IF YOU WANT TO LEARN SOMETHING, WRITE A BOOK ABOUT IT

Lisa just put up two pieces of art on the same small wall -- a charcoal drawing and a monoprint -- and though they're jammed together they work. She says she learned how to do it from writing her book.

I've learned almost as much writing Crafty TV and this blog as I have writing TV, because I had to crystallize some of the knowledge I already had.

If you want to learn something, write a book about it...!

Which means we clearly need to write a book about decorating, because we bought a goddamn beautiful Mission oak table (allegedly Stickley, but no plaque), and we can't figure out where the hell it goes in the loft... it's too big to go next to things and not big enough to go in the middle of things all by itself.