Though I am a crafty person, I have to admit that one area of craftiness that I am challenged and not overly interested in either is interior design. As long as my house is semi-clean and comfortable (like our still-under-construction TV room pictured above), I’m good. In fact, I don’t like have an excess of nick-knacks to dust and arrange. Also because of my furry menagerie, I am limited to what we can have in our house any way. Sometimes I joke with my husband that we just should have everything made of cement like the Flintstones and have a big hose and drain so that I can just hose the place down now and then!

That said, I am still curious about a new home design show I’ve heard coming to HGTV called Design Happens. Though there seems to be a number of bloggers talking about this show over there, one person stands out, not necessarily due to her interior designing but due to her blogging, Heather Armstrong of Dooce.com.

I am not the avid reader of her blog that I once was due to lack of time, not interest, but when I was studying for my last degree, I actually worked her into my dissertation as a case study. Part of what I was writing about was how people (especially women) are creating on-line journals that resemble scrapbooks, and Dooce.com is a wonderful example of this trend.

Any way, I am eager to see how they might transform her web writing to the screen, and I find it interesting that we are seeing a blogger transition from the computer screen to the TV screen versus the other way around for a change.