Big Daddy was truly lovable. I will miss him.

And God Bless the Kelly Wearstlers of the world for bring zing to my dull days.

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Jen, I assume the Hockney reference was related to his invention of the photo collage, which have a kaleidescope (OMG, how the heck do you spell that word?!) effect. If you google his name, you’ll see what I’m talking about.

GMarc, you need to read the comments a little more carefully. Holly has already scolded me for making fun of butterflies on her blog. I can’t help it that the MC episode of MTV Cribs is burned onto my brain forever. The best person featured was Snoop Dogg, who had a Ho-ho, Ding-dong, etc. vending machine in his house for all of his friends with the munchies.

Andi-a, I like the high-caliber resumes on the contestants. Who knows, others besides those you have mentioned may have actually accomplished a lot more. Just b/c someone is married to an actor doesn’t really give her an edge, I don’t think. If anything, it’s made most of the commentors resent her. Some pretty lame contestants keep squeaking through, so it will be interesting to test out whether or not it seems rigged in the end. You’re right though, I’m sure the magical elves loved these name-dropping contestants for just that reason – associate the show with Martha Stewart, Carrie Bradshaw, and, um, Silver Spoons. :)

I’m also with you on Jonathan. I love him, but mostly from his HILARIOUS writing. It comes across rather flat onscreen. I’m sure he has a fantastic personality, but it seems smothered on this show, as it did last season, and it’s disappointing. I love that line he has about his parents sending him off to camp, hoping for a tan, soccer phenom to emerge at the end of the summer, but instead, because he had a crush on the potting teacher, he came home a wan potter.

Andrea Bell, I love Kelly too. Did you see the Oct. issue of Domino? Now that she’s made Hollywood Regency so popular with the masses, she’s moved on of course. Now it’s “Bravura Modern.” Her guest house is featured in the magazine.

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Last week Kelly was all it’s both of their faults like we couldnt read production schedule all over that. And this week Wigit got to stand there and pee on himself after peeing all over the window and not get sent home. I learned from watching The Apprentice the judge or judges can form any argument as to why they chose to axe whoever, however the next week we are supposed to forget the lecture so they can pick who they want next or however the pre determined line up was set by the producers. I just don’t know at what point they decided Kerry wasn’t good tv. He probably waved hello to them too sincerely.

Shazia maybe has some crazy hat they are waiting for her to put on and go nuts in, I dunno. Or they may be doing like top chef slowly eliminating the real contenders so that when they get near the end it looks like Andrea I mean whoever is the clear, obvious, and most deserving winner.

I’m a real conspiracy theorist when it comes to important stuff like reality tv.

When I first saw Kelly Wearstlers book “Glamour” when it first came out, I wanted to drop to my knees in tears at Barnes and Noble, k not really but I was keeping myself from eye popping and drooling. If there was ever decor porn for those had hadnt gotten any in while it was that book for me. I hope I didn’t actually make any groans, but I remember so clearly thinking, “Now thats what I’m talking about!!” so I cant promise I didnt sound uhm excited. Kelly’s complete love of coutour fashion and her feather light poses do combine to what appears to be maybe a pretense and high maintainence woman. Really I think she’s like the one guy Karim Rashid she just really lives in her design world in her mind and doesn’t vere out to go run to Walmart for deodorant, sleep in the softest pants closest to the bed, or go to the state fair only as a serious food sampling event, as I do but I aint mad at her. If she wanted to show up stuffed into one leg of a tranny’s fishnet stockings I wouldn’t care because of how much inspiration and transformation to the design world she helped drop. I’m not saying she created the 60’s/Hollywood Regency/Halston/Funky Town/Extreme Extremism, but she did combine it well and shared the look on a massive level at just the right time. I think the whole damask rococo theme deal could point to wantabekelly but not sure how so just use this wallpaper. Geeesh so alllll that to say I’m cool with cold Kelly’s looks.

Jonathan is way more not fun than I expected, but I do like his honest eye rolling. I love his aesthetic cause you can intrepret it in a big way or small like Holly’s vase the other day.

Margeret I want to like so much because she is the editor of Elle but she always gives me a lady who lunches vibe, so I wonder if she is just the face at the mag and not in any real editing strain. I know that sounds real jugdemental and I hope I’m wrong, but I wonder if the magazine is so huge and successful in it’s niche that she is more of a spokes model while some amazing person really pulls it all together. K now saying it out loud it sounds ridiculous so I’m going to guess not.

