Parties & Weddings

Hi friends! Lexy from The Proper Pinwheel here! So happy I was able to brainwash Aileen into letting me hang out here for a day and share an easy little project with you! I’m a huge fan of pie. In any form. Now that Autumn is upon us, it’s perfectly acceptable to devour pie every day until Christmas. The weather is a little more chilly and crisp. When you have friends […]

Since we're in the middle of planning our trip to the South, I thought it would be appropriate to highlight an inspiring creative from the city I'm most excited to see--Charleston! Olivia Rae James is a super talented photographer who does work for Kinfolk, Matchbook Magazine, and The Glitter Guide, to name a few. Her images take me to a dream land where I live in a white farmhouse with […]

A couple months ago, Villeroy & Boch reached out to me with the opportunity to use some of their beautiful pieces in a post on summer entertaining. I've never owned nice china (most of our plates are ones I've collected from Ikea, Walmart, and Goodwill)--so I immediately said yes! I've been trying to embrace more colors that I used to shy away from (like orange) so I picked out their Anmut […]

Three years ago on this day, I married my best friend. I had dreamed about my wedding and prayed for my husband my whole life, and it was such a wonderful feeling to have it all become a reality. Marrying Ben was a decision that I've never regretted, and a day that makes me smile whenever I look back on it. I can truly say that every year Ben and […]