Bridal Shower Table In The Shade Of Pink

Bridal Shower Table In The Shade Of Pink

Spring is coming and this February is the month of love. Many weddings will happen in spring season. Inspired by love season, I set up this simple shade of pink table for a bridal shower which I think would also perfect for wedding anniversary decor to surprise your spouse at home. It screams for sweet love that’s for sure.

Even though I use shades of pink, I still use white or ivory in majority of this pink shade bridal shower table. I had a bridal towel cake as the decoration; put jars of sweet candies, rose petals, roses in a vase, pretty champagne glasses souvenirs, etc.

It’s a sweet love shade of pink bridal shower table that would give you some ideas to be extended into more personalized arrangement that suits you. So, have a sweet love bridal shower!

Happy Valentine and see you all soon!

Creative and in love!

Mel

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Fall & Thanksgiving Side Table Decor

Fall & Thanksgiving Side Table Decor

Side table is as much important as any table in a home, especially when your side table is on the sitting room where you entertain your guest or on the foyer where you receive the guest. Therefore, to have a remembered thanksgiving dinner party, you should hot forget your side table decor. And moreover, the side table decor for thanksgiving must be aligned with your fall home decor.

I arranged some of my fall and thanksgiving decorations in one white square side table at the foyer where I put the seating tags for thanksgiving dinner. This setting is a mixed of fall colors and a slightly winter colors, since it’s a month of almost seasonal transition. Gold and natural wood colors of fall mixed with shades of blue and white of winter colors. And amazingly it worked well together. This taught me not to scare to mix calm, natural colors with glimmering color like gold for a decor.

These are the list of all the decoration items I used for the fall & thanksgiving side table :

• Grateful Thanksgiving sign
• Geometric gold painted bottle
• Seating tag bottles for Thanksgiving dinner
• Fall cork coasters
• Off-white table cover
• Crepe wrapped pumpkin
• White with gold glitter crepe flower

The first four are the decorations I have posted before on how to make it and the last two was the ones I showed in this post. The crepe wrapped pumpkin is an emergency pumpkin I made from a vase that I wrapped with white crepe paper. And the crepe paper flower was made from white crepe paper that I have applied with gold glitter.

So, use whatever you have to decor your side table to celebrate thanksgiving and to get the fall ambience. Just add this and that to complete the look. No need expensive decorations to have a beautiful seasonal decor, so you can have a different look every year without spending much money. Happy fall and thanksgiving!

See you anytime soon!

Thanks to creativity for giving a creation!

Mel

Decor Your Home with Greens

Decor Your Home with Greens

Have you ever run out of fresh-cut flowers in your home while you’re expecting sudden guest? Or do you bored with flowers on the vase as a decor on your table? Or you just simply wanna cut your expense budget and save some? Well, maybe my ideas can answers all those questions.

Have you ever noticed that some greens look not just appetizing but also so beautiful. I always admires some greens for its beauty before I cut them into a bowl of salad. Some even look like a blooming flower. So, I tried to put some greens into a vase and it turned out to be a beautiful piece of table decoration.

How to do it? Just grab some of your greens from your fridge or buy some in the market and use it for a home decoration. get your fancy vases and arrange the greens nicely then you got yourself a centerpiece. Isn’t it convinient?After that you still can cut them and make it into a bowl of yummy salad. Free and pretty! Besides, you give more meaning to the greens, so it wouldn’t be used only for plating decoration or veggies to eat but also as home decoration.

On the picture showed, I used different kind of salanova lettuce, I love its blooming look. And since salanova is a short blooming greens, I use short vases with big opening to accommodate its big bloom. There are more greens you can use though, just be creative.

I hope this idea can flourish your home with beauiful spring blooms but free and easy.

Be creatively Green!

See you again!

Mel

Style Your Desk With White

Style Your Desk With White

White – Be purely sophisticated

I know I have posted so many colors as an accent to style your desk in daily color mood, from black, blue, yellow, green, red, purple to pink. But I couldn’t help myself to style my desk with another color, which is white.