I still love India maybe because we have the same name except one letter. I like the dignity in which she talks with them, not any kind of you pulled me out of my mani pedi wax and buff for this kind of attitude.

Is it just me or does anyone else feel like having a famous actors wife, a Martha Stewartide, and set decorator for Sex in City seem very rigged??? I dont get it, if it was just one we would think oh okay a token famous person for more publicity for the show, but it’s more like some evil sinister joke. It’s not that they seem so much more talented but they already have so many doors open to them.

and Oh. My. Gosh. How. Funny. Are. You. All. About. Rachel. Zoe. Right. Now. ??? It. Is. Seriously. Too. Funny.

Oh, really? That butterfly in your logo/masthead was the first thing that caught my eye. I’m a first time reader of your blog, and that butterfly does create a certain image.

Just sayin’……

They made the wrong choice. Even they knew that because as they were all looking at him they had a united puppy dog “I’m so sorry” look plastered all over their faces. It was some sort of political (perhaps like “the choice is never obvious, you may be next, we need to keep the viewers on the edge of their seats”) type decision. But that particular erring on the side of TV ratings part of the show is exactly what takes the enjoyment out of this type of thing for me. He should not have gone home. Period. It should have been Shazia (my choice) or Wizit.

Preston should totally have received more credit there. I find Miss Schroeder to be a bit too high on her horse and I think it was because she set the tone after her first challenge. She’s good, but she seems to be lucking out with what the judges are taking notice of. I believe the colour choice went something like “what do you think of this?-Oh yes, that’s great” which doesn’t so much say it was hers. Just sayin. And they totally should have won. I liked the end result of the butterfly window but really, how hard is it to put three girly girls in a room and come up with the concept of butterflies swirling into the atmosphere? The (bleeping gorgeous) dress in Preston and Andrea’s design completely owned that window and everything about it perfectly supported it without *becoming* it. That is really difficult to do.

Before they go any further they need to do an individual challenge to learn more about the people they are judging. It’s true that we still don’t have a clear picture of what each person’s aesthetic is and I feel that we really missed out on seeing what Big Daddy was capable of. He should take this fifteen minutes and do up a web show or something like that.

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Maybe they should have created with dress and no interaction from dress designer? I love Big Daddy he was a hoot – he did drop the ball by letting in that roccoco – but really its a team effort. if the two members dont get involved the design suffers. I am still not sure what David Hocking had to do with mirrors?. Wouldnt graffitti been more to the point with red walls – like blood or fire? Teams are okay but each person has to be a leader sometimes and they should all have exactly the same challenge.
I am not sure what the judge’s criteria is -seems to be arbitrary,
Is this about design or about personalities? These people got in how? some of them dont seem to have a clue. Very one dimensional.

Cindy, did you ever see the outtakes show where they showed that Andre’s crying jag went on for about 12 minutes on the runway? He was delirious and making no sense whatsoever. I can tell you from those days I’d have to stand in front of the jury in grad school that with that lack of sleep going on I’d be close to crying over just about anything, but I’d at least not talk during it!

I used some version of this picture on hatch months ago, but here is where I found it again:
http://socialitelife.celebuzz.com/archive/2006/03/16/tim_gunn_and_andrae_do_red_lobster.php

Linda, somehow I just found your bloggingtopdesign blog today. Everyone should check it out! I enjoyed your interview with Big Daddy as well!

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On the negative side, which I always feel guilty for after I finish writing, I will say that I thought they got the winner right (but yes it was given to them surprisingly by Daniel) and I liked the butterfly room, so there!!! I agree, when I saw the lone butterfly at the check out lane I gasped but they pulled it off by grouping them en masse and thankfully they weren’t all pink. I would have liked more close up shots of the rooms.

Okay, I confuse them, but is it Jonathon Adler who helps them ala Tim Gunn? I’m love, love, loving him. He’s so sweet and yet helpful. I’m over the egos I see at the judging by Kelly W. and the other guy (gosh, I’m forgetting an icon’s name). I wish all creative types could have ego checks–me included–but it does seem to go with the territory. But Sweet Pea is a good role model for how to be semi-famous and down-to-earth, as was–is–Big Daddy. sigh.