Krrb approached me for a collaboration earlier this month. They were looking for a wintery, leap year themed project. If you’ve been following my blog, you know my projects are in the realm of decorative accessories. They are smaller in scale and can be done on a kitchen table. I came up with a couple [...]

prop books – Photography via ELLE DECOR, © Phil Ashley/Michael Blann ELLE DECOR’s January/February 2012 issue reveals five trends that five tastemakers think should go away. Books as props have a short shelf life. “Rose Tarlow put it best: ‘An object added for effect instead of affection will always look like an affectation.’” – Ronda [...]

Earlier this month, I caught up with Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan at one of his speaking events. He founded the giant home and lifestyle blog Apartment Therapy. If you haven’t visited his website lately, you should! It’s been redesigned into an even sleeker inspiration destination. Maxwell brought some of that inspiration with him and shared his tips [...]

I’ve haven’t been able download email or pictures for the past two days! I figured out that my external hard drive was full. All the video tutorials I’ve made and pictures I’ve taken have filled it up already! I went to an electronics store and upgraded to a fancy shmancy new one. This resulted in [...]

  I like saving all my glass jars. I have a bunch of tall spaghetti jars and short, plump pickle jars. They are so handy to have around. There was one thing that bothered me about the jars though. Logos and graphics on the metal lids are a distracting mess! I came up with a really easy [...]

I designed the living and dining room lighting for the Nevins family on the Joplin episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. If you missed it here’s the two part, two hour series finale. Make sure you have a box of tissue paper at the ready before press play! Pictures from the show to come!   [...]

I’m finally getting around to writing about my day on The Nate Berkus show from my point of view. The previous posts about the day were by Reid and Josef. On the show I reminded Nate he had given me one week to work on the challenge. That’s mostly true. Almost all the projects that [...]

I’m addicted to Pinterest! As with any other new big web destination it can have a few (or a lot – Remember all the Twitter fail whales!?) of hiccups now and again, especially in the beginning. For those times when Pinterest is down you can head over to Svpply.com where there is more “pinning” fun [...]

ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition contacted me late last September. They asked if I would work with them to design some lighting for one of the Joplin homes. Eventually, I deduced a month later I was designing for the Nevins family. The show requested multiple pendant lights for two rooms. Of course the houses weren’t built yet, [...]

Craft Chat has come and gone, but you can always leave a comment or send me a note. Thanks for chatting with me y’all! I’m holding a live online chat right here on this webpage. If you just saw me on The Nate Berkus Show; tell me what you thought of the segment; ask questions [...]