Fun fact about Lou: She has no taste. Or she has taste, but it's not very good. Her design ethos runs somewhere along the Velvet Elvis meets Martha Stewart meets Mardi Gras lines. Jarring. Incongrous. Hey, I like it, but...
So remember how Mama made a couple of New Year's resolutions? One was to take classes? Well, to make good on that we signed up for an interior design class with the JCPS Lifelong Learning program. It was supposed to start today, but Icepocalypse 2009 has postponed the start of all the classes that were supposed to start this week. The good news: there's probably still time to sign up for Carpentry II: Joints and Rafters, if you're so inclined.
In other Louisville design news, tomorrow at 5:30pm on the Louisville at Home show on the WB our new friend Tracee Dore will be sharing the real scoop from behind the scenes of last season's Design Star.
Hopefully within the next few weeks, I'll have a chance to sit down and chat with Ms. Dore. She was very sweet and forthcoming in a recent email, saying that she took full responsibility for her actions, but that the show's producers really did set out to make her the villian.
"But this villian has a husband who's a cop, three adorable kids and a business," Dore writes. "I hate to shop- they sooo left out the details like that I had to go to 7 different places like the drywall distrubutor, tile store, lighting store, lumber yard, etc... there was no Lowe's or Home Depots on the list of places we could go. The challenges really all went great for me- they just showed every bad part, but no good comments from Vern or other judges."
Dore says she and Michael from the show remain best of friends and are looking at possibly teaming up again in the future.
I'm sure we'll learn more from the design veteran tomorrow on Louisville at Home (oof, what a cumbersome website). She promises that "It shows the real me." Mama can't wait!
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Monday, February 2, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Running for the Dore
Rut roh.
(That shuffling noise you hear is Mama dancing around, maybe backtracking, maybe dancing with something akin to glee... float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, and all that.)
Looks like Loueyville.com has finally caught the eye of Ms. Tracee Dore, Design Star alum. And when her comments on my July post first came through via email this afternoon, I thought that she was responding genuinely... thanking me for commenting on her exquisite taste (which I did). And I did a big ol' happy dance. But now that I go back and look at the posts... I'm thinking maybe she is a little less than happy with Lou.
Note that the last time I mentioned her was in my 1/21 post.
Favorite. Favorite? That counts for something, right?
Gulp.
Mama doesn't like conflict. Mama hopes that Ms. Dore isn't unhappy with what she read.
That being said, I will cowboy up and see if I can't get some scoop on Ms. Dore and what she's been up to. I have joked privately that if Ms. Dore wanted to kick some of her bad-ass rep to the curb, she could always go all Ty Pennington on some deserving, sweet, breast cancer survivor, teacher, Katrina survivor whose house was destroyed during Hurricane Ike... (uh, that would be me.)
Clearly, Ms. Dore isn't a regular reader of Loueyville.com. She does, after all, refer to Lou as "Mr. Loueyville."
Amusingly enough, two or three months ago, I ran Loueyville through the GenderAnalyzer, an engine which purports to be able to tell you the gender of any blogger and back then it was 78% sure that Lou was a guy. Now it says that it's 61% sure that Lou is a woman. Distaste for "Wicked" aside, I guess I'm getting more girly. (LouReads shows 67% likely to be a woman... I guess it's my devotion to Mary Russell)
Anyway, I'm flattered she took the time to comment. I will indeed try to get some scoop. And I hope that she gets the fact that every Reality Show needs a bad-ass, and she was definitively cast as that bad-ass in Design Star.
But she does, my friends, have exquisite taste.
(That shuffling noise you hear is Mama dancing around, maybe backtracking, maybe dancing with something akin to glee... float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, and all that.)
Looks like Loueyville.com has finally caught the eye of Ms. Tracee Dore, Design Star alum. And when her comments on my July post first came through via email this afternoon, I thought that she was responding genuinely... thanking me for commenting on her exquisite taste (which I did). And I did a big ol' happy dance. But now that I go back and look at the posts... I'm thinking maybe she is a little less than happy with Lou.
Note that the last time I mentioned her was in my 1/21 post.
(If there is good news to be had in this corridor, FYI, it's in retail not
in food... Scout's new home store is beautiful and right next to the brand new
flower shop boutique... Red Tree seems to be doing well... Joseph Ley's...
always-our-favorite-Design-Star-baddie Tracee Dore's store. No retail stores
have closed in the past year or so, to the best of my knowledge.)
Favorite. Favorite? That counts for something, right?
Gulp.
Mama doesn't like conflict. Mama hopes that Ms. Dore isn't unhappy with what she read.
That being said, I will cowboy up and see if I can't get some scoop on Ms. Dore and what she's been up to. I have joked privately that if Ms. Dore wanted to kick some of her bad-ass rep to the curb, she could always go all Ty Pennington on some deserving, sweet, breast cancer survivor, teacher, Katrina survivor whose house was destroyed during Hurricane Ike... (uh, that would be me.)
Clearly, Ms. Dore isn't a regular reader of Loueyville.com. She does, after all, refer to Lou as "Mr. Loueyville."
Amusingly enough, two or three months ago, I ran Loueyville through the GenderAnalyzer, an engine which purports to be able to tell you the gender of any blogger and back then it was 78% sure that Lou was a guy. Now it says that it's 61% sure that Lou is a woman. Distaste for "Wicked" aside, I guess I'm getting more girly. (LouReads shows 67% likely to be a woman... I guess it's my devotion to Mary Russell)
Anyway, I'm flattered she took the time to comment. I will indeed try to get some scoop. And I hope that she gets the fact that every Reality Show needs a bad-ass, and she was definitively cast as that bad-ass in Design Star.
But she does, my friends, have exquisite taste.
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