As on all my previous post on style your desk, I keep reminding you to use 60-30-10 rule. And for this white color styling, I use 60% dominant color of grey (the wall), the 30% secondary color of white (table, wall shelve, all decorations, etc) and the 10% accent of black (the blackboard). Since the grey wall is not solid but combination of white and black washed, so basically 90% of dominant and secondary color became white and the accent color became black (mainly the blackboard).

I still did not change any main items like all other color styling, but the look now have changed because of the color proportion. I ode this to white as the most natural and easiest color to work with. And the best thing from white is that it looks sophisticated, pure up scale and shows that the owner must be a clean person! Salute to white!

So, I have shown you 8 different colors accent that even though only takes a view small items to make it stand out, the accent color really give each color-style a different personality, don’t you think? Now, it is your turn to style your desk according to your color mood.

Well, if you are going to style your desk with your color picked, which one is your favorite color or which one do you think is the best color style? Please share your thoughts on below comments.

Got to go… see you!

Live to be creative!

Mel

 

Style Your Desk With Daily Color Mood – Pink

Style Your Desk With Daily Color Mood – Pink

Sunday – Relaxing Girly Day

Finally it’s Sunday, a happy day to lose all your tension and take a break from everything. Pamper yourself and just be a girl. But even though you don’t work today, you might still want to check your emails or even do your hobby at your working desk. So, style your desk with daily color mood – pink. Because it’s time to be girly!

Just like on all my previous posts about styling your desk with daily color mood from black, blue, yellow, green, red, until purple; always stick to the 60-30-10 rule. The 60% dominant color is grey looking (the wall), the 30% secondary color is white (table, wall shelve, etc) and the 10% accent is pink (pinky decorations and stationery).

You can use other pinky stuff to decorate and style your desk. Like maybe, pink photo frame, pink jar, pink pom pom pen, pink cup, and so on. Even when you are a pink lover, please remember not to over-used pink, or your desk would look like a little girl’s desk. Because while you being girly today, you still need to look sophisticated.

Besides, accent always the minority, the majority becomes the dominant one, and that makes minority always the one which stand out.

Now, you may want to start your relaxing girly day by styling your desk with daily color mood – pink and have a lot of fun!

See you on the last color mood! Hmm… do you wanna know what color is that? Well, follow me and find out tomorrow!

Hello Creative Girls!

Mel

Style Your Desk With Daily Color Mood – Purple

Style Your Desk With Daily Color Mood – Purple

Decor your working space, mainly your desk is very essential to boost your working mood.Well, at least I do. Styling your desk everyday will give you different atmosphere each day. That will make you feel brand new and your desk even look brand new everyday. you don’t have to change everything in your desk, just couple of decorations or even your stationary to give a different touch to your desk. The smartest way is to change only the accent and leave the rest as it is. For that, I can give you the easiest accent for decorating your desk, which is… color! yes, just change your accent color to style your desk according to your daily mood.

I have post continuously on different color accent to style your desk according to daily mood. From posts : Style Your Desk With Black, Blue, Yellow, Green, Red; until today, Purple Saturday. Saturday night is time for dating, mingle, sociable… so, let’s do it gracefully like a purple color. someone you take home may want to see your desk, then show him your grace and soft but sporty side. I always consider purple as in-between color, between blue and pink (actually it’s red but see it as 2 genders, blue for masculinity and pink for feminine). That’s why I like purple!

As always, start with the 60-30-10 rule, 60% of primary color, 30% of secondary color and 10% for accent color. No need to buy new decorations, unless you really have to, just use whatever you have in the color you want. I’m sure you will have things in your favorite color. Use whatever you got and just be creative.

Now that you have style your desk in purple or any of your favorite color, it is time for you to face this excited long Saturday.

Have a graceful creative Saturday!

See you on Sunday

Mel

STYLE YOUR DESK WITH DAILY COLOR MOOD- GREEN

STYLE YOUR DESK WITH DAILY COLOR MOOD- GREEN

Green Thursday – Have an earthy day!

