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Valentine

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Online favs for the home

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Brass Swan

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Another great find at the Goodwill...

Good Will Find

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and look where it came from...gotta love me some Indigo!

House Tour: Live Creating Yourself

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In love is all I can say, what a chic and cozy space via Live Creating Yourself...

House Tour: Nicole Gibbons

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Take a look at the home of Nicole Gibbons of So Haute...

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Valentine

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Gold Cutlery

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my newest Etsy purchase...

loving my gold flatware set

Canadian Design Bloggers Meetup: 2012

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I had a wonderful time at the Canadian Design bloggers meetup this past weekend, and it's hard to believe that after so many years of blogging this is the first time I was actually able to attend one of these great events! And get this... not only did I get to meet some fabulous bloggers and catch up with some old blogging friends but I also won an amazing Delta faucet!! WOO HOO!!

me and Chanele Cote from designBLISSinc

My winning moment :)

and my prize

Can't wait for the next one!!

images via 1 & 2

Trump Hotel: Toronto

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I stumbled upon the Trump International Hotel website for an event I am attending and was completely wowed by the fabulous design, have a look:

this campaign style washroom vanity has got to be my favourite!

all images via

And the Winner is...

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Congratulations!! Please message me with your mailing address to claim your fabulous prize!!

Have a great weekend everyone.

January Giveaway: Pillow

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I have a great new giveaway for all of you lovely readers this month courtesy of milk and cookies. Owner Misty has turned a passion for design and decor into her own online business via milk & cookies Canada on Etsy.The name milk & cookies came from Misty's notion of "pillows as comfort food for a home. They are inexpensive indulgences that can instantly change the mood of a room."

Take a look at some of her work:

Up for grabs: One 25 dollar pillow cover.

To Enter: You must be a follower of WALLPAPER and leave a comment and let me know what inexpensive indulgences do you think can instantly change the mood of a room?

For additional entries:

1. Add Milk and Cookies Canada to your Etsy favs, come back and leave a comment telling me what your favorite item is in her shop.

2.Become a follower of Milk and Cookies blog.

Contest Closes: Friday, January 20th 2012 at 11:59 pm, central time.

Other Info: I will select the winner using random.org and announce the winner on Saturday, January 21st 2012...Good luck!!

P.S. Use the code WALLPAPER at checkout to get a 10% discount on all Milk and Cookies Canada purchases.

Happy New Year from Cuba!

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Wishing everyone a spectacular New Year!!

White Christmas

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DIY: Mercury Glass

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great DIY project via Teal and Lime

Holiday Party

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Etsy Holiday

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Signs of the Holidays

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DIY: Tissue Luminaries

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Found this amazing DIY from Hey Gorgeous blog, I have to try this one for sure!

New at Chapters

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I really just love this place!! their Lifestyle section just keeps getting better and better!!

via Chapters

Kate Spade's Home

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Fall Looks

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Happy Halloween!

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Around the house

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my new gold scissors

small apothecary jar from the dollar store

vintage necklace

Halloween

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Just a few spooky elements to spruce up the front of my house for Halloween

Amethyst

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Pretty Pretty

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Favourite Halloween Flicks

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With Halloween just around the corner, here are my top three favourite Halloween flicks:

Hocus Pocus

Practical Magic

one of my favourite things about this movie has got to be the Victorian house they used to film in

and the local herbal remedies store that Sandra Bullock's character owns and runs is amazing...I always wanted to have my own store just like this!

here is one of my favourite scenes from the movie...

The Craft

little known fact: when I was young my friends and I actually tried the "light as a feather, stiff as a board" levitating trick... it didn't work!

I can't stand tons of blood and gore I always got nightmares from the super scary flicks. Growing up these three were some of my fav's. So what are some of your favourite Halloween flicks?

Gobble Gobble

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Happy Thanksgiving to all my wonderful fellow Canadians!

images via here and here

Milk Glass

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my newest finds at Value Village

Kelly Hoppen Interiors

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Around the house

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ART show

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This past Sunday I was lucky enough to attend an art exhibit featuring the super talented artist Denyse Thomasos. To make it even better, my sister had the unique opportunity to assist the artist by volunteering her artistic talents along with some of her academic peers by helping to paint a section of the installation. Very proud of my super talented sister and all the great artists she gets to work with!

