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Gatherings

This is the Ultimate Oktoberfest Dinner Party

You may remember Anna Crelia and Rhoda Brimberry from a couple years back when we interviewed them for our Besties series. Since then, these sisters-in-law turned business partners have been growing Loot Vintage Rentals to become Texas’ largest vintage rental and event styling company. We’ve been lusting after their chic, refurbished finds for years and now […]

Design

15 Rooms That Make Us Want To Wallpaper Everything In Sight

For some of us, the word wallpaper is still cringe-inducing. We have memories of relatives’ dusty guest rooms decked in out-of-date florals, or renovation projects where the first thing we did is rip off yellowed wall coverings. But there’s no denying that, thanks to a new guard of wallpaper designers, it’s made a serious comeback! Some of our […]

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Drinks

Ginger-Citrus Aperol Spritz

Ahhh, summer in Tuscany… There’s nothing quite like it. On our last day in Florence, we spent the afternoon on the rooftop of Hotel Continentale sipping on Italy’s signature summer cocktail, the Aperol Spritz. And we weren’t the only ones — it seemed like everyone in sight also had a bright orange cocktail in hand. After Camille and […]

Gatherings

How Our Two Favorite Ceramicists do Brunch

Almost every surface in Samantha Heligman and Eliana Bernard’s Austin home is covered with their ceramic creations — vases, trays, plates, drink ware — you name it, they’ve made it. I met up with the studio mates turned roommates for brunch, and the girls traded in their ceramic tools for kitchen tools as they whipped […]

Gatherings

A Picturesque Backyard Dinner Party with Rui Nakata

We’ve been major fan girls of Rui Nakata’s food-filled Instagram feed for a while, so when we realized she lives right down the street from us in Austin, we knew we had to snag a seat at one of her famous backyard dinner parties. Rui and her fiancé Anthony share a love for garden-to-table cooking (they grow their […]

Salads

Rainbow Kale Slaw

Check out the full story here: Our Fourth of July Party With Stubb’s! Photography by Hannah Grace Photography

Drinks

Paloma Cocktail

Read the full story here: Entertaining With Monique Otero photography by jenna elliott

Design

A Healthy Lunch Date at Austin’s Newest Juice Bar

In a couple of months, we’ll be making the big move downtown to our newly renovated office bungalow. We can’t wait to have extra space to work on projects and endless storage for our ever-growing supply of props. But really, what we’re most excited about is being blocks away from some of our favorite lunch spots […]

Design

Over The Rainbow

Summer is easily our favorite season for entertaining. What’s not to love about pool parties, picnics, and endless happy hours al fresco? Our team is currently designing what is sure to be the most fun Memorial Day party of all-time, but when it came time to pick out a specific color palette, we just couldn’t decide. I […]

Gatherings

Inside Our Second Annual Get Healthy Get Together

Sunshine and Saturdays are two of our favorite things. So when you put those together and add in hundreds of our Austin readers, well, we’d call that a pretty great day. This past weekend we all met up at The Long Center for a morning barre class with MOD Fitness, a relaxing meditation led by Kate […]