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Top Picks from the Shopbop Spring 2019 Sale

Hey everyone, it’s that time again…the Shopbop BUY MORE, SAVE MORE sale where you can save up to 25% OFF site wide and I’m sharing my all of my top picks from the sale including all the best wedges and sandals to all of my favorite bags and clothing.

Use code GOBIG19 for…

15% off orders of $200+
20% off orders of $500+
25% off orders of $800+
…including sale items!

February 26–March 2

| Shop My Top Picks from the Shopbop Spring 2019 Sale |

| Shop My Top Shoes from the Shopbop Spring 2019 Sale |

How to Style Your Bar Cart For Mardi Gras

February 25, 2019

Hey everyone, I hope you all enjoyed your weekend! Today I’m sharing how to style your bar cart for Mardi Gras with World Market. When it comes to Mardi Gras bar carts, I like to make sure I include essentials like vodka, Bloody Mary mix and all of the garnishes. I also like to add fun little masks and I always keep my pretty gold stemless glasses and printed bowls on display for added decor. I found all of my Mardi Gras essentials at World Market including this gold bar cart, which I’ve had in my home for three years now. It’s the perfect size to keep in your dining room or you can even use it as end table!

| Shop My Bar Cart |

| Shop My Dining Room |

Furniture: Wood Leona Farmhouse Extension Dining Table | Neutral Linen Paige Dining Bench | Natural Linen Paige Round Back Dining Chairs | Gold Light Fixture (also available here) | Mirrored Sideboard |

Decor: Light Grey Sheepskin | Faux Fiddle-Leaf Fig Plant | Tapered Ivory Planter With Gold Stand| Belen Rug, Gray |

On Mirrored Sideboard: Gold Box Wine Rack | Gold Stemless Glassware Collection |

You can find my white lace cami here and bracelets are by Julie Vos.

I used this gold fluted charger from World Market for to place my king cake on.

This post is in partnership with World Market, a brand I love. All opinions and selections here are my own. Thank you for supporting the affiliate posts who make this blog possible.

How I Keep a Piece of Italy in My Home

February 24, 2019

Hey everyone, today I’ve teamed up with Torresella Wines to share why it’s the perfect wine for sharing, along with some fun facts about its authentic Italian heritage in honor of the Venetian Carnival Season currently taking place in Italy. Not only are Torresella Wines delicious, but I also love being able to have a little taste of Italy at home. It brings me back to the beautiful summer two years ago we spent traveling all over Tuscany, Florence, Venice and Rome. I actually included some of my photos from my trip to Venice in this post. I thought they were very fitting for today’s post, considering that Torresella is the wine of Venice. During Springtime, Venetian Carnival takes flight and comes to life. The carnival is meant to celebrate history, artistry & the beauty of Venice.

My Top 3 Venetian Carnival Facts

1) Once a year Venice goes back in time and transforms itself into a giant masked party for all. I love thinking about everyone celebrating in this beautiful city because it reminds me a lot of my own city here in New Orleans. Venice and New Orleans have a lot of similarities within their culture and love for celebrations.

2) The Venetian Carnival became an official Venetian public holiday in 1296.

3) It used to last six weeks, from December 26 to Ash Wednesday. We also celebrate Mardi Gras Carnival season here in New Orleans until Ash Wednesday and Fat Tuesday has also become a public holiday in southern Louisiana.

The most important carnival traditions are the three festival flights over Plaza San Marco’s bell tower: the Flight of the Angel, symbolizing beauty, the flight of the eagle symbolizing strength and the flight of the lion symbolizing majestic power of city.

Three flight mascots explained:

Angel – a woman elected the year before in a contest to find “most beautiful Maria” in Venice.
Eagle – always an athlete or talented artist that shows strength and mental perseverance.
Lion – actual venetian flag that is welcomed by choir singing the San Marco Anthem.

I love serving the wine of Venice to guests in my home in hopes that the Venetian traditions will inspire us to step away from our daily lives and embrace our Venetian state-of-mind.

This post is in partnership with Torresella, a brand I love. All opinions and selections here are my own. Thank you for supporting the affiliate posts who make this blog possible.

Haute Off The Rack 2019 Spring Home Tour

February 18, 2019

Hey everyone and Happy Monday! As promised, today I am sharing my 2019 spring home tour. However, we aren’t quite finished with our home just yet so I will continue sharing all of the updates we make this year on the blog. Also, in case you missed my most recent home tour, you can view it here—>Holiday Home Tour & 4 Tips For Organizing Your Closet

We’ll start with the living room! If you saw my post in December, we recently purchased the Samsung Frame TV to hang above our mantle for a cleaner and more decorative look. The new frame tv has been a game changer because we can set it to different paintings or our own photos when the tv is off. We also just renovated our fireplace this past year from red brick to marble. The white marble really brightens up the whole room and looks great against the grey walls. Speaking of our grey walls, I get questions about the paint color all the time and it is the Sherwin Williams color match to Benjamin Moore Revere Pewter HC-172.

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On right Console Table: Glass Sora Pillar Candleholders | Gleaming Primrose Mirror | Gold Mirrored Tabletop Tray | 3 BOOKS designer inspired |

On mantle: Chester Brushed Candleholders | glass flower vases from Hobby Lobby |

On Coffee Table: 4 BOOK DESIGNER Book | COPPER GEO TERRARIUM |

Clearly I love soft neutral colors with hints of blush, sage and gray. Also, the framed painting above our fireplace is actually our tv! Yes, you read that right! Our tv allows you to set it to a matte screensaver, in which you choose the piece of artwork you’d like to display and it’s the best home decor compromise my husband and I have ever made! LOL Speaking of artwork, everyone has been asking me for the name of the artist who did the painting on the wall and I actually bought it on sale for $100 from World Market! Such a steal!

On Coffee Table: 4 BOOK DESIGNER Book | COPPER GEO TERRARIUM |

On right Console Table: Glass Sora Pillar Candleholders | Gleaming Primrose Mirror | Gold Mirrored Tabletop Tray | 3 BOOKS designer inspired |

| Shop My Gallery Wall |

The first thing people see when they walk into my house is a long entryway so I wanted to cover the walls with happy memories that reflect the rest of our home and the people we love most. I linked to my exact gallery wall design along with the individual antique silver frames I used.

See more on my Framebridge photos here —> My Framed Photo Gallery Walls

| Shop My Kitchen |

A little hardware update goes a long way! We just swapped out all of the silver knobs on our kitchen drawers and cabinets with these brass bars and I feel like it has totally elevated the overall look of the kitchen! We wanted long gold handle bars, but that would have required us to drill new holes and patch and paint the old ones so this was a much easier alternative!

Kitchen Cabinet: Blue and White Porcelain Bowls Set of 4 | Blush Element Salad Bowls Set of 4 |

On Bar Cart: Copper Hexagon 6 Bottle Wine Rack | Gold Stemless Glassware Collection | Copper Ice Bucket |

I love decorating my dining room with a new color scheme each season. For spring, I decided to go with blush to pull out the pops of pink in my living room and plenty of floral pieces with gold accents to make the room bright and happy. As for my oyster paintings, I had them custom made by a local Louisiana artist, @christinafontenot.