My room got picked for the Apartment Therapy Color Contest!
Wow, I am so darn excited! On a whim a couple of weeks ago, I decided to enter one of my designs in the Apartment Therapy Color Contest. I didn’t hear anything right away, and actually forgot about it. Then this morning I got an email from them saying “Your entry has been selected for Apartment Therapy’s Room for Color Contest. “ What? Really? Awesome! Then I read what this entails to be in this contest…
“Readers have the opportunity to choose your entry as a “favorite” through noon (EST) on November 21, 2011. The top rooms (receiving the highest number of “favorites”) in each of the National divisions (North, South, East, West) will become our Regional finalist winners and will move on to the next round of voting to determine the Grand Prize winner.”
Oh dang! Really? I have to beg, plead, bribe my followers, family and friends to vote for me? Daunting, I tell ya. I guess I should of really thought of that before I entered. Then again, I didn’t really think they would pick my room.
But you know what? I have this little dream to get one of my designs published before I am 50. I turn 50 in January. Sigh. The end of my 40′s. Since I haven’t ever really made any effort to pursue this dream and January is creeping up on me, this would be just as good if not better than getting published. Apartment Therapy is big time, so I would be just as fulfilled with having my design on their website as the winner LOL {look at me dreaming of winning the whole thing!}
People are liking my Houzz pictures
I have some professional pictures of interior design work I have done on a web site called Houzz . For what ever reason, lately my design work has been included in many Houzz featured idea books, which is exciting! Anytime someone thinks my work is worthy of highlighting on a front page of their site is always humbling.
Have you ever been to this site? It is a web site that has beautiful pictures of homes and gardens, mainly uploaded by designers or architects. It is a place where homeowners or soon to be homeowners can book mark things they like. If you see something you like, you can add it to an idea book that you create. {it is similar to Pinterest but only for homes and gardens} And, if you really like someone’s work, you can contact them and discuss working with them. I have never been contacted, {sigh}, but I am always surprised on how many people have added my pictures to their idea books. Like this one
Put into 1,212 idea books! Wow huh? The comments are fun to read, all are very complimentary and some even in another language! I put in the description that this is a kitchenette but people I guess don’t get that. There are some comments on how it isn’t functional for a kitchen. It’s a kitchenette people, not a full on kitchen. But for the most part, everyone loves the color combination. wasabi green and aqua. This kitchenette is part of a whole entertainment room, so I went with decorative shelving rather than functional upper cabinets. But there are still plenty of lower cabinets to store useful items.
Lonemor
Woohoo! I did my first guest post over at Lonemor today.
Lone {great name huh?} asked me to guest post for her while she is out having her 3rd baby. I was so honored. Megan from Honey We’re Home introduced me to her blog one day when I mentioned I wish I knew more local bloggers. Lone’s blog is so refreshing and has such great eye candy posts, I just love her style and finds.
I talk about one of my favorite Designers, Amy Lau, and how she inspired one of my room designs. Here is a sneak peak
So if you want to, go on over and check it out here, I would love to know how you think I did for my first guest post.
