Welcome to The Creative Circle link party - a place to share and find inspiration for your home! I hope your 2016 is off to a great start! It's been so fun to start the year by looking back at what we all accomplished in 2015, and we loved seeing all of your "best of" round-up posts in last weeks link party. For our features this week, we've picked four of our favorite projects from those round up posts, but I hope you'll click through to each featured blog to see all of their "best of ... View the Post
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I’ve Been Keeping a Secret… We’ve Been on Safari!
I've been keeping a big secret... While you were seeing my blog posts about fall decor for the last couple of weeks, I was traveling through South Africa! And now that we are home, I am so excited to finally tell you all about it! Two weeks ago, Scott and I set off for a week long safari, followed by several days spent exploring beautiful Cape Town! Since returning home on Saturday afternoon, we have barely scratched the surface of reviewing the thousands {and thousands} of photos ... View the Post
“Fall in Love” Canvas Art for Fall
I am really enjoying working on some DIY projects to bring some touches of fall in to our home, and I'm having fun playing with different color combinations. Today I have a fun art project tutorial for you! I created my art to specifically to tie together the fall color palette that I selected for our kitchen, but it can easily be adapted to fit any color scheme and style. In the past, I haven't really decorated for fall because the traditional fall colors don't fit my ... View the Post
About Blue i Style
Blue i Style, a blog dedicated to all things home, provides readers with organizing tips and home decor tutorials to help families create happy homes that seamlessly blend style and function. Blue i Style also provides a wide range of of interior decorating, consulting, and organizing services to fit any need and any budget. I'm Angela - attorney by education, decorator and creator by passion - and I'm the blue eyes behind Blue i Style. My education also includes degrees in management ... View the Post
How to Make Easy & Adorable Ballerina Cupcakes
I love having two boys and I really enjoy planning mustache bashes and creating train cakes for them! But, as you might suspect, there isn't a whole lot of pink and ruffly happening at our house. And that's why, when my sister asked if I could find a way to make cupcakes into ballerinas, I jumped this girly challenge! As soon as I heard ballerina cupcakes, I immediately envisioned turning an upside down cupcake liner into a tutu - but how to make that work was another issue. At the ... View the Post
Blogging Resources
Running a Blog is Like Trying to Run a Magazine All On Your Own Being a blogger really means you’re juggling about 20 different jobs on any given day! Writer, photographer, editor-in-chief, social media coordinator, video editor, contract negotiator, bookkeeper, publicist, and SEO specialist, just to name a few. Are you overwhelmed trying to figure out the best way to get organized and manage your time? Do you want to feel like you are finally in control of your business? We’ve ... View the Post
{organizing with style} Roundup of Spray Paint Storage Solutions
Let's talk spray paint storage, shall we? Last fall I finally got all of our latex paint organized and created storage space for this paint, and our paint supplies, in our small basement utility room. I transferred our paint our of the rusting paint cans into screw-top plastic canisters, labeled the paint, and created a paint reference chart as well as a craft stick paint-deck. This organizational system has been working great for the past year, but because of the proximity of our ... View the Post
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{seasonal style} Holiday Cards that Tell Your Family’s Story + A Discount Offer from Minted
This post is sponsored by Minted, but, as always, all opinions are my own. You can ready my full disclosure policy here. Do you still send Christmas cards in the mail? I do! It's a holiday tradition that I refuse to give up despite all the ever growing presence of social media in our lives. There is just something so wonderful about receiving cards in the mail from our friends far and wide and opening each envelope makes me smile! Sure I keep up with friends and enjoy photos of their kids and ... View the Post
{five minute friday} Simple Halloween Decorating Ideas Using Spider Webs
Walking around my neighborhood this week, I've realized that many of my neighbors decorate for Halloween as elaborately as most people decorate for Christmas! There are some seriously decked out houses around here, which will make trick-or-treating with the kids even more fun! Now that I have kids, I put out more Halloween decorations than I used to, but today I want to talk about one of my favorite, simple ways to add some Halloween spook to your home without spending much time or ... View the Post
{blog upgrades} Getting Haven Ready!
If you follow me on social media, then you are going to be hearing and seeing a lot about Haven throughout this weekend, so I thought I'd fill you in really quickly on what it's all about. Haven is a conference for home/design/DIY bloggers, and my awesome husband purchased one of the highly-sought-after conference tickets as my birthday present! On Thursday I'll be hopping on a plane to Atlanta where I'll get to spend the weekend gathering with other design and DIY lovers, listening to speakers ... View the Post
Rooftop Retreat: Week 4
It's already week 4 of the One Room Challenge and I feel like I've been away more than I've been home throughout this process. I'm currently writing this from a plane waiting to take of from Salt Lake City, headed home after my grandmas funeral. Needless to say, our progress has been slow going, but progress is progress, so I'll show you what we got done this week. As a quick refresher, we're working on the third floor deck that wraps around our master bedroom and bathroom. We ... View the Post