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Food Network Magazine reached out a few months ago, asking if I was interested in decorating an Easter egg to represent Illinois, my home state. There would be a spread featuring one egg from eac...

https://makingitlovely.com/2018/03/21/a-frank-lloyd-wright-easter-egg-for-illinois/

I am a compensated Scotchgard Brand blogger ambassador. Opinions are my own and additional products used in the project were selected by me. A few months back, Scotchgard Brand invited me to Chic...

https://makingitlovely.com/2016/01/21/the-loveyourthings-shoot-with-scotchgard-brand-at-the-randolph-street-market/

2015: Year. Of. Many. Rugs. (Kidding! Sort of.) It was also the year my sister got married, I taught at Columbia college, and I did a few TV spots for WGN and WCIU (Chicago stations). I also work...

https://makingitlovely.com/2015/12/22/a-look-back-at-2015/

Someone from HGTV Magazine reached out to me back in December of last year. Would we be interested in having our home featured? Yes! Scouting shots were sent, the initial contact person passed th...

https://makingitlovely.com/2015/12/17/our-home-featured-in-hgtv-magazines-christmas-issue/

I did a segment this morning on a Chicago morning show, You & Me (live!), discussing my Bright Friday partnership with Glade®, showing a few handmade gift tag ideas (more on that to come soon), ...

https://makingitlovely.com/2015/11/23/style-all-aflutter/

I recently worked with Make it Better to create three different looks around one coffee table. The main elements stayed the same (obviously the table itself, but also the rug, the sofa, and even ...

https://makingitlovely.com/2015/06/01/one-coffee-table-styled-three-ways/

This has been an excellent week for Calvin to go through sleep regression! You’d think a baby could get his act together by now, am I right? Anyway, we’re on the other side of our big photo s...

https://makingitlovely.com/2015/04/09/thats-a-wrap/

Things are a little crazy here, in the best way. I’m styling a photo shoot here for a magazine on Thursday, which should be a fun feature that we can knock out in a day. Then in two weeks, our ...

https://makingitlovely.com/2015/03/23/shoot/

This post is sponsored by Lowe’s. The weekend before last, I hosted a Style Saturday event at my local Lowe’s. It’s a little strange to walk into a place and be greeted by your own smiling ...

https://makingitlovely.com/2014/08/12/my-style-saturday-event/

This post is sponsored by Lowe’s. I flew out to New York a couple of weeks ago to film a segment at the Meredith studio for Better TV. (I went to six cities over the course of a month while in ...

https://makingitlovely.com/2014/07/31/three-easy-wallpaper-projects/