Today’s Biz Ladies post comes from Biz Ladies regular, Andrea Baxter, owner of Bratface Marketing and co-founder of Smart Cookies. Andrea has previously contributed posts on how to brand your business on a budget; trendsetters, influencers and connectors; sole proprietorship vs. incorporation and how to use social media to humanize your brand. Today she confronts a sometimes confusing topic, the difference…
Image via Veer (home of the Singapore Kindness Movement) Today’s City Guide comes to us from Emily Loke, blogger, founder and creative director of Paper Tiger Press, Singapore’s first letterpress studio. Emily takes us on a tour of this magical Southeast Asian city through its traditional restaurants, unique shops, chic lodging and even a vintage…
I’ve never been a huge tech person, but Kate just did a fantastic roundup of tech-related innovations that has me second-guessing my mild tech aversions. She rounded up her Top 10 design-related tech innovations (I hadn’t heard of at least 1/3 of them) and there are so many fantastic ideas in here that are bound…
Traveling is one of my favorite things to do. While my budget doesn’t allow for global travel on a regular basis, I like to use my favorite travel blogs and magazines to feel like I’m constantly immersed in new people, places and cultures. New York City is full of different things to try, but nothing…
One of my favorite things about spring is getting ready for ICFF and all the amazing design it lays out in (hundreds of) neatly packed rows. For the past few years, I’ve enjoyed seeing wallpaper studios featured more in those rows, and I’m curious to find out who will push the medium further this year,…
Australian wallpaper manufacturer and designer Lynne Testoni of Moore & Moore wallpapers lives in a two-story Victorian terrace house in inner-city Sydney, Australia, with her university-aged daughter, Isabelle. Lynne spent 20 years in food and lifestyle magazines before working in corporate marketing and launching her own business, her most exciting adventure yet —and the scariest!…
Illustrator Vesa Sammalisto lives with his wife and their 9-month-old daughter in Helsinki, Finland. When it came time to buy their first home three years ago, finding a apartment in original condition with wood floors, high ceilings and thick walls proved a pretty difficult task. Most apartments on the market had been subject to botched…
Freelance writer Alissa Walker contributes to publications like GOOD, Fast Co. Design and the public radio show DnA: Design and Architecture. Named a 2010 USC/Annenberg Getty Arts Journalism Fellow for her writing about design and urbanism, Alissa still knows how to have a good time savoring gelato, posting about Peeps, throwing ice cream socials and…
I’m not sure how I missed this sneak peek before, but thankfully Grace’s roundup of favorite homes led me to the colorful abode of Jeremy McElwain! Jeremy is one of the masterminds behind ColorTheory; he lives in Boston with his wife and two children. Naturally, Jeremy knows a thing or two about color and design….
Photograph of Wormsloe Plantation (on vintage tin tile) by Meryl Truett Last week’s trip to Birmingham, Alabama still has its claws in me. Whenever I touch down on southern soil it’s as if some stubborn weed wraps a tendril around me and it makes it harder and harder to leave each time. This trip was…
Though we’ve been in to our new apartment for almost a month now, we haven’t come close to beginning the decorating process yet. We sold most of our furniture before we moved and part of me has been relishing feeling so unencumbered by stacks of “stuff” and more chairs than we could possibly need. The…
Morning guys- I’m still dragging myself out of bed but I thought something cute to start the day early wouldn’t hurt. This adorable wallpaper was designed by Australia illustrator and textile designer Binny Talib. Binny has a line of children’s wallpaper that is sweet and whimsical and perfect for a wide range of ages. This…
As the week comes to a close the thing I’ll remember most about this week was an amazing meal I was fortunate to share with a group of fantastic people from Alabama. I was in town to talk about the D*S Book and because we were in the hometown of a fellow Artisan author, Chef…
The second-ever recipe featured on In the Kitchen With in 2007 was with Julia Rothman for her favorite crêpes with blueberries, bananas and chocolate. This time around, we’ve got a crêpe recipe from Parisienne Catherine Taret. (You may remember her lovely apartment sneak peek featured last year.) Catherine provides a variety of ideas for serving crêpes…
Though we love the nostalgic, vinegary aroma of coloring eggs that always revives memories of Cadbury Egg-laden Easter baskets, Easter egg hunts in wet spring grass and stale, yellow marshmallow Peeps, we are always looking for new ways to adorn our eggs (check out last year’s Ukrainian egg DIY). This year, we skipped the dyes…
Greetings from the flower alphabet think tank! This week, I thought to feature a quirky little bloom that is primarily used as an accompaniment in arrangements. “K” is for kangaroo paw! You can see the fuzzy paw-like flower above, nestled in among other friendly blooms. A native of Australia, the kangaroo paw got its name…
A number of stories involving peas floated around my house growing up. There’s the tale about my older brother, who, as a toddler, squirreled away a storehouse of the tiny green orbs in his cheek during a feeding, only to expel them, cannonball-style, at my parents later. There’s also the story my mom would tell…
Breakfast has always been my favorite meal of the day. As a kid, “breakfast for dinner” was my all-time favorite treat. Brunch encompasses all that’s great about breakfast, with the added benefit of being able to have a little drink. One of my favorite people planted the seed of a brunch party, and I had…
After spending two jam-packed, wonderful days in Birmingham, Alabama (I wish I had a guide to link to here, any locals want to share how awesome it is?) I was mostly happy to come home. Mostly only because I absolutely fell in love with Birmingham and didn’t want to leave. I wanted someone to magically…
These Ikea dressers should be inducted into some kind of furniture hall of fame. I know we all have a complicated relationship with Ikea furniture, but the Malm dresser is inexpensive, attractive, easy to assemble, holds a TON of stuff and — as this makeover from Josue clearly illustrates — is essentially a blank canvas…
