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Category Archives: Inspiration

Freeing Your Voice + Finding Your Melody

June 15, 2011 – 1:00 am

While I’m sinking into the inner theme songs of Mr. & Ms. B for the Rock Your Rental contest, I’ll bet you’re wondering what YOUR inner theme song sounds like. Many of you have emailed to tell me that you’ve been thinking about your record collection (“record” applies even if you’re not spinning vinyl, dig?). [...]

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Rental Purgatory, You Say?

June 10, 2011 – 1:00 am

{If you’re reading this via email, click the title to view the gallery. It’ll make so much more sense that way. Promise!} THANK YOU to all of you who entered the Rock Your Rental contest. Choosing a winner wasn’t easy, and while I’ve personally thanked each and every one of you, I’d like to thank [...]

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Style vs. Substance

September 16, 2010 – 1:00 am

We seem to presume that one means the exclusion of the other…

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Midnight Affair

July 27, 2010 – 1:00 am

So I came across this: And it seduced me into doing this: What seduces you?

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So. What’s Your Art?

July 19, 2010 – 1:00 am

{If you’re reading this via email, click the title to watch the video.} Here’s what I know: What you do, every day, becomes part of who you are. Scraping pennies or rolling naked in your dough, you’re trading your brain power, your creativity and your most valuable asset – your time – for your daily [...]

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Just Break

July 14, 2010 – 1:00 am

{If you’re reading this via email, click the title to watch the video.} As a singer and interior designer, music fuels my work. I don’t – can’t – won’t – design anything without music. I need a playlist. A theme song. An anthem. I need to feel the rhythms that supercharge your senses, and translate [...]

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Fear

July 6, 2010 – 1:00 am
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How Do You Want To Feel?

June 2, 2010 – 1:00 am

I ache. I’m getting pushed and pulled and jostled in this space I’ve claimed as my own. This space – where you’re reading – right now. It’s the tension between where I could be going and where I need to go. For me. For my work. For my creative pulse. I will not ignore my [...]

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I See Music – Green Eyed Love

May 21, 2010 – 1:00 am

{If you’re reading this via email, click the title to watch the video.} As a singer and interior designer, music fuels my work. I don’t – can’t – won’t – design anything without music. I need a playlist. A theme song. An anthem. I need to feel the rhythms that supercharge your senses, and translate [...]

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I See Music – Worrisome Heart

May 15, 2010 – 1:00 am

{If you’re reading this via email, click the title to watch the video.} As a singer and interior designer, music fuels my work. I don’t – can’t – won’t – design anything without music. I need a playlist. A theme song. An anthem. I need to feel the rhythms that supercharge your senses, and translate [...]

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A Little of Her & A Little of Him

May 5, 2010 – 1:00 am

Bedrooms are tricky. Loaded with innuendo and fraught with undercurrents of sexual tension and personal intimacy, I’m often left to piece together a private language I’m neither invited to learn nor want to share. But how else to understand how to design – mm, no – design well if I’m not offered the chance to [...]

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I See Music – Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing

May 2, 2010 – 1:00 am

{If you’re reading this via email, click the title to watch the video.} As a singer and interior designer, music fuels my work. I don’t – can’t – won’t – design anything without music. I need a playlist. A theme song. An anthem. I need to feel the rhythms that supercharge your senses, and translate [...]

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The Case of 3am

April 30, 2010 – 1:00 am

I frequently wake at 3 in the morning with an intense case of the ceiling-stares. You can learn a lot about yourself when you’re laying in the dark, chasing fleeting thoughts and shadow ghosts. Vivid imagery will dance across my mind, taunting and teasing with intensity so deep I’m compelled to create. Yet sometimes the [...]

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I See Music – Do What You Have To Do

April 23, 2010 – 1:00 am

{If you’re reading this via email, click the title to watch the video.} As a singer and interior designer, music fuels my work. I don’t – can’t – won’t – design anything without music. I need a playlist. A theme song. An anthem. I need to feel the rhythms that supercharge your senses, and translate [...]

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Volcanoes & Creative Juice

April 19, 2010 – 1:00 am

There are some projects that slowly seep into your creative consciousness like a leaking faucet.  Drip… there’s the window treatment… drip… there’s the wall colour… drip… there’s the moulding profile… drip… drip… aaaaaand, project finished. Then there are the, “Dude, what the hell happened to my creative juice?” sort of projects.  Like, crickets.  As in, [...]

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  • Previously:

    • Freeing Your Voice + Finding Your Melody
    • Rental Purgatory, You Say?
    • Are You Ready? I’m About to Rock Your Rental
    • Holla. A Little on the Madness that was March. Er, Winter.
    • ‘Decorating’ & Unraveling the Cringe Factor
    • The Dichotomy of Design
    • Jack Move
    • Style vs. Substance
    • I See Music – Kashmir
    • Design and the “You Hired What?!” Syndrome
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