Written by: Laura Nell Burton Photography by: Christin Gish It’s Holy Saturday. I’m approaching eight weeks of midnights. It’s late (again), I’ve just finished up dozens of beautiful flower arrangements because tomorrow morning we depart at 4 a.m. for Fredericksburg, Texas to raise up a white-tented luncheon serving...
Written and photographed by: Christin Gish Walking into The Masters, is like walking onto a movie set Every detail is perfection. It's indescribable magic. Second to my wedding day and childbirth, it maybe the most memorable 12-hour experience of my entire life. This is my second...
Written by: Laura Nell Burton Photography by: Christin Gish I stand with liquid eyes among an intimate gathering of loved ones, as her ashes are placed inside the columbarium. It is adorned with a luminous garland of white roses, lilies and ivy. Her funeral was last Wednesday...
Written by: Laura Nell Burton Photography by: Christin Gish Every night I tell myself…tonight it will be: Mind. Over. Bladder. But it’s 3:51 a.m. and I’ve only been asleep for four hours… Dear 3 a.m., We’ve really got to quit meeting this way! Don’t you know by now that I’d so much rather...
Written by: Laura Nell Burton Spring break 2017 has sprung. We are headed to Houston for a three-night playdate with Clementine, our one-year-old, strawberry-headed cousin (whose cheeks are edible), and next it’s Welcome To New York, where a Nor'easter is on the way (a state-of-emergency, 17-inch, subway-closing-at-4...
Written by: Laura Nell Burton Photography by: Christin Gish Five months pregnant, I’m wandering through now-closed Izzy’s on McCullough in Olmos Park. I love junk stores…layers of dust, poor lighting, disorganization, unmarked prices, no pretention—low-rent safe havens hiding away that one prize that will be missed by...
Written by: Laura Nell Burton Photography by: Christin Gish Antique soldiers, handed down from my father-in-law, Byron (a.k.a "Guy"), are arranged in dioramas that guard our bar. I am deeply fond of my father-in-law. His favorite hobbies are the weather (channel) and architecture then versus now. An attorney...
By: Laura Nell Burton On February 8, 2017, Mums & Mimosas raised $125,000 at the Witte Museum’s Mays Family Center for San Antonio’s Good Samaritan Community Services (GSCS), a $25,000 increase over the previous year. It was a great honor to serve as decorations chairman with...