It is Thursday, many days you have faced through a week, it is time to be humble after all you have achieved from Monday to Wednesday. The best way to express your humble or down to earth mood is to be earthy. And one of the closest color to describe the earthy feeling is green. So, let’s style your desk with daily color mood – green.

According to 60-30-10 rule that I mentioned on my earlier post (yellow Wednesday); the 60% dominant color is grey looking (the wall), the 30% secondary color is white (table, wall shelve, etc) and the 10% accent is green (nice green decorations and stationery).

I keep explaining the 60-30-10 rule because it is very important to have a balanced color and pattern mixed. Unless you wanted a monochrome color only, but isn’t boring? Plain boring indeed. Of course we have to mixed color and pattern in order to achieve higher level of design. And the 60-30-10 rule will keep you in a right order, not too much but just right.

So, whatever color you choose, always be creative in choosing the right elements, especially the one that will accentuate the entire design. For example, among the green elements where green is the accent color; one very stand out green element is the green plant I have on my book shelve above the table. The way its green leaves dangling from the white shelve gracefully, really stole the show. And the earthy feelings suddenly surrounds you.

Well, enough for dramatization, just get yourself to style your desk with daily color mood – green; and experience the green Thursday of earthy feeling.

 

See you on Friday

Back to your creative root!

Mel

STYLE YOUR DESK WITH DAILY COLOR MOOD- YELLOW

STYLE YOUR DESK WITH DAILY COLOR MOOD- YELLOW

Yellow Wednesday – Energize Your Day!

Smile and be your own sunshine! It is the middle of the week, you need to be recharged by energize your day. Yellow is the bright sunshine color that will elevate your mood. So today, let’s style your desk with daily color mood – yellow!

It always start with the basic rule of 10-30-60 that I have explain in my two previous post of black Monday and blue Tuesday. The 60% dominant color is grey looking (the wall), the 30% secondary color is white (table, wall shelve and everything) and the 10% accent is yellow (some yellow decorations and stationery).

If you have a neutral color or pattern for the 60% dominant color, it would be easy to incorporate it with another color or pattern. Neutral color can be white, ivory, grey, black, soft cream, very light yellow, etc. For pattern, a light color pattern with not much variation, like my wallpaper, also pattern without color that is more to texture, and so on.

I used more like monochrome color for both my dominant and secondary color, so it is easy for me to give an accent to another color that I want to be pop up. Look for yellow things in your home that can be used as an accent. It can be yellow photo frame, yellow wall organizer, yellow journal, any other yellow things you have. Then style it into your desk.

Style your desk with daily color mood – yellow! And get energized! I’m sure you will get more energy to start or finish your work with this yellow stylish desk.

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Energize your creativity!

See you tomorrow!

Mel

STYLE YOUR DESK WITH DAILY COLOR MOOD- BLUE

STYLE YOUR DESK WITH DAILY COLOR MOOD- BLUE

Blue Tuesday – Be Positive!

After a tiring Monday full of seriously hard work, today is to be positive! Positive of what you will achieve in the end of the week, thanks to your good start on Monday. So today, let’s style your desk with daily color mood – blue!

It’s started with the basic rule of 10-30-60 that I have explain in my yesterday post of black Monday. The 60% dominant color is grey looking (the wall), the 30% secondary color is white (table, wall shelve and everything) and the 10% accent is blue (some blue decorations and stationery).

Different color will definitely brings different mood. Not much need to be changed, just look for blue things in your home that can be used to accentuate your desk into blue atmosphere. It can be blue flowers, blue paintings, blue desk clock, anything else that is blue. Then incorporate it into your desk with style.

So, are you agree with me to be positive today? If yes, go style your desk with daily color mood – blue! Of course with the touch of your own personality.

Have a positively creative day!

See you on Wednesday!

Mel

STYLE YOUR DESK WITH DAILY COLOR MOOD- BLACK

STYLE YOUR DESK WITH DAILY COLOR MOOD- BLACK

Black Monday – it’s time to get serious!

