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New sweetgreen Location on the Drag!

Wanna get $7 from sweetgreen and give me $7 from sweetgreen? M’okay! Use this link to download the fancy sweetgreen app and you’ll get a $7 credit to spend on your first delicious order at sweetgreen. *squeal!*

Okay, so I have to say first – this post is not sponsored. I am just truly in love with sweetgreen and everything about them. No seriously, as I type this, there is a sweetgreen bag (made from 100% recycled material:) staring at me on the kitchen counter. Scotty and I fell in love with them when we lived in Culver City in Los Angeles and were so overjoyed when they opened a location on South Congress here in Austin. Everything is so healthy and delicious, and their menu actually varies a bit at every location because they source from local farmers. So cool, right?! We have since been ordering from them almost every night. (Unfortunately, I am not that person who used quarantine to sharpen their cooking skills.)

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Thankfully for our health and waistlines, the incredible salads, warm bowls and plates at sweetgreen have been our go-to choice for dinner… instead of pizza and breadsticks. And now, Scotty and I (and you!) have another sweetgreen location to order from!

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Stop by today to see their new digs at 2234 Guadalupe. (The Veggie Caesar is my go-to and Scotty loves the Buffalo Chicken and Crispy Rice.) The 3,100 square foot location features art by the incredibly talented Will Bryant (seriously go check him out), stadium-style seating and a walk-up window.

For every meal sold on opening day, sweetgreen will donate a meal via their Impact Outpost program to Brighter Bites in Travis County, an organization providing free fresh produce and nutrition education to food-insecure children and families. They’re also donating meals to Austin Justice Coalition, an amazing local org whose mission is to educate and build community power for people of color in Austin. But wait – there’s more: If you’re one of the first 100 people to order online or through the app during their first 4 days open, you could win a cute tote or another fun giveaway from Easy Tiger and YAYAYA. Oh and the app? Y’all better download it. You can use it to easily order meals, earn credits toward more yummy meals and climb their status ladder to get free swag and exclusive experiences like menu tastings and events. (FUN!)

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Covid-wise, they are opening in compliance with social distancing guidelines plus following additional safety standards that include mandatory face masks, elevated sanitation schedules and dedicated concierges to ensure safety compliance.

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Learn more about sweetgreen’s mission to improve local communities, create more accessibility to healthy, real food for more people and support small and mid-size growers who are farming sustainably. Gah, I just love them (and their Veggie Caesar salad) so much. Welcome to Austin (again), sweetgreen.

Get 40% Off My Fave Thangs at J.Crew This Weekend | MustacheMelrose.com
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Get 40% Off My Fave Thangs at J.Crew Today

When Scott and I moved into our house, I stuffed all my cold temp clothes into vacuum-sealed bags and stashed them up in our attic. Scotty was nice enough to drop them down (MAKE IT RAIN CHUNKY KNITS!!) and I am so excited to go through them today to reconnect with old favorites and make room for new ones. If you smell a segue, you are right, my friends. I snooped around on J.Crew to find some new cute pieces I have my eyeballs on. My faves are below and – GUESS WHAT/BONUS/FIREWORKS/FLASHING SIGN/BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE – J.Crew is having a 40% off sale RIGHT NOW (plus 60% off sale items!) using code SALETIME through midnight tonight. If you like my picks, you can click the photos to shop them and I’ll make a little $$ commission. P.S. You can always find my faves in my shop too!

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Home Inspiration

Psst… this isn’t our kitchen but it sure does look like it! It’s a snazzy photo by Creatv Eight on Unsplash. IRL home tour coming soon!

Over the past few months, I’ve been feeling super bleh in the creative department. But as of this week, I am starting to see the light at the end of the bleh tunnel. I’m not sure if it was our trip out to Spicewood or our new quarantine airstream project, but I am starting to feel inspired again… especially about our home.

We moved into our house 4 months ago(?) and at some point, I came to a pause with designing it. My office is a mess—the closet is full of junk I have no idea what to do with. I just kind of crammed stuff in there and forgot about it. I hope to tackle it this weekend but then again, I said that last weekend. 😉 I think I am just overwhelmed with all the potential. And don’t even get me started on the backyard. It’s a jungle out there.

The inside is a blank slate right now though. It needs art, maybe a DIY mural and a few other small design touches to make it complete. I’ve been dinking around on Pinterest collecting some ideas on my Home Goodies board since I’m starting to feel the creative spark within again. Check out some of my favorites below! And follow my other Pinterest boards too if ya wanna. From Art & Inspiration, Nail Bling, Eat, Style and Fitness & Health, they’re all over the place just like my brain is currently always. xo, mel

The wine, the books, the yellow. I love it all.

That. Blue. Door.

Now this is what I call an entryway. Swoon.

I wouldn’t mind folding clothes in this laundry room.

I need this nook in my life.

This one too.

Hey, a girl can dream.

