As if it isn’t exciting enough, the 3rd Annual Mosby Christmas Cube Contest had two new twists from previous years. But first, let’s review all of the participants before we get to the winners. Above is one of the highlights of Tina Reese’s cube: a 3D Christmas tree!
And elsewhere in her cube, she had to clarify an important point.
Designer Julie Giljum went with a round ornament theme with special guest appearance by the ICART polar bear.
David Cluff turned everyone in the office into Santa Claus for the mural above.
A fine detail of Ken Ware’s cube was decorated bottles of merry.
Darrell McClanahan (with the help of his two daughters) went Feliz Navidad, complete with chips & salsa and a blender for non-alcoholic margaritas. Pay attention to that Christmas tree pinata hanging above – it makes a spectacular return appearance.
The first new twist to the 3rd Annual Mosby Christmas Cube Contest was a tie for 3rd place.
Noel Jacob’s cube (2 photos above) was decked out as the North Pole. She was the 2010 1st place winner, and this year she shares the 3rd place win with…
…Kelly Rooney and her Peppermint Gingerbread House theme, shown in the 2 photos above.
In 2nd place is Michelle Bridgewater (above and below) with her BridgeH2O Candy Cane Palace.
And here are our 4 big winners, with gift cards to treat themselves over the holidays. From left to right, we have Kelly Rooney, Noel Jacobs, Michelle Bridgewater & Tracy Bax.
Ahhh yes, the Christmas tree pinata… The second new twist is we had a Christmas Cube Contest After party where contestants were blindfolded and spun around as the pinata lowered, and here’s the action packed result:
Look at the group of adults rushing at the candy like 5-year olds. We love it! Thank you to everyone who took part in this event we love so much. And from everyone at Mosby Building Arts, we wish you all Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!
This Saturday, you can help Operation Homefront assemble packages for the troops overseas. The Mobile Care Package Program makes supporting the troops easy by providing all the contents, like personal hygiene products, books, snacks and clothing. They simply need hands on deck to put the items in the boxes and write encouraging notes and cards to accompany each box.
Come to the Bread Co. in the Green Mount Shopping Center in Shiloh, Illinois between 11 am and 2 p.m. Look for the Mobile Care box truck and tent, and be ready to assemble goodie boxes for our military veterans.
Scott Mosby and KMOX will be broadcasting from inside the Bread Co., so do stop in and say hello!
It’s time for another great home show! Free admission and free parking makes it enticing to come to the St. Charles Convention Center October 14 – 16, 2011 for the 31st annual St. Charles Home Show, presented by the Home Builders Association of St. Louis.
Like HGTV Come To Life
If you want to know what the home improvement pros know, come to the Home Advice Stage in aisle 400 of the St. Charles Convention Center lower level. There is a new topic every half hour (schedule above) followed by a question and answer session. So grab a seat and learn tips, tricks and trends that will improve your life.
Everything You Need is in Aisle 400
The Mosby Solution Center is your one-stop source for all home improvement answers and solutions, comprised of the trusted Trade Partners who work with KMOX Home Answer Man Scott Mosby. These Trade Partners regularly work with each other to bring you consistent quality and value, and now is your chance to talk with the teams that know how to improve every part of your home. Visit these services in aisle 400:
Scott will be broadcasting the KMOX Home Improvement Show from 11 am – 2 pm at the Home Advice Stage inside the Mosby Solution Center on Saturday, October 15th.
He will also share the stage with a top St. Louis designer for Make the Best of Your Home in the Fall: Practical & Fun Design Tips. Show times at the Better Living Theatre are:
Friday, October 14 – 4:30 pm
Saturday, October 15 – 6:30 pm
Sunday, October 16 – 12:30 pm
For more Home Show details, click here. For maps and driving directions to the St. Charles Convention Center, click here. And we look forward to helping you with your important home improvement decisions.
We’re excited to be making our first foray to the Metro East as part of the Gateway Fall Home & Hot Tub Show at the Gateway Center in Collinsville, Illinois.
Free admission makes it easy for you to ask us your home improvement questions by visiting us at booth #241 during these show times:
• Friday, September 23, 11:00am – 8:00pm
• Saturday, September 24, 10:00am – 8:00pm
• Sunday, September 25, 10:00am – 6:00pm
For driving directions and more details, follow this link. And we look forward to catching up with our Illinois friends, as well as making some new friends. We hope to see you there!
Scott Mosby is always sharing home improvement tips with you. Now you get to give him a tip or two.
