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To Do: Become a Cross Dresser

Bailey and Blum Yes folks, I admit it: I am a cross dresser. I read this wonderful expression in the book I recommended on Friday, Tom Kelley’s The Art of Innovation. He describes a business cross dresser as having the following attributes: Someone who, for example, was a lawyer or engineer and fell in love [...]

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To Do: Break the Rules

You might not believe this, but at one point years ago it was totally unacceptable to do a ceremony with anything other than all white. Actually, in many cities this is still the norm. The first time I did an all red ceremony I received a lot of comments about having bad taste. Some folks [...]

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To Do List: Focus on the "Can" instead of "Can’t"

“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” -Charles R. Swindoll I feel like, sometimes, we are surrounded by so much negative energy that we can’t even bring up the urge or motivation to get started on our day’s tasks. I wanted to start this post with the [...]

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To Do List: How To Get Publicity

I need to be cautious here…but I am wondering if you (like me) ever feel like a loser when you do not accomplish all of the tasks on your To Do list? I try to be vigilant of that fearful, lazy part of myself that loves to create distraction and drama not to do the [...]

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7 Must Do’s for Your To Do List

Forthy Rules Of Love(Photo via). I hope you all got through your to do lists last week. I know I had a few difficulties with mine. Here’s an update: Work I presented two jobs last week. They included concepts for two public Installations in Hong Kong, and another concept for the wedding of Bella and [...]

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To Do

I know I was just talking last week about the importance of a Stop Doing list but, as we all know, To Do lists are one of the most important tools we have to help us throughout our day (for business and personal). I thought it might help us to start sharing our To Do [...]

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Announcing Bailey and Blum.com

I promise to write more about this later, but I just wanted to let you know that I have an exciting event coming up in March. Marcy Blum and I will be hosting a mentoring weekend March 5th-7th in New York City. More information will soon be up on the website, so check it out: [...]

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Reminder! Submit Your Entries for the Celebrations Contest

Just a reminder that there’s only one month left to enter our Celebrations Contest. I’ve received some wonderful entries so far. If you need inspiration to tell your own story, here are excerpts from two entries that have already been submitted. Tracy said, “When we are 80, my girlfriends and I will sit by the [...]

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Holiday DIY: Pie of Roses

Yesterday we talked about some great ways you can decorate your home last minute. However, if you have some extra time on your hands and want to make something special I have a beautiful DIY for you to try. It’s blissfully simple, but something you’ll have to make the day of or the day before [...]

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Last Minute Christmas Décor Tips

It’s almost the big day! Here are some last minute ideas for your Christmas decorating: Tip #1: I always suggest having at least one dramatic statement. I think a great one for Christmas would be to get a small Christmas tree and put it right in the center of your dining table (similar to what [...]

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Preston’s Gift Guide Part 2: A Little Something For Yourself

Candles and Drawers(Photo via) The holidays are stressful. In thinking about what to get for others, sometimes you lose sight of taking care of someone who could really use extra attention right now: yourself. (And besides, in order to give you have to receive, right?) Here are some presents you can get for yourself to [...]

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Celebrations Contest: Enter for a Chance to Win

I’m so excited to share this news with you. Today, we’re launching a contest for my new book Celebrations. Basically, I want you to share a story about your favorite celebration with me through either Facebook, Twitter or right here on this blog entry (in the comments below). The official description with all the details [...]

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A Little Bit of Jazz

Even now, when I see him perform, his amazing voice still brings me to tears.

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Vicente Wolf

Those of you who know me well already know that my friend Vicente Wolf was the person who inspired me to start my business way back when. By bringing me in on his beautiful home installations, I discovered my flair for styling and his confidence in me was the final push I needed to establish [...]

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Paper Elegance

I love this! We created a beautiful elegant table all made from wrapping paper, ribbons, and small embellishments. You can do this so easily bust out your scissors and glue guns. We glued ribbon along the edge of our favorite wrapping paper and add some beading to the ribbon to give it a nice finished [...]

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Bouquet Noir

This Halloween I am going to have my “Bouquet Noirs” delivered to all my friends. Halloween is such a great time to let your creativity go wild, anything goes! This is elegant and creepy! You can make your own at home easy and affordably. Get yourself some silk flowers, black spray paint, a glue gun, [...]

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Last Minute Elegant Table Setting

Hello everyone I know it has been way too long since I have posted in my journal. For the last 3 months I have been traveling like crazy, I went to India, Bali, Jakarta, Paris, London, Milan, The Maldives, Iceland, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar! It was absolutely amazing and I have tons to share with [...]

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Handmade 4th of July

This is an easy, affordable and elegant way to decorate your table for Independence Day. As you can see these are not traditional decorations for the 4th, but that is what I like about it and so will your guests. For the table I used a white table cloth – easy enough we all have [...]

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