Congratulations to Jess of Where My Heart Is! Lucky Jess is having the fabulous Anna Spiro design a gallery wall in her dining room, and one of the Paperwork art pieces will be front and center, I’m sure! Jess, touch base with me via email (maggie@maggieroseonline.com) to get your info to the Paperwork people.
Even if you didn’t win the giveaway, you can hardly beat Paperwork‘s awesome prices for limited edition, totally original, and oh-so-fun art! ...

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Looking for new artwork for your walls? Paperwork has original, limited edition prints that are actually affordable! Perfect for building a gallery wall arrangement, a series of work down your hallway, or getting a larger statement piece without going to the poorhouse. Prices go from $20 for an 8×10 to $100 for a 16×20.
And for one LUCKY winner, a $25 gift certificate that you could put toward a larger purchase OR pick up an amazing ...

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When I posted about our bedroom art last week I also spilled the beans on another new piece of art we finally have hanging. And now you get to see a previously unrevealed corner of our living room! The TV corner!
I know it’s a big designy faux pas to have your television showing, but since Ryan gets 50% say in design choices in our home, it was a non-negotiable. I am personally a non-entertainment-unit kind ...

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Ok, long term fans, it’s confession time.
Roughly 80 million years ago, in this post, I asked advice for framing my “For Like Ever” poster, which I bought from Village. And I made a decision. And then I found out it was going to be like $400. So the project got put on hold, which I admitted to in this post. And yet, due to our financial situation and the poster’s placement on the priority list, it ...

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We’re much more productive around here lately because we made some necessary changes. Since expanding my little business to more edecorating clients and adding the shop, we were falling all over each other in the office. Especially with having to store inventory and shipping materials for the shop, we were simply running out of room.
Not anymore!
Here’s a quick refresher of how we were crammed in before:
Notice how all the furniture, even when tidied up, was ...

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The dark and dreary corner of our dining room is a holdover from my last apartment, where all the woods were dark and I was going for the “urban sophisticate” look. Well now that I’m more concerned with making my house a home and embracing the big window and the wonderful natural sunshine we get in the dining room, it’s time to lighten up – literally!
All the frames were purchased in black specifically to be ...

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I’m sure many of you are familiar with the work of Anna Bond and her company RIFLE Design, as well as her recently launched Rifle Paper Company, which she runs with her husband Nathan. Her whimiscal depictions of nature, business people, and bridal parties alike have taken the blogging world by storm and given a fresh look to event design and personal stationary. Anna was kind enough to share a little about what she does in ...

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From domino.
One of my favorite inexpensive art tricks is to use words as inspiration. I mean, I was a Creative Writing major in college…
Like my stenciled art I did for my living room, this photo from Domino shows that the “text” doesn’t even have to be legible to count as art. Sort of a “text goes here” filler squiggle.  But it goes to show that anything done on sort-of nice paper and put in a nice ...

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Wouldn’t you know it, the same day I posted about Sublime Stitching, I got an email from one of their staffers in response to my request for a Q&A with founder Jenny Hart (that should show you how impatient I am…).  Jenny was on the road, but agreed to answer some questions via email. In another twist of fate, Jenny was on her way to Seattle, where she was signing books at the Urban Craft ...

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I’m so pleased to be able  to introduce Roadside Photographs as my newest advertiser (check out her button the right)! Jen helped host my first ever giveaway on the blog and we’ve kept in touch ever since. She recently made the shift to photography full-time, and her work is just beautiful. Really electric and colorful. If you’re looking for a way to inject some quirkyness into your home, one of her photos could really do ...

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