Christmas is just around the corner…
Christmas is just around the corner…I love Christmas. I always have and probably always will. I love pulling out the decorations year after year and seeing the old ornaments my kids have made over the years. I get to relive for a short period, all those delicious childhood memories, both my own children’s and mine.My favorite decoration of all is a Paper Mache Santa holding onto a swaddled baby. I love this for a couple of reasons. First of all,...
Designers Collective: A Collaborative Passion
Designers Collective: A Collaborative Passion Between Brooke Hatfield & Tina DhillonI have known Brooke for nearly two decades. Our kids were in the same swim club and we often talked about our creative interests to pass the time.My daughter Scarlett, and Brooke's son Sam are on the far right with medals around their necks.Brooke was a practicing nurse, and my husband and I, were residential architects. Brooke approached us to do a major renovation on her home and, from the...
Holiday Hostess Gift Ideas
Host and Hostess Gift Ideas-These are a Few of Our Favourite ThingsThis time of year brings about lots of socializing, and with that we often are invited into our friends homes for a party or celebration. What do you give for a host or hostess gift?Here are a few ideas we have come up with to help you hit just the right note for your next party.Vancouver Candle Company has many different scents to choose from. They have a different...
Coming Soon! Curated Objets d’art Gallery Pop-Up Shop
Designers Collective Curated Objets d'art Gallery Pop-Up ShopWe are pretty excited about what we have coming up! We are curating a Pop-Up Shop in late November that we are calling Designers Collective Curated Objets d'art Gallery, easily described by our favourite hashtag #localisthenewblack.We are collaborating with some amazing Vancouver artists and designers to bring you some beautiful art pieces, ceramics, jewelry and succulents. We have carefully chosen and selected unique and creative makers for the Pop Up so it should...
Halloween: Get the Vibe Tastefully
Halloween: Get the Vibe TastefullyAs Halloween is approaching I have been seeing a lot of decorations popping up around town. It has gotten me thinking…how can a person decorate for Halloween but stay true to their personal style? Halloween doesn’t have to be all ghosts and goblins or scary. You can use a small amount of black or orange or spiders or…to get the vibe of Halloween across.So, that started me on a google search. Halloween decorating. Nope, that brought...
Reflecting on Gratitude
Reflecting on GratitudeMonday was Thanksgiving. We hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner. Thanksgiving always brings up the topic of gratitude, giving thanks for all we have. Abundance is ours. Sometimes we forget this from day to day and we would like to take this opportunity to remind ourselves of gratitude.Traditional Landscape Sometimes it is good to just slow down a bit and notice what we do have. I don’t want to be that person who is never happy because I...
18-25 year Old Canadians Vote: #CreativeVoting
18-25 year Olds Canadians Vote: #CreativeVotingWhat we all love about Canada is it’s democratic values and freedoms. Designers Collective wants to do our part to encourage voters between 18-25 to vote. So, we are offering a gift certificate to one Creative Therapy Session in our Vancouver Studio, if you vote!! It's true, we have a gift certificate with your name on it! This is your chance to fuel your creativity on us!Remember Christmas is coming and you can always give this Gift Certificate...
What’s Wrong With This Room?
What’s Wrong With This Room?It is time for another episode of What’s Wrong With This Room? It’s good to look at photographs of home décor or design so you can notice what appeals to you but also so you can train your eye to really analyze a photo and see what works and what doesn’t.Here we go!!What do you think of this first image? Can you see something that could look a bit better?Here the painting doesn’t quite relate to...
Front Porch Decorating
Front Porch DecoratingFall is here in full force. Even though the days continue to be sunny and quite warm, the mornings are crisp and the nights cool down considerably. The rain is… inevitable. So it’s time to put away all the deck cushions and start to think of hunkering down for the next two seasons.And with that change of weather and change of our daily activities comes another thought-we get to change our décor! By this I don’t mean a...
Thanksgiving Tablescape
Thanksgiving TablescapeAre you starting to think about your Thanksgiving yet? Psst…It’s just around the corner. Perhaps you have ordered your turkey and have thought ahead to your menu, but what about your table setting? We have come up with a couple of ideas that may make you want to change up your table setting this year.We decided to see if we could do an inexpensive approach to decorating a Thanksgiving table this year. We still just love the rustic look...