Future so bright you gotta wear shades, folks. While I loved the first ‘black and white’ dorm round up that Abby did, I think my 18-year-old self is more attracted to these crazy bright colors (as we all know I …
Flower girl
This chick (below) has actual skills with her hands and now she is teaching said skills to the unskilled, like me. It’s a paper flower making class on Skillshare by one of my favorite, nay MY FAVORITE, paper flower maker …
11 awesome art installations
I’m officially addicted to commissioning art installations for my projects now. Seeing the stained glass panels that Judson Studios did for The Fig House made me more excited than Tom Cruise a la Oprah’s sofa jumping incident. And now I …
Trolling Craigslist … Atlanta
Oh, you know I have a thing for the South. Everybody calls me ‘Miss Emily’ and people know how to party … although I was in Atlanta recently for Americasmart and I did eat way too many of these things …
Art for The Fig House from Jaime Derringer
Oh, hey, Jaime Derringer. Remember that one time we went to the Project Runway finale together in New York and you gave me a lot of advice about blogs and social media and I didn’t even know that you were …
The Fig House project, update #4
Big renovations, like raising children, are mostly fun at the very beginning and the very end. The ‘teenage’ years of both (or so I’ve heard) are best to just block out. At the beginning you are busy pulling together the …
Dorm Room Round Up: Black & White
Here’s a not so sad fact about my life: I never got to decorate a freshman dorm room because I never lived in one. It’s not exactly one of my huge regrets in life, no, but do I wish I …
'House of the Year' Living Room Makeover
It’s the final post of this transformation, folks. Whatever will I write about next week?? Probably Instagrams of my child-filled belly, or lots of updates on The Fig House project, which is coming right along. You’ve seen the picture before …
Mistakes have been made …
Oh, yeah. Mistakes get made. I wish I could talk about the mistakes that I made while shooting SFAS. Half the time we didn’t have time to exactly fix them so then the homeowner, who was normally so excited about …
Trolling Craigslist … Seattle, Washington
Oh, the hours I can waste trolling Craigslist in towns that I have no intention of buying in. If Brian knew about this he would pack up The Bear and run. He’s already baffled by my ‘need to touch everything’ …