Newly Domesticated

You didn't imagine it — I missed a few red carpets in the chaos of a busy, busy winter. But I would never skip my beloved Oscars (even if I still haven't seen half the movies, yikes). And if ti...

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Awards season is in full swing and, as a busy working mom, I am going to need them to slow down a bit! I conspicuously skipped Golden Globes fashion because I genuinely didn't realize they were b...

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Oh hello! It's me in my...*checks notes*...THIRD post in 2023. Bless those of you who actually read this!  It's time again to celebrate my passion, my art, my muse — gift wrap.  When I in...

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The Oscar film nominees didn't inspire much passion from me this year. In most films I saw, there were spectacular performances but the movies themselves felt uneven and indulgently long. So, wha...

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Hooray! I am the proud mother of a baby who sleeps through the night (knock on wood), so I'm easing back into my awards show commentary to the best of my ability.  What better event to start w...

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Hoo boy, a lot has happened since the last time I opened a fresh, clean post window here. The short version: we adopted a baby!!!! The long version: I also started a new job in 2021 that kept me ...

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The clear winner of the 2022 Met Gala by a mile, Blake Lively, triumphantly turning to see how effectively she lapped everyone else.  In the past decade, the Met Gala went from an event-of-...

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Grammy's AFTER the Oscars? Not a fan. But I do love that the Grammy red carpet always offers an opportunity to take the fashion road less traveled, in ways that both delight and befuddle. It's al...

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I'm cracking up that I've barely touched this "blog" in a year beyond red carpet rundowns, but that's life in the age of Instagram, innit?  I can't remember an Oscars that felt weirder to me. ...

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This marks 15 years since I first decided I didn’t want to buy any paper I couldn’t use year-round and thus launched a gift wrap odyssey. In a wildly bold move, Sean gifted me two rolls for m...

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The Emmys were shockingly fun — the Golden Globes did one thing worth stealing and it was round table seating with ample liquid courage for the winners — and the red carpet seemed to swing wi...

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This year's Oscars culminated a long and tortured awards season that showed us the best and worst distancing and virtual Zooms have to offer. Luckily for the Oscars producers, we've reached a poi...

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 Ah, Grammy's time again. Your annual reminder that the Grammy voters have their fingers on approximately 40% of the pulse and "new" means "new to them." I tune in for the performances, but rare...

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You'd think a pandemic is when I would really ramp up my former blogging hobby, but like everyone, my main hobby is wondering where time is going? But time does indeed march on, and here we are, ...

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Gosh, y'all. I'm out here, surviving, trying to use up produce, doing my make-up frantically at my desk before Zoom meetings like the rest of you. The holiday season seemed to hit me in the face ...

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 It's a weird, wild world out there, one in which we end up on our couches watching a bunch of celebrities accept awards on their couches. This year's Emmys was one for the history books, filed ...

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Hello from the homestead! As COVID has kept us mostly home, we've been tackling lots of home projects and I have to admit: this is maybe one of my favorite DIY's ever. I'd never given much t...

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It's wild to think that within about 10 days of my last post, the whole world seemed to change. The threat of a deadly and hyper-contagious virus forced us into our house, where I've been discove...

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It's been a loooooong while since I actually updated about things happening around our house (whoops, remember when I painted the kitchen but have never posted final pictures — someday!), b...

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And just like that, awards season has drawn to a close! I'm thrilled Parasite took home some very deserved awards, a little disappointed Little Women didn't take home more and surprised 1917 went...

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Honestly, it feels like the Oscars move up and up and up and now I'm expecting them to start occurring some time in July at this rate. Needless to say, they snuck up on me a bit and I'm coming in...

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Another week, another awards show. I can't remember the season ever feelings as condensed as this one! The Grammy's were necessarily somber, given the tragic and shocking death of Kobe Bryant and...

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I have a real soft spot for the SAG Awards. They are blessedly brief, the actors seem genuinely thrilled to win an award selected by their fellow actors and the fashion gets KOOKY. So many nobodi...

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As with everything else lately (Christmas, apocalyptic news cycles), the Golden Globes were early this year, signaling what is sure to feel like an extra lengthy awards season. It was a weird yea...

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Excuse me, would you like to join me in my petition to never again allow Thanksgiving to occur less than one month before Christmas? Because if the holidays normally feel like a marathon, this ha...

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