Plaza Frontenac will be filled with local celebrities on Thursday, August 18, when the popular Saint Louis Crisis Nursery’s “Celebrity Waitresses’ & Waiters’ Night” returns to the mall for the third year. The event features upscale cuisine, a happy hour and an after-party, a silent auction, and entertainment throughout the mall.
The 21st annual event will include dining and parties at select Plaza Frontenac restaurants. Celebrities will earn and donate tips from diners from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Cardwell’s at the Plaza, and at Canyon Café. There will be a special happy hour at Brio Tuscan Grill where all tips collected between 4 – 6 p.m. will be donated to Crises Nursery.
Scott Mosby will be one of the celebrities waiting on you during happy hour from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Brio Tuscan Grill, 1601 S. Lindbergh, at Plaza Frontenac, 314.432.4410. No reservations are required for the happy hour, so come prepared to drink and nosh and may you be generous with your tips for Scott!
Last year, the celebrities served more than 800 guests and raised $75,000. Dinner reservations are required at Cardwell’s and Canyon Café and can be made now. For reservations, call Cardwell’s at (314) 997-8885 and Canyon Café at 314-872-3443. For free admission to the Fleming’s after party or for more information, please RSVP with Ebonee Shaw at (314) 292-5770 or ebonee@crisisnurserykids.org.
It’s time for another home show! Free admission and free parking makes it enticing to come to the St. Charles Convention Center April 8 – 10, 2011 for the 7th annual St. Charles Home Show, presented by the Home Builders Association of St. Louis.
Like HGTV Come To Life
If you want to know what the home improvement pros know, come to the Home Advice Stage in aisle 400 of the St. Charles Convention Center lower level. There is a new topic every half hour (schedule above) followed by a question and answer session. So grab a seat and learn tips, tricks and trends that will improve your life.
Everything You Need is in Aisle 400
The Mosby Solution Center is your one-stop source for all home improvement answers and solutions, comprised of the trusted Trade Partners who work with KMOX Home Answer Man Scott Mosby. These Trade Partners regularly work with each other to bring you consistent quality and value, and now is your chance to talk with the teams that know how to improve every part of your home. Visit these services in aisle 400:
Scott will be broadcasting the KMOX Home Improvement Show from 11 am – 2 pm at the Home Advice Stage inside the Mosby Solution Center.
He will also help you get a head start on the outdoor living season with Take It Outside: Planning for Decks, Patios, Porches & Pools. Show times at the Better Living Theatre are:
Friday, April 8 – 2 pm
Saturday, April 9 – 5 pm
For more Home Show details, click here. For maps and driving directions to the St. Charles Convention Center, click here. And we look forward to helping you with your important home improvement decisions.
Home improvement hope springs eternal March 3 – 6 at the downtown St. Louis Convention Center for the 34th annual Builders Home & Garden Show, presented by the Home Builders Association of St. Louis.
Join the “Right At Home” news group by March 1, 2011 and you will get a discount coupon for home show tickets. Sign up and look for the offer inside the March Home Maintenance Tips newsletter which goes out on March 2, 2011.
Like HGTV Come To Life
If you want to know what the home improvement pros know, come to the Home Advice Stage in aisle 3800 of the Edward Jones Dome. There is a new topic every half hour (schedule above) followed by a question and answer session. So grab a seat and learn tips, tricks and trends that will improve your life.
Everything You Need is in Aisle 3800
The Mosby Solution Center is your one-stop source for all home improvement answers and solutions, comprised of the trusted Trade Partners who work with KMOX Home Answer Man Scott Mosby. These Trade Partners regularly work with each other to bring you consistent quality and value, and now is your chance to talk with the teams that know how to improve every part of your home. Visit these services in aisle 3800 in the Edward Jones Dome:
• Water Solutions – Aqua Systems
• Flooring – Classic Carpet & Flooring
• Appliances – Construction Appliance Supply
• Foundations – Helitech
• Pest Control – Holper’s Pest & Animal Solutions
• Remodeling – Mosby Building Arts
• Skylights – Premier Skylights
• Glass – St. Charles Glass & Glazing
• Audio Visual – The Sound Room
• Electric – Streib Electric Co.
