Hey y’all. I’m working on the house posts (you’ll see a peek into the kitchen tomorrow :)) meanwhile I wanted to show you the video that domino magazine made of the shoot, which gives you a pretty good overview of …
Oprah Magazine Weekend Makeover
One time Oprah called and asked if I would do a budget weekend makeover for her magazine, and I was like, ‘Opes, for you … anything.’ The job/challenge was to show their readers what they can actually do in a …
Reader Question: How to I make my dark Tudor feel modern?
Hi Emily, We’re a bit stuck. My husband and I moved from a sun drenched apartment in Brooklyn to a dark Tudor in Queens the name of more space for our newborn. The house is charming but dated, and we …
Materials Girl #6; young, girly and likes to party
Welcome to another ‘Material Girls’ post where I play with pretty materials to create fake girls mood boards. As you do. It’s like I’m acting out my styling fantasies on clients that we don’t have. It’s terribly fun, indeed. This …
DIY Basket Pendant in Redbook
One time, 3 months ago, we turned a basket into a pendant lamp, and now its in Redbook magazine. As you know I have a column with Redbook where every issue we experiment with a DIY. We brainstorm a bunch …
Trolling Craigslist… Raleigh/Durham!
We are back from a long weekend camping and while it is my 35th birthday (monday) I’ve put off celebrating it because we just spent 4 days with 16 of our best friends in the woods, so we are …
Phone it in Friday – Happy Labor Day Weekend
My brain and body are catching up from the insanity of the week, and we are leaving tomorrow/today for a camping trip with our best friends for four days. Normally this trip is kinda crazy (we rent out a 70’s …
QUICK UPDATE: studio craziness
Yes. I’m alive. No, my lack of posting isn’t going to become a habit. We are just pretty much pulling all nighters between finishing some projects and finishing the book so the blog suffers. The blog is so innocent …
2 Music Videos for your monday
I had book deadlines this weekend, and I was dying to hang out with these two boys, so no, a proper post didn’t get written for today. But, more importantly I have two music videos that I’m addicted to that …
The Fig House Stained Glass Design; Judson Studios
If you follow me on ANY social media you have seen a lot of stained glass on my feed – mostly from Judson Studio and The Fig House project. Hell if you’ve breathed near me in the last year …