My Kind Of Disneyland

Along Lake Michigan there’s a magical place where Victorian cottages line a sugar sand beach. Buffering a shipping harbor and historic lighthouse is Mother Nature’s version of Disneyland called...

Music That Moves Crowds

From an intimate concert at Tree House Point listening to folk duo The Barn Birds to my band, Curb Appeal performing classic rock hits in a biker bar, I noticed various types of songs would always...

Beach House Must Haves

What makes for a perfect beach house besides a great location? Room for guests and a sandy beach for starters. Add a couple of Adirondack chairs and a fire Pit by the beach and you’ve got the...

Lzzy Hale

Like Janis Joplin, Amy Lee and Joan Jett, Lzzy Hale has entered the ring of top female rockers adding her incredible vocal range, power and emotion to the list. She can hold her own in this arena...

Art that talks back to you

Art can make for a memorable experience – such is the case of artist Jack Dollhausen’s work. Walking into Seattle’s Center of Contemporary Art Gallery back in 1990, my husband and I noticed...

Oscar’s Red Carpet Super Bowl

The Oscar’s Red Carpet of 40 million viewers offers a gold mine of fashion hits and misses. Stars trying to score on the 500 foot long catwalk have made their mark in the fashion history books....

What we weave on the web

Do we really understand what the World Wide Web looks like beyond our screens? Filling the web with our personal information, we plug in to an unimaginable virtual world. Google gave us a peek in...

Swimming pool wake up call

While the sun is rising and the water is warm, what better way to start the day with a jump in a pool. Roll out of bed and make a cannon ball splash, float around for awhile in a pool by your bed....

Something about Les Miserables

Like many, I just saw the movie, Les Miserables. I have seen the live musical on stage many times and thought I knew the story well enough. What surprised me about this movie were the raw emotional...

2013 Words

This New Year is starting on a good note despite the ups and downs 2012 has brought. While some resolutions failed, others came up with glorious returns and a few important lessons were re-learned...

When in a red dress

There’s no hiding in the corner when you wear a red dress. The statement is made clear the minute you walk in a room, “I own this place”. One must strut in confidence for red is an emotionally...

I’m onwander

I love an interesting web site – one that is engaging and visually stimulating. With Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram combined, the folks at onwander.com have come up with a creative way to share...

Que up the 90′s Music

A blanket statement was made recently that the 90′s was one of the least memorable decades in music. If you take out Grunge and Rap’s contributions then what is left? I went back through my...

Apres Ski Chalet

Snow is coming, the skis have been tuned and I’m waiting patiently for the chairlifts to turn. While spending all day on powdery terrain, there’s nothing better than a cozy ski chalet. With wood...

For those who do creative work

Past Fall Looks

Looking back at past wardrobe choices, I now realize why I love fall fashion. Only then could I wear copper colored bell bottom cords or a plaid wool vest and bolero tie. When the preppy look came...

Blog Roll Inspiration

There are a whole slew of shining stars in the blogosphere who inspire. These online creative’s have taken blogs from boring informational web logs to design and lifestyle resources even magazines...

Home with my band

Something about following a band from the beginning and seeing where they go is a thrill. While watching The Head and the Heart perform at Seattle’s Paramount Theater, I’ve seen their talent...

Warmed up spaces with Fireplaces

The end of summer brings cold nights and a taste for fall. Now is the time to stack wood, take out the throw blankets and prepare for warm fires. Inspired with these reading nooks and an awesome...

Paint, Water and Smoke

Australian photographer Mark Mawson‘s amazingly colorful series called Aqueous shows wonderful shapes from drips of paint into water. The paint creates recognizable forms in the way it reacts to...

Bike Helmet as Fashion

An invisible helmet is making waves in the fashion and biking worlds. Two Swedish Industrial designers, Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin started a company called Chiefs and are revolutionizing the...

Where would you wander?

Summer time with vacations on the mind made my mind wander to far off places. Dreaming of lounging on a beach, exploring street fairs and cafes or experiencing new cultures and sounds made me...

Music Scene Seattle

Seattle ranks as one of the top cities for musicians to live in – offering plenty of venues with a large appetite for good music from fans. It is no wonder there’s a thriving music scene that goes...

Paint color woes

I rolled the dice, lost and learned a hard lesson I already knew before. Trusting the paint chip at the store to look like the color I intended for a bedroom has created a new color scheme I never...

Viewing art

What makes art fascinating is trying to view the artist’s work without using our own biases. If we can look at art this way then the piece loses the ability to reflect back our own views. We can...

Performance Wear

The thought of what one wears on stage has become top priority. Looking towards some favorite rock star looks like Gwen Stefani, Stevie Nicks, Mary J. Blige or P!nk has inspired me to define my own...

Mastering WordPress

WordPress is dominating the web world with it’s ease of use, functionality and the availability of customized themes not to mention the power to run websites smoothly. As a web designer your tool...

Bucket list band

I am thrilled for the chance to realize a dream I put at the top of my bucket list – to sing in a rock band. All it took was a word of encouragement from a friend who’s an awesome singer to tell me...

View from bed

Oh to wake up in bed with a view such as these – a sure cure for the morning blues. Prop up a pillow and ease into the day, take in the view and let the stress melt away. Have I painted a picture...

Typography art

Typography is the art of arranging type by using font’s styles, sizes and colors to add emotion, depth and interest to graphic design. Logos are a perfect example of how typography works when a...