Family and Television – a Balancing Act
Welcome to my blog. I would like to share stories and techniques from my work in television and my experience as a wife and mother through it all. My first job in tv was on Extreme Makeover: Home...
View ArticleLights, Camera, Action!
Walking onto the set of Extreme Makeover Home Edition for the first time was amazing. There was a home with unfinished roof and walls swarming with workers and it was 11:30 at night! Only one camera...
View ArticleTy Pennington appears
On the Extreme bus I was painting a mural of a football stadium. I wondered why the other artist, a single young man, was assigned the Winnie The Pooh nursery. Here I had three children, two were...
View ArticleHours Without Sleep
Mural in progress in San Bernardino I painted for hours afraid to walk away from the room. I was working on a television show to help a family and the situation was so surreal I thought it might...
View ArticleReality Rocks!
I was asked to attend the Reality Rocks Expo with my Extreme Makeover Home Edition team. It was awesome! I recreated the Paint By Numbers mural that I designed for the Pope family on Season 2. I had...
View ArticleMatt
While working on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition I constantly felt homesick for my husband, children and friends. To get through these feelings I had embraced the EMHE production team, talent,...
View ArticleWhen Life Imitates Art
At the wrap party for Piestewa family home EM:HE season 2 finale While working on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition I met some of the most talented producers in the business. One of my favorite was...
View ArticleHere we go!
So today is Sunday. I am spending it with my family while I go over final logistics for season 2 of Bar Rescue. I am so excited to get started on the renovations! I am taking a couple days before...
View ArticleMr. Mom Improvises Well
One fine day in June, 2003 In 2003, when I went on the road with Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, my husband and I took a leap of faith. We agreed that my participation on the show was bigger than both...
View ArticleI Dreamed a Dream of Welding
For many years now I have wanted to really learn to weld. I have welded on set for shows and done plasma cutting but I have never had time to dive deep into the process. That is currently changing....
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