The holiday season is upon us, and that means we’ll be making great memories with family and friends — whether it’s cooking Thanksgiving dinner together, trimming the Christmas tree, baking gingerbread men and festive with the kiddos, attending holiday light displays with the family, snuggling up to watch Christmas films, or sharing cocktails and laughs at office holiday parties.
While pumpkin patches, hayrides, and corn mazes have been popping up since early September, it truly never feels quite like autumn here in Austin until mid-to-late October (and sometimes November!), when the scorching temperatures finally give way to cooler days and nights and the leaves finally begin to turn beautiful shades of yellow, orange, and red.
Want to pack as many fun-filled activities into the summer as humanly possible?
Whether you’re spending plenty of time in your backyard swimming pool, going on hikes and jogs in a nearby park or lake, or just chilling out at home, I’ve got plenty of ideas to keep you energized, hydrated, eating healthy, sleeping comfortably and enjoying every second of your summer — and, as usual, I shared them with viewers of CBS Austin’s “We Are Austin.”
To watch today’s “Summer Living Tips” segment, click here.
We’re just days away from Thanksgiving, and TOMS is clearly embracing a spirit of appreciation, unveiling its new heart-warming (and yes, feet-warming!) Thankful Women’s Classics ($55 at TOMS.com).
If you’re always on the hunt for new beauty products, then you’ve likely heard about Birchbox, a buzz-y subscription service featuring monthly boxes filled with beauty samples that can, in turn, be purchased in full-size form at the brand’s accompanying e-commerce site (side note: you can purchase products at Birchbox.com even if you don’t partake in the subscription service).
The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, which marks the official beginning of the outdoor music festival season, kicks off in exactly one week, which means it’s time to plan those outfits that will prove practical and comfortable but still channel the desired rocker-meets-Boho-meets-hipster vibe.
When I was growing up in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, I often heard adults utter the expression, “Donde come uno, comen dos,” which loosely translates to “Where one eats, two can eat.” It was their way of extolling the virtues of sharing — particularly in regards to food since, in Latino cultures, meals are often considered communal experiences that unite families, friends, and neighbors.
As geographical boundaries become more fluid, largely due to the changing media landscape and the quick growth of social media outlets, we’re all, consciously or not, constantly engaging in a cross-cultural dialogue and becoming better informed about the customs, languages, art forms, cuisine, music, typical fashions and beauty traditions of people in far-off lands.
Nomadic beauties inspired the new MAC Styleseeker Collection, a grouping of vivid colors that reveals a Bohemian charm, creating a veritable patchwork quilt with its rich earthy eye shadow pairings, jewel-toned nail lacquers, and long-lasting matte lip colors.
