As they say in the now infamous tag line from “Project Runway”, “One day you’re in, and the next day, you’re out”. Considering the super-short attention span of fashion, I’m continually shocked and surprised by the lengths women will go to in order to obtain the latest “It” piece. Miss A touched on this recently [...]

As you may have been able to tell from my post on hosting weekend house guests, Southern Prince Charming and I had some friends in town for the weekend. SPC loves having guests because then I take a break from all the healthy cooking I normally force-feed him, to make something a bit more fun [...]

Last weekend, Southern Prince Charming and I had the pleasure of joining some friends for a birthday dinner on Thursday night. We went to a restaurant we had been to previously, and has always handled large groups with the sort of grace every restaurant ought to. Although not terribly fancy or formal, Fleet Landing was [...]

I was raised in a manner that taught me to absorb and appreciate art and culture wherever I could find it. My parents took us on vacations to places like London and Paris, seeing sites such as the Louvre or the Victoria & Albert museum, and the desire to learn about the world through art [...]

There are many things I enjoy about living in the south and being married to a southern man. Part of that has been discovering and creating my own concept of what it means to be a hostess. Growing up in Texas, I always felt connected to the sense of “Southern Hospitality,” but my mom was [...]

For those who know me, it’s no secret that I love to bake. I love to bake, love to cook, love to create in the kitchen. However, it’s also no secret to most who know me that I’ve been dealing with my weight all my life. Quite unlike my younger sister, I’ve never had the [...]

I previously posted about my desire to take part in Charleston’s Piccolo Spoleto festival, and was a bit unsure just how I would jump right in. As with most things in Charleston, I have a deep desire to get plugged in, feel right at home, and go head-first into new things. Charleston is different than [...]

Since moving to Charleston and leaving DC in October, I have been so busy wedding planning, job hunting, and home-making that I had to wait until this past weekend to make my first visit back to the District.  It’s rather sad actually, considering that DC is only 9 hours away by car, has easy non-stop [...]

Spoleto, Spoleto, Spoleto is all that anyone seems to be able to talk about during this beautiful, sunny time of year. Being my first year in Charleston, I’ve never been to Spoleto, and am dying to know what the hub-bub is about.

As the Spoleto Festival website explains, “Spoleto Festival USA was founded in 1977 by [...]

Not long before my wedding-planning hit a fever-pitch, I was fortunate enough to take time to do something I had yet to do in Charleston: have some girl time! Four friends came down from DC and we spent the weekend shopping, dining, and catching up on all the things I had begun to feel so [...]