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Create Academy’s 25% OFF Easter Sale

Hey friends, great news! Create Academy is having their Easter Sale right now with 25% OFF on all of their courses! If you’ve been tempted to try out one of their classes in the past, now would be an excellent time to go for it. With their exquisitely photographed and detailed courses taught by leading experts on a variety of topics that include cooking, gardening, landscape and interior design, upholstery, block printing, sewing, interior styling etc, Create Academy offers a wonderful learning opportunity to anyone looking to expand their creativity and skillset, or to just be entertained in the company of experts. Throughout this post I’ve highlighted some of my favorite courses but there are many more to chose from. You can access the sale HERE, or by any of the links in this post, using the code SPRING25 at checkout. The sale ends on April 11th.  Happy learning!

Grow a Spectacular Garden in Pots by Arthur Parkinson

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A Note on Create Academy

Prompted by a dear reader’s question (Hi, Sheena!) I realized that, while I have reviewed a number of Create Academy courses on the blog, many of you are perhaps still not familiar with the platform, so I thought I’d give you a flavor of their amazing mission and course offerings. Create Academy is a learning platform focusing on arts, crafts, gardening, food and interior design. They launched in November 2019  with an online course by the British interior decorator Rita Konig, followed by a class on floristry with the lovely Willow Crossley. Since then, they’ve expanded their curriculum to include numerous interior design and styling courses, gardening and cooking classes, as well as arts and crafts – my favorite. If you love audiobooks and podcasts, this is, in many ways, an even better learning opportunity because you get to watch experts do the vey thing you’d like to get better at. In addition, each course comes with a free lesson you can sample before making up your mind, which I found very useful. (Bellow is a link to such a free sample taken from Rita Konig’s fantastic class – The Ultimate Guide to Interior Design.)

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This Week’s Finds

Happy Weekend, dear friends! Here are this week’s finds: 

1. The Louvre’s entire art collection is now accessible online, for free. Peruse some of the world’s most famous collections of pottery, fine art, textiles and furniture, from the comfort of your sofa. Click HERE for more.

2. A wonderful Nantucket cottage to obsess over – the home of fashion designer Veronica Swanson Beard, decorated by Michelle Holland of Nantucket House Antiques. Click HERE for a tour.

3. Indulge your love of textiles with a lovely assortment of Anatolian patterns, kilims and embroideries to choose from, via THIS Etsy shop. 

Lumbar pillow:

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Create Your Perfect Home – A Create Academy Course by Rita Konig

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In December of last year Create Academy launched an intriguing course called Create Your Perfect Home, taught by renowned British decorator Rita Konig. Like many of you, I’m sure, I was very excited at the idea of having Rita Konig pull back the curtains on her projects and share a glimpse inside her processes. We’ve seen her genius at work in one of the most talked about and admired homes ever published – a Mill Valley camp turned family home by architect Gil Schafer in collaboration with Rita Konig, so this Create Academy course definitely has us paying attention. I have just finished watching the entire course this weekend and I thought I’d share a short review here on the blog, in case you are interested in taking the class but unsure of whether or not it’s a good fit.

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