Color Your Fancy: Autumn Gourds

Today's Color Your Fancy features the colors of Fall's star of the harvest

image via: Pinterest

1// Behr Crushed Orange 25OB-7  2// Sherwin Williams Midday SW6695  3// Benjamin Moore Java 2106-10  4// Annie Sloan Chalk Paint Versailles via 'Round The Coop

Color Your Fancy: Copper

Welcome to our very first Color Your Fancy Post! The weather here in Arizona has FINALLY gotten chilly, which puts me in the mood to share one of my very favorite fall colors

1// copper tile backsplash  2// copper island lighting 3// copper farmhouse sink  4// copper kitchen options  5// copper, platinum, pearl, & gold floral display

6// copper bar {or island!} 7// copper pots in kitchen  8// copper window box  9// copper bathtub  10// more copper pots in kitchens

See more copper faves on our Pinterest Board, Favorite Colors. 

Speaker Feature: Erin Loechner of Design For Mankind

We are ecstatic to announce our first teacher for the event in October: Erin Loechner of Design for Mankind!



Erin comes to us from a pretty little place called Indiana, where she and her husband have completely renovated a home with drool worthy, Scandinavian style and finesse. Teaching our dECOr course on styling and renovating your home with eco-conscious efforts, Erin brings a lot to the table (most likely made out of salvaged Wyoming snow fence) from her experience in tackling her own home.

Above all of the experience, Erin brings with her an exceedingly positive, fun energy. Spontaneous dance parties, stellar fashion sense, and a kindness unmatched makes Erin an exceptional addition to the hello there! house family.

Juggling an active Internet career with writing, speaking and consulting, Erin can be found daily at DesignForMankind.com, her art/design blog that was recently honored as one of the London Time’s top 50 design blogs in the world. She currently hosts a renovation column on HGTV.com where she catalogs her experiences as an impromptu interior designer. Erin’s work has been featured in Glamour, Lucky, Dwell, Readymade, Nylon, Print Magazine, Apartment Therapy, The Huffington Post, and she regularly contributes to Readymade Magazine.

Here is a video of her own home's renovation featured on hgtv.com:



CAN we be any more excited to have Erin? We're DYING with excitement!

Leave a comment offering your warmest welcome to the newest member of the fam and register for the two-day event to learn more about Erin and updating your home using reclaimed, salvaged, and eco-friendly elements. Early bird tickets ($150) are still available but limited. Get yours today!

Grand Opening: frances studio

Over the past weekend, frances vintage in Central Phoenix expanded. On the fifth anniversary of the original stores’ opening, they  launched a fabulous shoes and accessories boutique called frances studio. Rosemary and I decided that this was an event not to be missed so we made our trek over on Saturday to join in the celebration.

The storefront, with its signature frances black and white, and darling orange, metal bench, was to die for.

Inside the energy was booming. From the display tables to the bud vases hanging daintily above the register, there was no mistaking that even the tiniest of details did not go untended.

There were even tasty little morsels just inside the front entrance for your shopping enjoyment. We may have missed the PB&J cookies, but we got in on the lemon mini cuppycakes and I’ll say this; I wasn’t mad.


A personal purchase of black glitter TOMS later and I found myself reading an artist’s statement. What for you ask? The amazing art that adorned the east wall of the shop. Quilted, tin containers from the artist’s studio set the stage for the SEE GIRL RUN series, developed in 2002 by artist Janet de Berge Lange. The inspiration for the backdrop and phrasing, made of salvaged zinc letters from an old furniture store on Central Avenue, came from a loose reference to a “quilt code” during the era of the Underground Railroad for weary and fearful passengers. The piece is awe inspiring and a measly little cell phone picture does no type of justice to its beauty.

Make your way to the shop whenever you get a chance. Pick up a pretty little something for yourself or a friend. It will be worth every penny to support the local brick & mortar empire.

frances vintage, frances studio, & smeeks
10 W. Camelback Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85013

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Want to see what inspires us? Then check out our Pinterest pins and see all the amazing ideas we find- and while you're there you can request an invite to join!

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We will be setting up all our guests at hello there! house Pinterest accounts, so if you don't have one at the Event, you will be getting one!