Despite the fact that the season has not officially begun, Columbia was chock full of fantastic events Thursday night!  There was the Slow Food benefit (click here to read the highlights from The Shop Tart) at Terra, a reception at Gallery 80808 Vista Studios, and the United Way Young Leaders Society Ballpark Bash at the [...]

Roger Hutchison’s paintings are wonderfully introspective.  He does not use traditional paint brushes to apply acrylic on his canvases.  Instead he uses his fingers and many “found objects” such as nails or business cards. This comes together to create vibrant abstract pieces in his home studio during the evening.  His use of color is thoughtful, [...]

A little over a year ago I started thinking about learning about fabric design.  It’s a topic that I appreciate immensely yet know nothing about, and I was able to come up with very few resources to learn about the art, so I gave it up… temporarily.  When we are finished having children and at [...]

While at the grocery store the other day I came across some organic collard greens.  I don’t necessarily know that collards are supposed to be a fall/winter food, but the there is this feeling of coziness that goes along with cooking and eating them.  One of my favorite feelings is when I’ve been out running [...]

Twitter does it again.  Friday I was so super-excited when Ronda Carman added me to her Follow Friday list.  Mr. M is a minimal Twitter-user, and thinks social media is rather crazy, so he thought I had lost it.  I believe the word he used was “dorkwad”.  That’s what happens when you practically grow up [...]

I’m so honored!  Special thanks go out Kelsey at The Naptime Chef for nominating Camille Maurice for the One Lovely Blog Award! I am so honored to receive this award alongside some very talented individuals (ABCD at ABCD Design, pve at PVE, and Jennifer at Savor The Thyme)!  Kelsey and the other nominees are a fabulous group of [...]

I’m digging my heels in for a long week! The drop-in nursery that Jr. has been attending with his friends a couple of mornings a week is closed for “cleaning and reorganization” (i.e.- giving the teachers a breather before the onslaught of kids at the start of the school year). After that, he goes back for [...]

I discovered the vases shown above when Mr. M, Jr. and I were walking down King Street in Charleston.  As we were passing a window, the first thing that I noticed was one of the Michael Aram bowls that I featured in the last Friday Beautiful Things. Obviously, I couldn’t keep walking without popping my [...]

I’m purposely dealying Friday Beautiful Things until later today because I received some sad news yesterday.  Time, Inc. is shutting down Southern Accents magazine after it’s September/October issue.  This magazine, in my mind, is one of the finest home interior publications around.  It does not simply focus on what makes a house pretty, it focuses [...]

We are headed down I-26 to Charleston for a couple of days.  Another reason that I love living in Columbia is the proximity to the beach and the mountains.  Mr. M has some work to do and we are both looking forward to spending some time on the beach with Jr.  We also have a [...]