Waking up in the morning knowing that I have nothing to do but spend the day in my kitchen creating delicious things for the people I love is my favorite feeling in the world. (I’m sure that you can imagine how excited I am that we are in quickly descending upon Thanksgiving…) My second favorite feeling is taking a seemingly complex recipe and finding a way to make it accessible to those lacking...

Infusing grandeur into otherwise drab Monday mornings with five things/ideas/events for the week: I. This weekend, I threw a huge birthday dinner party for one of my best girlfriends. Lacking recent opportunity to exude overt girlishness in my decor, I decided on a palette of pink and gold for the evening. I fell in love with the whimsical gold birch branches and hot pink birds that I used in...

Infusing grandeur into otherwise drab Monday mornings with five things/ideas/events for the week: I.  As you may have noticed, it isn’t a Table + Teaspoon dinner party without a handwritten menu. Last week I was faced with the dilemma of a 50-person dinner with non-traditional seating, making individual menus obsolete. To remedy this, I decided to use a large chalkboard menu. Taking inspiration...

Infusing grandeur into otherwise drab Monday mornings with five things/ideas/events for the week: I. Despite the fact that San Francisco is in the midst of its infamous Indian Summer, autumnal pumpkins are ubiquitous throughout the city. Rather than carving my pumpkins this year, I’m going to create a stylish harvest tablescape by painting odd-shaped pumpkins with complimenting shades of wall...

Infusing grandeur into otherwise drab Monday mornings with five things/ideas/events for the week: I.  With my coffee table tray completely tricked-out, I’ve moved on to filling my desk tray.  I custom ordered the lucite tray from Iomoi, and accessorized it with a makeshift Straus Creamery vase, Jonathan Adler ‘Love’ porcelain jar, sea urchin sugar bowl, and a blown glass starfish that I picked up...

You may have noticed that it’s been ages since I’ve written about one of my notorious dinner parties.  Nine months, to be exact.  The combination of an intense case at work, and an even more intense long-distance relationship resulted in the temporary loss of my favorite creative outlet – hosting painstakingly planned, multiple-course dinners for my friends.  With the culmination of both...

Infusing grandeur into otherwise drab Monday mornings with five things/ideas/events for the week: I. The weather in the Bay Area has been schizophrenic lately. We went from a beautiful Indian Summer on Thursday to a torrential downpour Saturday morning. Embracing the shift, I swapped my pool party plans to stay in for the day. After lighting every candle in my apartment, I made this delicious

Infusing grandeur into otherwise drab Monday mornings with five things/ideas/events for the week: I.  With football mania decidedly upon us, many are left wondering what to make to impress and nourish guests during watch-parties.  After finding this photograph on Pinterest, I’ve decided to throw a party just so that I can order these adorable beer sampling mugs and make miniature versions of my ...

Hedonism proffers that pleasure is the only intrinsic good.  And it doesn’t get much more hedonistic than having someone else wash and dry your hair.  In the last few years, indulging in frequent blowouts went from something exclusive to celebrities and socialites to a near-expected pre-party ritual among the masses (both boys and girls).  The advent of Drybar, whose motto is “No Cuts, No Color,...