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I am just so excited to be teaching you from my heart, the real depths of me, in an all new RISE class online that I’ve created to help you and your business. I’m working on my 5th book, am designing a few collections for home brands currently to release next year, and am embarking on one of the biggest projects (and dreams!) of my career yet I still get into slumps and ruts like everyone else because I’m human and battle with my crazy anxiety and fears and work / family balance stuff along with other things...Yet I’ve been following a method for years that I realized is worth teaching to others because it really, truly works. I hope you will join my class, I plan to really pour out my soul and give you a completely unreal classroom experience. Link in my Insta Stories for more info. Men are absolutely welcome, too. #bloggingyourway #riseonlineclass #riseup #smallbiz #womenempowerment #womenempoweringwomen #smallbusinesslove #freelancelife #girlboss #ladyboss #onlineclasses #riseandgrind #riseaboveit #unsplashphoto #badass #makemagichappen #themagicisinyou
I still absolutely love and lust for terrazzo! You too??? Yes or no? Photo via @sarahshermansamuel #terrazzo #flooring #interiordesign #surfacepattern
The new issue is here and so is my next column in German and it’s all about the reality of Instagram life, “Ist das alles echt?” Pages 64-65. 🧡 Hope you will read and enjoy it! @flow_magazin @instagramde #instagram #hollyswelt #flow #flowmagazin #columnist #neues #grunerjahr #magazinecover #hollybecker #decor8
Good morning and I have an announcement! If you are up in Denmark (or feel like flying up!) then I encourage you to visit design and home fair @formland_official in Herning because it’s amazing and... I will be speaking there!!!! It’s my second year back to Formland, last year I gave the opening speech, so I’m delighted to return! Details are on my blog. I’m giving two talks about home styling and some secrets to styling and moderating two panels - one about trends and tendencies and the other about social media marketing, sharing and everything else we can squeeze in. FORMLAND runs from 16-19 August and I’ll be there daily on 16, 17, and 18. Hope to meet you are Formland! If you see me walking around, please stop me and say hello! Anyway, back to the usual program here on Instagram - happy Monday!!! #werbung #ad #formland #messe #herning #denmark #danishdesign #wainscoting #porcelain #ceramics #decor8 #decoratewithflowers #designfair #nordicdesign #scandinaviandesign #mondaymood
Story time! This time I am showing you the wall from the previous “ghost” story I shared. This is how the wall came out with my fancy schmancy Farrow & Ball wallpaper. I am sorta embarrassed to show this photo because it’s 1/ Not styled 2/ The Seat and table to the left is temporary because I have no storage for it (I need my own shop in #Hannover so bad! still!) 3/ My cabinet is atrocious if you zoom in because it’s totally not styled and messy as hell 4/ There is too much stuff in the photo and I’ve decided to get rid of 50% of my belongings in my home though I’ will still have stuff around - maybe more than the sleek and perfect @kinfolk homes out there - I admire those homes but that’s not how I can live. /// The moral of THIS story is that people in design don’t always have their shit together 100%. We have messes. We take photos for insta in our t-Shirt and underwear (like I did here). And they don’t aspire to be perfect or even admired. I don’t. I don’t want anyone to envy my life or my home - I just want people who visit me to feel cozy and comfortable and maybe inspired by some of my things and examples of my creativity. Decorating really depends on your personality type. I know designers and creatives like @rossana_orlandi @jonathanadler @johnderiancompany and @sibellacourt who love and thrive on „stuff“ and their living areas reflect that but so does their enormous creativity gypsy-ness. Or @justinablakeney now that’s a creative goddess/gypsy right there. I definitely don’t have a perfectly perfect Instagram home but this is a space that means something to me. Every unstyled object has a story in that cabinet and I truly mean it - it’s a 25+ year collection of things. So look at this photo and laugh and say „oh my god, looks like a flea market!“ OR „she’s brave to share this gong show!“ or perhaps you will say „hey I can relate and I feel better seeing this today.“ Hope it’s that one. Love, Holly
Friyay! Time to break out the cheese, figs and wine OR bottled water and gym routines if you’re me! I had a severe lung infection from May until a few weeks ago, and couldn’t workout and honestly didn’t want to - I was so exhausted from the incessant coughing and from waking up 8 times a night drowning in clear fluid from my lungs. I cried a lot because I felt defeated, and it was painful. I couldn’t keep up with my son. Going to Denmark recently with all of the ocean air and daily swimming in the pool surprisingly cured me after 8 weeks of the infection and 2 types of medicine. I came home no longer using my inhaler. I put the pills away. I could breathe. Sea air is sooooo good! After getting home, I realized that 8 weeks of basically being a sloth had taken its toll on me. I felt tired and was sore all over. I thought to cut out all sugar and alcohol, milk products and bread to see how I would feel. I immediately lost 3 kilo without much effort. I feel more energy again, my pain is lessening and my skin is clearing up (I was getting such bad breakouts). A week ago, I looked in the mirror and sobbed. I felt like my health and looks were falling apart. I felt like I had zero control. Powerless. Then I started to think of this Oracle card that @outiart sent to me. I didn’t even know what Oracle cards were when she pulled it from her deck BUT when I learned the meaning of the card, I cried! But I cried not as a victim, I cried as no longer feeling like one - it was a release. The card basically meant that though I look to others to get my power i don’t need to - I have it all inside and just need to look to myself, believe in my own power and redirect it in a positive way but towards me - not away. I often am inspired by things that I myself don’t practice or believe in, simply because I believe everything is sent to us for a reason, as a message. This morning I looked in the mirror and saw a big improvement. Cutting out specific foods from my diet helps me personally to detox. After this, I plan to get checked for food allergies and intolerances as I’m curious. Anyway, are any of you also feeling a shift in your eating or exercise right now?
