The woman who helped usher the interior design industry into full flower in the United States was prolific in putting out ideas that will help freshen up today's interior design business. Look at our latest Designer Monthly, Interior Design: Look Forward by Looking Back to Dorothy Draper.
Did you ever have a problem designing small spaces? Take a look at how top interior designers solved this common problem in our latest Designer Monthly, How to Design Small Spaces at the Kips Bay Decorator Show House.
Jay Johnson Saturday, March 30, 2013 at 6:00AM 
We usually don't blog on the weekends, but we wanted to wish you and your family Happy Spring, Happy Passover, and Happy Easter - and quickly share with you 6 Vibrant Easter Ideas for Springtime Events. These are great party ideas to celebrate the season.
Guest Blog Wednesday, September 5, 2012 at 9:00AM 
A friend named Nicole discovered while planning her September 2008 wedding in Sonoma, that pretty veils, clips, and combs can be more expensive than you expect. She loves making jewelry for friends so decided she was up for the challenge of creating her own veil. And she was nice enough to let Jillian of the popular wedding blog 100 Layer Cake come over one Sunday to watch her recreate her veil for those of you considering a project like this.
How To, from Nicole:
First, I have to preface by saying there is no right or wrong way to do this project. It’s all about your preference how long or short you want to make your veil.
Step 1: Gather the materials and lay them out. You’ll want to cut the tulle in a few different sizes. This way you can play to see what combinations you like best.
Step 2: Once you have the combination you like, gather the tulle in a bunch on the comb so you can stitch the two parts together. Make sure it’s stitched tight. Play with the tulle to make sure it’s falling nicely across your face.
100 Layer Cake, DIY, Veils, crafts in Weddings Nova Bronstein Thursday, August 30, 2012 at 9:01AM 
Fabulous, useful and free!
Staying abreast of the new advances in technology has become a full time job, but we at Sheffield are here to help!
We've just discovered a free App called Etsy Text that is perfect for those selling their hand-crafted wares on the ever-booming Etsy marketplace. This app notifies sellers via their smartphone or tablet when an item from their shop sells. Not bad!
Seeing as Etsy has become such a huge marketplace in the e-commerce realm it's more important than ever to keep one's customers happy. So, Etsy Text, we are definitely a fan! Thanks for making it all a bit easier!
Have a favorite smartphone or tablet app that helps you with your craft that you can't live without? Share the wealth and let us know by leaving a comment!
...In the meantime, happy beading!
Interested in making some of your own smashing jewelry? As a jewelry design instructor at the Sheffield School in New York, I encourage you to take the matter of making into your own hands! Check out the newly launched Jewelry Design Course offered at the Sheffield School. With thousands of active students and more than 50,000 graduates, Sheffield has trained more design professionals than any other school in the world.
Etsy, Hand-made, Jewelry Design, business development, crafts, ecommerce, self-employed in Art, Jewelry Guest Blog Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 9:01AM 
If you're thinking of great wedding and event planning inspiration for this summer or early fall, look no further than 100 Layer Cake - one of our favorite wedding and event blogs. They cover a variety of weddings and feature top wedding vendors, from the best photographers to the best florists. The folks at "the Cake" are serious about helping you create special accessories to make a special day even more special. We found this do-it-yourself project that added a great touch for very little money and effort.
You can make a bunch of the exact same stirrer, or you can make all sorts of different ones that go together, like we did. Purchase feather sizes and shapes that vary, and figure out which go together best.
100 Layer Cake, DIY, crafts in Events, Weddings Guest Blog Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 1:18PM If you're thinking of great wedding inspiration for the coming spring/summer season, look no further than 100 Layer Cake - one of our favorite wedding blogs. They cover a variety of weddings and feature top wedding vendors, from the best photographers to the best florists. We thought you'd like to see this fun wedding craft. It's by Rachel, and you really need to pop over to Rachel’s blog. Here's how she describes her nifty DIY idea.
This project is so beautiful and REALLY relevant to any one of us with a crafty heart. You could make these to use around the house, for a special holiday dinner party, for a bridal shower, a festive brunch, for gifts ... the list goes on. All the pretty photos and projects make good inspiration for life, not just weddings.
We decided to rent the plainest, cheapest white tablecloths possible for our long dining tables. And since we weren’t having lots of fresh flowers or pretty place settings, we knew we’d want to use the napkins to add some color. The side benefit was that we got to have cotton napkins, which I love – they're actually absorbent, unlike the standard polyester ones you can rent from most places.
Napkins are easy enough to sew, but all that hemming is time consuming so I decided to start with pre-made napkins. If you’re having a smaller wedding, you could definitely save some money by making your own. Just start super early.
We wanted a striped look, but as we started playing with the process we found that we really loved the striped tie-dye effect we came up with. Have several extra napkins on hand so that you can experiment. Folding the napkins in different positions will give you stripes in different places and you’ll want to test your dye intensity and rinsing and drying procedures – all of these factors impact your final product.
100 Layer Cake, DIY, crafts, napkins in Weddings