For me, in order to do something, I need enough space and a mood. Since my activity is more to crafting, drawing, writing, so I need a descent table that big enough for my working area. And to bring up the mood, I need a good atmosphere to work. That can be achieved with the easiest way by styling your desk.

I love white color, looking clean and expensive, very sophisticated. Also, it goes with any color. So, I have this working white desk. It’s like a blank canvas. You can style it in any color. Since today it’s Monday, im going to style it with the color black. it looks serious and Monday is the first day of the week. It will determine the rest of the week. So, get serious. Let’s style your desk with daily color mood – black.

Basically I have some things that I love and need very much that I want it to be in my desk all the time. That things are my white laptop, my inspiring words decoration, my lovely white roses, my pencils, etc. So all of that will stay while the rest will be the element of decoration, it can come and go, just like the mood.

To make something pop up, use the 30-60-10 Rule (from HGTV tips), 60% of a dominant color, 30% of a secondary color, 10% of an accent color. 60% of a more neutral color, you need a blank canvas actually. 10% accent for the pop up thing or color that you want. 30% of complimentary color which would not overshadow the accent, yet not too neutral and become the 60%.

See, on my setting, the 60% dominant color is grey looking (the wall), the 30% secondary color is white (table, wall shelve and everything) and the 10% accent is black (here and there, black things).

It does not have to be masculine with black. But black can be powerful feminine. Give some elements that will soften the color black. The white roses, polka dots round bag, surely soften the color black.

So, do you like the style? Now, it’s your time to try style your desk with daily color mood – black. It’s time to get serious, gals!

Creative black Monday!

See you on Tuesday!

Mel

START YOUR BREAKFAST WITH STYLE

START YOUR BREAKFAST WITH STYLE

Good morning! Cheer up! it’s a new day.

Start your day with a stylish but simple breakfast will surely bring up your mood to face the rest of the day.

This morning I made chicken pot pie, easy and yummy breakfast. Since it’s a yellowish looking breakfast, I tie it all with dominant yellow color. A yellow and blue plate, yellow and orange gerbera and blue hydrangea on a little vase, with a yellow mug for my chocolate milk. Then add some green grapes, nice looking and good for you. All are vibrant colors that will charge your mood. Simple but stylish, right?

Aren’t you happy having a breakfast at home but with a little style? Start your breakfast with style. Just do a little mix and match with a certain dominant color tone, then you will get it all tied together and looking great. Don’t forget to enjoy your breakfast in your favorite spot! Mine is by the window.

Start your breakfast with style and creativity !

See you!

Mel

CREATE YOUR OWN HOME OFFICE IN A TINY AWKWARD SPACE INSIDE YOUR HOUSE VOL.3 – Home Interior

CREATE YOUR OWN HOME OFFICE IN A TINY AWKWARD SPACE INSIDE YOUR HOUSE VOL.3 – Home Interior

This is my third post about creating a home office in a tiny awkward space in a house.  If you haven’t read the 2 first posts, then you need to take a look at it, you may get inspired! In that 2 each posts I have shown a sketch of a common setting of an awkward and tiny space we usually find inside a house and have been changed into a small home office.

First, was by the wall railing to the staircase downstairs, second was a space under the staircase and this last space was in a corner. Yup, a corner!

A corner somewhere in your house maybe have a very good potential to become a cozy little home office and you just don’t realize it. Now you may need to carefully seek for that corner space. Because once you find it, you can easily change the space to be more functional and meaningful than before, by creating a home office. Sometimes you need a little bit interior works to do or sometimes you just pull in a little table and a little chair, decor it a bit and then you got yourself a brand new space, a home office!

For that I gave you 2 illustrations, each one is a corner somewhere in a house that sometimes it’s only used as a space for a decoration purposes, like maybe a space for a big decorated vase, a decorated end table, a feature wall just to make the corner felt less awkward, and so on.

