A YES Retreat for Surfer Girls!

January 15, 2012

Inspiration Rooms As we explained when we introduced our Baby New Year Nursery last week, we will be creating inspiration rooms using our favorite themes.  Feel free to browse these virtual mood-boards for ideas for your child’s special space.  If you have a theme you’d like to see us do, let us know.  If we [...]

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YES! Children Love Sandboxes

January 11, 2012

Beat the Winter Blues Sometimes chilly winter days can be hard when you have active children.  Your children are yearning for the warmer, drier days when they could play outside until the sun set late in the day.  And you might be yearning for those same days when they could burn off some energy outside!  [...]

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Family YES Time- A Night at the “Beach”

January 9, 2012

The holidays are over, rain and snow is here to stay, but that doesn’t mean it’s time for winter blues. I love to surprise my kids with Family YES nights, simple changes to the expected routine. Even in their teens I never had a single child try to escape from a family night; I have [...]

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Introducing Donna Bezio, Design Juggler

January 5, 2012

We’re continuing with the staff interviews.  Today we’re introducing Donna, aka the Design Juggler.  She is Barbara Miller’s right hand man, and basically does just about everything.  While we were coming up with titles, Barbara’s son told us we should call Donna the “monkey” because she’s so good at picking up all the pieces! Interview [...]

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Introducing Barbara Miller, YES Spaces Founder!

January 4, 2012

Now that you’re inspired by the Baby New Year Nursery, we wanted to start off the new year with by introducing our crew.  We’re going to start with our fearless leader, Barbara Miller.  We hope you have fun getting to know us! Interview with Barbara Miller, Founder & Director of Bright Ideas 1.  What car [...]

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Baby New Years Nursery- Inspiration Room

January 3, 2012

Happy New Year to all of our wonderful readers!  This year we are starting a new feature.  We will be creating inspiration rooms based upon our favorite images and objects, or basically everything we would put in a room of our chosen theme.  We hope these rooms inspire you and provide a jumping off place [...]

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Merry Christmas

December 23, 2011

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from YES Spaces!  Here’s a little Christmas treat that made us smile, so we’re passing it on to you.  Have a wonderful weekend!  

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YES! I believe in Santa

December 20, 2011

Over the years my children have asked me if I believe in Santa Clause.  I always answer YES! And I do.  This poem by a single father of four, posted on his blog Something Undone, captures perfectly what I feel about Santa. I have always believed, and always will. If You Met Santa- A Poem [...]

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YES Spaces Pittock Mansion Christmas Part III

December 14, 2011

We hope you’re loving the pictures of the YES Spaces British library at the historic Pittock Mansion in Portland.  If you’re in Portland, you should definitely hop up there and see all the amazingly beautiful decorations while they are still up!  We are so inspired by all the rooms- everyone went all out and created [...]

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YES Spaces Pittock Mansion Decorations Part II

December 12, 2011

All technical difficulties have been resolved, and as promised, we have some fun pictures to show you!  This year, YES Spaces decorated the library of the Pittock Mansion in Portland for Christmas.  The Christmas decoration theme this year was “Christmas Around the World,” and YES Spaces created a British Christmas morning straight out of any [...]

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