Lara Spencer at Chapman’s Big Orange Book Festival

“It’s your home. This is your story. This is your space. And whether you have a tiny budget or a monster budget, I dare say you’ll have a lot more fun doing it my way than going through a catalog or having someone do it for you.”

— Lara Spencer, lifestyle anchor for
Good Morning America
and author of
I Brake for Yard Sales
, encouraging fans to hunt out secondhand treasures, during a talk at Chapman’s
Big Orange Book Festival (BOB)
.

>>MORE: Watch “Ravishing Rooms from Second Hand Finds” with Lara Spencer on Chapman’s iTunes U Writers on Writing course. This course also includes other speakers from Big Orange Book Festival (BOB) 2013, many from BOB 2012 and other published novelists, cinematic editors and TV writers. Through a series of lectures and Q & A sessions, authors from many different genres reveal their writing process, give tips and share about their journey as writers.