Guiding You to Be So Creative ~ Be So Productive ~ Be So Entertaining
Passionately encouraging others to reach their full creative potential through my own creative journey.
I’ve been procrastinating about writing this post for the Style Defined series for quite a while. I even created a Pinterest board for it and kept it private until now. Follow Dancing Dish & Decor’s board cottage-chic-style-defined on Pinterest. Part of the reason for the delay is I’m not sure how many of you will …
Time Is a Resource You don’t need me to tell you that time lost can never be found again. You can find money. How many quarters are under your car seat right now? You can redevelop skills, creativity and talents you thought you had lost. Time is the one resource we have that we cannot …
The Retro Style Recipe I think if you took a little Kitsch, a little Resort, some Vintage, a bit of Hollywood Regency and a lot of mid-century modern and mixed it well, you’d have the perfect recipe for Retro style. It’s fun, flirty and somehow comfortable. I think the show Mad Men brought on a …
Are the Details Blurry? How do you get started decorating a room in your home? How do you focus your design inspiration? Just like any other goal, you should start with the end in mind and reverse engineer it. (You can read HERE about how I reverse engineer party planning). You usually already know the purpose …
Zen Home Decor I could feel the calming effects of Zen home decor, while researching for this post. Decorating with a Zen style invites tranquility and peace into your home. Like Waldorf, Zen style can be very much a lifestyle, not just a home decor style. You could choose to create a Zen corner in …
The Two Flavors of Goth Style When I started research on the Goth style I expected to find skulls and lots of black. I found that and more. Although Etsy has Goth listed as a style category, its roots probably start in Victorian Gothic. The Victorian Gothic architectural movement dates back to the 1740s. Fastforward …
More Proactive Productivity Save yourself the time that will be wasted if your cards are compromised. In a related post, 10 Tips for Proactively Protecting Personal Info, I shared that one facet of productivity is being proactive. In that post there were tips on protecting yourself from identity theft. With Christmas less than 90 days …
Prevention Is Productive I think a huge part of productivity is proactively preventing problems. By taking steps to prevent problems you both free your mind from worry and save the time you would spend resolving a preventable problem. With the Holiday shopping season upon us, it’s time to think about proactively protecting ourselves from cyber-crime. …
Your Private Oasis While I did not think writing about resort style living would be easy, I did not know if would be so difficult. So far I’ve only been able to find 22 pins to put on the Pinterest board. Hopefully by the time you get to read this there will be more. This …
Grown-up Play Time – Does Play Matter to You? Your life is busy! So much that must be done and so little time. You are overwhelmed. You search for ways to organize, streamline and be more productive in less time. You are stressed. You’ve hit a brick wall of frustration. What’s the answer? Might I …