We are mixing it up today at Mama's Happy. I love talking about mixing up the colors of Chalk Paint®. Annie Sloan's colors are beautiful as they are but there are so many more options out there just by adding a bit of this or a bit of that. When I am starting out with trying to find a color I start with a finger dab of this color and a finger dab of that color. That way I know to start out it is a 1:1 ratio. If I go back and add 1 more dab of the first color then I know it goes … [Read more...]
Decorating Trends: Combining Today’s Latest & Greatest with Salvaged Character that has Stood the Test of Times!
Unless you are living under a rock...a big rock...you have probably noticed that the current "thing" in decorating trends, is to take something old & worn and mix it in with all that's new! Worn, weathered, distressed, salvaged, chippy...these buzzwords sound familiar, right? All of them, chippy being MY favorite, have taken over the design world. It is no longer cool to turn up at a big box furniture company and buy everything included in the 7-piece set. Nooooo...our stylish homes of … [Read more...]
Your Happy is My Happy!
Don't we all look for ways to sprinkle doses of happy into the hum-drum routine of life? Happy places. Happy people. Happy things. Happy times. And...Happy memories. Because! Happy makes the heart healthy...and hopeful! What a treasure it is to find a place, right here in Minnesota, that sprinkles ALL sorts of this said Happy!!! If your discovery of Mama's Happy was anything like mine...oh...I'm sure it was! The happy bells went off and were ring-A-LINGING!! As you wandered around this … [Read more...]