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Primo Landscape + Design

Happy Monday everyone! Many of you know that Gino, my husband, has a passion and talent for landscape design. Over the summer he worked really hard to pass the California contractors license exam to become a licensed landscape contractor. Of course we had to make new business cards to showcase his new number. After I adamantly shot down the name “Primo” for our son, Gino decided that it was a perfect name for his landscape business and Primo Lanscape + Design[Read more]

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DIY: Faux Hardwood Floors

Two years ago I posted about my studio basement. After being pregnant, moving my invitation and design materials down into the basement from the spare bedroom to make room for the nursery, and having a baby, we finally got around to finishing the basement floors! You will see from the before photos that the floors were a dingy gray with paint splatters. I looked all over the Internet and Pinterest for inspiration and found something that caught my eye. I[Read more]

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Why Charcoal + Chocolate?

So, why Charcoal + Chocolate you ask? Well, there are a few reasons for the new name of my blog. When I started this blog for Sarah Fina Designs I created it to share some of the design work and projects I was working on. Over time, the blog turned into a place where I share design work (not nearly enough, but I’m working on it) but also where I shared tidbits of everyday life. The blog was previously named[Read more]

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Introducing Charcoal + Chocolate

I have been wanting to re-design my blog for a while now and just started to get around to it! It’s still a work in progress, but come check it out. I am still adding posts to the menu bar tabs and working on a few other things, but for the most part I am pretty happy with the new look and feel. I have grown a lot since I started Sarah Fina Designs in 2009 as a person and[Read more]

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Luke 8 Months

Luke turned 8 months old on January 16th. He is getting so big that I had to switch the onesie in the photo to a bigger long sleeve onesie! Here are a few updates. Eating We have been trying all kinds of different foods along with rice cereal consistently since 6 months. In the beginning he like the rice cereal but gagged a lot on all the baby food I made for him. I tried sweet potatoes, butternut squash, avocados,[Read more]