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A ‘Fall Florals’ Tablescape…For People Who Aren’t Into Fall Florals

I am not a “fall colors” person – orange is not my jam. But the fall tablescape I put together to shoot Noritake’s new Charlotta Gold dinnerware collection (featuring gold edges that are microwave! safe! YES) turned out to be one of my all-time favorites.

I started with my go-to palette (gold and white, pale pinks, texture and texture and texture), then added in autumnal elements with the eucalyptus, tall grasses, wintry berries, and wheat. One styling trick I’ve returned to again and again...

Sabine & The Red Lotus’ New Single “Infinite Orb” Now Streaming

Sabine & The Red Lotus just released their new single, “Infinite Orb,” and it is stunning. I’d like to see it be the theme song of the next Bond movie, please. (If the spectacular creature in these photos looks familiar, that’s because it’s Francesca.)

Listen below, or stream the single on Apple Music and Spotify.

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In Which I Subdue An Aggressive Dog…With My Rebecca Minkoff Purse

Me, as drawn by Jacqueline Bisset for  Carrying On

Well THAT was a morning.

So you know how I’ve been having all these Big Life Realizations lately? One of them is that I need to refocus this site to be less about *me* – essentially because I’ve started to realize that I want to be peaceful, and happy. Which means having less drama in my life. But which also, alas, leaves me with fewer stories to tell.

That’s okay, though. It has to be. Because I’ve also realized that when you spend ten years...

8 Unique DIY Costume Ideas For Kids

YES, GIRL.

For the full duration of my trick-or-treating years – we’re talking 3-13 – my mother crafted my costumes entirely by hand. They ranged from the truly extraordinary (a hand-stitched cancan dancer costume with multicolored ruffles that required multiple trips to visit a sewing-machine-having family friend in New Jersey) to the slightly phoned-in (a Cher costume that was basically a piece of sparkly fabric and a fright wig), but I cherished them. I cherish them still; many of those o...

Why I’m Giving Up New Clothing Until 2020

Me, TJ Maxx ad campaign, 2013

When I write up my Links & Love & Stuff posts, this is how I do it: I put together a list of articles I’ve read recently that I think you guys would be into. I add a little commentary of my own. And then I finish by peppering in links to various products – clothing, usually – that I’ve seen and coveted on my daily travels around the Internet. I use affiliate links for those, so anytime someone makes a purchase from one of those links I get a small (usually minus...

Links & Love & Stuff

There’s still a few days left to enter to win the print of your choice from Thirty9, which offers a selection of fine art photography that you can browse by theme, color, room, and so on. (I’m obsessed with the agave plant print pictured above.)

Speaking of plants: You may have noticed that I changed my palms. RG’s home page header now features a piece by Ariane Moshayedi (all her work is gorgeous; you should check it out).

What’s better than wine? Wine…with poetry. Verse & Vine’s wines a...

I Fell For One Of Those Scam Phone Calls, And Here’s What I Learned

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There are some – many? – things about which I am a touch head-in-the-clouds, but identity theft is not one of them. I mean, I was the victim of a major hacking just a few years ago. My entire purse was stolen in 2015, and my car was broken into earlier this year, resulting in the theft of all of the personal information I had compiled in anticipation of a trip to the passport office (yes, like all of it).

As a result of these incidents, I am a password ninja, am on a first-name basis wit...

This Beef Stew Is Made With An Unexpected Ingredient…And You Have To Try It

Noritake China dishes

I love happy accidents. Like, say, when you’re all set on making beef stew, and have purchased all the ingredients and even begun the cooking process. And then discover that you’ve forgotten one of the key ingredients…but then the ingredient you end up swapping in makes it miles and miles better.

I’m talking about beef stew made with – yes – chicken stock. I know what you’re thinking: That will taste like chicken soup. If I wanted chicken soup, I would make chicken soup...

Simply Steamed Artichokes With Lemon Butter

Noritake China dishes

I used to make artichokes all the time. Like literally: There was a time period, circa 2010ish, during which I made them for myself and Kendrick every. single. night. I had only recently discovered them, and became fully obsessed once I realized that their true identity is a butter-delivery system that you can feel virtuous about, because vegetables.

Fun little fact: The artichoke is actually the bud of a thistle flower.

We had a family dinner last night, so I thought I...

How To Fall In Love With Your Contractor

Meet Audrey , RG’s brand-new Home contributor. You’ve actually seen her here before – she has the single best home decor taste of any human I’ve ever met, and I featured both her home’s interior and its exterior awhile back. She recently sold that house and bought a new one, a 100-year-old place in one of L.A.’s most historic neighborhoods that she’s renovating from top to bottom…so obviously I had to ask her (pictured above with her impossibly adorable family) if she’d give us all a chance t...