The Link Up: Celery Juice-Induced Glow (Maybe), A Happy House Tour & New Furniture Lines

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This has been such a fun but BUSY week. I took three of my team members with me to Minneapolis to talk all things Target for 2019 and we even got a sneak peek into the fall collection WHICH IS SO VERY VERY GOOD.  I want to give a huge shout out to Minneapolis for being such a lovely city to host us, including the 15-foot Scandinavian-style hot tub on the roof. That never hurts. But they had no 5 am celery juice, so it’s really all a fail.

First, we need to discuss the celery juice trend and how I feel about it. This is the one where you wake up and before coffee, you wash, chop and juice an entire thing of celery using all 15 parts of your highly underutilized yet expensive juicer. Then you drink that 16 ounces of pulp-less juice fast with nothing, I mean NOTHING, else in your stomach and don’t you dare put anything in your stomach for 20-30 minutes after. Why? Mostly, it’s supposed to be detoxifying, anti-inflammatory and something about hydrochloric acid and stomach bile to assist in digestion, able to metabolize food better and flush out fats, etc. It has “magical medicinal powers.” I had two people (not good friends, but strong testaments) that said it was life-changing. So I tried it, obviously, for three days in a row (stopped only because of travel) and I will say this: my stomach felt very “bright” and yes digestion was great (but souping makes it great). Day three, my stomach felt extremely unbloated. But you guys, the amount of WORK to juice and clean each morning at 5:30 or 6 am (I get up before juice bars open or likely I would just buy this stuff) is INSANE. And no, you can’t make it the night before. No you can’t make it in batches and NO you can’t mix it with apples. It’s like we are all being punked because it’s SO RIDICULOUS. But that’s not the best part…the best part is the fact that LA IS RUNNING OUT OF CELERY. Rumors were that Erewhon (a natural foods store that is even fancier than Whole Foods in WeHo) actually ran out of celery. They couldn’t keep it in stalk stock!!!! While I do love to try these hilarious wellness trends, sometimes I literally can’t believe the town that we live in (and yet, I love to embrace). Will I continue to do it? Probably. Hell, I invested in this massive juicer (anyone have a smaller, less expensive juicer they absolutely love??) so I have to”stick” with it…

The opener image is from the East Hampton home of Maxwell Ryan (founder of Apartment Therapy) and it honestly stopped me while flipping through the new, recently rebranded House Beautiful. He’s a friend and not even knowing it was him, I said this to myself “this is so my style, well, but better.” It has personality and quirk, and feels fresh and inventive but pulled together and cohesive. GREAT JOB MAXWELL. See the full tour here.

I know we talked about Leanne Ford’s amazing lighting collab with Target a few weeks ago but now it’s available online! RUN before it’s all gone. I bought this floor lamp and this table lamp for myself.