“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!}

So if you are so inclined, I am now asking if you would take the time to go over and vote for my room here or

You can just copy and paste this url to go vote

http://community.apartmenttherapy.com/contests/color/2011/entries/3522

One last thing. If you would want to share this link on your Facebook or Twitter that would be appreciated as well.  I am a little behind on the votes compared to the other contestants, so I could really use the extra shout outs.  Thank you in advance, I really appreciate your help.

My room got picked for the Apartment Therapy Color Contest! is a post from: Cre8tive Designs Inc.

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.

Looking at this picture reminds me how much I love the wall paper I put on the back of the shelves.  It is a Phillip Jeffries glass bead wallpaper called Rock Candy, that is so amazing!  Little tiny beads of glass adhered on to the paper.  Not an easy wallpaper to install, it has to be professionally done, but oh so pretty.   Here is a close up of how it looks.

I love those glass grapes.  My mom used to make those back in the day.

Another popular picture that gets put into a lot of idea books is this one

This one has been added to 856 idea books.

It’s a woman’s bathroom in the same entertainment space as the kitchen.  I say woman’s bathroom, because there is a separate bathroom for the men, done in manly colors of greens and black  My inspiration for this bathroom design came from the wallpaper {by Osborne & Little, discontinued}  It is hot pink flocked damask print paired with sherbert orange as the accent color.  Now you see why there needed to be a separate men’s bathroom.

I just love this Caboche Chandelier, it gives off such fun reflections in the room.  The mirror I bought from Horchow.   The vanity was a thrift shop find, which really was a buffet.   I had it painted in a gloss white and added the hot pink 3 form acrylic top.  Finding a sink was challenging since the buffet was so shallow.

I just love the pink  iridescent glass tiles!

Another fun item I put in the lounge area of the entertainment room, {that I don’t have on the Houzz site},  are these foot stools from Design Within Reach {I don’t think they carry them anymore though}

They are made out of scrap foam pieces left over from making flip flops, how cool is that?

I don’t know if anyone ever noticed, but I deleted my portfolio page on my blog a couple of months back.  I took it down after the incident happened when someone was stealing my pictures and using them as their own work.  I realized I didn’t have any of my work water marked, so I took them off my blog. I haven’t found the time or energy to go back and watermark them all, so the closest thing I have to a portfolio is what is on Houzz,. and even that is minimal to what I actually have for my portfolio. {luckily they embed the pictures on their site, so I am not too worried about thievery}

Hopefully some day soon I will get that portfolio up again, but don’t hold your breath!  I am usually knee deep in other projects to sit down and do all that tidous work of watermarking.  Until then, if you want to take a peek at some of the nicer design work I have done, here is the link to my pictures on Houzz.

http://www.houzz.com/photos/users/cre8tivedesigns

Professional pictures taken by Tarasierraphotography

People are liking my Houzz pictures is a post from: Cre8tive Designs Inc.

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.

Lonemor is a post from: Cre8tive Designs Inc.