*amiss designs

Spray paint + old flower pots = one great looking deck

Fabric + scissors + staple gun + 2 hours = fancy new chair!

A before & after staircase makeover with three kinds of paint and six hours of patience.

Boxed cake mix + a can of pineapples + dried cherries + some rum = super easy dessert

Because I didn’t want to do much “by the book.”

I don’t love commercial breaks, but I do love a great commercial. Million-dollar ads are the only reason I watch the Super Bowl. Over the years, I’ve amassed a collection of favorite ads that I’ll still look up on YouTube for a laugh. Here are a few. I need to get out of here… / Travelocity This [...]

This morning, I saw a commercial for the Inogen portable oxygen concentrator. They had fancy graphics and an overall respectable look, but then this came on the screen: See that apostrophe in the word “it’s”? That is a contraction. What this sentence actually says is, “Makes it is own oxygen.” Way to go, inogen.

The logic behind Beast’s age in Disney’s film “Beauty and the Beast” has always bothered me. Here’s why.

I feel that QR codes are transitional technology, a way to bridge the gap between paper and internet, but done clumsily.

Check out these cetacean-shaped offerings, which are functional, to boot.