Clean Slate

New Year, fresh slate. 

Speaking of slate - I love it,
both the color (grey and blue) and the rock!

Enjoy some crisp, clean slate inspiration to get you thinking about what you're going to do with your fresh slate in 2014! 

Sunroom with slate floor

Slate grey kitchen cabinets

Slate floor in a mudroom

Sheffield metal roof in 'slate grey'

Grey walls and crisp white cabinets in this kitchen are perfectly accompanied by beautiful slate floors

Slate front porch

Beautiful slate roofed garage

Slate fireplace surround

Slate carriage way adorn with lanterns - 

would love to see more of this fabulous New Orleans house!

Slate floors can be cold but the high beams, cozy furnishings, and lush looking rug make this room so warm an inviting!

Wet bar storage against a black wall and slate backsplash

Movin' On Up Tomorrow...

... but by golly party tonight!

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Happy New Year, friends!!

Merry, Merry

Lots of love to you and yours!

xoxo

My 2013 Christmas card

Bootiful!

Boo to you from 
this BLISSFUL crew!

It's been said that "Orange is the New Black" which of course makes for the perfect pallet when this day rolls around each year! Some pops of orange and black to add some sugar to your day!

Confession: the amount of candy I have eaten in the last 24 hours is cause for serious concern... but it's part of being "festive", right? 

Love everything about this room - especially the orange chairs

Black and white with splashes of orange. Loving that console table too!

This bedroom is the perfect canvas not only to add a splash of orange, but to add just about any color the heart desires!

Not exactly inline with the black, white and orange for Halloween but liked this orange chair so much I just had to share!

Now tell us... 
Does this room go too far? Bold black walls with all orange accents. Would you dare or is this too spooky?

Wicked Wednesday

Hope all of you are getting in the Halloween spirit... admittedly, Halloween is not my favorite but at the same time, who doesn't love a reason to decorate and have a party?! After Halloween comes my favorite, Thanksgiving... hard to believe they're right around the corner!

I was in New Orleans this past weekend and my, do they go all out!! Gracious!! Everything they do in that city is to the nth degree - just love all the excitement! Coming home to an nondecorated stoop has me feeling like a Halloween Grinch!

In case you too are looking to add a little wicked to your front stoop for all the trick-or-treaters who will come a knockin' tomorrow, here you go (and of course, there's always next year... never too early to start planning!)

By the way, take the wicked out of most of these and you have the perfect Thanksgiving front door decor for your family coming over for turkey in 4 weeks!

Hanging bats made simple with Martha's DIY project

Another idea with Martha's bats - hung across your door!
(make sure to hang with non-sticky tack so you can pull them right off on November 1st!)

Love the mix of stick and real pumpkins

Corn stalks and barrels of hay with some pumpkins and mums and voila! 

Pumpkins and lanterns 

(of course, it doesn't hurt to also have a festive orange door!) 

Pumpkins and sticks

A spider and some black ribbon - done!