Archive for January, 2008

Forgot to mention yesterday that Walter Allen and I spent the afternoon on Sunday shopping for housewares. It was lovely! Best of all, we found some fantastic deals…

I won’t divulge how much I actually paid for this fabulous, silver, alligator-skin-textured vase, but I will tell you it wasn’t a whole 10 bucks!

I also […]

After an absolutely crazy two weeks (we shot 5 commercials!), I needed a weekend of rest and relaxation. I finally caught up on sleep, went out to dinner with the Love Muffin, and had a few drinks/ a few laughs with friends. We still managed to get some things done… and though they […]

#12: Crown me?

14Jan08

It’s Sunday night and my weekend plans for renovation were once again postponed. I had a last minute commercial shoot come up in Vegas, so I’m in a hotel room 450 miles away. But being away doesn’t mean progress has to stop: a few idle hours this evening presented a perfect opportunity to […]

…The cutest lights in all kinds of shapes and colors and designs…and all custom, made to order… and to top it off: AFFORDABLE!

There I was, on this overcast morning, sitting with my venti regular coffee (with room for cream), my Odwalla C Monster, and my browser window open to Ebay, when I made this […]

Our low ceilings have continually beleaguered my interior design creativity. I’ll be honest: I hate them. They’re probably one of my least favorite features of the house, and make the rooms feel extra dark and claustrophobic. In a perfect world, I’d rip the ceilings right down and vault them to follow the […]

By now, many of you know that I’m a commercial producer. I haven’t shared too much about my job, but basically I’m part creative, part number-cruncher, part mommy. And my director? He’s part rock star, part diva.

Like any professional diva-rockstar, my boss definitely has a taste for the finer things… and that […]

It’s been a month since my last post, but I’m finally back. What can I say? There are times in everyone’s life, I think, when things suddenly come to an abrupt halt. That’s what happened to me in the last few weeks. My father died. Suddenly. Unexpectedly. Right […]


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