The Totally Awesome Blog Hop All Stars Edition!

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Hello, and welcome to the Totally Awesome Blog Hop!!

This marks the six month anniversary of this amazing blog hop. Our aim has been: broadening circles, encouraging community, and making new friends. We have definitely accomplished all this and more! Because of its success, this blog hop we co-created will be an All-Stars edition. Meaning this time around, there are ten amazing hosts who have all already co-hosted, love it, and want in again!!

As always, the hop will be linked between all ten sites, ensuring everyone's links get seen and clicked. We want our audiences to get to know each other! Our goal is community building between like-minded folks, and this is a place for of people to meet, make friends, and expand their following!

Participation is super simple, although the rules are a little different this time around-

#1 Visit all ten hostesses sites, and follow any four hostesses of your choosing!

Chantilly of ChantillySongs
Alycia of the Curious Pug
Marilyn of Pulp Sushi
Rachel of Rachel the Hat
Gentri of Gentri Lee


(We promise you will love these blogs, and they are all totally worth getting to know!!)

#2 Link your blog/ website

#3 Visit other sites, follow, and comment

#4 Grab a button & post it on your blog

#5 Post about it on twitter, facebook, and all your social media sites

We love you, and thank you!


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5 Decorating Tips for Beach House Style

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You can live miles from the beach but still get the look with just a few essential ingredients…




Get au naturel Textures, decorations, colours and scents inspired by nature and the sea are the easiest way to make you think you were there. Think sea grass mats, starfish and shells dotted around your bookshelves, a piece of driftwood on the coffee table, a frangipani-scented candle, bamboo blinds or unbleached linen curtains. Even a glass hurricane lamp filled with sand and with a candle popped in the middle with scream ‘the beach‘! 


 

 
Let there be light One thing beach houses have in common is an abundance of light to give that airy, breezy feel. If you don’t have enough yourself, paint the walls white and try to leave the windows as minimal as possible - think thin flowy see-through curtains or shutters that can be opened entirely during the day. Lighter furniture is also one way to create the illusion of light - a white couch slipcover will give the oldest, darkest couch a beachy feel. 




Fall in love with stripes Nothing says nautical and therefore beachy quite like stripes. Well, maybe a blue stripe! It’s a simple addition that won’t cost much either - cushions of all kinds, striped furniture or napkins or a hammock. 




Colour your world Choose your colour palette with references to the sea - blues, turquoise, aqua, soft sands, white and whitewashed woods. Dark woods also work well as a contrast and are better than black which is more suited to sleeker homes. Pair crisp white walls with a display shelf of range of glass vases in various shades of blues and greens, give your foyer a lick of turquoise paint, pop a whitewashed dresser up against it and hang a pearl or shell mirror above it for a calming, holiday feel the moment you walk through the door, or add dashes of ocean colour through paintings or photographs of the sea.

 




Head outdoors Give your outdoor a room a Hamptons makeover - white painted cane furniture, deck chairs, floor cushions, hurricane lamps and sea grass mats. Make it like a real living room but exposed to the elements. It doesn’t get much beachy than that! 


 

Melissah xox

Images via 1, 2, 34, 5, 6, 7, 8 , 9, 10

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Friday Favorites

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Ok if this tablescape doesn't sing Spring I don't know what does! Oh I just adore everything about it! Especially the bright pops of Springy, candy pastels set against the rustic wood. I want to be at that table...well, with one minor adjustment...it needs to be extended by about a dozen or more place settings so that I can have all of my favorite artsy crafty blogland friends over for an afternoon of yummy food, crafting, art journaling, and sweets!


Yes Yes...I know I know...You feel like you've seen this here on my blog before. It's very Wednesday Addams, which I suppose is my go-to, old stand by, trademark. The classic black with white peter pan collar. It's simply perfect to me...could be my uniform. 
But this time...it's no dress. This is that classic look in tee shirt form! 
Now we just need to add a fab bouquet of balloons in pink, gold, and black & white polka dot. Yes?!


This really is the dream purse of my 7 year old self. I would have went nutso over this. 
Totally random...but I have memories of a small round purse like this one, only mine was lavender. I carried it everywhere. I was obsessed with unicorns at the time (1980s). I went to a yard sale and found a little ceramic unicorn figurine. As we went about the rest of our day you better believe that there was no way I'd leave my new treasure behind in the car. Of course I kept it nestled in my fave lavender purse. And of course the unicorn's fate was sealed in this decision. Later that day while going up the stairs into a German restaurant...most likely spazzing out and singing and purse twirling all at once...the whirling purse went "Crack!" against one of the steps...and the poor shattered unicorn never even made it to it's rightful place on my dresser top.   


This pup! If this adorbs mooshball was in the next room I'd have a very very hard time working...or doing anything but napping along side him. He has perfected the meaning of contentedness. And those shabby chic sheets are the perfect backdrop.


I love love love this tutorial for paper Chrysanthemums. They are one of my absolute favorite flowers. And I could get lost in paper crafty fun all day. And flowers like this are Forever. Perfect as gifts for a baby shower or wedding! 


I'm not normally an iridescent gal but I am loving this look. Creamy and dreamy. This technique is called "jelly sandwich" nails. Laying down a coat of sheer pink, then applying the glitter, and then topping with another coat of the sheer pink gel...a jelly sandwich! What a pretty look.

Thanks for stopping by for Friday Favorites again. It's been a busy week and it's not over til our heads hit the pillow tonight. But it's good busy...so I'm happy for that! 
Hope you're keeping good busy too!
xo, Jenny


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