The two big questions I get of late are “What do you think about your competition?” and “What do you think about the explosion of DIY sites?”.
My answer is pretty straight-forward: I love them.
When I started a billion years ago, there weren’t many resources for DIYers (and those that did involved inordinate amounts of tulle-wrapped [...]

I find that people are very curious and/or very perplexed about what I do for a living. My elevator speech is “I show couples how to create a kick-ass wedding on any budget.” but that doesn’t really cover the extent of my business.
My business includes:

the blog and community
two DIY books
teaching classes & a new studio [...]

My second book, The Crafty Countdown, is due to be released in mid-December. Right now I’m in the process of brainstorming ideas for promoting it. At this stage, anything goes from wild & wacky to poignant & heartfelt to outside-the-box & wonderfully mainstream. I’ll be meeting with my publishers soon to cull the not-so-good ideas [...]

On Feb 03 of this year I gave birth to this little guy. He’s smart. He’s funny. He’s adorable. I am utterly blessed.
There’s no way I could’ve imagined how much he’d change my life. I’ve never been so challenged, so exhausted, so overjoyed, or so fulfilled. But being a mom is hard. Being a working [...]

Have we been introduced yet? My name is Khris and I’m the creator (creatrix?) of this site, diybride.com, and two lovely DIY Bride books. I’ve been blogging DIY Bride since 2003 and have been doing the diy bride thing, in various incarnations, since 1999 – 2000.
As a long-time blogger and published author I get a [...]