Halloween Mask

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This would make for some awesome Halloween attire don't you think?

Halloween Inspired

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via 1 & 2

What I like...

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If it makes you happy...

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my find at the CNE

fabric to love from here

a metal deer head I have yet to mount from here

another score from HomeSense!

and my favourite candles from here

what's been making you happy lately?

Ellie Somerville: Studio Space

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The Marion House

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Wowzer look at this house! What a beaut...

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WWW

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The Who What Wear headquarters isn't it fab!

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J. Crew at Yorkdale

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That's right J. Crew has finally come to Canada!! The newest and only Canadian location is at Yorkdale Mall. I think I need to pay them a visit...

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Chapters

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I need all of these!

via Chapters

New accessories

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From table to bench... The after

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Remember the before from yesterday...

and the after again...

Beautiful Home

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From table to bench...

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Here is a sneak peek of what I have been working on for the last few days. I am super excited to reveal the after tomorrow, but for now here is the before:

the fabric and materials

Around the house

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books

scents

and owls

Guest Blogging

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Head over and have a look at my favourite interior...

Deborah Lloyd's Home

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Sheryl Crow's House

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My wish list: design books

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Think you may purchase any of these?

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Sunny Yellow

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Loving this yellow, great for a chic summer day!

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What I like...

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from Anthropologie...

Weekend Ambiance

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what did you do this weekend?

Summer Style

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images via 1, 2, 3, 4

Summer Camping

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what I was up to this past weekend...

How have you been spending your summer?

Outdoor Spaces

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Here are two great outdoor spaces...

via Just Bella

via Johns Journal

Before & After

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my $5 lantern from HomeSense

and the after

ugly owl

and now after, looking over the garden

More Favourites...

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Favourites around my place...

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faux coral

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Inspired by this post I tried my hand at making my own faux coral and here is the result...

this plastic coral is actually from the Aquarium section at Walmart!

I just spray painted it and even let a little of the paint chip

for a more realistic effect

a cool tip to make it look more three dimensional, is to put grey spray primer underneath

and then spray over that with a lighter colour

and voila!

$5 Tray $5 Ring

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Two of my newest purchases

Inspired Work Space

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I could definitely get used to working here...

all images via The Glamourai

Chic Outdoor Entertaining

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I fell in love with this entire setup...

images via style at home

Fresh Flowers

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can't help but enjoy this every time I relax on the sofa...

Happy Birthday Canada!

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New accessories

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Picked up two pairs of these neat earrings in black and teal from here...

Glossy Black Ladder

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Look what I picked up from china town and spray painted a glossy black!

Fly me to the moon

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Just sharing some of my fun from this weekend. My boyfriend and I celebrated our 10 year Anniversary!! (Yup I've been with my fella since I was 17) so we took to the skies. The fun isn't over yet I have a birthday Monday, so lots more fun, laughs and presents!!

The Secret Garden

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via Style at Home

What I like...

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images via, here, here, here, here

Pretty Pictures

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Lucky me I get to work with this uber talented photographer, aren't her photos just beautiful, have a look at more of her stuff here...

Brights+ Neutrals

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images via 1, 2, 3

Courtney Cox's Home

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Have a look at the amazing home of Courtney Cox...

via Elle Decor

Beautiful Spaces

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Moving Images...

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Aren't these just gorgeous...

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Lights out!

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the power was out on my whole street, so I lit some candles and watched the storm through my window...

Flowers in my tea pot

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Yup that's exactly what I said, why not get another use out of it right?

All the pretty flowers

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This is what I have been enjoying lately... my own front yard.

Feels like summer...

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images via here and here

Can you say gorgeous!

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I fell in love with these spaces from the latest LONNY

Go ahead and get ready to drool...

New at Chapters

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Have a look at the newest from my one of my favourite places Chapters

Inspired

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Some of what I've been loving while blog surfing...

images via here, here and here

Happy Mother's Day

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Wishing all you amazing mother's (including my own) a Happy Mother's Day!

The fabric of life...

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I love all of the great cotton commercials, I especially love all of the beautiful homes they take place in, so dreamy...

Beauty Bag: Alex, Things that Sparkle

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I am so excited that Liz invited me here today to share whats in my beauty bag! I have always loved this series, it's so much fun to get to see all the goodies that other people use.

So here is my cosmetic bag!