And dream some more…

This window is worth the layers upon layers of sunscreen.

That ceiling though!

California Cool in New Jersey.

So We Bought an Airstream | MustacheMelrose.com
Maxine the Airstream

So… We Bought an Airstream.

Follow Maxine’s makeover at @maxinetheairstream!

I was thinking of titling this post, “WE ARE INSANE” or “WHAT ARE WE THINKING” or “THERE HAS TO BE A PILL FOR THIS” but instead I went with “So… We Bought an Airstream”. What do ya think? A couple of weeks ago, Scotty and I took off on a spontaneous day drive through the hill country. On the way into the adorable town of Wimberley, we spotted an airstream for sale.

Scott and I have been talking about buying an airstream and fixing her up for years. Our dream is to travel the country with our dog babes for a bit, then set her up on a piece of land in the hill country where others can rent her out… along with a few other airstreams we renovate on the property.

I’m not sure if it’s the quarantine staycation we’ve been on for the past few months or perhaps just being more settled in our new house in Austin, but y’all, this is it. This is the time we get started on our dream. We didn’t end up buying that airstream in Wimberley (it was already sold), but it did set us out on a Craigslist search which led us to Rick, a super cool guy who runs a gorgeous wedding venue, Mae’s Ridge, in Johnson City, just outside of Dripping Springs. He bought a couple of vintage airstreams with plans to renovate them himself, but the wedding biz is taking up all of his time so he’s passing the dream on to us. (We’ll make ya proud, Rick, promise.)

We drove out to Johnson City, climbed into Rick’s super sweet Kawasaki golf cart adventure thingie (but what is this called and can I have one) and he toured us around their beautiful, massive property up a path to where the two airstreams live. I fell in love with Maxine from the get-go. She’s a 1966 Overlander who has liiiived. I don’t know nada about airstreams (besides they cute) and neither does Scott (should be fun), but we knew this was it. We called Rick on the drive home and told him we wanted her. We Venmo’ed a deposit and went out the next weekend to hand him a check and pick up the title. And her name? Well, she’s named after my favorite person who ever existed—my best friend/grandmother, Maxine Lowe. Maxine lives on in my heart forever, and now we’ll get to go on lots of new adventures together.  

Rick is nice enough to hang on to Maxine until we get our backyard ready for her. We spent the weekend turning our fence into a gate and a patch of dirt/mud/our-backyard-is-a-hot-mess into a parking spot with the help of the very best quarantine-neighbors ever. (Seriously, y’all are the best.) Rick is going to hitch up Maxine next week and drive her over to her new home where we can squeal at her and laugh maniacally about the fact that we have no idea what we’re doing.

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So We Bought an Airstream | MustacheMelrose.com
So We Bought an Airstream | MustacheMelrose.com
So We Bought an Airstream | MustacheMelrose.com
So We Bought an Airstream | MustacheMelrose.com

Thankfully, the airstream community is super tight, and we can’t wait to join them. Thank you in advance for all of the helpful how-to’s Scotty and I will no doubt be obsessing over. If you have any #vanlife or #airstreamrenovation Instagram accounts you follow, holler at us in the comments below. We’ll be covering Maxine’s renovation on her Instagram @maxinetheairstream so be sure to follow along.

One last thing – real quick – how do you renovate an airstream?

xo,
mel

Really Cute Waterproof Boots | MustacheMelrose.com
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Really Cute Waterproof Boots

When I started planning outfits for my first trip to visit my work fam in Canada, I had no freaking clue what to pack. It was December and I expected to walk into a blizzard. I am from south Texas. Does not compute. Although very confused, I was still able to find my nearest Nordstrom and ask an employee in the shoe department what they had for waterproof boots, thinking he would point me to a wall of clunky, heavy boots. My jaw dropped when he brought me a pair of Blondo waterproof boots.

They were incredibly comfortable, light and stylish. No way were these cute boots waterproof! Yes way, y’all. I not only wore my new Liam Blondo boots to Canada in the snow and rain (the weather actually wasn’t bad – it was gorgeous!), they became my favorite shoe and I wore them on repeat the rest of the year back in LA. I wore them so much that it’s time for a new pair this season. Though I love my Liams, there are so many different styles to choose from. I included my favorites below, but seriously, you can’t go wrong. Psst… these are affiliate links which means I will make a little dough if you click on them. Click the images to shop! xo

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All the Silver Things

I KEEP seeing gorgeous silver and metallic shoes, clothes, jewelry and accessories every time I log into Pinterest. And once you pin one thing, of course, the Pinterest overlords thankfully keep serving it up to you. Anyhoo, I thought I would share my infatuation with some of the items that have flown through my feed, followed by some silver items you can get your hands on IRL. They cute aren’t they? Psst… Some of the links below are affiliate links which means I will make some $ if you click on them. Thanks in advance – now go get your shine on!

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