I do love Easter but fuzzy chicks and cute bunnies and overwhelming pastels are not really my thing! So for those who prefer celebrating with a modern aesthetic, like myself- Nordstjerne is here for us!
You can now give your Easter a luxurious expression with these delightful FILL ME EGGS. It is a beautiful and simple redesign of the classic Easter egg. The egg opens, so you can fill it with lots of sweets and chocolate or maybe even get creative with flowers and beautiful treasures!
Read MoreThe Golden Globes are on tonight (anyone else super excited that Tina Fey & Amy Poehler are hosting again!?) I’ll be savoring every minute in my PJ’s with dirty martinis and popcorn! ( and popcorn with chocolate balsamic vinegar from Kosterina might just be my new favorite snack)
Read MoreDo you love wine like me? Do you get annoyed gazing at walls of wine in the store trying to decide what to try? Or are you still being safe and staying pretty quarantined?! Or perhaps you just really love French wine and can never find anything good in your local wine store?! I would answer OUI OUI to all three of these personally.
Fret no more over any of this because SomMailier is here for us!
Tea Drop’s heart shaped dessert teas are here to make that afternoon pick-me-up cup even sweeter ! It’s the perfect gift for your special Valentine or Galentine too . ( these will definitely be included in some little Valentine’s Day gift boxes I am sending )
Just drop the ❤️ in your cup, pour hot water and stir for 5 seconds!
Little scenes from our Christmas EVE
Thinking warmly of each of you and wishing you extra measure of comfort, joy and hope this Christmas! Thank you for being a part of the Go French Yourself community! Thank you for all the love and support on + off this platform! It means the world to me .
I can’t wait until we can all travel again and hug and celebrate together!!!!! But until then - sending virtual X ‘s and O’s . Stay safe everyone!
Read MoreWhen I first spotted Haus on gram it was a love at first moment! The packaging is drop dead gorge! And as I read more about the company and Apéritif Culture I became immediately obsessed. I knew I had to experience them. So I reached out and was so very happy they wanted to partner with Go French Yourself!
Haus is a new(ish) wine based apéritif, made from all-natural ingredients on a farm in Sonoma County, California by husband and wife team Helena and Woody. Their apéritifs are made with with only real ingredients (farm to bottle) - no sketchy additives. Love that they have less sugar too…..I really try to avoid too many drinks for this reason!
Here are a few of the ingredients they use to make their superb apéritifs.
Read MoreSharing a wonderful “Spread Some Holiday Cheer” idea today in partnership with Out Of The Woods Bags! They gifted me two of their amazing eco friendly bags and I am a HUGE fan!
The first idea is to pick one of your favorite easy recipes and purchase the items needed to prepare it! Pack everything in this gorgeous vegan iconic shopper along with the printed recipe with some beautiful blooms and place it on your recipients doorstep to let them know you are thinking of them and adore them.
Read MoreSmall is the new big this Thanksgiving, and making a tiny meal can be just as beautiful and festive! And it’s a whole lot easier and stress-free though. Oh em gee…….and not as much cleaning up. Yes, please. I don’t know about you, but I personally am looking to eliminate stress this holiday season. The whole year has been stressful enough.
Lin and I have spent a decade traveling to Houston to see his family over Thanksgiving and now that we are doing what we can do to flatten this curve, we are staying here in Tulsa this year with our sweet pups. Incase you have not seen the current guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rate small Thanksgiving dinners confined to members of your household as the lowest-risk way to celebrate the holiday. And I hope I can encourage you too to do your part in all this!
So I have a huge confession! Traditional Thanksgiving food is actually not my favorite
Read MoreSuch a rare occasion to have the house all to myself for the whole entire day so I am getting Rodge’s presents wrapped!
Love these adorable Fa-La-La-La-La Gift Tags and The Christmas Dog Gift Tags so much!
8 is GREAT!!!!!!!! 🎂
Happy birthday sweet spotted boy! We love you to the moon & bark!
In just a matter of days, we will be honoring those who have passed away for Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), a multi-day holiday that is quite literally a celebration of the dead. Even though it looks very different this year ( so bummed I can’t be with my family) Rodge and I will still be enjoying our favorite Mexican food, pastries, and tequila cocktails on November 2nd!Give me all the chicken flautas and guacamole and tequila por favor! 💃🏻I partnered with @herradurateq this year to celebrate with what could be thought of as the margarita’s bitter cousin, the grapefruit-driven Paloma made with their incredible #Herradura silver tequila!
Read MoreCooking up some tasty family recipes for #DiaDeLosMuertos this year! The #DayOfTheDead is a Mexican holiday in which loved ones that have passed away are remembered, honored and celebrated. A very important part of this holiday which is celebrated in many Latin American countries is the significance and importance of food.
I love making my abuelita's Mole Chicken Enchiladas. Mole negro is a complexly flavored, dark-as-night, chile-and-chocolate sauce. (spicy and sweet) We serve this with spicy jalapeño black beans and lots of delish guacamole! You cannot forget the sugar skull cookies either. Cooking this wonderful feast brings back the best memories for me with my family in El Paso. It was such a special time to remember those that have passed on and honor them with offerings of sugar skulls, marigolds and an assortment of foods. And of course it looks so different this year not being able to attend the celebrations but it was important that I carry on the tradition this year!
We skipped over the fall decorating this year and went straight to Halloween home decor! Fall is my everything—the beginning of the holiday season where everything feels just a little bit more magical and joyous. This year I felt a desire to start decorating for Halloween earlier than usual, and went for it. Why not given the crazy year we’ve all endured?! Halloween makes me so ridiculously happy.
Plus the fact that I am a blogger too.. I wanted to decorate early to photograph, edit, post/publish weeks before anyone else is shopping for home decor to help you guys out too! And I am even now still running behind so I promise next year to have this Halloween guide out to you end September! So appreciative to those who reached out on Instagram though asking for links to shop! I am always willing to share those so slide into my D.M’s anytime.
I am putting up my Christmas decor November 1st so be on the lookout for that shopping guide as well…first time ever to do it so soon!
Read MoreINTRODUCING OUR FALL/ WINTER MOVIE JAR
So we are devoting movie nights to an actor or actress we pull out of the jar! Each time we will embrace an older movie or maybe an older new-to-us movie that the chosen actor or actress plays in! (or maybe it’s brand new-just released)
For our jar, we put all our favorites in so we ended up with a huge variety. Lin created his. I created mine. Then once we draw a name…let’s say Ethan Hawke (my lord..I love a young Ethan Hawke so much ) is drawn , then we do a search on apple tv of his name and all of the movies he ever played in pop up and we pick one together as a couple!!!! So we still can talk and decide as a pair but we at least have a starting point!
Read MoreThe best horror movies are the ones that never truly leave your mind's eye even once the credits have rolled. They're the ones that give you fears you'd never even considered before. I am so looking forward to the spooky season!!!!! Halloween is my favorite!
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