House Rules Book releases April 23

Best of the Nest

Risk:: We’ve Been Conditioned to Not Make Mistakes

Check out over 300 links to risk takers on National {not really} Take A Risk Day


A Revolution :: Perfection is outdated in design

Slow Decorating :: Embracing the natural process from House to Home

Quieting the House & How to Edit a Room :: The decorating trick no one talks about and it’s all magical, irrational decorating math.

Enjoying the Process Mess and All

Two Ways To Get Things Done :: We All Know About the First Way, and HERE’s The 2nd

Master Bedroom Makeover :: Everything you never wanted to know

Confessions of a Thrift-a-holic :: A three part series

part 1 How to Cure Thrift Store Shopping–I Hate to Pass Up A Great Deal-itus Disease Syndrome

part 2 The Nesting Place Community Tells All : YOUR Thoughts on Thrifing-itus

part 3 : will I ever thrift again and other questions you want to ask me

Master of Your Domain :: Why I Decorated for Christmas With a Rock….And Liked It

The Secret Decorating Ingredient :: It’s Awful

I traveled to Tanzania and met a 15-year-old boy.  If you only ever read one post here, read this one. This is what he taught me.

The DIY post heard ’round the world :: How to Make An $18 Sunburst Mirror out of Poster Board

20 Ways to Decorate With Book Pages

How to Make A Plastic Spoon Laurel Wreath.  Yep, you read it correctly.

Over 300 unique wreaths for every season :: A link up featuring the Brilliant Nesting Place community

My Random Plate Wall & How to Make One of Your Own

This is Your House :: Is it Who You Want to Be? {a post especially for renters}

For the past 3 years during October I’ve written a 31 Day Series on a fun topic.

2009’s topic was 31 Days to a Better Dressed Nest.  I wasn’t all that organized back then, but if you click here and scroll down to the 3rd post, that’s where you’ll begin to see the list of posts in backwards order–they are stand alone posts so it doesn’t matter what order you read them

A Beautiful Mess :: A link to each post for the 2010, 31 Days to a Less Messy Nest Series

I asked seven friends to write a 31 Day topic on their own blog that year and it was so fun to have some other people to complain talk about how much fun writing for 31 days straight could be.


My topic for 2011 was Lovely Limitations.  You can read an explanation and see a link to each day’s post here.

In addition to the eight of us writing for 31 days, we opened it up to anyone who wanted to join in.

Imagine our surprise when over 700 people committed to writing on a topic of their choice for 31 Days.  My heroes.