Paint + Pattern Where design & creativity collide

My children LOVE mexican food ­ cheese quesadillas, chips and salsa and, of course, tacos! Every Tuesday is Taco Tuesday in our house, with this in mind, I thought I’d share a fun Ikea Hack! I saw cute cork placemats ...

Are you ready to fall in love?? We’re setting the mood for a Valentine’s Day celebration with a stenciled wall art project that you can adore all year long. Pretty shades of pink, brown and metallic gold come together with ...

I was lucky to have had a chance to paint and play in Marrakech with Melanie Royals during the Royal Design Studio tour last month. Inspiration galore followed me home! A swirl of patterns and colors danced like sugarplums in ...

Do you like to make easy and inexpensive home décor items to decorate for Christmas or to give as gifts? If so, this is a fun verre eglomise project that I especially like because the plates look very festive. They ...

The holidays are times of traditions with family and friends. One tradition in my family — for more decades than I want to admit! — is making holiday ornaments together. My mom started this tradition with my sister and me ...

December is here. What? When did that happen? This year, are you too madly creating gifts like me? I discovered this DIY wood wine rack at Home Depot back in late summer. It was inexpensive and a perfect, fun Christmas ...

Give the gift of glam this holiday season with stenciled Christmas gift-wrap! What better way to complement your thoughtful gift than to wrap it in something you made. This season we got inspired by Hollywood regency glitzy glamour, and created ...

A nice little delight for your holiday guests would be fall-themed hand towels in your guest bathroom. Once dry, our stencil cremes on fabrics don’t wash out and don’t bleed.  For this project, we used an allover pattern from Royal ...