So lately my creative inspiration has been on fire! No longer bound by the ‘shoulds’ and ‘ought to’s’ I find myself been fueled polar opposite looks. I am simultaneously inspired by bold bright colors and soft muted earthy tones. I used to think it had to be all or nothing: either all out bold and [...]
Happy Mother’s Day to all you Mother’s out there! I hope your day was full of love, laugher and *ahem* rest. If you’re anything like me, you probably didn’t relax for too long… I got to work on some projects that I will be posting shortly (wheee!) and tried really hard not to run away [...]
Coming Soon to AfroMartha: Case Studies. Being the owner of a Century old home has had it’s ups and downs, I must say. My home has so many *ahem* character flaws charms I’ve often wondered if the previous sprayed some magic dust in the air in preparation for our viewing of the house. Surely that must [...]
Spring has been my favorite season since the summer of 2003. Up until that point summer had my unending devotion. I suppose being pregnant THE ENTIRE SUMMER had a little something to do with that. Now I simply can’t take the heat and humidity of the summer. Spring though? We’ve become BFFs. I feel renewed [...]
Two weeks ago my Aunt passed away after a long battle with a reoccurrence of breast cancer. She was not just some random Aunt. Despite the fact that she was only 14 years older than me, she was my mother-figure of sorts. She helped raise me since I was 13 years old, 4 years after [...]
Here’s a pretty cool DIY I found on one of my favorite sites. From the look of it, it should be a fairly simple DIY, especially if you are handy with tools If however, you’re not, I have a work-around for you. The design of this is very similar to those old fashioned coat hooks [...]
Ah, the humble ubiquitous placemat. You know, the round ones made of woven spun polyester, or maybe even straw. I don’t know why, but I just love them. Maybe it’s because they are inexpensive, come in many delicious colors, and are widely available. I never just see them as placemats though. I always look beyond [...]
I accidently clicked on one of those silly FB ads, which led me to shoegasm land. Oh. My. I found these in the comfort shoes section of Nordstrom’s site. Cute + Comfortable = WIN in my book. I command the following shoes to get in my closet now. Source: shop.nordstrom.com via Yetunde on Pinterest [...]
So you may have noticed that AfroMartha was down for a little while. During the mini-freek out that ensued, I imagined all sorts of crazy things. Alien invading my site. Hackers hacking my little ol’ blog. A nasty terrible virus slowly invading my databases. I felt violated, disgusted and powerless. When I finally calmed down [...]
this site is having some technical hiccups. working on it…
