I couldn’t resist starting today with a bit of a non sequitur: a short video of me freeing a lobster in Menemsha Harbor. Yesterday my family and I drove up to Menemsha to check out the boats and noticed a sign at the old Poole’s Fish shop saying you could buy and free female lobsters….
Last month Amy and I hopped in a car and drove out to Montauk to film a DIY video with one of our favorite crafty ladies, Erica Domesek of PS I Made This. Erica’s first book, also called PS I Made This, just launched this month and we wanted to celebrate by trying a project…
To kick off today’s bike theme, I decided to interview the woman whose shop inspired my current bike obsession: Julie Hirschfeld of Adeline Adeline! When my 29th birthday came this past June, I took the day off and immediately headed over to Julie’s beautiful bike boutique in New York City’s TriBeCa neighborhood. After testing a…
tuesday may be biz ladies day, but today i’m thrilled to be able to debut an amazing stop motion video from two of my favorite biz ladies, meg mateo ilasco and joy deangdeelert cho. meg and joy’s fantastic new book, creative, inc.: the ultimate guide to running a successful freelance business, came out last month…
food and france go hand in hand, but add in an american pastry chef, a fantastic blog, a few books and a dose of great humor and you have david lebovitz. recently, i was lucky enough to spend a day with david where we met up to go shopping at one of my favorite markets,…
today i’m stepping in to share something a bit more personal in the biz ladies column. when we launched d*s consulting last month i got to hear from close to a thousand of you about your biggest hopes, dreams, fears, and questions. i can’t tell you how comforting it was to hear so many of…
Simple Printing w/ Lotta Jansdotter from Rowenta USA on Vimeo. i’m closing up shop for the weekend, so before i head out i thought it would be fun to end the day a fun crafting video from the talented miss lotta jansdotter. i love spending long weekends testing out craft projects so i thought it…
for years i’ve been stocking my stocking my lone (tiny) utility closet with these open canvas bins, trying to keep our cords, cleaning supplies, and odds and ends in order. but after four years, i’m getting bored, and i’d love a new way to keep my tools and cords together without having to label another…
i’ve been dying to try my hand at sunprints for some time now- so yesterday i spent the better part of my afternoon creating a custom corkboard and tray for my desk. even though summer sun is fading, there’s still plenty of light left over to create a custom botanical (or lace!) print for your…
yesterday afternoon i hopped in a zipcar (and promptly got a parking ticket, grr!) and headed up to williamsburg to visit the lovely ms. amy merrick‘s house. in addition to being the d*s editor in charge of “made with love” and “living in” (did you see yesterday’s godfather post? so cool), amy has one of…
for the past four years i have been pining over this incredible headboard featured in a 2005 issue of cookie magazine. it not only ignited my love for upholstered headboards, but sparked my interest in textiles from mexico, south america, india and uzbekistan. this particular type of textile, mexican otomi fabric, is handmade by the…
last week we were introduced to a fantastic new creative arts cafe in manhattan called moomah. i was immediately blown away by the concept- and the fabulous interiors- at moomah so i decided to drop tracey and jacqueline a line to see if they’d let me pop by for a quick DIY project. thankfully they…
when it comes to gardening, i’ve got a pretty black thumb. so i’ve always been intrigued by the idea of terrariums- those little glassed in worlds where plants seem to thrive within their own self-contained environment. but after a few unsuccessful tries, i gave up on being able to create and sustain my own indoor…
brooklyn designer lindsey adelman, will be at the icff this weekend (booth# #1942) and several other shows this week- and i’m currently swooning over her ‘knotty bubbles’ and ‘agnes candelabra’. can’t wait to see them in person. click here for more info on her show schedule this week. i also wanted to start this morning…
i’ve been watching a lot of stop-motion films lately and i’m completely smitten with this short piece commissioned by the AIGA in maine for use as an interstitial between speakers at their compost modern conference in maine this month. the film is less than two minutes long, so if you need a sweet visual time-out…
i spent two full days at bklyn designs this weekend, but if you have 10 minutes (or some time to browse a photo set), you can get a great tour of the show and its highlights right here. the first video today introduced us to a handful of fantastic artists showing this year, and in…
this year’s bklyn designs was the best it has been in years. i was fortunate to be on the judging panel this year and i really felt like the show as a whole listened to those of us calling for newer, edgier and more innovative design. this year’s show was smaller than previous years but…
this week, i thought it would be fun to watch sarah ryhanen of weeder’s digest arrange flowers- rather than just write about them (even though i’d give my right arm to be able to write like her). so today sarah is sharing her how-to tips for creating two beautiful floral arrangements: a sweet, hand held…
today is the day that i’m chopping my hair off (you can listen-in on my pre-cut freak outs right here) so i’m trying to calm myself with some soothing videos this morning. sarah’s weeder’s digest how-to video is coming up later this afternoon, so i thought i’d kick things off with a beautiful video tribute…
good morning! it’s a grey, rainy day here in brooklyn, but my head is still full of beautiful moving images from last night’s scene film festival. we screened design by the book there last night, but it got me thinking a lot about short films and how moving they can be. so i thought i’d…
