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Quick and Easy Valentine’s Day Decorations

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You guys may have noticed that I’m pretty lazy when it comes to seasonal decorating.  I love to decorate the rooms in my home, but the thought of decorating just to take it down a few weeks later makes me crazy.  I usually do a pretty good job with Christmas, but decorating for the other holidays gets pushed to the back burner when other, more permanent decorating is in the works.

I’m trying to change that.

Quick and Easy Valentine's Day Decor | Makely School for Girls

This year, I’m continuing my partnership with Glidden as a team member for their My Colortopia site. There, I’ll be providing original blog posts and reader advice on all things color {my FAVORITE subject!}.  A little tutorial I wrote on quick and easy Valentine’s Day decorations is up and running on the My Colortopia blog, so head over there and check it out.

Are you a big seasonal decorator or not?  If you are, please share with me your quick and easy tips!

My Eclectic Home Office Reveal

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I am convinced that one of the personality traits of a DIY blogger is the super power to blindly overlook clutter.

I used to think that it was just me.  I wouldn’t put away a ladder, because I needed to use it “tomorrow” to hang a curtain rod.  The paint cans would sit for weeks in a room that I had just painted, because I needed to touch up paint in a few spots.  Little by little, it built up because I was always moving on to the next project before I finished a previous one.  My other DIY blogger friends admit to me that they have the same problem, so it’s good to know that I’m not alone.  I swear, I was not like this before I jumped head first into redoing my house.

Unfortunately, that little personality trait means that we DIY bloggers all have a room in our homes that is a danger zone.  Mine was in my home office, and it was anything but an inspiring place to work.  In fact, if I could make it over the piles of homeless toys and wayward pieces of furniture without maiming myself, I could call it a good day.  This photo shows my former office on one of my “picked up” days.

Eclectic Home Office | Makely School for Girls

Negatory, y’all.  It was painful, and it just couldn’t go on.

So, in an effort to save myself from myself, this cluttered office became the next victim as I rid my house of blah blah builder’s beige and give it some style.  It’s now a far cry from it’s sad beginnings.

Eclectic Home Office | Makely School for Girls

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