May 2026 A Note from Marsha Welcome to the Thoughtful Home Hi friends, I’m so excited to finally share the Spring Issue of Tides & Time with you. This issue feels especially personal because it’s filled with so many things I deeply love: the sea, beautiful homes, thoughtful fashion, slow living, and the quiet beauty of life here in Nova Scotia. Inside these pages, you’ll find coastal-inspired interiors, soft layered fashion, reflections on creating a life that feels calm and intentional, and...
10 days ago • 1 min read
Design Clarity Weekly Helping Design Professionals Streamline, Simplify & Succeed Hey Lovely! Lately, I’ve been reflecting a lot on the work I'm honoured to do inside Bring Calm to Chaos and honestly, it’s work that I'm so grateful to do. Every designer who comes into the program arrives thinking they need better systems, stronger processes, clearer messaging, or help organizing the chaos in their business. And yes, we absolutely work on all of those things. The program includes six bi-weekly...
13 days ago • 3 min read
Design Clarity Weekly Helping Design Professionals Streamline, Simplify & Succeed Hey Lovely! This week, as I shared on my social feed, there’s been a viral reel circulating about the cost of furnishing a 5,000+ sq/ft home. I’ve had a lot of DMs, texts, and emails from you asking the same thing And I know the honest answer isn’t necessarily what you were hoping to hear. Because if you’ve been pulled into that conversation by a client, online, or even in your own head; I want to ground you in...
20 days ago • 3 min read
Design Clarity Weekly Helping Design Professionals Streamline, Simplify & Succeed Hey Lovely! I want to talk about something that isn’t always the most exciting part of running a design business—but it might be one of the most important. Contracts. Before we go any further, I’ll say this clearly: I’m not a lawyer. This isn’t legal advice. But it is real-life, lived experience from being in this industry and supporting designers through the messy, complicated, and sometimes stressful side of...
27 days ago • 3 min read
Design Clarity Weekly Helping Design Professionals Streamline, Simplify & Succeed Hey Lovely! Happy Q2! I hope you had a lovely Easter weekend for those who celebrate. April always feels like a whirlwind over here; tax season, planning for Q2, reflecting on how Q1 went, and the “empty nest” suddenly not feeling so empty with university kids back home (and somehow… bringing everything with them 😅). Add in summer job planning, and it’s a full season. But as one of my clients; who I’ve had the...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Design Clarity Weekly Helping Design Professionals Streamline, Simplify & Succeed Hey Lovely! I cannot believe we are closing in on the first quarter for 2026! The end of a quarter is always an invitation to pause. To look back before we leap forward. And if there’s one thing I want you to carry into Q2, it’s this: No action is too small. Fifteen minutes a day may not feel like much but compared to zero minutes, it’s seismic. It’s one small step that moves you closer to that future version of...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Design Clarity Weekly Helping Design Professionals Streamline, Simplify & Succeed Hey Lovely! Balancing career, family, and life is something I’ve been asked about multiple times this past week. And whenever I hear the same question more than once, I know it’s not just one person; it’s something many are quietly carrying. Coming off the 3-day time tracking challenge, I hope many of you gained some awareness around where your time is actually going each day because awareness is always the...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Design Clarity Weekly Helping Design Professionals Streamline, Simplify & Succeed Hi friends, Since it’s Friday, I'm sharing something new this week called Financial Fridays; a simple way to bring more clarity to the financial side of your design business. And the timing couldn’t be better. We’re closing in on the end of the third quarter, and for many designers it’s also tax season; that time of year when we finally sit down with our numbers and try to make sense of what the year has looked...
2 months ago • 2 min read
Design Clarity Weekly Helping Design Professionals Streamline, Simplify & Succeed Ladies, it's time to be radical. What does radical mean to you? I’ll admit; it’s not a word I hear often. The first thing that came to mind was those cheesy 1980s movies where everything was “radical.” But recently the word has come up a few times in conversations, podcasts, and business discussions. And when something shows up repeatedly, I’ve learned to pause and pay attention. So I asked myself: What does it...
2 months ago • 2 min read