The Handsome - Joseph from Twig & Thistle:

I got to meet Kathleen, from Twig & Thistle at ALT back in 2010 and she is really just one of the sweetest, most down to earth people you could ever know. We have Kathleen's husband, Joseph, here with us today. I love this interview, I think you can really tell how supportive Joseph is with Kathleen's blog. and I'm pretty sure (if I remember correctly) he's a developer and he helped build her blog work and everything. So cute! Enjoy the interview!

Please tell us a little about you and what you do: I'm a Senior Industrial Designer at a product development firm here in Seattle. I enjoy working out, eating sensibly, scrap-booking, candles, and lying about my hobbies.

What are your thoughts about blogs + blogging? I've been blogging on and off for the past 13 year and it's great to see how accessible it has gotten. There is so much variety now, if you have an interest in something there is probably a couple good, deep, blogs on the topic. I read about 150 different blogs and there surprisingly little overlap between them, that's wonderful.

How did you & your wife meet? A mutual friend had a party and we hung out the whole night, after that I was hooked.

How many hours a day does your wife spend blogging? 2-4 hours a day, 4-8 on weekends if she's working on a DIY. Writing posts used to be take the bulk of the time but now it's things like responding to email, freelance, and Etsy orders that soak up most of the attention. The exception are DIY posts, those are a huge time sink, I bet they average 20-40 hours between coming up with the idea, designing, testing, shopping, shooting/editing photos, and writing the tutorial. It's crazy just how much work goes into them.

What do you do during this time? Cooking, cleaning, freelance, Etsy orders, IT, helping with the posts, shooting photos, I feel guilty just kicking back if Kathleen is working.

Any silly/crazy/funny/cool stories or experiences related to blogging you'd like to share with the readers: When she started Twig & Thistle two years ago, I couldn't pay Kathleen to use Twitter. I mean she HATED it. I ended up managing the account for a few months before she started to warm up to the idea. Now she's a Twitter machine, I couldn't stop her even if I tried.

Is there any one thing that annoys you most about having a blogger wife? Well! If I have to pick just one, I'd have to say it's the 11:30pm "Can you edit the post?". If you ever see a typo on T&T is probably because I was half asleep trying to spell check on my phone so I wouldn't have to get out of bed.

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Thanks for the interview Joseph! Please show our men some love & support by leaving some comments ;) PS: If you have a request or there's someone you'd love to see up here on the handsome, leave a comment and let me know!