• pure awesomeness.

    there’s a new magazine in town…that’s right. HGTV decided pure awesomeness knows no bounds…and now they’ve come up with a new magazine that’s making me ask “where have you been all my life?”. it’s full…

    February 10, 2012
  • hey now, honey child.

    “west, on a plane bound west,/i see her stretched out below./land, blessed mother land,/the place where i was born./it’s been a long, hard ride,/got a ways to go./but this is still the place,/that we…

    February 6, 2012
  • the day the music died.

    as you may know, amie & i grew up in the restaurant business. our bold (and arguably, slightly crazy) parents decided to salvage old downtown buildings and open pizza restaurants. we’re not italian. we…

    February 1, 2012
  • gypsies 4-ever.

    valentines day is upon us. and although some may think this holiday holds little historical significance, we beg to differ. according to wikipedia, the holiday has been around since 496 AD and is steeped in…

    January 30, 2012
  • if you build it…

    i remember the day i quit my  job as an academic advisor at TeXAS A&M…i remember sitting before my graduate committee, finishing my masters degree in health & nutrition…and then telling our department head…

    January 26, 2012
  • eastbound & down.

    our latest roadtrip took us eastbound & down. to the deep south. to the land of grits and fried chicken livers and good ole southern hospitality. GeoRGIA, the griswalds…errr, i mean junk gypsies are…

    January 17, 2012
  • hello LA.

    we’re back on southern soil. back from our little rendezvous on the west coast… here’s a bit about our travels…as captured from my iphone…  first things first. a visit to rachel ashwell’s original store on…

    January 10, 2012
  • new year. new roadtrip.

    there’s so much to tell… about our crazy adventures in the world of hgtv, about the progress of our first-ever store, & about our big move to round top (our little piece of Mayberry…

    January 3, 2012
  • concrete & tv crews…

    we’ve been a little off the radar lately…but we assure you, it’s all been for a good cause. for the cause of spreading goodwill and junk karma across the globe. it’s been for the love…

    November 18, 2011