Return of Spamalauea

We have a special episode online, just in time for the holiday weekend!  Spamalauea, our active volcano made entirely from SPAM, is back and bigger than ever, just in time for grilling and luau season!  Click here to see it!

SPAM Cans Make Great Accessories

I'm very excited that SPAM liked the accessories I made with their cans, for our "Lovely Luau Featuring SPAM" episode a while back!  Recycling can be stylish!  Get it?  CAN?  I crack myself up.

New Handy Household Hint

This week's "Velveteen Lounge Kitsch-en Household Hint" is online, all about delicious garnishes for your lovely libations!  Click here to see it!  Delicious garnishes, plus lovely libations, spell entertaining success!

Happy Birthday Liberace!

I'm very excited that our episode in honor of Liberace's birthday has gotten a couple of nice bits of coverage, including on the blog Queer Me Up (click here to see) and on the humorous news aggregator Fark.com (click here)!  If you'd like to join us in a happy hour toast to Lee, you can find the recipes from our current episode here!

Catching Up

Things have been crazy around here!  First of all, we have a new episode AND a new handy household hint online!  Click here to watch our episode, shot at New York City's fabulous tiki bar, Otto's Shrunken Head, and click here to see our brand new hint, all about seashells and the many ways in which they can enhance our lives!

Next up: We celebrate the birthday of one of our favorite people, Liberace!  That will be online May 13.

I'm pleased to report the weather is finally nice enough here to spend time in our tiki room!  Over the past week I've been in two fabulous home tiki bars, which always gives me the itch to switch ours up.  A friend gave us this giant TV, which we incorporated into the room.  We plan to get it working, so we can watch "Hawaii Five-O" and other such programming out there.  If it's a goner, we'll use it as a bar or other display unit!

Here are a few more current tiki room shots, just for fun!

Make Your Own Barbecue Sauce

"Velveteen Lounge Kitsch-en: Barbecue Sauce," our latest household hint, is now online!  Click here to see!  It is so easy and creative to make your own that you'll never need to buy bottled sauce again!

And last night we were at Otto's Shrunken Head, in New York City, shooting our next episode, which will be online next Tuesday!  Here's a look at what's to come:

We had a great time!

National Stress Awareness Month

We have a new episode online, "Velveteen Lounge Kitsch-en Observes National Stress Awareness Month!"  While stress may be an unfortunate aspect of life, it can be managed and even channeled as a force for good!  Click here to see!

Speaking of stress, some good stress has been happening around the Kitsch-en, thanks to a crazy schedule!  In the past week I've recorded a song for an upcoming (look for it in May) musical episode, we've shot footage for three separate Kitsch-en projects and I attended a two day boot camp at the Culinary Institute of America!  That was really a great experience.  I learned a ton, ate a ton of great food, met some nice folks and realized what a great resource we have in The Culinary (that's what they call it there) only an hour away from us.  I definitely plan to take more classes in the future!

In my uniform:

I'm a boot camp graduate!