Happy Dang New Year
Guess who made a New Year's resolution to raise their website from the dead in 2022? This girl! And I wanna be all ...but instead I'm all Instead of traditional resolutions, I'm repeating something I did the year before the [...]
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like…
CHRISTMAS, Y'ALL!! Oh, the agony of everyone on Facebook, lamenting about the proliferation of Christmas decorations before trick-or-treating. Quel horror! Some of you know me well enough to understand that I have the opposite reaction to all of the holly [...]
Best Laid Plans…
As you know, I've gotten hip to the fact that already-sewn pillow covers will be a lot easier to sell in the Red Chair Market Designer Tag Sale than fabric yardage would be, because very few people know how to [...]
Age-Appropriate Design
Nothing saddens me more than meeting a young couple with "old people taste." This is not a knock to older people, as depending on your age, I am probably old enough to be considered one. *Gasp, clutch pearls.* While I [...]
VIDEO: Five Elements of Badass Design
Oh. Em. Gee. You are gonna D-I-E when you see this video we shot earlier this summer! This is the brainchild of Nicole Kinbarovsky of Eastside Creative. Nicole and I used to work together back in my graphic design days, [...]
Misadventures in Marfa
A few years ago, I had a client who mentioned she had a vacation home in Marfa, TX that she rented out on HomeAway. Having been obsessed with a return trip to the world-renowned art hot spot since my last [...]
I Resolve to Have More Fun
If yesterday's tragic bombing in Boston teaches us anything, it is that life is too short. You don't know exactly how much time you have on the planet, and the saddest thing of all is that it could only be [...]
LED Daylight Bulbs Suck
We have a five-light halogen light fixture in our kitchen that had declined to the point of having one lone working bulb in it. Every night I felt a little like Laura Ingalls Wilder, making dinner out on the prairie [...]
Feng Shui’ing My Office
While we're on the subject of transformation, if you have an interest in improving various facets of your life via feng shui, I highly recommend Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life, by Karen Rauch Carter. I've mentioned this book before, [...]
House Hunters International is Killing Me
I am DYING to have an adventure and watching 36 episodes of House Hunters International every week is not helping matters. Two nights ago, I applied for an interior design job in London for sh*ts and giggles, but I would [...]