Patrick & I are forever grateful to have been included in our dear friends’, Hana & Daniel, nuptials in the Umbrian hills. It was a unforgettable week of adventure, romance, and surreal...
I can’t believe it, even now that I am here, but I am taking a month to travel around Italy. I was fortunate enough to be invited to a dear friend’s wedding and a family gathering all in ...
My apologies for being so absent from my humble little journal – but this month has been a doozy in Spartan Land – remodeling our Austin space & opening our new collaborative project ...
Kinfolk Magazine is gorgeous. Dedicated to beauty of gathering and the profound pleasure of eating in lovely surroundings with the people that matter to you, Kinfolk has an insane roster of talent wo...
My friends know that I am seldom without a brass bracelet. I took my collection out to polish today & realized that they represent some of my very favorite shops & designers, and they each ma...
Looking out across my yard on a gray and rain-soaked morning, to a crimson bird house mounted on our fence, triggered a memory of Cathrine Ryan‘s bold artwork. I did a quick search and spent my...
The first time I saw a gal wearing one of Erin’s pieces, I literally stopped her in her tracks to admire it for several minutes. I collect Erin’s jewelry and wear it often. It adds that s...
We are so excited to have these awesome unisex shades in time for the sunny months. Han Sunglasses are from Denmark and have a classic style with a little edge to them. I have been sporting mine non-...
Back home from a week at SXSW that felt like a year. Amazing times, glad to be back in snowy, peaceful Portland. Our High Tea party was beautiful – huge thanks to Lysa Cooper & Shelby Meade...
If you are coming to Austin for SXSW please stop by Spartan & Bows + Arrows and escape the madness with us on THURSDAY, March 15th, 2-6pm We will be serving up spiked iced teas with Dripping Spri...
good to remember. “Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake…” words by franci...
My man surprised me on my birthday this week with a watercolor by Dan Gluibizzi, from one of our favorite store/gallery spaces ever, Ampersand. We saw Dan’s show at Ampersand in the summer and ...
Fay Andrada makes great jewelry. I wear her pieces often and never tire of them. Subtle, architectural and sophisticated. I spent the day with her in NY and we found that we had lived parallel lives ...
Such a beautiful, colloquial meditation on small town boredom and fumbling your way through the slow-motion beauty and soul crushing anguish of a first, true love. Definitely worth another watch 10 y...
My pal and Jessica from the Shiny Squirrel does this great series called “a few things I love”. Here is my list that she featured last week. Appropriate for the Valentines mood. DRIVING W...
In celebration of all the talented designers that we represent at Spartan, I have been collecting this little series of behind the scenes glimpses of the spaces that they work and live in. As much as...
Photographs by Marianna Rothen
My Grandpa and I are both smitten with this Louise Bourgeois quilt. I definitely have the coolest Grandparents ever.
My Father’s family has resided in Port Gibson, Mississippi for many, many generations. This Spring, my Grandparents are preparing move away from the home that my father grew up in, which has ho...
Amazing styling in Swedish Elle. (shiny squirrel via rackk & ruin)
Our anniversary getaway to Manzanita pretty much blew our minds. If you just so happen to have a little plot of land to sell us in the area, we have a tiny dream cabin in the trees that we are schemi...
7 am running and lunch at Prasaad. Hanging in there.
this is it. paul & joanne via iiinspired.
My man & I are celebrating our 5th anniversary by escaping to the coast tomorrow and sitting in soaking tubs by the sea. The idea of escape reminded me of a great Joe Purdy song called “Out...
I watched Beginners on the last day of 2011, and fittingly, it was without a doubt my favorite film of the year. It is important, and visually stunning, and heartfelt, deeply funny, and true. I could...
New Year’s was a snowy cabin in the woods of Oregon. Family, cooking all day, hot toddies, hours of reading, no wifi, endless movies, and romping in the woods with my pooch. It doesn’t ge...
I had a little rendezvous in SF last weekend with my friend Mary Kathryn, of Loretta Flower. We rented a beautiful, sunny little pied-a-terre in the Mission & proceeded to see and do as much as ...
I have been quite enamored with of Symmetry scarves from the moment I laid eyes on them. Unisex, brilliantly designed to be styled and worn a variety of ways. Amazing fabrics. An investment that will...
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