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WORKHORSE PRINTMAKERS: AN EVENING of LETTERPRESS

WORKHORSE PRINTMAKERS: AN EVENING of LETTERPRESS

Last Thurs­day I was invited to the new stu­dio belong­ing to our friends Jen­nifer Blanco and John Ear­les at Work­horse Print­mak­ers for an AIGA stu­dent work­shop: AN EVENING of LETTERPRESS. They were lovely hosts and pro­vided a wealth of knowl­edge and expe­ri­ence to guide us through the process — even for an appre­hen­sive...
UNDER THE SHEETS

UNDER THE SHEETS

Here is a peek under the sheets, if you will – a look into the design direc­tion I chose to update the blog with this time around. I wanted to cre­ate an Americana-style theme based on the col­ors used in World War I era Lib­erty Bond posters. I’ve long loved the his­toric...
LAVATORY ENVY

LAVATORY ENVY

Brass, Car­rara mar­ble, sub­way tiles (the old-looking ones), warm woods, indus­trial light­ing… Jeff and Jason’s home-away-from-Brooklyn was fea­tured on Design­Sponge yes­ter­day, and I must say – these dudes did their bath­room right. I am quite envi­ous. Reminds me of one of my favorite places, not just for the liba­tions but for their...
NEW YEARS 2012

NEW YEARS 2012

Steven, Jes and I spent New Year’s in New York with Marc and Ian and had the best time ever. Nobody does New Year’s Eve like NYC. Shoot, nobody does New Year’s Adam like NYC. (Thanks Ian, for that one… I love New Year’s Adam!) I got  a new badass...
Future Primitive and More: CTRL + ART + CREATE

Future Primitive and More: CTRL + ART + CREATE

I’m feel­ing par­tic­u­larly happy and excited today to announce the first unveil­ing of Future Prim­i­tive, my line of rub­ber stamps. It’s going to be held at Ctrl + Art + Cre­ate on Sat­ur­day, Novem­ber 5, 2011, from 10 a.m. — 2 p.m at the Heights The­ater. I’ll have prêt-à-porter stamps for teach­ers and peo­ple...
COOL GIRL.

COOL GIRL.

Not so sea­son­ally appro­pri­ate, but I love this look. Really, I just love her legs. This is what I imag­ine my legs will look like every time I buy a new pair of pants, then I get mad that the pants aren’t work­ing. Is she an f’ing bal­le­rina or what? Leg envy....
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DRESSING VIA INTERIORS No. 2

DRESSING VIA INTERIORS No. 2

Today’s Dress­ing Via Inte­ri­ors started with the Mey­er­hofer Res­i­dence: a mid­cen­tury mod­ern ren­o­va­tion in Cal­i­for­nia that oozes warm, mod­ern rich­ness. At the sur­face, it’s made up of black slate floors, a split of con­crete and carmel-wood-planked walls (seen above) and orange-red doors with sim­ple, black­ened steel tubu­lar hard­ware. Don Draper would approve. In what I...

BOB ROSS REMIX

Whomever is respon­si­ble for this sweet lit­tle Bob Ross remix has me on their side. I used to love watch­ing his show and I still have the palette knife from the Bob Ross paint­ing kit I used as a child. I’ve watched this a few times now and it’s almost com­mit­ted to mem­ory – what I appre­ci­ate...
DRESSING VIA INTERIORS

DRESSING VIA INTERIORS

The magic of the prin­ci­ples of design – bal­ance, pro­por­tion, rhythm, empha­sis and unity – is that they’re uni­ver­sally applied whether the sub­ject is art, inte­ri­ors, fash­ion, etc.. Domino mag­a­zine used to have a fea­ture based on this exact con­cept, where they would cre­ate a room inspired by a fash­ion­able ensem­ble. I dearly miss Domino mag­a­zine… that “spe­cial” pub­li­ca­tion...
Featured in DIY Magazine

Featured in DIY Magazine

I am extra proud of my rubber-stamp-baby for get­ting fea­tured in Bet­ter Homes & Gar­dens’ DIY Mag­a­zine: Best of Etsy fea­ture. I’ve known it was a pos­si­bil­ity since early spring­time, but the deal was that if we made it into the mag­a­zine, I would be noti­fied with a free issue. That never came so I...
WINDY LANE STUDIO

WINDY LANE STUDIO

THANK YOU, etsy, for the intro­duc­tion this after­noon to Kai Samuels-Davis, painter extra­or­di­naire and shop­keep at Windy Lane Stu­dio. Kai’s expres­sive realist-style paint­ings are com­posed of cere­bral, vis­ceral fig­ures, land­scapes and objects – “cre­at­ing a mood of melan­choly and soli­tude”. Exactly the kind of things I want hang­ing on my walls, envelop­ing my sur­round­ings. Here are some...

SHOP ADDITIONS

That’s right folks, an assort­ment of goods has been added to the shop. Just try­ing to do a lit­tle sum­mer clean­ing, and get rid of some things that are start­ing to col­lect. I lit­er­ally do not live in a home big enough to be any sort of col­lec­tor. Make both of our days and take...
KITCHEN RENO PART III

KITCHEN RENO PART III

In case you missed the first two parts: KITCHEN RENO PART I | PART II The main work of the remodel was all com­pleted in the month of Feb­ru­ary. It took less than four weeks, but the house was cov­ered in saw­dust, the walls were open, floors, cab­i­nets and coun­ters were ripped out — and we were...
KITCHEN RENO PART II

KITCHEN RENO PART II

Part two of the kitchen ren­o­va­tion series: inspi­ra­tion pho­tos! These are some of the most fun things to look at dur­ing any ren­o­va­tion, in my opin­ion – I love to see what direc­tion the design was headed based on pho­tos of other spaces. Here are some of the prob­a­bly many pho­tos that inspired our bud­get ren­o­va­tion with...
KRIS JENNER STYLE

KRIS JENNER STYLE

Weak­ness: Keep­ing Up With The Kar­dashi­ans. Strength: Style tips from the Kardashian/Jenner girls. I do have a slightly glam side, and some­times I feel indul­gent and want sparkley dia­mond ear­rings – like the Loren Jew­elry 14k gold/16k pave dia­mond ones Kris Jen­ner wears on KUWTK which are OOMPR (out of my price range) at over $12k. Above is...
KITCHEN RENO PART I

KITCHEN RENO PART I

At the begin­ning of this year, Steven and I started ren­o­vat­ing our kitchen (on a bud­get). We live in a 1952 ranch-style home with a small, work­ing kitchen that just needed a facelift and some open­ing up. Before, every­thing was white with a neo-Tuscan vibe that was not work­ing with our American-Industrial-Minimalist thang. Let me...
WHITE HEAT

WHITE HEAT

Sum­mer in Tejas Caliente does not bring pants to mind most of the time, but some lit­tle bug has got­ten in my head and I can’t stop think­ing about find­ing the per­fect pair of wide-legs. I really like this white pair by Reiss, the label made ever­more famous by her royal high­ness Kate Mid­dle­ton. I...
AUSTIN in APRIL

AUSTIN in APRIL

Last month, Jes and I made a week­end trip to Amanda’s in Austin — it would be her last offi­cial week­end there, because we were hap­pily wel­com­ing her to her new life in Hous­ton that week. We packed in so much fun that I’m sure I’ll for­get some­thing, but the week­end started with a wel­come torte, fol­lowed by a jaunt...
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