Clare’s Girls

I’m revisiting the work of Clare Elsaesser today because I’m in the market...

Set The Table

If there is one question I most frequently get asked, it’s how I manage to find that work-life balance, especially with a toddler and a baby on the way. Running your own business while making…

Sancia

Travel was the main inspiration for the designing duo behind Australian label Sancia.  Designer Heidi Semetka and Angus Plate dreamed up their first collection of handbags while on a trip through Mexico, where they were influenced by the traditional…

Winden

To support her love of slow fashion, jeweler Rebecca Mapes started her blog To Know Wear to highlight independent designers who value local and eco-friendly manufacturing processes. She recently launched a capsule collection of ever so dainty…

Hotel Saint Cecilia, Austin

Austin has been on our wish list of places to travel to for years and quite honestly, I can’t believe it’s taken us this long to finally pay this eclectically cool city a visit. If you haven’t been,…

Erdem Pre-Fall 2016

Leave it to Erdem Moralioglu to breathe such refined beauty and modern romance into demure silhouettes inspired by the Edwardian era, flowers as basic as carnations, and something as overplayed as ostrich feathers. Everything he touches turns to pure gold. If only my…

American Textiles

I’ve always been fascinated by the manufacturing process – the maker in me has an obsession with seeing how things are made. Christopher Payne‘s photographic series Textiles gives us a rare peek inside the few remaining textile mills in America’s…

Layered Rugs

I’ve amassed an excessive collection of small Turkish kilims and ethnic, handwoven rugs over the years...

The Big Easy

I can’t remember what inspired our entire family to take Thanksgiving on the road this year, but all of us were thrilled to spend the holiday in New Orleans – a first for all of us.…