A Beautiful Mess launched their new photo editing app this week! You can read more about it here on their BLOG. These girls never cease to amaze and inspire me! The creativity they have is endless and I want to be just like them when I grow up :)

The app is only $1. You can buy additional designs within the app itself but the basic app is really all you need to create some really cute photos.

I had some fun with some pictures that were already on my iphone:

If you have the app and post your creations to instagram, remember to tag them with #abeautifulmess and check out how other people are using the app.

Also, remember, you can follow azulhome on instagram as well!

Does anyone already have the ABM app? How are you liking it?

-Kim

Have I mentioned how much I love picture walls? Well, I LOVE them. A lot.

I like how you can start a picture wall and add to it over time. You can create your own art gallery of art that is special to you. When you find that perfect little painting at a thrift shop for $3, you can add it to your wall. When you go on vacation, you can buy a piece of art or frame a picture from your trip. Then every time you stop and look at your art wall, all these memories will be there waiting for you.

(awesome paint color)

It may take a while to curate your wall, but its the looking for that perfect special piece that is so much fun, right? Your art wall can be always evolving and changing.

(add your kids or your own sketches)

(love this wall and the skull plate!)

Mirror walls are pretty cool too, especially going up a staircase like this.

And I am pretty sure I already told you about my love for starburst mirrors…

I think the most beautiful picture walls are the ones that just happen by accident…like after you have it like you think you want it but then you find this other awesome print you want to add, and then this other one, and then another one…and you add them…and now everything is totally off-balance but it looks so much better.

(I would totally live here)

(add old b&w photos from your family)

(put frames around stuff!)

(i kinda want that twig)

(love that kindness piece!)

(pretty silhouettes)

(this is my favorite!!!)

(picture wall gone wild)

I am constantly pinning new picture wall inspiration over on Pinterest. Check out my “picture and mirror wall” board (great name right???)

Do you currently have a picture wall in your home?

-Kim

I can’t stand a bare wall…and the walls in our laundry room have been bare for a while now. What kind of art do you hang in a laundry room anyway? There is this door with a screen door in our laundry room that leads out onto the deck and we are always going in and out. The screen door gets slammed A LOT…. I certainly didn’t want to hang something up that had even the slightest chance of falling down because someone (who shall remain nameless) feels the need to slam the door every time he they goes out.

So I did what any person with a large amount of leftover paint would do, I painted some art on that wall! Those frames aren’t going anywhere! If they do, then we have a major problem.
I thought about painting something inside them…and I actually did paint the word “wash” inside one, you know, because you WASH stuff in there…but it looked a little too ridiculous…so removed that.

While I was doing this, I thought that a lot of frames would look neat painted on a wall going up some stairs. You could make the frames all different sizes and shapes and even paint them 3D-ish. Maybe I will try that someday….yes, I think I will.

Would you ever consider painting frames directly on the wall?

-Kim

ps-the paint on the wall is Sherwin Williams Moody Blue and for the black frames I used some leftover chalk board paint :)

It’s that time of year again…you know, the time when it is starting to get warmer and sunnier and all you can think about is getting outside. Like, right now, I am outside on the patio typing this. Even though a thick layer of yellow pollen is slowly enveloping me and my laptop, there is no place I would rather be. I have my flip-flops on and the sun is warming my legs. Life is good.

But it wont be too long before I start daydreaming about summer vacation! Still outside in the sun of course.  But with sand.  And turquoise waters.  And a fruity drink (or two).

Even though I like to and have taken vacations to places other than beaches…my mind ALWAYS pictures tropical sands and waters when I am dreaming of the ultimate relaxation vacation.

Where does your mind go when dreaming of a vacation?

-Kim