"Know what you like, trust your instincts and live" - ghislaine vinas

Yesterday that famous interior designer was on USU Campus. Don't know who she is, don't worry, I didn't really know anything but her name. I'll save you now though so that the next time you hear her name you can know what she does. www.gvinteriors.com

Although I was thirty minutes late to the presentation, I learned a lot from this uniquely creative lady.

1) She loves bright colors

2) Her favorite color changes every dayThis kitchen was inspired by a sunny side up egg, yellow in the middle, and white cabinets surrounding it.

3) She married a graphic designer

(Inspired by a weird bird painting. This room always reminds me of Dr. Suess, but adult style)

4) She hates the color of natural wood and will us it as little as possible

In this house, all of the walls were painted colors but absolutely all of the furniture was white. I really like the idea a lot.


5) She works off of inspiration of her clients
She used a painter for the murals and gave him a bunch of photos of what she thought life of little boys who didn't live in the city was like. The couple who lived here was married in aspen so she put a embedded a bunch of model trees in the wall(bottom left. The striped room is a guest bedroom, the stripes make your eyes go bug-eyed, you can't stay in the room for long, that's why it's a guest bedroom.

6) She likes to find the ugliest things she can and use them in her spaces

Instead of leaving the wainscoting white she painted it all pink to take it over the top, then she found the ugliest chandelier she could find and painted it purple and found the ugliest gaudy mirror she could find and painted it white.
In another room she showed during her presentation, she collected about 150 white plates from a thrift store and embedded them on a wall, she said some of them were the most hideous things with cherubs and other such random things on them.

Overall, I quite enjoyed this designer, her bright colors make me happy; I love her spaces, although I don't think I could ever live in them for too long.

Happy Happens

especially with these songs.









now Smile on

Just a Thought

That's all lots of things start out as. Circumstances in life fly to us and descend upon us even when we don't really notice. All my life, thoughts have been powerful things.

When I was younger I watched "The Secret" and yes, I believed it and knew that it did work but I never really noticed how MUCH it does work. Sometimes simple thoughts turn into reality.

When we think a thought, it isn't just a connection in our brainal fluids(sounds gross I know), it seems to be almost like a messenger bird. After we think it, it flies away and searches for something related to it and then brings that back.


This year, these "birds" I have really begun to notice, and they have brought back wonderful things that have made me truly grateful. As I began to notice, it seems like these birds got to be more and more powerful and come in greater abundance.


Running into someone that I haven't seen and just was randomly thinking about, having an object that I thought about for an entire millisecond suddenly show up a few days or even months later, or thinking of something that would be fun to do and then having that circumstance present itself in front of me a couple days later are just a couple examples of what an impact thoughts can have on our lives.


Really, most of these were just millisecond thoughts. They weren't dwelled upon, or even formed in complete words in my mind.

"The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought, and both pleasant and unpleasant external conditions are factors which make for the ultimate good of the individual. As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both by suffering and bliss." - james allen

Thought control is the most difficult part of being human, but I didn't think that I would have to block out every thought that even mentions anything about negativity.


My life had been so good that a millisecond thought creeped in that was to the effect of "my life is so good I haven't had a bad day in a really long time" BANG. The following day, was.... you guessed it, a bad day, which turned into two bad days in one week.

Then life turned good once again.

Lately I had seen people post things about failure

"Failures are fingerposts on the road to success" - C.S lewis

"We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of our failures as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success always lies on the other side of failure."
- leo f. buscaglia

"Failure is Nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities."- napolean hill

"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success you know." -william saroyan

And I thought "I've never failed before" and wondered if such quotes are really true.

Well, you probably can end the story just as well as I can.

I just hope they are.

P.S "In the wise words of Justin Beiber, "never say never "" - Katherin Nelson

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