Why your Designer should be a Blogger
08/06/2010If you are about to hire a designer to help you with your house, it’s best if your designer also has a blog. Design bloggers really are on the cutting edge of what’s cool and current (maybe). Here’s why. Yesterday I posted about IKEA bookshelves and then Erika from Bluelabel Bungalow posted a comment saying…
If you are a blogger (or are about to start one) and you want to be really good–subscribe to Copyblogger. I think it’s one of the best blogs to improve your blog daily. There’s a reason he has over 100,000 subscribers. It was when I read this post called “Could your Blog be Ruining your…
My take on Negative Comments
04/18/2010I’ve been wanting to write about this for a while. And now since I’m helping Penelope decorate her farmhouse and she’s mentioned me on her blog, I’m suddenly inside her blog’s vortex of unmoderated negative comments and I must admit, it stings. (Penelope has a much higher tolerance for them than I do and I…
Style at Home and Penelope Trunk
04/01/2010What do the two have in common? The May Style at Home issue (which I’m in) arrived in the mail yesterday and I was mentioned in Penelope’s latest blog post both on the same day! It was all very exciting. I spun around and did a happy dance for a little too long on Tuesday…
Are you a Do-it-Yourself Blogger?
02/07/2010This week I found the perfect spot for the colour course I’m scheduling here in May (dates coming soon) and I am renting the space from an instructor who has her own school. It’s not this house (below) but wouldn’t that be fabulous? She mentioned a popular national shelter magazine and said she has banned…
I’ve already written a post on the basics, 10 Things Every Blogger Should Know, click here if you haven’t read it. I’ve learned so much more now that I’ve been doing this for over one year, that I’m taking the opportunity to share with you here: Image source 1. White Screen vs. a Black Screen….
6 ways I’ve Grown through writing a Blog
11/02/2009It’s Colour Me Happy’s one year anniversary! 6 months before starting my own blog, I didn’t even know what a blog was! Prior to the weekend I started writing, I had spent a couple days with another designer friend listening to an on-line course about the business of design. One of the modules talked about…
Who else wants an Inspired Website?
10/21/2009One of my biggest faults is that I’m impatient. Really. I hate to wait for anything. When I was married (a long time ago) my husband and I had just moved into the house we had bought together. . . The flash intro on my website; Maria Killam Colour & Design We sat down on…
Material Girls Blog was the very first blog I stumbled across when I was looking for fabric sites on-line one year ago. It was the one that started my blog obsession and yesterday Emily Johnson (one of their many talented designer contributors) wrote an article about my blog! She called it “Advice From a True…
10 Things Every Blogger Should Know
03/01/2009This post is 101 flickr 1. If you have a PC, download Windows Live Writer now. Trust me, you will thank me for it (best of all it’s free forever, not just for 30 days). You can download images as you write instead of downloading to the top of your blog (if you are…
Why blogging is good for your Career
02/09/2009This is a rendering Michelle Morelan from A Schematic Life just whipped up from my “Colours of Provence” post the other day. I love how she called it “Maria’s Villa”. It was the one I stayed in during my visit to France two years ago. If you are reading this and still thinking about starting…
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