• HVAC – West County Heating & Cooling
See KMOX Home Answer Man Scott Mosby
Scott will present Stay At Home with Accessible Design on the Home Advice Stage, March 3rd and 4th at 1 PM. He will also help you get a head start on the outdoor living season with Take It Outside: Planning for Decks, Patios, Porches & Pools. Show times at the Better Living Theatre (#3260 in the Dome) are:
March 3 – 2:30
March 4 – 4:30
March 5 – 3:30
March 6 – 12:30
For Home Show details such as directions, parking and hours, click here. And we look forward to helping you with your important home improvement decisions.
We had such a blast with the Christmas Cube Decorating contest in 2009, that we just had to do it again. Click to see last year’s cubes.
Here’s the competing cubes for 2010:
And the outcome is:
Susie “Snowflake” Stern (left) and Becky “Griswold” Trent get a thumbs up for their Christmas cubes.
Sarah “Granny” Tabak (above) accepts the 3rd place award on behalf of David Cluff, who designed and built the decorations for her work area (below).
Toby “Blue Christmas” Weiss (above) takes 2nd place for the Elvis Presley Blue Christmas diorama, below.
And the 1st place winner is Noel Jacobs (above), who is a Christmas Day baby, and used her extensive collection of Noel decorations to create the winning cube (which featured a giant Gus’ pretzel spelling “noel” on judging day!).
Each of the winners received gift cards of varying amounts (thank you!), and the judges promised to up the stakes for 2011. Until then, Happy Holidays to All and a Prosperous New Year!
The Home Builders Association of St. Louis presents the 2010 Home & Remodeling Show from Friday, October 1 to Sunday, October 3, at the St. Charles Convention Center. Admission and parking are free all weekend.
The Home Advice Stage Makes It’s First Appearance at the Fall Home Show
To gain the knowledge you need to make wise choices regarding your home directly from the experts who do the work, attend the free seminars every half hour at the Home Advice Stage presented by the Mosby Solution Center (aisle 400). All weekend long, on the half hour, experts from all home improvement fields will share and demonstrate their specialty, followed by a Question & Answer session.
As an extra bonus, you can watch a live broadcast of the KMOX Home Improvement Show with Scott Mosby on Saturday from 11 am – 2 pm. It’s like an afternoon of HGTV come to life, so grab a seat and learn tips, tricks and trends to help you improve and maintain your home.
Home Advice Stage Topics & Schedule
The Mosby Solution Center is your one-stop source for all home improvement answers and solutions, comprised of the trusted Trade Partners who work with KMOX Home Answer Man Scott Mosby. These Trade Partners regularly work together to bring you consistent quality and value, and now is your chance to talk with the teams that know how to enhance and maintain every part of your home.
We look forward to meeting with you during the first weekend of October, and are excited to share valuable home improvement knowledge with you!
While recently photographing a master bathroom (see the project here), we were delighted by the company of TJ, a puppy Papillon. The Mosby crew who worked on the bathroom project had quite the adventure when TJ got out of the house and ran off down the street, and they took off after him, caught him and brought him safely back home.
And the crew got comfortable with TJ’s “sister” Gracie, who shared lunch with the guys, Monday through Friday (above photo). The homeowner told us that her dogs miss the guys because they got so much love and attention, and this is not the first time we’ve been told about the relationship between the Mosby production crews and Man’s Best Friend.
This got us to reminiscing about all the canine friends we’ve had the pleasure to meet while photographing finished remodeling projects and we’d like to share them with you.
Molly the basset (above) lives with our long-time Creve Coeur client. During this photo shoot of their outdoor living project (see the project here), Molly gave us a guided tour. Then her “brother” Jake went one better: he demonstrated exactly how to use the dog ramp we designed for all 3 of the basset hounds in the house. Click to see Jake on their doggie ramp!
Sometimes the canine members of the family are camera shy, like on this project (above), while other times…
… a chocolate lab knows he coordinates so well with his new kitchen that he makes sure to saunter into the shot.
Sometimes, they are so unconcerned with all the activity that they simply fall asleep, like the King Charles spaniel in a family room addition (above)…
…while other times, we disrupt their beauty sleep! Though she wasn’t too awfully upset, because if you click through to all these home makeover photos, you’ll spot her resting comfortably in her bed as the camera snapped away.
Seal the German Shepard (above) served double duty as a Project Manager for her finished basement and her master bathroomand worked as a stylist on the photo shoot!
And every exterior renovation needs a dutiful border collie to keep the construction crew in line…or throw out the Frisbee for them!
Remodeling is really about building relationships, and we are proud to have so many wonderful canine members of the Mosby Building Arts family.
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