This little bag was a high school graduation present that I still absolutely adore. And surprisingly, after 8 years, its still in great condition! I love that it has my monogram and up close the material has a gorgeous texture.

For some reason I couldn't get this picture sharper, I'm sorry! But this is where I store all of my makeup brushes. I saw this idea on a blog a while back and loved it. Recycling an old candle is the perfect way to store my brushes!

And here is my makeup... I am definitely not one of those girls with a big makeup collection (although I really wish I was). Sadly, when I put on lots of makeup, I end up looking like a clown, so I stick to the basics. After trying lots and lots of different brands, these are my absolute favorites that I would recommend to anyone!

1. An Shu Uemura Eyelash Curler but wow is it worth it

2. Bobbi Brown Bronzer in 3 (Dark). I'm really pale, but this way I can do a light dusting and it makes a big impact.

3. Nars blush in Desire- the perfect pink cheeks

4. Lancome Mascara (it vibrates, and as weird as that sounds, it's amazing)

5. Chanel Waterproof Eyeliner. Again, expensive but so so worth it. I have a problem that within an hour, my eyeliner is greasy and all over my face. This is the only one I've ever used that doesn't do that. Its like a tattoo. We're soulmates.

Thank you again for having me over today! xoxo

Thanks to Alex of Things that Sparkle for sharing!

Things that make me happy...

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some leopard print

a new book

a new teapot

Beauty Bag: Vanessa, Vanessa and Valentine

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Hello lovely readers of Wallpaper! This is Vanessa coming to you from sunny Los Angeles! I was so thrilled that Liz asked me to be part of this series because I've literally been wearing makeup pretty much my entire life!!! I'm one who cruises the makeup counters and Sephora regularly, checking out new products, and I always seem to make friends with the sales girls. I love giving advice about makeup and products to my friends and family, and even the friendly strangers that I meet in the stores. I'm the one who always applied my girlfriend's makeup before we went out to parties during our teens and 20s, and I even did my own makeup for my wedding! In another life I must have been a makeup artist! To me makeup is like painting and I apply techniques I learned while studying art to the face. I also read somewhere that women who wear makeup to work, earn higher salaries! Whether that's true or not, I don't know, but I definitely am one who "puts on my face" everyday. I work as a Creative Recruiter in my day job, and I'm constantly in front of new clients and talent daily, so I think it's important to put my best face forward. I own too much makeup for it to fit in a bag, so here's what's in my makeup drawer!!!!

1st "You Can Tell A Lot About Someone By Their Skin"

You can own the most expensive makeup in the world, but if you don't have good skin, it doesn't matter. My sister works for Murad in Manhattan Beach and I'm lucky to get the most amazing products for next to nothing. MY ABSOLUTE CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT PRODUCT is what I call "botox in a bottle without the needle": Murad's Intensive Resurfacing Peel. I use this little miracle mask twice a week and my skin glows like it does when I get mircro-dermabrasion facials! I swear, the next day my makeup goes on so nicely and it looks like I've gotten 12 hours of sleep, even though I haven't (I have a 4 month old, so I will do whatever I can to look well rested). These are my other favorite Murad products: Tinted SPF 15 Moisturizer, Hydrating Toner, Intensive Wrinkle Reducer For Eyes (I use on my entire face - again it's like botox in a bottle), Hydrodynamic Ultimate Moisturizer, Clarifying Body Spray (for bacne - yuck), Firm and Tone Serum (I used everyday of my pregnancy and have no stretch marks-yay)! I swear by these products!

Good Foundation is a Must

For great coverage and again to protect my skin from the sun I use Laura Mercier's Foundation, Tinted Moisturizer, and Foundation Powder. I've tried them all, but these products are my favorites.

BRONZER, BRONZER, and more BRONZER!

I can't get enough of Bronzer! I love looking tan year round, without actually going in the sun, so I use Bronzer very generously. I love them all (Cargo, Nars, and Smashbox are favorites), but I just bought Estee Lauder's Bronze Goddess because I liked the packaging. I literally have 3 bronzers going at once, one in my purse, one at work, you get the idea!

Cheeks

Along with my bronzer I love to apply blush to have a flushed pop of color! My favorites are Bobby Brown Coral, Nars Orgasm, and a pink mosaic that I got from Victoria's Secret.

