Last week I finished the website/portfolio for Shannon Kaye. Shannon is a designer, decorative painter, and conveniently, my very talented sister. You can see her website and projects that she has worked on at www.shannonkaye.com. I will be launching her blog on the website shortly as well. You can also see Shannon at DIY Network [...]

In an effort to share more of the graphic design side of projects I have been working on, I am going to be showing more of my freelance and marketing work. Last night I updated my friend Shannon’s blog. The objectives: hip, fun, chic, greens, blacks, and trendy. Shannon loves fashion, interior design, and it [...]

High-gloss, laquer-finished furniture. I can’t think of anything I want more. Here are my favorites: Reeves bedside table {reeves design} Malm occasional table {ikea} Bergsbo bookcase with glass doors {ikea} Rawlins accent table {pottery barn} Charging station {west elm} Go-cart desk {cb2} lacquer table lamp {lotus bleu design} Shell chair {barber osgerby}

Southtown is a Master-Planned Community in Vacaville, California, by homebuilder D.R. Horton. I have been programming this website at my work for months now, and the unveiling is here: the Southtown website is LIVE! Be sure to check out the great interactive map that my colleague, Terry, created here.

My DIY project, painting a temporary ballroom floor for a backyard wedding was featured on Elizabeth Anne Designs. This blog is featuring the best-of-the-best in DIY wedding ideas for the month of November. Check out her post here and be sure to comment!

Since my mom has finished her degree that she has been diligently working on for the last few years, she has had more time for creative work. She has been really into recovering furniture, making pillows, and painting, so she thought the spare bedroom would be a great place for a craft/sewing room. This room [...]

Maybe it’s the weather, or the premature holiday marketing at Starbucks, but I just got excited about decorating for Christmas. I don’t decorate for many holidays, mainly because I don’t like clutter. However, Christmas makes me a new woman. Every year, I do my day-after-Christmas shopping, shopping carts full of Christmas decorations that I get [...]

My mom updated her couch with a recovered set of accent pillows. She complimented her small-scale patterned couch, a blue and green ticking upholstery fabric, with a large-scale floral fabric from Amy Butler, one of my favorite fabric designers. When putting fabrics together, always consider color and scale. Two large-scale patterns would appear too busy, [...]