Isaac Mizrahi…Cheesecake?
Now I've seen everything. There is a cheesecake designed by Isaac Mizrahi: Even crazier? You can buy this cheesecake on the installment plan.
Mark Burnett Produces Next Design Star
Mark Burnett (Survivor, The Apprentice, Shark Tank) is producing the next season of HGTV’s Design Star. I imagine you might have overheard something like this in a conference room recently: MARK BURNETT: You’ve been coddling these people in previous seasons. [...]
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Word on the street (and by "the street," I mean Facebook) is that HGTV Design Star season 4 runner-up Dan Vickery has moved to LA--and into co-finalist Lonni Paul's family digs. Seems they're working together now and collaborated recently as [...]
Unleash Your Designer Beast
If you look at FLOR tiles and see rug design after rug design swirling in your head, this design contest is for you! FLOR--those supercoolhipmod carpet tiles I'm always plugging--has offered up a new challenge. Design your dream rug, runner, [...]
2009 Holiday Gift Guide-ish
The thing about holiday gift guides is that they tend to be generic, since the people putting the lists together don't know much about your Aunt Gertrude or your precious little Mackenzie Grace. In putting together my own guide, I [...]
Last Minute Thanksgiving?
For this very special Thanksgiving episode of the Craigslist Crawl, I give you dining tables and chairs: AUSTIN BOSTON MINNEAPOLIS NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA SEATTLE SAN FRANCISCO [...]
E.A.S.T.: The Recap, Part 2
Continuing my tale from the East Austin Studio Tour, I hit the Bay 6 Studios so I could see Susannah Blanton's work. Fell in deep love with this piece, which was front and center (photo doesn't do it justice): [...]
E.A.S.T.: The Recap, Part 1
I missed out on the first weekend of the East Austin Studio Tour, so this weekend I'm determined to hit all of the studios on my wish list. At the risk of sounding like a total dork, I felt caffeinated [...]
Speaking of Fabric…
Thought custom-printed fabric was solely the domain of the super-rich? Now you can design your own fabric at Karma Kraft for as low as $20/square yard. Even cooler, you can print on all sorts of fabrics--even dupioni silk and suede! [...]
Fab Finds + Etsy = More Cloth
Slogging through a ton of fabric listings on Etsy is a task I would heretofore never have taken on. Until More Cloth. Click on any of the color bars on More Cloth's home page and you'll be presented with a [...]