Maggie Lane
Designs
A place where color and style meet. Sharing ideas, DIY and passion projects, gardening tips, and more!
Maggie Lane
Designs
A place where color and style meet. Sharing ideas, DIY and passion projects, gardening tips, and more!
Where my two favorite things meet; my love for all things design and my black Labrador; Maggie. Maggie is the inspiration behind the name Maggie Lane Designs. My maiden name Lane was the piece that made it all flow.
What Spring Weather Will Reveal About Your Home
Happy Wednesday, everyone! What Spring Weather Will Reveal About Your Home. Spring weather can be quite the revealing element! After weathering the winter out, with all the cold, rain, and dryness it brings, blooming into spring will highlight everything wrong with your home. And that’s the kind of thing you should pay attention to. When it gets lighter and warmer outside, make sure you take an objective look over your home and see where the trouble could be starting. From your curb appeal...
Valentine’s Day Tablescape 2025
Happy Valentine's Day! This Valentine's Day Tablescape 2025 is a setting for two! I had one place setting from MacKenzie Childs that I started collecting, and this is how I broke it up to make two place settings! I hope you enjoyed my Valentine's Series I posted this week...Banana Strawberry Heart and Bark Dog Treats, Fried Ice Cream, White Chocolate Sarris Chocolate Martini With Tito's Vodka I had one large dinner plate, a salad plate, and a bowl. Mr. TAL got the dinner plate, I got...
Happy New Year + Fun In Pittsburgh, PA
Happy New Year everyone! Are you excited and looking forward to what the year will bring? Did you make any resolutions? I did! I do every year. Some I keep and some I don’t, but I’m excited to learn more about manifestation and manifesting what I want in both business and personal life. I started writing down a positive quote every morning last year, and you know what….it helped me. I make myself and Mr. TAL a pot of coffee every morning and while the dogs are eating their breakfast and...
Butternut Squash Orzo Spinach Salad With Candied Bacon
Happy Wednesday everyone! This colorful, healthy, delicious Butternut Squash Orzo Spinach Salad With Candied Bacon and a sprinkle of fresh feta cheese is a fall party favorite. But honestly, you can enjoy this salad all year long! I first saw this on Half Baked Harvest but you know me…I made some changes to the recipe and here we are! It’s one of Mr. TAL’s favorites. I always ask him if a recipe is blog-worthy or cookbook-worthy and he said both! So you might just see this again :-)....
How To Create A Dog Safe Garden
This is a re-post. With spring here, I thought this would be the perfect blog post to share with you. I've already ordered my tomato and herb stations from Amazon and am planning what I will grow this year. There is so much clean-up to do after this winter! Mr. TAL and I will be in the yard this weekend, mowing grass and getting the yard back in shape. I'll be participating in a fundraiser to support Heart of Glass Animal Rescue at the end of April. Stop by our table. We will be there...
New Years Table With Pink And Red Showcasing Ava’s Candles
Happy New Years!!!! I’m so excited to talk about my New Years Table With Pink And Red Showcasing Ava’s Candles!!!!! The colors on this table were inspired by the colors of my bedroom when I was a child. Yes, I had a pink and red bedroom and it was beautiful. I felt like the luckiest kid in the world…double four poster canopy bed, white provincial furniture, red carpeting, pink chiffon ruffled comforter and canopy. The paneling was white with pink grain and bookshelves were painted red!...
Merry Christmas
I wanted to take this time to wish all of you a Merry Christmas and thank you for all of your support, ideas, thoughts, and suggestions along the way. I have many things to be thankful for and am grateful that I have this blog which gives me the opportunity to let my creativity flow. You, my subscribers, have brought me so much joy and I love hearing from you. We have built many lasting relationships and collaborated with some amazing brands. One of which I'll be talking about very soon....
Santas, Poinsettias, Cranberry Bourbon Sours Table
Happy Wednesday everyone! My new Santas, Poinsettias, Cranberry Bourbon Sours Table gives big Christmas vibes! I added a festive addition with this Cranberry Bourbon Sours drink with a sweet and sour combo of homemade cranberry-orange syrup, warming bourbon, fresh citrus, maple syrup, and sweet candied rosemary. My goal with this table was to provide enough glasses for drinks and enough dishes for the meal and appetizers. Food and drinks will be appropriately placed for everyone to reach...
Black Friday Deals 2023
Happy Wednesday everyone! It’s Turkey Day tomorrow and I know some of you are heading out for the Black Friday Deals on Friday. Last year I put together a large list of deals and places to shop (See Black Friday Sales). I got a good many emails thanking me for the post so I thought I’d put together another one for this year! If you are a fan of buying from small businesses, you will like these posts. I love supporting small businesses and even have some discount codes you can apply at...
Turkey Table 2023
Happy Wednesday everyone! I can’t believe Thanksgiving is next week!!! My Turkey Table 2023 is my favorite Thanksgiving table yet with the deep, rich colors, silk florals, pumpkins, and pheasants. I wanted to pull every color from the dishes to the table and I think I was successful :-). I took Jake and Maggie for a walk and then the three of us put this table together while we waited for Mr. TAL to finish work. I re-used the centerpiece from my Pumpkins Galore centerpiece changing out...
4 Fun Halloween Appetizer And Treat Recipes
Happy Wednesday everyone! Halloween is almost here and if you are wondering what you should make, try these 4 Fun Halloween Appetizer And Treat Recipes! They are all budget friendly, healthy, delicious, quick, and easy to make! Spider Oreos, Skull Cauliflower Appetizer, Bat Cheese Tray, and Skull Cakes will be a hit at your party! Recipe: 1 box Betty Crocker White Cake - follow instructions on back of box Spray Skull mould (found mine at Walmart but Amazon has them as well) with PAM...
Witch And Skulls Appetizer Table
Happy Wednesday everyone! This fun and casual Witch And Skulls Appetizer Table was a delight to put together. Rather than putting a normal tablescape together, I chose to create this table to emphasize appetizers and create a table where my guests can just pick up a plate and enjoy a selection of different holiday foods. Check out my Tips For Making Party Appetizers! The recipes I will be making to put on this table will be posted in the next week or so along with a fun Halloween dog treat...