I have been posting various stages of this project on my social media accounts for the past few weeks and have gotten a lot of inquiries for how to make these bad boys. Well, first off, the step-by-step instructions are in my book Modern Pioneering, (do you have a signed copy yet?) along with some…
The first half of this year, my friends, has been full of travel to promote my new book, and the best part has been getting to meet all of you. Now that my book stops are over and I have a moment to take a breath, I've had a chance to look through all of…
If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you've probably seen the mayhem that has been my life in the past few months. Lately it has been particularly busy, which I suppose is what comes with having a book tour. The best part has been meeting you all along the way.
I've also just finished the…
The April issue of Food & Wine Magazine just hit stands and in it you'll find a 4-page spread of my Austin lifestyle, a ton of delicious recipes that I wrote just for you, and a bit about my latest book on manual literacy, "Modern Pioneering."
I thought I would show you some of the behind-the-scenes…
A few weeks ago, one of my interns said, "Hey! How about you answer our interview questions, things that people don't ask you in interviews but things that we're curious about." I thought that was rather clever and so I gave them all a license to ask me anything under the sun that they wanted…
One of my girlfriends wrote me a panicked email recently with full photos of her new cast iron skillet that she had received as a wedding gift. She had been cooking with it happily and running it through the dishwasher after each use, and all of the sudden it just wasn't working well anymore. Food…
If you've been reading this site for a while, then you have read about my favorite antique market in America. It takes place west of Austin on the way to Houston in an area called Warrenton and Round Top. It is miles, and miles, and miles of antique dealers from around the country who set…
I've been decorating a bit here and there. Slowly, very slowly. I built the planter box, a poured a concrete fountain (which turned out to not be the best idea seeing as I lost a layer of skin on my hands when I decided to mold it by hand), and I bought a shed antler…