This weekend is the Oscars, and I'm always looking for fun party ideas. I saw this idea for Popcorn Cupcakes on Tikkido.com, but I wasn't getting a good internet connection so I couldn't load the instructions. Therefore, I did it my own way. And if you tr ...
Not only is it already November, Thanksgiving is in less than a week! Yikes, where did the year go? To celebrate the holidays, Eileen Hull and DCWV are having a Winter Wonderland Blog Hop featuring Eileen's splendid dies and these beautiful holiday paper ...
I know it's not even Halloween yet, but my mind is already on Thanksgiving. So here's my first project of the Thanksgiving season — nut or candy cups in the shape of a turkey. They would also make cute place cards, too. I made them with a variety of Si ...
This month, our challenge for Eileen Hull's Inspiration Team was to create a party idea using one of her dies. I promised Eileen when I joined the team that I would try to think of really quick and easy ideas, but the last two projects I did were kind of ...
Summer party season is here. And although Southern California enjoys warm weather year-round, the longer days can make summer parties even more enjoyable. But if the thought of planning a gathering stresses you out, here are some tips to help you relax wh ...
I love drama at the dinner table. Now, I don't mean the type of drama where Aunt Judy has had a little too much to drink and starts spilling the family secrets. I mean the visual drama of a tablescape that lets guests know they're in for an extraordinary ...
Like the rest of the world, I am obsessed with "Frozen." I have the movie on continuous loop in my studio. I have the karaoke version of "Let it Go" in my car so I can belt it on the freeway. And now, I have created the ultimate project for a Frozen party ...
Being as America is the land of the free, people love free stuff. So when they go to a party, they love party favors. Here is a flag centerpiece I did for an eHow tutorial that is made up of individual mason jars, and the individual jars and flowers can b ...
This year, we did Thanksgiving at my friends Suzy and Josh's newly-built home in Pacific Palisades. This house is probably the most beautiful house I've ever seen in my life. The style of the house is hard to articulate, because while it is modern, it als ...
It's the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, and while I'm not Jewish, I do have a very Jewish mother who always asks me if I've eaten yet. For their Sukkot issue, the Jewish Journal asked me to design a sukkah for their cover, and here it is. For the full art ...
