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As a lover of all things Austin, I enjoy picking up the various local publications that we have available around town. There are some really fascinating and accomplished people who live in this great city, and it’s always fun to read about the great things people are doing.

And then all of a sudden, one of those publications – Austin Woman magazine – lowered the “fascinating and accomplished” bar and featured me.

All kidding aside, I’m still pinching myself that I was given the opportunity to be interviewed for Austin Woman. The writer came over to chat with me about my background and my style vision, and then a photographer came over to shoot some images in my home. The final product is a beautiful feature, which is far too good to actually be about me.

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As a blogger, I do a lot of work while I’m bleary eyed and guzzling coffee – trying to get some things finished before my kids wake up for the day. Most of those early morning hours are spent going through the previous day’s email. Many of those emails are questions and comments from you guys (Love those!), spam comments (Hate those!), and numerous product pitches from brands all over the world. Probably 90% of those pitches feel the wrath of my delete button. But, some of them have presented me with some really fun opportunities that I would never have received if I wasn’t a blogger.

Like the one I got a while back that said, “Would you like to interview HGTV star David Bromstad?” Since David has been my long time favorite on HGTV, I jumped at the chance. I have followed his HGTV career since he won the original Design Star competition back in 2006 and then went on to have his own show, Color Splash. David has a fabulous sense of color and he is a former Disney illustrator…and we know how I dig Disney illustrators for their unique take on shape, color and whimsy.

David has designed two new limited edition bottles of Coffee-mate creamer that are only available at Target, and he is promoting a Get Inspired With Coffee-mate Sweepstakes that’s going on now (more about that below). I was so looking forward to talking him about how the differences in product packaging design versus room design. Just pretend that it’s me on the other end of his phone.

See? He loves me! I knew we would be BFFs if we ever had the chance to chat.

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I’m Featured in Austin Woman Magazine!

Coffee Talk with David Bromstad