🌸 Moodboard Monday 🌸 Some people see a mess of flowers. I see a color conversation. This week's moodboard started with those rich blue hydrangeas and wandered from there. One flower whispered, "Bring the navy." Another insisted on olive greens. Before long, warm orange and deep burgundy had pulled up a chair too. Funny how creativity works. It rarely arrives alone. That's one of my favorite exercises when I feel stuck. I don't ask, "What should I create?" I ask, "What colors are already telling a story?" This palette could become: 🎨 A painted dresser 🛋️ A cozy living room 🪵 A website design 🧵 A quilt 📸 A photography edit 🏡 Even the inspiration for an entire room. There are no creativity police handing out tickets for unexpected color combinations. Sometimes the colors that "shouldn't" work together end up creating something unforgettable. Your Creative AF challenge: Find one photo today that catches your eye. It could be flowers, an old truck, peeling paint, a coffee shop, or a random puddle after the rain. Pull 5 to 6 colors from it and build your own moodboard. Then tell us... What would you create with this palette? Let's fill the comments with color and inspiration. You never know whose next masterpiece begins with your ordinary photo. 🎨✨

Please show me what y’all have been up to! I used one of Kelly’s fabulous designs to make another mirror! Found the framed mirror on Marketplace. I love it! It goes so well with the other one I did and my pink fireplace! (Fireplace is not finished yet!)

I created this moodboard because I wanted to experiment with a color combination I don't see very often. Over the last decade, coral has typically been paired with navy, teal, sage green, turquoise, cream, or charcoal. Mustard yellow is more often found alongside gray, navy, olive green, rust, or black. But what happens when coral and mustard become the main characters? For me, this palette feels like sunshine with a vintage soul. It gives me Mid-Century Modern vibes, Palm Springs charm, retro boutique hotels, and those perfectly worn spaces that somehow feel both energetic and relaxing. As creatives, it's easy to stay inside the color combinations we already know work. Sometimes the magic happens when we step outside of them. So I'm curious... • What does this moodboard make you think of? • Do these colors work together for you? • What feeling do they create? • If you were creating art inspired by this palette, what would you make? Sometimes creativity starts with asking, "What if these two things belonged together?" Here's artwork that changes the "style vibe" of the mock up and adds cream but uses the colors from the moodboard. The possibilities are endless...what will you create?

Look at me posting early in the day LOL! (It's the little things sometimes! 🥳) Pretend you're standing in a sun-warmed Mediterranean courtyard. The stone has a story.The linen has texture.The figs are perfectly imperfect.The lemon refuses to be ignored. Now ask yourself: What are you drawn to first? - The color? - The texture? - The shape? - The contrast? Because that's usually the clue to what wants to show up in your next piece of art. Sometimes inspiration isn't a a picture. Sometimes it's a feeling wrapped in color, texture, and possibility. 👇 What grabs your attention first in this moodboard?

So... yesterday and today were supposed to be productive. Instead, I got an unexpected lesson in what I'm now calling the Mercury Scary. ☠️ I hopped on a zoom call, ready to focus on my business, when Craig suddenly came barreling into the house in full panic mode... and immediately started stripping off his clothes and putting them in a trash bag while on the phone with someone. Naturally, this seemed concerning. (Thank God I didn't have the camera or audio turned on! 🤣) Turns out the storage unit he had purchased and cleaned out contained beakers, vials, and Mercury. Before the day was over, the police, fire department, and multiple government agencies were involved. The storage unit got roped off like a crime scene. The police asked if he was making meth. His response: "I called YOU guys." Meanwhile, the fire department cleared him to come home, but then another agency called to explain they would be visiting today to test the mercury levels on everything he brought home, his truck, his clothing, and basically anything that may have crossed paths with him. Then came instructions on how to dispose of the clothing and shoes he had been wearing. How to clean the floors. Checking the dog's paws. Then checking the cat's paws. Then, walking through the house with a flashlight to see if microscopic mercury particles had somehow hitchhiked their way into the house. And somewhere in the middle of all this... My business call was still happening, and our dinner was now burning. Whatever I was supposed to be doing completely left the building. The moral of the story? Some days you're crushing your goals. Some days you're helping inspect pet paws for toxic metals while trying not to burn the house down while in the middle of a hot flash. Both count as surviving the day. Creative entrepreneurs tend to beat themselves up for the things they didn't get done. But life happens. Businesses are built in the middle of chaos, interruptions, unexpected detours, and occasionally hazardous materials.