Hi everyone! To those of you that celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday, hope you had a good one and a great weekend!
This week I would like to circle back to something with regards to knowing your area and business environment. It helps to not only know what venues and vendors are around, but even more to [...]

Where can you go to see fashion, fine cuisine, gardening and techie trends - all in one show? Give up? No, it’s not the View - it’s the Martha Stewart Show!
Sheffield interior design and feng shui students recently enjoyed a field trip to a live taping of the Martha Stewart show. Special guests include [...]

The last time I visited the DWR Tools for Living Store, I was instantly smitten with their collection of natural coal purifiers from designer Louise Vilsgaard. These black pieces of “white charcoal” made from Korean oak come in a variety of forms and can be used to purify your water, deodorize your refrigerator, or simply [...]

So you have decided that you want to start your own wedding planning business. Let’s assume for the sake of this post, that you also have decided in which region you would like to offer your services. So now what?!?
Well, hopefully you have done a little bit of research about the area and [...]

Dollhouses have come and go in many shapes and sizes - but most of them have been stuck in the last century or even before that.  The most popular styles were Victorian, Colonial or Classical.  The modern era has sadly been largely ignored.  Until now.
Modernistas and Minimalistas - rejoice!   Danish design house, Minimii, has recreated [...]

Hello! I am the “Wedding Belle,” a practicing planner who is literally starting a business as I write this. Many of you may be students or graduates who have considered self-employment, yet perhaps have had absolutely no idea where to begin. I assure you there is no fool-proof formula detailing how to start a successful [...]

We are happy to announce a new feature on the Stylehound - Start Me Up! - a series of dispatches from a professional planner on the front lines of opening a wedding planning firm. To protect her most vital trade secrets, she will be posting anonymously as Wedding Belle - but don’t worry. Belle has [...]

My beloved Etsy is now featuring their perfectly simple, easy-to-navigate holiday gift guide - and nestled in this cornucopia is a special sub-category of holiday decor items. As always with Etsy collections, one must be careful about getting sucked in for hours and hours of delightful, craft-filled clicking. That said, it is too much fun [...]

In our inaugural Design Challenge on the Sheffield Forum, we asked for a perfect autumnal color palette to inspire the decor of a room or an event space. We had some great submissions, but ultimately the most intriguing and well-conceived idea came from our winner Marinella Berthoud.
Marinella is a student in the Interior Design [...]

I was truly impressed when I visited the IML booth at the BizBash expo - I had been reading quite a bit about their handheld auction devices in recent event reports, and was interested to find out more.

IML has a simple device, about the size of a large cellphone, which can be used by individual [...]