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by Cloche Designs
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...
Posted at 04:01h
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by Cloche Designs
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...
Posted at 04:51h
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by Cloche Designs
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...
Posted at 14:47h
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by Cloche Designs
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...
Posted at 03:19h
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by Cloche Designs
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...