Sometimes we just need a change. My living room was fine. It was more than fine. It was featured on HGTV and got a spread in the L.A. Times. But it had been years since it had been updated. And after spending so much time at home during this pandemic, I w ...
I will probably get a lot of flack for this, but I was not a big fan of "Parasite," the critical darling that won this year's Oscar for Best Picture. I'm sure it was a fine film, but I'm a comedy and musical kind of guy, and the movie's violence was a bit ...
I'll be demonstrating how to make gift baskets for the holidays for Hometalk on Facebook Live Wednesday Nov. 2 at 4pm Pacific/7pm Eastern.
I love Uniqlo. It's the happiest place on earth. They have clothes that fit me, for cheap, and the salespeople are trained in Japanese-style customer service so they're super nice. They will even hem your pants for free the same day. When I was in New Yor ...
It's almost time for back to school. I always loved going back to school because I was an A+ student, being Asian and all. Now, if I had one of these fun lunch bags to take to school with me, I'd be even happier than an AP student on test result day. Thes ...
I was recently in New York for the National Stationery Show/Gift It/Surtex show. There was a lot to see, but I have to admit that a lot of it blended together, and after a while my eyes started to glaze over. Some of the trends I noticed: hipster typeface ...
There are three stores in this world that get me so excited that my heart beats a little faster when I'm about to enter: IKEA, Uniqlo and Michaels. So when I was asked by Hometalk to host the Pinterest Party at Michaels, of course I said yes! (Maybe one d ...
You know I'm all about personalized gifts. Well, I found a great idea for personalized gifts, and this time I didn't have to make it myself. It was my friend Drake's birthday, and I always like to get her something fun and unusual. You know, because I'm J ...
