Our former colleague Vickie Chang highlights the Long Beach Craft Mafia in this week’s OC Weekly with a great piece about the crafting revolution.
Featured along with ladies like Family Tree’s Lexi Lee and OCW cover model Liz Abbott is Steph Calvert, whose robot art you may remember from our year end issue last year.

“The idea [...]

How to create space in your apartment by filling it with more stuff

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
I used to watch TV upside down. Or it least it would feel that way before bed, when I would plop onto my tattered twin mattress—head where the feet should be, feet where my head preferred to be—to catch a [...]

Inspired by this post at Design*Sponge, which was in turn inspired by this post at Domino, this weekend I set out to install peg boards in my kitchen.
A trip to Lowe’s on Bellflower yielded one $7 4′x4′ pegboard/perforated hardboard (8′x4′ was simply too big for my kitchen), two 8′ strips of 1/2″x1/2″ wood (about $6 [...]

In addition to watching Notre Dame lose (again), curtains and shelves are on the To-Do list for the weekend. At the moment, I’m obsessed with these mushroom shelves. And while I don’t have the necessary hallway space for this project, maybe you do.
Also, Sasha’s Living With Style (the latest design destination dotting the Broadway Business [...]