Whenever I come to New York I love going to stores that are found nowhere else in the world tinsel and trading is one of these iconic places.  I first fell in love with  Tinsel and Trading when I read Treasured Notions, a book about how the store came to be.  I’ve been to this little gem of a store […]

I  love to organize and I have been doing it professionally for years.  I think it stems from all those little containers my mom got me to put all my barbie shoes in or maybe it was because my mom was so organized that I just thought thats how things were done?  who knows,  but […]

Do you think I post too many recipes for cakes?  Ok maybe I do but I love love love a good baked good!  This is one of my absolute favorite cakes.  Even a devout chocoholic I can safely say that this is one of my all time favorite cakes.  and its so pretty!! This cake doesn’t […]

 Hello by now you know that I love to spray paint anything that does not move, well lets face it if it moves it might get painted too!  wink.   There are a few tips and tricks to painting stripes and dots on glass and wood  so lets get started. 1.  First you need to decide […]

Oh my gosh I’m in love with Navy and green right now.  I know my favorite color is white but I love to use different colors to accent every season and right now I love navy green and gold.  I did a little spot on KUTV at 7:00am in the morning on a Saturday  I know […]

I’m all about finding a cute ideas for a boy party!!  I have 4 boys you know, and although they are all growing up I still like to be on the hunt for cute ideas for boys.  No offence to the girls but come on its like 10 to 1 for a great party idea!!  LOL  […]

 Hello friends,  so excited to feature this darling vintage carnival themed party.  If you didn’t see me on Studio 5 today here is the recap of all these darling DIY’s that I’ve been posting over the last few weeks.  And Ill up date this to put the link to the show a bit later.   PS stay […]

there gold I know!!!!  I’m going to show you how to make these gold circus animals from these puppies or should I say animals.  They started out as regular plastic jungle animals I bought off of Amazon for 3.59$. 1.The first thing I did was to use my trusty Gold Krylon Spray paint to glam […]