Valentine

The second week of February is a really good one in San Francisco. Not only do we have Valentine’s Day but the city is also bustling with Chinese New Year celebrations and there’s usually a heat-wave around this time that makes it feel so summery. I hosted a luncheon last Saturday for a group of…

Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone!  After yesterday’s morning tea party, I dashed off to work with a client in the afternoon and returned home to prepare for the day’s second entertaining event.  Matt and Jon were arriving for dinner at 7:00. I planned an easy, frenchy menu for the dinner. A big pot of coq…

Your first tea party! What a fun occasion and what an honor to be hostess for it.  My friend Amy brought her two- and three- year old daughters over today for a Valentine’s Day morning tea with at 10:00 am. The menu for this tea had to be gluten-free and full of things that young…

Valentine’s Day festivities are heating up at our apartment. Tomorrow, I’m hosting not one – but two – parties on the theme.  We start the morning with a Valentine’s Day tea party with two young ladies who are friends of mine. Then, a couple friends are coming for dinner in the evening.  To summarize…there’s been…

Almost every woman I know owns (or has considered buying) one of Martha Stewart’s 24-piece glitter sets.  Tiny glittery vials packed in rainbow order with elegant names? That’s essentially irresistible to anyone passing through Michael’s or Pinterest. But once you have all that glitter…what do you do with it? My sister and I tackled this…