In her first book, interior designer Caitlin Wilson is in pursuit of pretty as she embraces colorful patterns, timeless pieces, and functional beautyReturn to Pretty: Traditional Style, Made Modern is interior designer Caitlin Wilson's story as an emerging designer, mother, and entrepreneur. It is the story of how her own personal style has evolved to create the foundation for her design philosophy, her family home, and her eponymous design studio. With this book, Wilson shares her process of design and her ideas on how to make a home not just look beautiful, but also feel lovely, classic, and comfortable. Wilson is at the forefront of the grandmillennial revival, a new take on the classic, traditional style that focuses on warmth, floral prints, and old-fashioned elegance. This style is becoming increasingly popular for many young designers and millennials. From fashion to family, and centered around the importance of home, her approach to creating pretty spaces is all about being effortless and refined, and designing a home that is easy to maintain and offers a sense of luxurious livability. The chapters throughout feature stunning photographs, a pastel color palette, vivid prints, personal anecdotes, and design tips. Wilson's twists on tradition will inspire, uplift, and connect readers to something greater than the present-allowing for a movement and style that's feminine and sophisticated, and ultimately a return to pretty!

A collection of stories and insights on the inward journeys of a diverse range of servant leaders, woven with the unifying threads of our past, present and future. The inspiring insights and stories are shared by servant leaders who have made it their life’ s work to serve in several different types of environments-schools, non-profits, corporations, faith communities, city streets. These leaders describe their childhoods, journeys, visions of the future, and their passions-all of which continue to cultivate their servant hearts. Their insights come serving a wide variety of humans-those who are homeless, learning, working, addicted to substances, teaching. In essence, this is a book of how servant leaders have, and continue to nurture hearts of love, work of softening of the heart that is never done. It is a guide for all of us who seek to serve others, to build compassion and open hearts, and to develop stronger communities, whether within our organizations or in our towns and cities. These insights can be applied anywhere and to all of us. The book also includes guidance for readers on how to conduct their own sacred listening. The Work is part of the “ Servant Leadership Series