What are you as much as this weekend? We’re heading to Palm Springs to go to Alex’s household, and I’m additionally actually wanting ahead to assembly some Cup of Jo girls! Additionally, right here’s our 2019 present information, for those who want any last-minute concepts. Hope you could have a good one — protected travels, for those who’re leaving city — and listed here are a few enjoyable hyperlinks from across the internet…
The #1 factor I’m packing for our journey.
David Harbour’s New York Metropolis loft with a charming interview. “I began to get neurotic,” he says.
How scrumptious does this cheese soufflé look?
World wide in 5 children’ video games. (New York Occasions)
Shampoo in bottles made of cleaning soap!
Paintings altered to point out the results of local weather change. (Price seeing.)
remedy hiccups.
The clever out-of-office auto reply. Liked this.
Residence alone for the vacations. (My very first Cup of Jo put up was about staying in on New 12 months’s!)
The slowest countdown to Christmas.
Additionally, 5 wonderful vacation gross sales:
Nordstrom is having a enormous sale. These would make a nice present.
Ann Taylor is 50% off with code TICKTOCK.
J.Crew is 30% off with code SNOW. I’m of course packing this sweater.
Madewell is providing 30% off your buy, plus $5 in a single day delivery. That is so cute.
Shopbop is having a nice sale. These denims are already packed, together with my favourite sneakers.
And three reader feedback:
Says Tess on 5 straightforward social gathering video games: “My mom is the queen of making events particular! She lately hosted a ‘expertise’ present earlier than Thanksgiving meal. We’d had a unhappy yr in our household, and she or he knew it will be exhausting to sit down round feeling the absence of these misplaced. So, a expertise present it was! She hung a curtain in a doorway and the performances had been wonderful! Abilities ranged from poetry recitation, to a music on the piano, to a two-year-old making noise on a harmonica. We had masses of laughs and applause over appetizers, and there couldn’t have been extra pleasure going to the desk collectively.”
Says Florencia on types we’re stealing from our mothers: “There was a image of my mother, sporting a knit bikini that I liked. She was on the seashore and pregnant with my older sister. She advised me she knit the bikini herself. I liked it and requested that she make me one. She did, and I proudly wore my gold knit bikini on a boat outing with buddies and strangers. I jumped off the boat, and upon touching the water my new bikini instantly expanded to 5 instances its measurement and fell proper off! My mother was mortified that she didn’t assume to check it earlier than giving it to me.”
Says KC on seven Metropolis Corridor weddings: “I simply learn by means of these wedding ceremony interviews and thought how humorous it’s that complete strangers sharing a large, private celebratory second will be so uplifting to me, on my cellphone, in mattress 1,000 miles away. I’m really smiling ear to ear! Thanks for the put up, and my heartfelt congratulations to all the stunning {couples}!”
Comfortable holidays, and sending a lot love. xoxo