Belle Blanc’s New Book

I am so excited for my friends Mira and Bianca's!

Their book has finally arrived

and here you have a chance to get this book

in a giveaway.

A Beautiful Mess has

been working hard at getting this book here in the

states they will have it soon,

More on that later…

In the mean time check out this wonderful giveaway!!!

 

Have  a blessed day!

Dreamy Whites new online shop…

 I am so happy for Maria from Dreamy Whites who has finally opened her online shop! Maria and I have developed great friendship over the past year and I think she is so talented and sweet! She has a great heart and always cares about others. She has worked really hard on this.  I love her online store…

 

Maria has beautiful French Farmhouse Living finds that are my favorite. Head over to her shop and see all the gorgeous eye candy. I am trying to contain myself!!

Oh, one more thing there is a great giveaway going on

over at Keswick & Company for Dreamy Whites! Must see

Have a beautiful day friends!

Winner!!!

Congratulations Lissa from Humble Pie, lucky number 40.

You are the winner of this gorgeous willow basket and

these cheese markers!!! 

Thank you Kymberley from A Beautiful Mess for such a wonderful giveaway!

 

Please email me your info…

Thank you everyone for entering.

Have a great day !

Adore Home an online magazine…

Loni Parker, creator and designer behind Australia’s first online magazine  Adore Home contacted me to share with my readers about Adore Home!!! I am so excited to share this with you!!! I love this magazine.  It is full of fresh ideas and beautiful decor.  I can't wait for their next issue which will be out on the 1st of February. Don’t forget to check out  Adore Home Online Magazine!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our magazine is brand new to the market and has had an overwhelming positive response from readers and designers from Australia and overseas. In the first seven weeks of being online we have had over 24,000 visits to the website and over 2,300 subscribers to the Adore Home mailing list with these numbers increasing every day. All advertisements in the magazine have a hyperlink that links the reader straight to your website when clicked, making this a fantastic way to link potential customers straight to your products online!
To request a media kit for our rates and more information about Adore Home magazine please email sales@adoremagazine.com.

I will be back tomorrow!

Have a beautiful day!

New York Times & An Amazing Giveaway!!!

Hi friends!

I have been working hard as usual lately!!!  I have a ton to talk about today…I wanted to share with you my recent published  work in the New York Times. I was honored when Kymberley Fraser from A Beautiful Mess Antiques asked me to photograph their store for the New York Times. It was a fun project and pretty tuff, at times I thought what do I know to be doing this!!! But, we did it and I was honored beyond words to have my work appear this morning.  We made it in!!! (This image in the New York Times)

 

Pick up a copy of  the New York Times today and  check out this great article in the Home & Garden Section!  Also, A Beautiful Mess now has a blog and a gorgeous new website (photography for website done my me)!!!

In honor of all this beautiful madness, I am hosting an amazing giveaway!!

It has been a while since I have hosted and thrown a giveaway and we thought this would be a great way to celebrate the fun and exciting news…So, this gorgeous  willow basket, (note: not this exact one, no 2 are alike)  but, a willow basket itself with a vintage German Grain sack number stitched on it will go home to one lucky reader!!! I LOVE THESE BASKETS!  (This image in the New York Times)

Also, these cute Cheese Markers (know set of 6 are alike) a set of six will come in a package and will also go home with one lucky reader as well, Yes, both the basket and cheese markers are the giveaway for one reader! This is a very generous giveaway from Kymberley of A Beautiful Mess Antiques!!! Thank you! I really love working with Kymberley she is so talented, genuine and kind. She is always thinking of others! She deserves the best!

 

I needed to get my website up for a few deadlines that will be coming up soon. The talented, hardworking Cathy from Avalon Rose Design went to work overtime to help Kymberley and I out!!! I have used Cathy from Avalon Rose Designs for my blog header awhile back,  and I have referred her to many of my friends. They all love her work too and so do I. She is so talented and hard working and gets it done quick and perfect.  Cathy has also created my new website, Dustylu Styling & Photography.  We tried to tie it together with my blog so it works! There are going to be a few changes coming up on my blog too and I am so excited!

The simple rules for this giveaway!

1. Blog about this giveaway

2. Add both blogs to your sidebar 

3. Follow me and A Beautiful Mess new Blog 

4. Leave comments on both blogs!

Giveaway ends Friday January 14th 12 noon, pst

Thank you so much for all your support!

Always,

New ideas, New changes, New…

 

Hi there! What is it about the new year that makes me want to organize, clean everything, and de-clutter? Well, that is what I have been doing these past few days, amongst other things. Since the Holiday’s are over and I am feeling lighter, well, not lighter I am 4 months prego now and baby and I are gaining some weight. Lol. But,when I clean and organize I feel my thoughts and actions are much more clear, light even & I know what I need to do. Last year I really wasn’t into organizing much, but I think I am also in the nesting phase of my pregnancy & that might have a bit to with it!

I am making some changes around my blog, our house( painting some rooms), & exercising.  LIGHT LAVENDER is my new color for 2011. Can’t wait to share… when it’s done. I have also started developing a new Styling & Photography website that will be done later this week. I needed to get that done because I had a couple of very IMPORTANT deadlines I had to get in by last Friday. Which I did, and now the website will tie it all together. Keeping my fingers crossed that the website gets done!!! 

 

I love to style and photograph outside in unexpected places. So much is going on and photography school starts on the 10th! Whewww…more on that later…Ok, I won’t bore you with it too much…

“Four steps to achievement:

Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.”

William Arthur Ward

Be back soon,