Five delightful things + an interview (w. me, TG!) ✨🎙
Let's shop, visit, eat and read together.
Greetings from the end of the year!
The studio is buzzing with creativity right now. We’re wrapping up a fun year and planning even more joy for 2025. We are launching two big projects in Q1, branding for a new independent hotel and a debut e-commerce experience for a client.❤️✨
In the meantime, please enjoy a quick dispatch below — a few things on my mind, desk & calendar:
(BUT FIRST, A HOT NEW POD ALERT!!!🎙)
Recorded a fun podcast last week, you can listen to it here. Thank you to Tiffany for having me. On it, we talked a little bit about what makes brands great, running your own company, the process of creating & my obsession with JOY.
BOOK A LONG WEEKEND TO LOOK FORWARD TO 🌃
Opening soon, Shenandoah Mansions from Ash Hotels is a property worth booking for a Long Weekend. (I can’t wait to visit!) If your wanderlust is urgent enough to require an inspiring trip immediately, their Hotel Peter & Paul will not disappoint. Every time I stay, I leave more charmed than the last.
PS. If you can’t visit, why don’t you just move in… I LOVE their rug collaboration with Nordic Knots that dropped in advance of the property opening. Way to build a world one layer at a time.
GO OUT TO A DELICIOUS DINNER 🍷🥩
As a big fan of everything Ernesto’s (if you haven’t yet - you should visit them. The setting, the food, the wine & the team - all A+++)… so I’m thrilled to be getting a taste of NYC in LA during a special dinner series at Birdie G’s next month. Even more exciting news - the team’s second space, Bartolo, is opening in NYC this spring.
GIVE OR GET SOMETHING FUN 🎈
Alex Mill’s In Great Company assortment is better than ever. They have great holiday mojo over there… cute socks, shearling, Schostal Pajamas and a very cute campaign. Super delightful and fun.
READ ONE THING IRL A WEEK 📕
I’ve been subscribing to the weekend edition of the Financial Times for the past year. Best. Idea. Ever. Jo Ellison and her team put together the most impossibly chic, thoughtful and inspiring magazine every week. Reading it in print is the highlight of my weekend.
TAKE A MOMENT TO BE MINDFUL 🧘🏼♀️🧘🏼♀️🧘🏼♀️
Amidst all of the hustle and bustle of running a business and living life, I try to carve out space to be quiet, go inward and connect. Listening to this audiobook on my way to meetings this month has inspired a new level of surrender, and in turn, gratitude for what we are asked to create.
With that, cheers & have a delightful day!!! 🥂
Love it all!!!