Black Diamond Shopper   Remember the days of wine-colored accent walls and crackle painted furniture? As a daughter of the 90s, I remember beaming with pride as I mastered the multilayering process of trying to make old ugly furniture look….well…like a prettier version of old furniture.   Since then, I’ve seen my share of trends like sage walls, pergo floors and dried flowers. Was anyone else a flower drying fanatic?   I have embraced all these trends but none have captivated me quite like the eclectic features of a modern farmhouse.    I’m not an interior designer by any stretch of the imagination...

  Several weeks ago, I wrote about what it means to live the HUGG Life. The H stands for Honest and I mentioned that “women crave honesty on every front.” The HUGG woman is HONEST in the way she interacts with the world but she especially craves honest exchanges FROM her world. She wants to cut to the chase and get REAL with people and she wants people to get REAL with her. Come on—she can handle it. Can I get an Amen? Although I have focused, these past four years, on pursuing a fashion brand that puts people first,...

I have a confession. I believed, at the beginning of this venture, that I was strong enough AND smart enough to create and run a social enterprise that was going to radically impact the lives of MANY orphaned young men in Haiti. Boom! In five years, I was going to be sharing with the world how Jesus and jobs for young men is the key to changing Haiti from the ground up.   Well, here we are starting our 4th year and I haven’t attained the measure of success that I put so much stock in at the beginning of...

So, maybe you're like me and you still have the cutesy, pastel Easter bunnies and Hallmark ceramics that you pull out every year to deck your tabletops and shelves.   There is nothing wrong with the tradition of sweet figurines and fluffy bunnies. They bring smiles to your children's faces and well--maybe you WILL get around to supergluing that ear that came off several years ago....now if you knew where you put it.   In addition to a bunny here and there, I wanted to capture the Spirit of Spring in my home in a fresh and inspiring way that jives...