Category: Travel

  • {15 Seconds of Fame} Barefoot Tess & Steve Harvey TV

    {15 Seconds of Fame} Barefoot Tess & Steve Harvey TV

     TOP: with the women who made it happen, Karen of Barefoot Tess and Ricki Fairely-Brown; on air; backstage outfit shot; rehearsal on set. BOTTOM: backstage shoe close-up; Judge Mathis just happened to be walking by! Soooo guess what I did last week? I flew to Chicago and taped an episode of the Steve Harvey Show!…

  • {Dream Home} Antique Furniture Delights in Truckee, CA

    {Dream Home} Antique Furniture Delights in Truckee, CA

    While in Truckee last weekend I found an amazing antiques store called Sipes. For some random reason I seem to have caught a “nesting” bug. I’ve been looking at more home décor sites, and plotting home improvement hacks for my apartment. So walking into Sipes I was like a kid in a candy shop. An…

  • {Out & About} A Rustic Weekend (and New Photoshoot Preview)

    1. How beautiful is Truckee?! It definitely felt appropriate to spend a fall holiday in such a rustically beautiful place. 2, 3. Scenes from downtown Truckee. The retail spaces were mostly populated with home décor shops. There was this one amazing antique furniture place called Sipes that made me feel like a kid in a…

  • Navajo Inspired

    I’ve discovered that when traveling through a foreign land – whether as far as Morocco or as close as the Southwest – it’s really easy to be inspired by local jewelry and crafts. In part because you’re on vacation, so EVERYTHING is awesome, but also because these things are truly beautiful and so different from…