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Production Designer for HGTV Commercial

While visiting LA in May, I jumped on board as Production Designer for HGTV’s (Home and Garden Television) summer commercial campaign Directed by Mike Goubeaux.  The project was co-produced by the Dandy Dwarves (my hubby’s company!) and LA motion graphics company Roger.  Josh (my hubby) produced the live action shoot and Roger added the motion [...]

Christine Hall Photography

{ all photos above from my wedding taken by Christine Hall } A huge thanks to the amazing photographer, Christine Hall, for your ever so flattering and thoughtful blog post!  I had the pleasure of meeting Chrissy when she photographed our wedding.  She is such a fun spirit and insanely talented photographer!  I always love [...]

I’m back!

After traveling all around the US for nearly the past six months, my hubby and I have finally settled into a new home in Los Angeles!  Among other things, our travels mainly consisted of adventures with family and friends….we made it to numerous (BEAUTIFUL!) weddings as well as the birth of our new (ADORABLE!) niece! [...]

Quick Life Drawing

{blurry photo of} charcoal on paper, 24″ x 18″ – 1 hour drawing from life While in Savannah for a wedding, I visited my friend’s Life Drawing class at SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design). Ben Ward is a dear friend and fellow SCAD alumni who now works as a professor in the foundations [...]

Coraline in 3D

Last Thursday, Josh and I were invited to the Chicago premiere of “Coraline” in 3D. It was spectacular! Following the movie we attended a cocktail party hosted by Laika, the production company that created the movie, and Liz Laine Reps, who represents Laika. It was wonderful to meet Liz and her partners, and Laika brought [...]

Betty Crocker

Sweet Talk Being married to a film producer means many different things, but one of them is that I get to be very hands on for many of the unique projects that his company produces. Last month, I more or less nominated myself to be the costume designer for a viral commercial the Dandy Dwarves [...]

‘Too Delicious’

The Dandy Dwarves teamed up with fellow SCAD alumni, director Mike Goubeaux, to create a 30 second Doritos commercial that has placed in the top 5 of the Doritos “Crash the Super Bowl” contest.  Voting took place during January and now Josh, Mike, and Andrew anxiously await the results in Tampa.  They will be alongside [...]

Dancing in the Sun

I must ask your forgiveness right now in advance for the next several posts that I intend to write because they are all basically bragging about my wonderful husband, Josh, and his budding video production company, the Dandy Dwarves.  The Dandy Dwarves have been busy creating amazing work for several years now, but recently they [...]

“DREAMING OF A WHITE CHRISTMAS…”

Looks like we got our wish.  A trip home to Vermont and Chicago gave us more snow than we bargained for. Welcome!  I’m starting off my blog with a personal entry: an introduction via cheesy photos of my wonderful husband, Josh, and me.  He was so nice to comply with my lame idea for our [...]