Gatherings

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DIY Spring Floral Centerpiece

editor’s note: We’re so excited to showcase this gorgeous Easter table DIY from the talented team at Once Wed! Editorial manager Mary McLeod explains how to recreate this easy breezy floral centerpiece that will be the perfect touch on your Easter table: When concepting this DIY centerpiece, we started with the question: “What’s something beautiful that everyone has access […]

easter party garden
Hosting Tips

An Easter Brunch with Timothy Corrigan

We first featured Timothy Corrigan‘s spectacular eye-for-design a couple years ago when we shared his holiday entertaining style at the fabulously renovated Château du Grand-Lucé in France (a post with such grandeur, I find myself revisiting it for inspiration way too often.) A few months later, we travelled back to the Loire Valley for another taste […]

Easter Brunch Fruit Smoothie Recipes
Food

Easter Brunch Fruit Smoothies

We had the BEST time cooking up Easter treats with our favorite little sous chefs at Patricia’s Table earlier this month (did you catch these Easter Egg Pancakes?) I had to share the adorable and completely delish fruit smoothies that we mixed up with the kids. Patricia, the owner of our favorite kids’ cooking school, says […]

cute and casual spring outfit
Beauty

Your Spring Dress Guide

It’s often said that there’s a shade of red lipstick for everyone. No matter what your skin tone, coloring or make up preferences, some beauty designer out there has mixed and matched the perfect hue for you. That’s how I feel about the perfect spring dress. Whether you’re curvy or boyish, tall or petite there […]

DIY bunny cupcake toppers made using wooden clothespins
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Wooden Clothespin Easter Cupcake Toppers

Are any of you hosting Easter this year? If so, what special menu items or decorative details do you have planned? One of my best friends is hosting her parents and her in-laws for the first time this year, and needless to say, the pressure is on! When she came to me on a quest […]

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A Modern Easter Brunch

concept and design by brita olsen creative • photographed by rob gullixson •  vintage rentals from octavia & brown • cupcakes by lael cake There are so many things we love about Easter — sweet memories of egg hunts, children in adorable outfits, and the promise of spring. But when it comes to holidays with […]

Food

Shaved Squash Salad with Marcona Almonds & Feta

This is one of my very favorite salad recipes, and also one of the simplest. And it celebrates the fact that it’s almost zucchini season!! Since Easter is approaching, thought it would be fun to share one of the recipes from the spring brunch in Camille Styles Entertaining — the menu also includes an asparagus & bacon […]

Carrot Ginger Cocktail Recipe
Food

“What’s Up Doc” Carrot-Ginger Cocktail

Even while pregnant, I’m not typically one to order a “mocktail” — they’re usually supersweet and lack the interesting aspects of their alcoholic counterparts, and I’d rather just drink an iced tea or grapefruit juice. However, when Adam and I were in Napa last month, I discovered a serious exception to the rule. While hanging at the […]

Easter Egg Pancakes - Kids Recipes
Food

Easter Egg Pancakes

Lately I’ve started letting Phoebe “help out” in the kitchen: she was my devoted sous chef on last weekend’s pizza dough, and she singlehandedly added all the ingredients to a batch of zucchini muffins the other day. It definitely gets messy and undoubtedly takes longer than if I just cook something myself, but we have […]

Ireland-inspired Mood Board
Design

Emerald Isle

I’ve never been to Ireland, but it’s high up there on my dying-to-go-there list. And even though this time of year, mention of Ireland elicits thoughts of four leaf clovers and leprechauns, I’ve got my sites set on seaside cliffs with lush landscapes, awe-inspiring castles and quaint Dublin pubs. So rather than choosing a less-than-subtle St. Patrick’s Day green […]

Punch Cups
Gatherings

Adam Jacoby and Kris Swift

Adam Jacoby and Kris Swift have mastered the art of the dinner party, and it’s no surprise. As real-life partners and the duo behind Austin’s popular Jacoby’s Restaurant & Mercantile, the two put their complementary skill set to work each night of the week — Adam as the culinary brains behind the restaurant, and Kris as the […]

Lavender Madeleines
Food

Lavender Pistachio Madeleines

Madeleines may have found their place in history thanks to Proust, but these buttery scalloped cakes are undoubtedly delicious enough to stand on their own, literary references aside. I’ve loved them for years, and can’t believe I actually had to purchase a madeleine pan to make these at home for the first time ever. The […]