Eyes

While doing "research" for my wedding makeup, I found a great product by MAC called Painterly. I use this daily to keep my eyeshadow and eye liner in place. It's a miracle and I won't ever wear eyeshadow again without this product! For eyeshadow, I love Bobby Brown, Nars, MAC, and Smashbox. I prefer dark browns for a smokey look and creamy whites under the brow to make your eyes pop and look alert! Eye liner is a must and MAC's Stubborn Brown is my go to for that. I think brown is less severe for the office and great for daily use. I am obsessed with having groomed eyebrows that are thick without being overly done so I get them professionally threaded regularly. To top off the eyes, She Uemura's eyelash curler is the best I've found, and I use cheap drugstore mascara - L'Oreal Voluminous in Blackest Black.

Lips

I think every woman needs a great nude lipstick, a sexy lip gloss, and a classic red lipstick in her bag. I start with lip liner always - Lorac 05 (the perfect nude that actually shows) and 06 (a rosy color) the consistency is great and easy to wear. Laura Mercier is my preference for lipstick - my daily colors are Coral (which also mixes great with reds), Caramel for my pinky nude, and my red is Truly Red (it has blue undertones that I love)!

Nails

I love getting mani/pedis every two weeks. Chanel Vamp and Django are my classics. I also love great reds like Essie Lollipop!

Brushes

Having great brushes allow you to apply your makeup easier - my faves are MAC, Trish McEvoy, and Bobby Brown. Sephora makes decent brushes too at good prices.

Perfume

I never leave home without it. The one I use daily is a big bottle of Chanel Gardenia. I just love the way this perfume smells and it never offends anyone in the office like perfume can sometimes do. The other ones in rotation are Crabtree and Evelyn's Rosewater, Versace's Crystal Noir (there are notes that remind me of coconut - love that!), Chanel Cristalle is my daily winter fragrance, Tocca's Stella was a Valentine's gift that I adore, Trish McEvoy Gardenia is great for summer nights, and Fresh's Lemon Sugar is heavenly.

Warmest Thanks to you Liz for including me in your series! Cheers Everyone!!!

xo,

Vanessa

Thanks to the fabulous Vanessa from Vanessa and Valentine for sharing all her amazing beauty advice!!

Things that make me happy...

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My new soapstone box

my ever-growing collection of wine corks

and a fury visitor

Flower Arranging: diy style

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Check out this beautiful and very creative DIY flower arrangement over at The Art of Doing Stuff...

A masculine/feminine space

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I don't know why but I've always loved masculine spaces, there's something dark, sexy and mysterious about them. I have a love of all things black, white and grey, this is clearly evident from my bedrooom. Even my wardrobe is very neutral, with pops of colour when needed. But I have this other half that loves all things feminine and pretty, I am a sucker for anything sparkly and pretty. I actually think it's best to combine the two! here are two homes that do just that...

images via apartment therapy

Interested in Guest blogging?

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I thought I would take the time and ask all you lovely readers and browsers of this blog if you or anyone you may know would be interested in contributing to the "Beauty Bag" series. I've had such great success with some uber fabulous and stylish bloggers sharing their beauty finds and secrets with us here, and I've received great feedback from readers telling me about how much they appreciate all the recommendations and tips they read in the "beauty bag" series! This makes me so happy!! I love utilizing this blog as a way for all us girls to come together and share with each other and help each other out. So this leads me to my main point, since the new year there have been a lack of posts for this great series. So I am calling all bloggers...any of you want to share your beauty bag just email me: www.wallpaper.homeblog@yahoo.ca

Looking forward to hearing from you girls!!

Gorgeous Small Spaces

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Apartment Therapy does these great posts about "cool small spaces" and I usually check it out every year and I am always impressed by what some people can do with their small spaces. I have to admit that this year's entries were really amazing though! Have a look...

982 square feet

400 square feet

375 square feet

head over here and have a look at all of the entries, there are lots more creative small spaces!

all images via apartment therapy

diy: Sunburst Mirrors

2011-04-09T06:00:00.001-04:00

I have always wanted a sunburst mirror and have yet to find one at a price I like. But after finding these amazing DIY's I think I may just make one for myself!

Have a look at these easy do-it-yourself sunburst mirrors from around the blog world...

via here

What do you all think, should I try making one?

High Gloss Fav's

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Like my post title says, here are just a few of my favourites from this edition of High Gloss...

Have a great weekend everyone!