Chrissie Kremer

by Alison Johnston of Johnston Home Interior Design It’s finally warm! We’ve had a cold spring out West and I am more than ready to spend time outside. When planning outdoor space, I always like to add a rug to an outdoor seating group. It helps create a sense of a room in a space […]

Prague has been on my ‘to-go’ list for years, so after a girls’ trip trip to Berlin, I added on a long weekend to this beautiful city.  I hadn’t traveled solo in a long time, and was excited to have a few days to explore a new city on my own, at my own pace.

Surprise!  Nordstrom just announced they’re having a half-yearly sale ahead of their famous annual  anniversary sale and 27,000 items are up for grabs for up to 89% off!!  Now is a great time (the sale runs until June 2 at 11:59pm) to stock up on some summer items and even stockpile hostess gifts and stocking

In April of this year I (Chrissie) joined 9 other women on a 5-day trip to Berlin, a city I had never had the opportunity to visit. What a wonderful city full of history and culture! This was a group trip in which each person was asked to organize a meal or activity ahead of

It’s all come full circle for artist Bibby Gignilliat. Chrissie recently met the successful collage artist in her beautiful art studio located in an old ship-building warehouse a stone’s throw from San Francisco Bay. Her high-ceiling, light-filled studio, where she paints and teaches, is filled with her large, dynamic, colorful collage pieces which incorporate layers

Travel season is upon us! We’ve done travel posts in the past and we’ve repeated some of our favorite items because they are our tried and true favorites. But we’ve also added some new items we want you to know about. They are the items we never leave on a trip without!  For our permanent

“Always start with champagne, end of story.” – Sharon Harris  Sharon Kazan Harris’ path has taken her from the tech world to starting and running a wine company and now to launching an online learning product, Business-Uncorked, to provide young people the soft skills and etiquette abilities needed to get, maintain, and excel in the

Here are a variety of Amazon purchases that I love for very different reasons…as you’ll see! I highly recommend all of them. Foot Massager: I read a blog (have forgotten who…!) about this and decided to give it a try.  It makes my feet HAPPY and it lives underneath my desk so I can use

We understand that most couples getting married have an online registry where they request everything from dishes to contributions toward their honeymoon or even a new couch. However, sometimes everything on the registry has been purchased or you may choose to go off-registry for an engagement, shower, or wedding gift. Maybe it’s a couple that

We did a four-day trip (three full days of activities) to Copenhagen as the start of a girls’ trip. Our goal was to explore the city like first-time visitors (as most of us were) and experience nice restaurants, museums, activities, and sites. We were not shopping focused on this trip. We did not have time