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Involving Color

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I’ve “known” Jena from Involving Color for quite awhile and I not only love her creativity and beautiful home, I love her site.  She has some new features and really helpful tools so I asked her to share a little about it today. It’s a site you’re going to want to pin or bookmark for when you’re trying to choose a paint color. See paint colors in “real” rooms. Here’s Jena:

Hi, I’m Jena from Involving Color, and I’m so excited to be guest posting here on The DIY Show Off! I’ve been a long time reader of Roeshel’s blog, so when she asked me to come share a little about my site with you guys, I was beyond excited.

Involving Color is a blog all about paint color. I have hundreds (and growing!) reader submitted rooms organized in galleries by paint color and room type. I even have a section just for painted furniture. I recently added a lot of functionality with an improved search and image tags, which I’ll talk about below.

InvolvingColor

DO IT YOURSELF – do something this weekend.

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It’s calling for snow here. The warmer temps were just a tease. Snow for me means staying at home. Just some quick, easy ideas for motivation all to start somewhere small this weekend to accomplish something productive. For me, it always leads to bigger things. Taking 15 minutes to do one of these, almost always inspires me to work a little longer and accomplish a little more.  Here is what works for me:

  • Clean off the kitchen counters. Before I know it, I’m scrubbing things down, sweeping the floor, wiping down the fridge. I love a clean kitchen.marble subway tile, back splash, do it yourself, virginia mist granite, hanging mugs
  • Sort through a junk drawer. Organize chaotic papers and receipts, put ‘quick clean shoved’ items where they belong. Having everything where it belongs feels so good.craft room, organization, vintage, craft supplies, home office
  • Make the bed. In our home, this doesn’t happen daily but taking a minute to make the bed = picking up clothes, dusting and rearranging decor. I love when that happens!poster bed with curtains, turquoise and orange, do it yourself, bedroom makeover
  • Actually look at craft supplies and materials, then browse Pinterest for an idea. Time to get creative!craft supplies, organization, ribbon storage

Do you have do-it-yourself plans this weekend? I do! Mine involves primer and paint. How about you?

Last week of Lucky Linky Follower Giveaway

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WEEK 4

 

It’s week 4! We LOVE to share GIVE-A-WAYS with you . Cheri from It’s So Very Cheri and I both worked with Brent the creator of the new LINKY FOLLOWER tool (he also has Linky Tools–the linky party guy). We were both a little panicked over the Google Friend Connect going away and Brent came to the rescue, creating an easy to use new Follower/new reader tool for bloggers. Then we rounded up some friends to join our test group and we all helped to work on the best new follow tool.

We thought it would be SUPER FUN to have a SUPER COOL– MONTH LONG give-a-way to celebrate the SUPER COOL new tool.

1 WINNER WILL RECEIVED A CASH PRIZE OF $50 {via Paypal} at the end of February!

sponsored by Linky Followers & Linky Tools

(The PRIZE MONEY is open to world wide followers with a Paypal account)

In addition to our monthly prize our featured give-a-ways for WEEK 4 are:

ROCKLER

glue gun & glue sticks


paint brushes


over night brush storage container

and

DECOART

DecoArt’s NEW Chalkboard Coating–turns any painted surface into a chalkboard.

DecoArt’s Decoupage

decoupageand their new chalkboard
MANDATORY: Follow our NEW LINKY TOOL FOLLOWER (not the Google Friend Connect) located on our side bars. Signing up to Linky Followers is very simple and FREE! Yes – FREE!!!

FOLLOW Cheri from Its So Very Cheri —1 entry ( on her side bar)
FOLLOW Roeshel from The DIY ShowOff —1 entry (located on the side bar)
FOLLOW THE DIY CLUB —1 entry (located on the DIY Club side bar)

You MUST follow the NEW LINKY TOOL on all three (above) to be qualified for the give-a-way.

Then each week you can come over and follow the instructions to enter for that week.

This week 2/24/2012 through 3/2/2012 – EXTRA ENTRIES:

Leave us a comment for each entry.

LIKE Rockler on Facebook = 1 entry
Follow Rockler on twitter = 1 entry

LIKE DecoArt on Facebook = 1 entry
Follow this DecoArt page on Pinterest = 1 entry

Head over to Its So Very Cheri for 7 more chances!

*I’ve emailed Week #2 winner and made the announcement.  If there isn’t a response by the end of the month, I’ll be choosing another Week 2 winner.