We are sister team, Elsie Larson and Emma Chapman, and along with our small team we write A Beautiful Mess. Our blog was founded in 2007, you know, when MySpace was still a thing. Our mission statement is to help you stay home and make something! We grew up homebodies who love to craft, cook, and decorate our space and that’s exactly the kind of posts you can expect to find on the A Beautiful Mess blog.
Over the years we’ve hit publish on over 7,000 posts. Whoa. Since that’s an insane amount we thought we’d give you a few highlights from our favorite categories-
Crafts:
-We’ve got tons and tons of soap, bath bomb, and natural cleaning DIYs for you to try.
-Do you like to make jewelry? We have lots of tutorials for you then.
-We’ve got some awesome stuff in our sewing archives too, for beginners to experts.
-Ever wanted to make some DIY furniture or easy wood working projects?
-Do you like scrapbooking, stationary, and paper crafts? (You can’t see it but we are raising our hands high!)
-There are LOTS of awesome weaving tutorials for you to try.
-And if you’re looking for projects that are kid friendly or for kiddos check here.
Home Decor:
-Check out all our woodworking projects if you like easy DIY furniture and other decor projects.
-Are you a plant lady or aspiring to be? Here are all our indoor plant projects and tips.
-If you are looking for some great renter-friendly home decor projects then look no more!
-We also have a whole archive of projects for small spaces.
-Or maybe you just want to browse Emma’s and Elsie’s home tours, or our (amazing) archive of featured homes. Major inspiration vibes!
-And check out that time that Elsie helped Kacey Musgraves makeover her living room and dining room. Pretty!
Recipes:
-We love sharing easy, at home cocktail recipes. Check out our archive here..
-But if you’re in need of something healthy, we feel you, check out these recipes. Yum!
-And after all that healthy eating we’d say you’ve earned a dessert! See some of our favorites here.
-Our favorite meal is brunch. So, we’ve got some great breakfast recipes as well.
-If you’re looking for healthy eating info check out our Ask a Dietitian series.
We’ve written three books over the years: Photo Idea Book / Happy Handmade Home / Weekday Weekend
We’ve also been writing online courses for years on subjects like: blogging, photography, podcasting, and social media. You can learn more about all our courses here.
In 2019 we launched the A Beautiful Mess podcast! We record the podcast from our separate homes in Nashville, TN and Springfield, MO. We talk about lots of things but mostly decor, small business, and this is our space to get extra real and personal with our audience. You can see all our podcast episodes with show notes here.
We’ve grown a small collection of Short Term Rental properties that we have blogged about in addition to them being available to rent. You can see links to all our properties here.
Style:
-We’ve shared a LOT of hair tutorials over the years, here they are.
-See Elsie’s clean makeup must have products.
-Elsie’s tried and true natural skin care products.
-How to make a solid cleaner for make up brushes.
-Our DIY jewelry and accessory archive! Lots of pretty things to make.
Photography:
-Better black and white photos
–Light painting with sparklers
-How to create shapes with bokeh
-Our camera gear + underwater camera gear
-And if you are serious about learning to take great photos: DSLR Basics
Here are few personal posts from Emma + Elsie:
Elsie adopting her daughters Nova and Marigold
Elsie’s wedding
Emma’s wedding
Emma on Changing Dreams
We also own two app companies, A Color Story, which has photo editing apps for both iOS and Android as well as desktop actions + presets. And our second company with co-founder Zoe Sugg is a video and photo editing app company named Filmm.
And if you want to read more about Emma, Elsie, or the ABM team just click the buttons below! We hope you’ll stick around (aka click around… he he:) make some crafts and maybe sip a cocktail with us!
