Here are the top colour trends that dominated High Point Market this fall. Join us as we explore room design styles, ideas and inspiration to help you incorporate some of the most-seen colour trends into your interior decor in 2020. Two of my team members, Tricia Firmaniuk and Kristy Robb… Continue Reading →
Since we travel so much, occasionally I’ll buy a book in an airport bookstore. I’ve seen a few people reading this one on the plane and was intrigued by the headline, so I bought it. I haven’t finished it yet, but I wanted to share this excerpt with you because… Continue Reading →
I’ve been at the KBIS show this week with Modenus. That post will be coming soon! I finally arrived home this morning after a delay caused me to miss my connection in Phoenix last night! Whew. Whenever this happens I always ask myself how it is that I used to… Continue Reading →
Irene Hill is a very special person. Not only is Irene the editor of my eBooks, which means she takes all my “mad scientist” complicated ideas about undertones and colour and puts them in the right order, but she also works tirelessly at Youth Unlimited as a Development Officer helping to raise… Continue Reading →
TALENT gets you noticed, MAYBE and looks, sure, for a moment. But the only thing that gets you a seat at the table in this town, is FORCE OF PERSONALITY I’m talking about complete and utter confidence in WHO YOU ARE. When you have that, people are drawn to you–they don’t… Continue Reading →
via HGTV My Mom was going out of town this past weekend but I received a text from her at 5:19 AM Saturday morning. If you’re not a Fin, you won’t be able to read half of this so I’ll translate. “Maria, come visit, I’m watching some amazing ted talks.” “But… Continue Reading →
As some of you know, I just came back from a 3-week trip to Italy, something I’ve been talking and dreaming about on this blog ever since I started writing it almost 7 years ago. Two years ago, I got really close to going when Terreeia told me she had some… Continue Reading →
{image source} I have a new subscription to Next on my iPad, so it was pretty easy to click on the latest issue of Fortune Magazine where Toni Robbins was on the cover. They were calling him the CEO Whisperer. I was struck by this excerpt from his latest book Money:… Continue Reading →
I just want you to know, Irene and I are so moved by your generosity and support for her sister Aimee’s story and her children. We wanted to give you an update on what their space looks like now, and what will soon be possible with our fundraising efforts! After… Continue Reading →
I asked Irene to write this post about her sister. Terreeia and I get a front row seat in hearing updates on her story – it’s far from finished and we decided we wanted to be part of it. But in a way that could really go so much farther… Continue Reading →
Everywhere, everywhere, everywhere I go Everywhere that I’ve been, the only thing I see is Is beautiful people, beautiful people Beautiful people, beautiful people Don’t you know? Don’t you know? Beautiful, don’t you know? Don’t you know? Don’t you know? Beautiful, don’t you know, know, know Live your life, live… Continue Reading →
This past Friday the Canadian Decorators Association – BC Chapter held our annual general meeting in North Vancouver on a fabulous, hot and sunny day! I have been a member for months but this is the first time I have been to an event–silly me–now that I live in the… Continue Reading →
Sometimes clients are looking for a little magic when I arrive with my box of colours. Barbara Barry source But sometimes, magic will not erase a mint green carpet installed all throughout your house, for example. Barbara Barry source Sometimes colour can absolutely make something old and dated look a… Continue Reading →
(my nephew William) Photos by Maria Killam My sister Lea (I have 3 sisters) will be moving to one of the first Ecovillages in Canada just down the street from where I will live in Yarrow. source It’s a real community with 20 acres of farmland where everyone participates… Continue Reading →
So I’m in a workshop for facilitators here in Vegas. The difference between training which is what I mostly do in my True Colour Expert Workshops and facilitating is this:
1. Training. I need to get my participants from A – B and I have the answers (it is MY system after all).
2. Facilitating. The facilitator stands inside the gap between A – B and you bring activities and resources to lead your participants to B and you don’t even pretend to have the answers.
There’s parts of my course when I’m facilitating and other parts where it’s full on training.
Pinterest I opened this post from Copyblogger this morning in my in-box and started reading and I thought, “Wow, I was just thinking about this the other day!” How, compared to so many in other parts of the world, we are fabulously wealthy. We all need a reminder once in… Continue Reading →
