Welcome! I’m Tiffani Goff. I’m not a designer, a writer, a party planner, a floral arranger, a painter, or a crafter, but I love doing all of those things. I love helping people redecorate their homes, create custom decorations for a party, plan big parties, paint oversized canvases, arrange flowers, write, garden, and create things on Canva. I think of myself as a mom, wife, and grammie, who is always busy starting a new project.
I have two girls on Earth and one in heaven. I have been married to my hubby Louie for thirty-one years. Our oldest daughter, Tabitha lives a few miles away with her son and husband. I get to see them almost every day and talk to her on the phone at least twice a day but more like four times.
Our middle daughter, Tiara passed away at sixteen years old from complications related to Tuberous Sclerosis. Raising and caring for her was the greatest accomplishment of my life. I started blogging on this site in 2012 about Tiara and our family. Our youngest daughter Trinity is twenty-one and still lives at home with us, thank goodness!
I went to law school at night while working full-time when Tabitha was a young girl. I finished my last term of law school while pregnant with Tiara. I missed passing the bar by 10 points and never took it again, as I needed to stay home and raise my girls.
I have always loved everything to do with interior design, DIY, gardening, and throwing parties. I attempted to run a custom holiday decoration business at one point, but it was too hard on Lou to watch all the girls after he came home from working a twelve-hour shift at the car dealership. I satisfied my interior design thirst by helping lots of friends with their homes throughout the years, as they let me bring my girls along on the job if necessary.
twig DECOR (tiffani whitaker goff interiors) is created…
Soon after Tiara passed away, I needed to keep myself excessively busy to avoid the overwhelming grief, so I started a staging business, twig DECOR. Because I worked harder than anyone else, achieved significant results for the real estate agents, and charged less than other stagers, my business boomed.
After five years of constantly moving furniture, I changed up my business model and stopped staging. I continued to offer my clients interior design services and custom holiday decorating opportunities. As my business slowed, I used my extra time to write a memoir in honor of my fifty-birthday in 2019. It took me ten months to write and self-publish Loving Tiara.
time to write a memoir for my 50th birthday
Once I started organizing book signings and appearances, Covid hit. After watching my book sales slow I learned how to advertise on Amazon and gratefully my book has continued to sell.
Once Covid restrictions lifted a bit, I found myself with an engaged daughter and the need to host her wedding in our backyard. So the first six months of 2021 were all about me fixing every aspect of our home.
wedding time
We rented this home for the past seven years and in January 2021 the landlord sold it to us, so it needed lots of upkeep before we hosted a wedding!. Because I am a crazy DIYer, I painted the stucco exterior myself and every wall inside. I changed out all the exterior lighting, upgraded the landscape and Lou build new side gates. When I wasn’t working on the house, I was creating all the decorations for the wedding. It was an exciting, yet exhausting, time. Once I survived the wedding, which was incredible, I took off a few months to deal with my health issues(carpal tunnel in both hands and neck issues) and try to figure out my next move in life.
I couldn’t decide if I should try to capture more design clients and invigorate twig DECOR or write another book, as many readers have requested. As you can tell, I bore easily and love change. I started by updating my website. Instead of keeping twigdecor.com, I moved everything to tiffanigoff.com and rebuilt the entire site with the new block system, which has been difficult. Yes, I do my own websites. I rarely find the need to hire out help, except for plumbing and some electrical.
I mostly keep this site up and running so new TSC families can read about our journey of raising a child with TSC. Hopefully, I will write another book and can also use this site to share that information. I’m basically retired but do help beloved former clients with party planning and design as long as it doesn’t interfere with my grammie time.
I love creating floral arrangements!
When I’m not doing a project, I love attending Mass, listening to audiobooks, and drinking organic chardonnay. I’m a total morning person and get lots of anxiety if I need to go out at night, so I’m pretty much always home after dark. I love cookies, donuts, and sushi but my protruding stomach, menopause, and autoimmune disease have forced me to eat mostly plant-based and avoid sugar to keep myself healthy. It’s such a bummer, sugar is so bad for you! So that’s my story! Any questions or comments, please email me at: tiffanigoff@yahoo.com
xoxo tiffani
A few fun blog posts from the past you might enjoy…
What is worse, no eye cream or bouncing a ball inside Neiman Marcus?
(yes I am crazy)
What exactly does it mean to be happy?
(me very depressed)
Did you know my hubby was my little brother?
(back to the college days when we met)
(my readers’ favorite recipe, or so they have told me.)