all 3 of them!) and I got some much needed rest. My friend however didn’t get much rest and needed to talk, so I…

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Home Goods High

Home Goods happy, no way!   I’m on a Home Goods high.  Seriously, I feel like I’ve hit the Home Goods lottery.  And for anyone in the Los Angeles area, it was the Westchester Home Goods to be exact, near the airport.  I’m telling you, s e r oi o u s l y good stuff right now.  The kind of stuff that begs you to scrap whatever you came in for and head off in a whole new inspired direction.  I made two trips this week and neither disappointed. But let me back up.  Remember that friend I mentioned in Mysterious Ways, the one who resigned without a plan?  Well, she made a plan and she has a vision.  …

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  • 5 year journal
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  • dreams journal circle
  • make good circle
  • circle desk wider
  • desk art
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  • oprah desk
  • target board
  • target board 2
  • desk page inspiration
  • alt angle desk
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  • bins circle

My Space

It took me less than a day to finish Luna’s book, The Crossroads of Should and Must and feeling really positive I immediately jumped into Badass, partly because I was feeling like one and partly because I still had a lot of time on my hands.  But I also had a project swirling around in my head that I needed to just do. Inspired by Luna and cheered on by Jen, I knew I needed to do what felt right, what made me happy and not get caught up in my own head, tripping up over too many questions or doubts.  Don’t think just do, I told myself.  And what did I do next?  I went to Target. “Most answers…

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