Joss & Main - Best of Bloggers’ Sale

Last year I had the pleasure of curating a sale for Joss & Main where I hand-selected some beautiful Indochine-inspired pieces. If you missed it or an item sold out, you are in luck! This weekend – Sunday, March 18th at 9pm EST to be exact – the most popular items from the sale will be up for grabs again.

This time around, Joss & Main is taking the very best items from their favorite Curator Collections by design bloggers, so there will be a little something to fit everyone's design style.

If you aren’t already a Joss & Main member, here’s an invite so you can shop without delay on Sunday!

{Photo Credit: BHG.com}

Also, if you are spring cleaning and your kitchen pantry is on the list, you might be interested in reading my article, The Kitchen Pantry for My Way Home. It highlights some simple solutions that can help you organize your pantry in a beautiful way. And aren't you just loving this pantry pictured above {swoon}?

It's also not too late to enter the Martha Stewart Home Office giveaway!

Happy weekend!

 

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Lucky Charm

With St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner, I thought it would be fun to celebrate my Irish roots by pulling together a few items full of Irish luck & charm…

Sources: 1. Tiffany & Co. Four Leaf Clover Charm, 2. Arteriors Roma Lamp, 3. Jill Rosenwald Plimpton Bowl, 4. Kate Spade Tennis iPhone 4 Case, 5. Jonathan Adler Pillow, 6. Gelato Frames, 7. Patent Leather Belt, 8. World’s Away Chinright Green Side Table, 9. Clover Planner

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Martha Stewart Home Office Review & Giveaway

Did you know that Martha Stewart and Avery have teamed up to create a beautiful line of products for you home office? Yep, just in time for spring cleaning, the Martha Stewart Home Office with Avery line is now available at Staples. Here’s a closer look at some of the products.

Pencil cups, stackable inbox trays and magazine file holders help make a desk tidy. Mix and match items such as these from the Martha Stewart Home Office with Avery product line to create a beautiful, custom desk organization system.

Martha Stewart Home Office with Avery also offers durable, beautiful accordion files which stand freely on a desk so important documents can be in close reach. Perfect too for keeping tax information all in one place!

Another fabulous product in the Martha Stewart Home Office™ with Avery™ family is a line of versatile kitchen labels to keep pantry items in order. Yep – for many of us our kitchens are our offices too!

This past week I received the opportunity to review some products from the new, beautiful Martha Stewart Home Office with Avery line now available at Staples. I selected the adhesive pockets because I need a better way to organize coupons, loose recipes and takeout menus. It only took a couple of minutes for me to stick the pockets on the back of a kitchen cabinet door and voila, I have a smart and pretty solution for housing kitchen paperwork! Love ‘em!

The nice folks at Martha Stewart and Avery would like to giveaway $50 worth of adhesive pockets to one lucky Simplified Bee reader to try for themselves!

Here’s how to enter to win:
• Leave a comment on this post. {provide your email if I don't have a way to contact you}.
• Extra Entry - become a new follower of Simplified Bee's Blog, Twitter, Pinterest or Facebook Page.
• Extra Entry - mention this giveaway in a blog post, FB link or tweet, then leave a comment letting me know.
• Extra Entry – become a new follower of Avery and The Org of Moms on Facebook.
• Please post a separate comment for each extra entry.

Entry period closes at midnight PST on Monday, March 19, 2012. The winner will be chosen by Random.org and will be announced on the Simplified Bee Facebook page on Tuesday, March 20, 2012.

Happy organizing and best of luck!

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Friday Find: Beehive Party Tub

Perhaps it’s the bee lover in me, but I love a fun hexagon pattern any day of the week. So when I caught sight of these beehive party tubs from the Container Store, I knew I had to share them with you. 

Not only great for filling with drinks and snacks while entertaining, but the handled container would be fun to keep toys, shoes or bath supplies organized. At $14.99 each, the price can’t be beat!

Happy Friday!

 

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Book Review: Katie Ridder Rooms

Katie Ridder’s award-winning interior design work and impeccable sense of style has attracted clients from around the globe. Her attention to lavish detail, use of rich color and mix of periods and styles distinguishes her work from the others. I most love that Katie’s interiors are sophisticated, yet approachable. This feeling is perhaps a result of both of her California upbringing and being a mother of three.

As you can imagine, I loved her design book, "Katie Ridder Rooms" published by Vendome and released last fall. It’s 235 pages are full of beautiful large-scale photographs of Katie’s design projects {many not found on the Internet}. From foyers to dining rooms, kitchens to bedrooms – a large variety of her work is represented. In addition to rich narrative accompanying the photos, Katie provides us with decorating advice and a complete source guide!

The final chapter and my favorite, focuses in on the attention of detail that elevates Katie’s interior designs. This section touches on the design details in lighting, upholstery, embroidery, tile and wallpaper which Katie incorporates to create her exquisite, signature looks.

If you love interior design, you will love this book! It’s a perfect décor accessory for your coffee table too!

 

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Colors of Spring

Our backyard hens lay the most beautiful eggs. In natural shades of blue-green and creamy-white, the eggs give me a little spring fever as I look forward to Easter and the gentle colors of spring.

{eggs from our backyard hens!}

{image source: Martha Stewart}

{image source: Waterworks}

{image source: Paulaova Ceramics}

{image source: Celerie Kemble for Schumacher}

{image source: Room & Board}

{image source: S.R. Gambrel}

{image source: Saidos da Concha}

Are you ready for spring?

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Friday Find: Stylish Hand-Crank Paper Shredder

Have you had your identity stolen? I’ve heard it’s a nightmare. To reduce your risk of identity theft, it’s recommended that we shred all sensitive documents. But, when is a document “sensitive?” In general, we should shred documents that contain the following:

• Account numbers {medical, financial, credit card}
• Birth date
• Home address
• Social security number
• Passwords / PINs
• Signatures
• Credit card applications

Paper shredders come in all shapes, sizes and price ranges, but I’ve never seen one like this before. It requires no electricity, comes in yummy hues of grey or turquoise and features a streamline design that’s attractive enough to be displayed on your desktop. I didn’t think it was possible, but Poketo currently has a stylish hand-cranked paper shredder available for $45. I’m digging it for home office use!

All this talk about paper makes me think that we really need to reduce the amount we use. One way to cut down on the amount of paper in your home is to  reduce the amount of mail you receive. Here are some suggestions:

• Pay your bills online
• Reduce junk mail {Resources: Catalog Choice, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, or TreeHugger)
• Read books & magazines online {might get some controversy on this one!}
  
  

  Happy Organizing & Happy Friday!

 

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