If you want your photos to be liked, shared and commented on - in other words, if you want to be SEEN in this great, big online world - you have to put a story or a feeling behind the photos that go deeper than the words you write beneath them. The story itself has to say something!

This online class will focus on creating content that people respond to. How many times have you posted something on Instagram and it just sat there, with very few likes, and your heart just sorta felt like it was sliding down your chest, making its way to your leg, until completely falling out of

One glance inside Annemieke Boot's Amsterdam ceramics studio and you will see that her work is deeply inspired by Scandinavian simplicity, her designs derived from pure, simple forms. With a keen eye for detail, Annemieke admits that she once was intent to make each and every piece exactly the same

Hello friends. I've been wanting to tell you the good news for months, but I'm going to give a lecture at Finland's largest design show, Habitare. I can't wait. If you plan to attend, please sit in on my discussion which will focus on creating content for Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest and

It's time to talk about the tech side of our move to Squarespace. With over 11 years of posts and 100,000 comments, it was definitely more involved than simply starting a blog for the first time or moving a blog with only a few years of content over... Yet, it was surprisingly

After months of wondering what the best decision would be, my husband (who runs the back end of decor8) and I decided to move decor8 from Wordpress (WP) to Squarespace and try something completely new. This isn't purely about aesthetics, following trends, or even because we're bored with Wordpress. It's actually none

I am so excited to tell you about this. But first, hello everyone! Okay, so I decided after 11 1/2 years of blogging to finally start my first ever decor8 newsletter. Many of you subscribe to decor8 via RSS or Bloglovin', which is great because you get my feed daily in your inbox so you don't miss a

Do you see the little mouse he is holding under his wing so gently? In nature, the mouse would have been devoured in a moment, owls are not vegetarians! They're hunters and must be in order to survive. The artist who made this owl though, Babette Maeder, is of course allowed to tell