1. A corner in a large room

Usually a big room have one or more corners that you need to fill in with something that tie in with the rest of the room to make it less awkward. For that purpose, more often people just put a big nice chair, a standing lamp or a statement decoration. Or the worse is sometimes you just left it empty! And that what makes a room or a corner felt cold.

So, below I gave sketch of a little but cozy home office in a corner somewhere. Just need a small table and a chain, then you just create your own home office in a tiny awkward space inside your house

2. A corner in a transition room.

This corner usually left with decorating purposes only too. While actually has a potential space for an emergency home office. And maybe if you feel cozy enough, you may want to make it as a fixed home office.

Take a narrow but a tall practical table and chair and a standing lamp, set it in a stylish way. You won’t believe the result. Look at my sketch! You will feel like you are sitting in some industrial cafe somewhere in the town.

I hope my 3 posts on how to create your own home office in a tiny awkward space inside your house will inspire you all. I do really wish that you can make one based on my guidance from my posts.

So, if you like one or more of my posts, please don’t hasitate to follow my blog, I still have more and more ideas that will inspire and help you to create one for your own.

Make it creative!

See you!

Mel

 

CREATE YOUR OWN HOME OFFICE IN A TINY AWKWARD SPACE INSIDE YOUR HOUSE VOL.2 – Home Interior

CREATE YOUR OWN HOME OFFICE IN A TINY AWKWARD SPACE INSIDE YOUR HOUSE VOL.2 – Home Interior

On my last post, i gave a setting of the awkward and tiny space we usually find inside a house and change it into a small home office space. So on this post i showed you another example to create your own home office in a tiny akward space inside your house .

This is the little space commonly found under a staircase. And the first thing that people does is just simply close it all the way up as a storage cabinet. Well, you can install a little cabinet on one side but then squeeze in a table or a wood panel on the other side and you will got yourself a little home office. See the sketch i made below, it’s simple but very functional.

With this arrangement, you can do your work and have plenty of storage for your office supply. Before that, it’s only an empty space under the staircase or a storage cabinet, but once you put in a table and a chair, it’s suddenly changed it’s function to be more useful and alive.

At last, you can style your home office in a way you like and inspiring. But always remember to find a way to relate it to the rest of the rooms in your home. Maybe from the color tone or the pattern.

So, next post I still got some more idea of how to create your own home office in a tiny akward space inside your house. I will get into it once i finished my sketches.

See you soon!

Think creative!

Mel

 

CREATE YOUR OWN HOME OFFICE IN A TINY AWKWARD SPACE INSIDE YOUR HOUSE VOL.1 – Home Interior

CREATE YOUR OWN HOME OFFICE IN A TINY AWKWARD SPACE INSIDE YOUR HOUSE VOL.1 – Home Interior

Do you need a home office? Well, no need a grand office table, just at least a decent table and a chair where you can read and write or open your laptop.

And do you have an awkward space inside your house that is quite tiny that you don’t know what to do with it?

I have some solutions for two of your problems above. You can make use of the awkward space into a nice sanctuary of yours and the tiny space into a functional space. Both problems become two advantages.

Since i dont know what kind of awkward and tiny space you got in your house, so i made some common settings that we ussually find.

First setting is the little space we find by the staircase on the second floor.

Usually people only put a big vase of plant or just leave it empty. But actually it’s a potential space for mini office. And the good thing is when you work at second floor, you still aware of what happening downstair through the void.

Here’s what you can do to create your own home office in a tiny awkward space inside your house. You can add a simple hanging wood panel to serve as a table. The panel can be built into the railing wall. On top of the wall you can add smaller wood panel to hold all your books. Then find a confy chair to complete your home office. You can also hang a  wall organizer or a board to suite your working needs. Below sketch may described more for this first setting.

There you can see that it takes only a tiny space where you can squeeze in your home office and change the awkward space becomes meaningful for you.

I still have several settings in my mind to create your own home office in a tiny awkward space inside your house, but i haven’t prepare the sketches. So, i will show it to you on my next post.

See you very soon!

Always be creative!

 

Mel