Headbands, Sunglasses and Scarves, Oh My!

Accessories make gift giving easy.

Gifts, Scarves

Second to coffee table books, accessories make gift giving oh so easy. There are endless options at all price points and we’re fairly certain that any gal in your life would love to receive one of these fabulous pieces. Julie Lauren back here today with some incredible accessory gift ideas that you actually will likely […]

Read More

A Gift for Your Home That Promises To Keep On Giving…..

Media Systems Home Automation owners, Jaclyn and Donnie Boutwell educate me on how to make my home an even happier place.......just in time to plan for the new year.

Media Systems

Over the past several months I have had the pleasure of meeting a local Houston couple, Donnie and Jaclyn Boutwell, owners of Media Systems that are dedicated to doing amazing things with your home and how you live in it. As many of you know, for the last year I have been in the process […]

Read More

RSVP Ready….Holiday Jewelry Trends

A take on steppin' up holiday glam by one of our town's top models who takes it from the runway to party life

Holiday jewelry

As the Holidays are in full swing and winter has finally arrived, bringing with it a chill in the air and a Facebook inbox full of holiday party invitations. We, here at MRG, love this time of the year because there’s always a reason to get dressed up! Jewelry may not be the first thing […]

Read More

Our Favorite Gift to Give and Receive

And the countdown is officially on! Thanksgiving has come and gone, and Christmas and Chanukah are right around the corner. Holiday parties are in full swing and gift shopping has, well, just now started to really kick in! Julie Lauren back today to kick off a special “gifting” series here on My Red Glasses. You […]

Read More

Houston’s Newest Dining Hot Spot, Guard and Grace Opens…..

Acclaimed Denver Chef Troy Guard Opens Picks Houston as his first spot outside of Colorado

Guard & Grace

Before Thanksgiving prep took over my life, I had a great week of round-about dining and touring of the Western Gateway of Downtown Houston around Allen Center, where many new and innovative dining establishments have been happening……all adjacent or included in the newest hospitality entree into our city, the C.Baldwin Hotel. It should be noted […]

Read More

C.Baldwin….My Special Visit to Houston’s Hottest New Hotel

I may have missed the big "party of the year" opening but loved my time there

CBaldwin open

For those of you that know that I have traveled to Italy quite a lot in recent months you know also that I have missed many happenings while I was away……one was the “party of the year” that we covered in absentia. However, thanks to many I was able to get my very own tour […]

Read More

Rosalie’s Soulful Italian Restaurant Opens in New C.Baldwin Hotel

Is it Sauce or Gravy?? Eatery is a reflection of Master Chef Chris Cosentino's early dose of Italian cooking taught by his Great-Grandmother

Rosalie's Soulful Italian

When I first heard Chris Shepherd introduce his friend, Chris Cosentino, a Top Chef Master from San Francisco, months back at a an event for Southern Smoke I immediately liked him and what he had to say to us. He was an Italian-American guy opening an Italian restaurant here in Houston, whose dishes were inspired […]

Read More

A Year of Thankfulness……

Thanksgiving 2019

“Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thanksfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.” —— Hendry Van Dyke We at My Red Glasses wish our many friends  and family a Happy and Joyful Thanksgiving Holiday… …And when you’re ready to walk off those highly caloric […]

Read More

Spotlight on Deborah Michelson……Estetician Extraordinaire

Deborah Michelson

I started this year with all of the intentions of making it “my year”. For once I was going to make ME the priority and take some positive action to do the right things for myself. Well this year turned out to be just the opposite for me……two moves, downsizing my life and selling my […]

Read More

Nancy and Richard Kinder Building Opening Fall 2020

MFAH announces the opening date for most anticipated newest addition

Kinder building

Speaking on a personal note, due to my now proximity to the Museum of Fine Arts, I have been watching from my window, the construction of this amazing building with much anticipation. We are thrilled by the breaking news from Museum Director, Gary Tinterow, as he announced that the institution’s multi-year project to complete the […]

Read More