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Your Whole Halloween Party Menu: Spooky Drinks, Creepy Appetizers, and Cute Cupcakes
Five drinks, ten snacks, ten desserts. That’s the whole party, and none of it requires a culinary degree. I used to plan Halloween food in three separate panics. Drinks the week before, appetizers the night of, and dessert.. usually a bag of fun-size candy dumped in a bowl at 6pm while I pretended that was…
How I Keep Christmas Cozy: A Mismatched Tree, a Candlelit Table, and Everything Between
A gorgeous Christmas tablescape isn’t about owning a cabinet full of fancy china. It’s about light. Specifically, it’s about candlelight doing 80% of the work while you take the credit. I learned this the expensive way. For years I thought a beautiful holiday table meant new plates, new chargers, new everything, so I’d panic-buy a…
Set Your Thanksgiving Table Early: 10 Tablescapes That Prove It’s Worth It
There are two Thanksgiving hosts on Thursday at 11am. One is basting a turkey with her elbow while digging through a closet for candlesticks she swears she owns. The other is basting the same turkey, calmly, because her table has been done since Monday. I have been both women, and I can report that the…
The Matching Holiday Pajamas I’ve Already Added to My Cart
What if Christmas morning actually looked like the photos this year? Everyone in matching holiday pajamas, coffee in hand, tree lights on, nobody wearing the random t-shirt they slept in because “we’ll figure out pajamas later” turned into December 24th at 11pm. That’s the version I’m planning for. And yes, it’s July, and yes, my…
