About this item
From the author of the blockbuster hit journals The 52 Lists Project and 52 Lists for Happiness, comes a book to help you design your space to discover what is really important to you and express the creativity and style you already have! This book is all about beautifying your life inside and out, helping you turn your home into a comfortable space that reflects your best self. Organized room by room, each chapter delves into what each room represents in our lives, and how we can feel at home in our spaces and at home in ourselves. You don't have to have the perfect life or perfect home in order to infuse your space with your signature spark and feel comfortable in your space. Each chapter includes: A deeply personal essay from online curator and style maven Moorea Seal.
About the Author
Moorea Seal is an author, designer, and entrepreneur based out of Seattle, WA. She is the founder and namesake of the women's retail website mooreaseal.com and store front in downtown Seattle which features over 160 handmade designers from across the U.S. and donates 7% of all proceeds to non-profits. Find her storefront at 1012 1st Ave, Suite 150, Seattle WA, 98104. Follow her on Instagram / Pinterest / Twitter at @mooreaseal.
Moorea's greatest inspiration is in seeking to empower others through beauty, compassion, and self love in all of her life's work and views her published work "The 52 Lists Project" "52 Lists for Happiness" and new latest book "Make Yourself at Home" as some of her life's greatest accomplishments. She seeks to write journals and books that inspire and encourage people from all walks of life, to harness their inner wisdom, strength and self love through list making.
Her background:
With a degree in Illustration, graduating college in 2009, Moorea was faced with the harsh realities of the job market, or lack there of, during the economic recession. Seeing no straight forward path in a career in the arts, and still unsure of how to mix her passions of art, music, philanthropic work, writing, and fashion into one avenue, she decided to start her blog moorea-seal.com. While juggling 2 full time nanny jobs and a part time job as an artist's assistant to a sculptor, she was blogging everyday to motivate herself to keep creating. She was also singing in a band, teaching herself HTML, and doing freelance Illustration and Design work on the side. Inspired by her work as an artist's assistant, she decided to teach herself how to make jewelry and with $10, two hand me down jewelry pliers from an old lady in her childhood community, and some junk jewelry from a thrift store, she started her first business in Etsy.
By 2010, she began to focus all of her energy on creative pursuits through jewelry design, graphic design, illustration, blog design, and blogging. In her search to create a better work experience with her design clients, she gained access to Pinterest while it was in beta and began using it to create inspiration boards for clients during the day while pretending she was shopping at night, creating boards of all of her dream products. It wasn't until someone else pointed it out to her that she realized she had amassed a following of 250,000 followers in 6 short months. And by 2012, she became a featured persona on Pinterest along side 29 other major brands such as Martha Stewart, Dr Oz, Anthropologie and the U.S. Army in "Pinterest's 30 Days of Pinspiration."
Because of the success of her jewelry line on Etsy and seeing it placed in over 40 stores worldwide, developing a deep connection to the handmade and blogging community, and watching her following grow to almost a million followers Pinterest, sh
