A few years ago Delilah and I heard Stefan Sagmeister of Sagmeister & Walsh speak at Alt Summit and we were blown away. Sagmeister, a New York based designer shared pieces of his art exhibit/documentary The Happy Show about his search to “increase his happiness via mediation, cognitive therapy, and mood-altering pharmaceuticals”. One moment we […]
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February DIY + Business Book Club – 2015
When I was young, traveling held a mystery that surpassed my fear of flying. I loved everything about traveling, including getting to the airport early and sitting at my gate or in the airport bar and jotting down bits of overhead conversations or randomly chatting with a fellow traveler about who they were and where […]
april diy + business book club
I am a die hard magazine lover. In high school I would close my bedroom door, put on my favorite mix tape and lay down on my bed for hours reading Sassy magazine. I went to an all girls catholic school and lived in a somewhat conservative area. Flipping through Sassy’s pages and finding other […]
january diy and business book club + book giveaway
I am an avid list maker. The first thing I do in the morning is make a list of all the things I hope to accomplish that day. It’s rare I get them all done but while I’m writing the list, this wonderful optimistic notion that I will be getting things done fills me. January […]
november diy and business book club
When my husband gets home from work, he has a routine. Make a drink. Grab his book. Take a seat at our patio table in the backyard. Read for an hour. Make dinner. There a few days here and there when he’s in between books. Those nights he seems a little more restless. He needs […]
how to be better at accepting criticism of your artistic work
the return to modern domesticity and girly graphic design a few months ago i posted about how the first patchwork show never would have happened if I didn’t get my heart broken. Then, delilah posted her own story of patchwork’s humble start. it’s hard to believe that by 2014 we’ll have put on nearly 30 […]
