Follow Cotedetexas, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/cotedetexas Fri, 29 Nov 2024 09:21:37 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0lHDuiAOVXGje-bbeigX9oC <![CDATA[           Grab a hot cup of Irish tea!!!  It’s a long one.     FROM VERANDA:   Capard House   In 2017, I wrote a story about interior design great Martyn Lawrence Bullard.  I had seen a photo on his Instagram that stopped my scroll - as the young influencers say.   His photograph showed a living room that was very traditional and very English (I thought.)  It was a departure from]]> Wed, 13 Sep 2023 03:24:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0lHDuiAOVXGje-bbeigX9oC https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0laxTYiLGYUOWw5Ur-z5Bww <![CDATA[    The time travel series Outlander, based on the books by Diana Gabaldon,  is now in its seventh season.   The last episode of the first half of the season will be shown this week.  The second half of the seventh season is being shown in 2024.  And more exciting – there is an eighth and final season still to be filmed.  I’ve loved Season 7 especially since there have been lots]]> Sat, 12 Aug 2023 10:44:42 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0laxTYiLGYUOWw5Ur-z5Bww https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0mKH7deJU7CIFe5jCclomp- <![CDATA[ One of my favorite Instagram reads is @JuliaBerolzheimer.  Whether you love fashion, travel, home decor, or gardening – Julia excels at it all, with her husband and two daughters, Marigold and Clementine at her side.   It’s always a family affair which makes the photos so much more adorable.   Her photos are always gorgeous, beautifully styled, and totally dreamy.  It’s impossible not]]> Sat, 05 Aug 2023 09:33:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0mKH7deJU7CIFe5jCclomp- https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0lhBLzvSwdG7t5ZnUTwRGH7 <![CDATA[ After King Charles III’s coronation that brought most members of the world’s royal families to London to celebrate, news from the world’s Royals was pretty quiet.     That is until this past June, when the Crown Prince of Jordan was married.   The Jordanian wedding brought many of the world’s Kings and Queens and other royals to Ammann to celebrate in all their gorgeous finery and bling.  For]]> Tue, 01 Aug 2023 07:54:09 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0lhBLzvSwdG7t5ZnUTwRGH7 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0k5fh9PKKeXLuGrEXdXG_66 <![CDATA[ I never had the opportunity to meet her in person, unfortunately.  Rather, she once was a guest on our precursor to today’s podcasts – The Skirted Roundtable (listen here.)  She was a gracious guest, her words flowed easily as she recounted her early days in television and how she tiptoed backwards into interior design by decorating her friends’ houses.  She was a literature major in college, but]]> Mon, 15 May 2023 09:08:14 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0k5fh9PKKeXLuGrEXdXG_66 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0lMshQa22FzmTRQaTQYXBS9 <![CDATA[ Sorry!!  It’s another post about fashion!  I see the comments from those who think I should write only about interior design, but why?  Fashion is an design art just as interior decoration is.  But fear not, I have been writing a new blog story about interior design which I hope to post soon, except fashionable events keep happening! Onto the main event of the day. The coronation was a]]> Mon, 08 May 2023 07:59:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0lMshQa22FzmTRQaTQYXBS9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0lkKFjnUMWqv95ZnUTwRGH7 <![CDATA[ I wasn’t going to write about the Met Gala this year.  Sometimes the costumes are hard for me to define.  But this year, honoring Karl Lagerfeld – it was different.  All the black and white fabrics and white camellias and the chains, and quilted leather, it was the best Met Gala in years, as far as I am concerned.  Bar none! Honestly – who can top a night of Karl Lagerfeld?   The Gala]]> Thu, 04 May 2023 17:15:05 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0lkKFjnUMWqv95ZnUTwRGH7 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0mVW2d1o7NsGhhSCv31NykC <![CDATA[ I have to say that this year’s Oscar was the best in a long, long time. Except of course last year when it was so terrible, it was dope.  (Did I use that word correctly?)  How could anyone top the slap heard round the world?  Well, Jimmy Kimmel could, of course  He did a great job – funny, ironic, even a bit respectful.  It was the acceptance speeches that were a two-breaster as my late mother]]> Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:07:51 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0mVW2d1o7NsGhhSCv31NykC https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0k4yGcyjiOjyK8qfTAM-Smm <![CDATA[ Heading towards the Oscars, tonight was the SAGS – the Screen Actors Guild Awards.  The actors always seem truly thrilled to win a SAG which they often say, that when first issued their SAG card, they truly felt like they were actor.  The SAGS and the Global Globes give a hint to whom might win an Oscar, so these awards are important to the press and odds makers.   To us?  It’s just another night]]> Mon, 27 Feb 2023 13:01:25 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0k4yGcyjiOjyK8qfTAM-Smm https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0ng80C1vuO0q_nNuMIJyU22 <![CDATA[    Here, in an ad for Grey Gardens, Little Edie stands in her mink coat among the decay.  Fourteen years ago I wrote one of my first ever - in depth, deep dive, long stories – about Grey Gardens.  