It’s officially October, which means it’s time to pull out the sweaters, admire the changing leaves and line your mantel with way too many miniature pumpkins. But more importantly, it’s time to start planning your Halloween party! If you usually wait until the last minute to make Halloween plans, cobbling together costumes and food the…
During the waning days of summer, when hot, humid afternoons give way to chilled autumn breezes, a sense of nervous anticipation fills the air. Although fall signals the beginning of the year’s end, September is all about beginnings. The school year ahead is full of promise, like a blank sheet of paper or a newly opened…
Groet, Design*Spongers! (That means “greetings” in Dutch. We had to look it up, too.) As seasons change and fall waits just around the corner, what better way to enjoy these last few days of Indian summer than a bike party? We spun our globe and landed in the biking capital of the world, Amsterdam. So…
The holiday weekend is almost here and I’m so excited to head home to Virginia for family, food and fireworks. I love seeing how different families and friends celebrate for July 4th, so I’m happy to kick off today with photos from a great July 4th party thrown by Jeni Maus of Found Vintage Rentals….
Greetings, Design*Spongers! Now that summer has officially arrived, it’s time to indulge in one of our favorite pastimes: the outdoor movie screening. These events, usually held on rooftops or in an old cemetery (Hollywood’s most popular), are a fun, cheap way to gather friends and enjoy the warm summer nights. But who wants to deal…
Event planners always find ways to turn the humblest of ideas into the most exciting and breathtaking installations. Matthew Parker Events created this stunning room for a non-profit arts group called ArtsFund in Seattle. Their annual party was held at the Experience Music Project, so Matthew drew inspiration from a local company (and one of…
I have a soft place in my heart for books – after all, I did spend a couple of years in Library School and until recently, called the New York Public Library my work home. So this book-themed party from New York City event designer David Stark, struck just the right chord. The invite for…
This time of year, we get so excited about the produce at the farmers’ markets, the green buds on the trees and the blooms all around us. To celebrate the change of seasons, we threw this green, herb-infused dinner party. This is our first Hunt, Gather and Host dinner in Laurel Canyon, and we wanted…
Though we love the nostalgic, vinegary aroma of coloring eggs that always revives memories of Cadbury Egg-laden Easter baskets, Easter egg hunts in wet spring grass and stale, yellow marshmallow Peeps, we are always looking for new ways to adorn our eggs (check out last year’s Ukrainian egg DIY). This year, we skipped the dyes…
Breakfast has always been my favorite meal of the day. As a kid, “breakfast for dinner” was my all-time favorite treat. Brunch encompasses all that’s great about breakfast, with the added benefit of being able to have a little drink. One of my favorite people planted the seed of a brunch party, and I had…
Hi guys! It’s been a few months of hibernating (if you call hibernating frantically working in our wellies out here in rainy LA), and we are excited to be back with a new Around the World with Bash, Please post. Guess where we are going this time? Yep, sunny CA, the good old Golden State….
Good morning and Happy Friday! Grace is feeling a little under-the-weather this morning, so while she rests up so that we can drive down to Philly tomorrow for Brooklyn Day at Terrain (yup, because there’s not enough Brooklyn in Brooklyn!), I thought I’d share some photos of our Wednesday evening. It was certainly not a…
For years, many of our friends have been asking us to teach them to knit. We finally had a get-together for the knitters-to-be on a Saturday afternoon when we hosted a winter-to-spring knitting party. Saying a slow farewell to winter, we celebrated our favorite parts of winter with knitting, warm bowls of chili, hot chai…
Image above via Adidas Originals I’m married to someone who thinks tech accessories are the greatest thing since sliced bread. Whenever we have people over, we each get excited about completely different things. Me? Flowers, decorating and getting to use nice platters. Him? Making playlists and setting up tech gadgets and apps to help with…
If it were totally up to us, we would be living on a farm or rural homestead in the middle of nowhere, spending our days foraging for mushrooms, milking our goats and gathering pine boughs from our backyard. But the reality is that we live in cities, and when one of those cities is Chicago,…
Happy New Year, everyone! We started the year off with a great plan for a winter get-together. We packed snowshoes, sleds, boots and our very best snowball-packing mittens and headed up north to Michigan. And we made invites to hand out to friends and family for a snowy sleigh ride picnic. But when we arrived,…
I can’t believe 2010 is almost over! This year has been more amazing than I ever could have hoped — full of fun adventures, hard but rewarding work, new friends and team members and more inspiration than I can possibly put into words. And at the core of it all is you: the amazing readers…
What better way to spend New Year’s than with your closest friends, ringing in 2011 with a killer party? Together with Ashley Meaders and Our Labor of Love photography, we put together an inspiration shoot using easy DIY…We put together an inspiration shoot using easy DIY ideas and simple concepts based on the gorgeous New…
Our trip down south this month was a whirlwind of fun events, from our Lavish panels to lunch meetings with visiting friends and a fun team dinner with eight D*S editors at Hugh Acheson’s delicious new restaurant, Empire State South. After Lavish was over (literally right after), Amy and I ran to the airport, hopped…
Hello D*S readers! We bbbcraft sisters are so excited to start sharing our entertaining ideas! The three of us grew up between the Pacific Northwest and northern Michigan and found ourselves constantly foraging for beautiful things out-of-doors, bringing them inside to decorate and adorn our craft projects and parties. Although we live in cities now,…