Another story to tell! This you may personally relate to... This photo was taken several years ago, concept and styling by me (Susanne from @milasdeli made the cookies and took the photo). She helped me shoot a campaign for American firm @artifactuprising where I had to develop a theme around a product - a photo book. For this concept, I went with an idea of creating a photo book with photos of my little boy that I would give to his grandmother with homemade heart cookies in a pretty box, this would be a beautiful Mother’s Day gift idea. I remember this shot because the day was ending and I was tired and felt like I couldn’t style anymore photos. Then I realized I actually needed more photos to tell a more heartfelt story. That’s when I put this piece of marble on her kitchen floor near the natural light and thought to arrange the cookies this way with the little powered sugar and sifter nearby. The present with the book had a flower on top and because I had extra flowers, I sprinkled them here (look closely, I wanted it to be very subtle). After this photo, I styled a few more and when the day was finished, I realized that my best work was actually when I felt the least creative - when I just winged it and did whatever came instinctively. It made me realize how much we often discredit our instinct thinking something must be planned out and perfectly executed to be good enough. Everyone is different of course, but I tend to write the best when I feel sour or down and I tend to style the best when I „wing it“. I was having a conversation about this earlier today, how there isn’t „one“ way to be or act or live. We just have to figure out our way and work with what we have and not be so hard on ourselves. #foodstyling #beautiful #baking #hearts #marble #heartshapedcookies #artifactuprising #happyplace #milasdeli #hannover #germany #wednesdaywisdom #bepositive
This photo makes me laugh. Are you ready to hear the story? So okay, a few years ago my wall in the living room was being stripped and primed for my new Farrow & Ball wallpaper. After the painter left for lunch, I ran my hands over the half dry walls and nearly made out with it - I loveddddd the texture, the uneven color, even the sorta clay-like smell. I stood before the wall thinking of how I want to just leave it that way! With my period crown mounding and elaborate turn of the century ceiling floral designs in crisp white, the juxtaposition between the perfect mouldings and the imperfect walls was stunning - at least to me. I had already invested in the project though so it was full stream ahead. As I stood there I thought that I have to take a photo of this wall, because it’s so damn pretty. The floors were covered with plastic and the room was loaded with debris from the wall along with trash bags, a ladder, tools, you name it - a mess. The painter would be back in 45 minutes. What would I do? I climbed over all of the crap and took a photo of the wall but it didn’t look like much. That’s when the crazy creator in me surfaced. I ran to the kitchen and grabbed my vintage Dutch table. I climbed over everything and placed it against the wall. I stepped back and thought that was a great starting point. Next came the point of inspiration to produce a story. The oil painting is from a German flea market. The skeptical woman. I used my finger to press a nail into the moist wall, that’s how fresh the wall was. Then I just thought of her and her story. A widow, reading old love letters from her husband, etc. As I pulled from other rooms, I quickly arranged everything, a candle, flowers, a throw. I grabbed my camera and took some photos - the natural light was so beautiful that the photo here is completely edit-free - which makes it so much more special to me. Anyway, now the funny part. I heard the painter making his way up the stairs. He was a bit chubby and slow, and I’m on a higher floor, so I knew I had about 3 minutes. I raced to put everything back. Surely, he would have thought I was... (scroll down to finish reading the story in the comments)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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