At that time, my blog stories were considerably shorter and mostly about interior design trends and decorators.A few years later I updated the Grey Gardens story when some new rental photos of the house]]> Wed, 22 Feb 2023 10:58:04 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0ng80C1vuO0q_nNuMIJyU22 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0kNo1AfSYaiH--bbeigX9oC <![CDATA[   Besides the Oscars, the most anticipated fashion event of the year is the Met Gala, where Anna Wintour sets the theme and celebrities dress accordingly.  The proceeds benefit the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute.        CHINA THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, 2015 – the show at the Costume Institute that debuted along with the Met Gala that year. The Met Gala]]> Thu, 12 Jan 2023 12:50:41 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0kNo1AfSYaiH--bbeigX9oC https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0m0O0C4IMCH0sfGo0LrnZNO <![CDATA[    AND HERE IT IS – THE 2022 BESTIE’S CHRISTMAS LIST.  THE BESTIE LIST ORIGINALLY STARTED IN 2018 AS A JOKE AND A BIT OF FUN – WHEN MY BEST FRIEND COMMENTED THAT SHE DIDN’T LOVE SOME OF MY GIFT CHOICES AND SHE THOUGHT SHE COULD CHOOSE BETTER.  SO I ASKED HER TO PUT TOGETHER HER OWN LIST WHICH I POSTED A FEW WEEKS AFTER MINE.   OVER THE YEARS IT’S EVOLVED INTO SOMETHING THAT IS EXTREMELY]]> Sun, 11 Dec 2022 08:28:45 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0m0O0C4IMCH0sfGo0LrnZNO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0nlshsswzozWu4sICfMfkNm <![CDATA[ This is a temporary post that was not deleted. Please delete this manually. (a8c18a2a-5d08-4a27-b4d4-f0013e50200d - 3bfe001a-32de-4114-a6b4-4005b770f6d7)]]> Fri, 02 Dec 2022 04:12:08 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0nlshsswzozWu4sICfMfkNm https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0l-ooTw7mpWZMqq6eZJzUh9 <![CDATA[ I finally finished my Christmas gift list, just in time for Black Friday.  I have such GREAT timing! Snort.  I find these lists really hard to put together because so much of the really cute things are just too expensive, especially with inflation so high. I don’t understand how other bloggers just whip out these lists so quickly!!  I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and now, onto]]> Fri, 25 Nov 2022 07:30:54 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0l-ooTw7mpWZMqq6eZJzUh9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0lHwri9fuV50QaB2UxGNFpJ <![CDATA[ The Gray Entry Hall, Dallas, 2010    Long time readers of Cote de Texas will remember a designer that I featured many times during the early days of my blog.  Most likely you also follow her yourself.  At that time,  Kristin Mullen, from Dallas, had designed her family’s large estate which had a wonderful foyer/hall which she decorated in grays, well before gray was the trend.  Around that]]> Fri, 18 Nov 2022 23:25:54 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0lHwri9fuV50QaB2UxGNFpJ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0nB_kUmfEcZiDHgrmwRGUK6 <![CDATA[ I have always had a strong connection to the beach.  I attribute this to being a water sign, a Scorpio, born in November.  But most likely it is just that my family also loved the beach.  There are home movies of me in Galveston, taken by my father when I was just a baby.  His camera is trained on my face, framed by my wild curls, while I fall asleep in my stroller, lulled by the ocean’s waves]]> Wed, 02 Nov 2022 08:23:28 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0nB_kUmfEcZiDHgrmwRGUK6 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0k8By8je8C2nkZPHFZJLI3I <![CDATA[             Today, many newly built or remodeled houses look like this:  white with black accents.  The percentage of white versus black varies with each design, but this is primarily what many new houses look like.  Add in the light colored wood floors. There is the large, open kitchen with the pendant lights and island and, of course,  the black windows.  Black & white is definitely a “look]]> Fri, 21 Oct 2022 07:38:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0k8By8je8C2nkZPHFZJLI3I https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0m4zRL-HhEFup8v71dCn6bG <![CDATA[ I started this story weeks before I heard about the new Milieu issue with the photoshoot of Carol Glasser’s Californian home.  This story today is an unexpected companion piece to the magazine, although I do plan to write about the Montecito house soon. Long time readers of Cote de Texas know that a Houston designer named Carol Glasser was a large influence on me and many, many others.  She is]]> Sun, 18 Sep 2022 09:53:27 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0m4zRL-HhEFup8v71dCn6bG https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0md3lYlYDPqIEFW8UNEQjUn <![CDATA[     I received an email a few months ago from an interior designer that lives in Ann Arbor Michigan.   Uh…where?  She started her career in Houston, and  besides one year in 2006 spent here, she has been living out of state for the past ten years.   Yet, she informed me, she still designs in a “Texan” way – and judging from the photos she sent me, I knew immediately what she meant:  ]]> Thu, 01 Sep 2022 07:41:09 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0md3lYlYDPqIEFW8UNEQjUn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0mDRRcB5W6bqPdczOo_8W9B <![CDATA[ I wrote this story awhile ago, after the Johnny Depp trial, but being in the middle of moving out of town, I just didn’t have time to finish it.   So…here it is! Like most of the world, I watched the Johnny Depp versus Amber Heard trial.  In fact, I watched every second of the testimony and then some.   Did you?   I watched it on YouTube – on Emily D. Baker’s legal channel.  She’s an attorney]]> Mon, 08 Aug 2022 08:12:52 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/zcZEFID8D0mDRRcB5W6bqPdczOo_8W9B