Sk8r grrl

Remember my New Year’s Resolution? To learn how to use these. Well I did and I didn’t. Sweetpea and I have been trying to go roller-skating once a week. And while I have a long way to go before I turn into a Heather Graham-inspired Rollergirl (that’s with clothes on though), I’m loving the progress I’m making. (Remember [...]

Drill, baby, drill

It’s been a week of steps. Giant steps. Not baby ones, but decent, manly ones. There were a few steps backwards, like when I lodged that shelf in Sweetpea’s closet and it wouldn’t budge (of which more later). But mostly it’s been onwards, upwards and… inwards. As in drilling. It’s all about the power drill, [...]

What the…?

Why, you ask, is there a shelf lodged at the bottom of this closet? It’s a long story, one of DIY ups and DIY downs and a huge learning curve and a rather sticky ending. On Sunday I took it upon myself to tackle Sweetpea’s bedroom closet. Here’s what it looked like before:  Yes indeed, [...]

Symphony in OMG Major

This is a tale of Tucson. It’s a tale of its quirkiness, its small-townness, its bizarreness. Only in Tucson would this happen. I was driving on Saturday night to pick up my friend to go to a couple of ‘do’s’. I stopped at a red light. There on the corner was a slightly beat-up baby [...]

A view from the other side

When an economy is down, homeowners get penny-pinching. They recycle, rearrange, beg, borrow, (hopefully don’t steal), and keep their design juices flowing by being a bit more savvy, a bit more sensible. But what happens if interior design is your living? What then? The other day I was invited to attend a Spring gathering of [...]