Throw A Modern and Moody Halloween Party

By Lauren Dahl and Paige Rhodes A crisp evening Halloween party is the perfect occasion for a dark and moody color palette. Playful ghoulish details like spiders, webs, and fog will set the Halloween tone. Modern white dishes and an un-cluttered table helps bring the glam. Tonight is the night to embrace the black lipstick, eccentric attire, and indulge in all things Halloween.Sleepy Hollow CocktailIngredients1 1/2 parts vodka1 part blue curacao1 part sweet and sour mix1 part grenadine1 part cran-grape juice1 chunk of dry ice*Instructions Combine vodka, blue curacao, sweet and sour mix, grenadine, and [...]

By |2017-10-20T08:30:00-04:00October 20, 2017|Food|

Creating a Dance That Fits Her Life

By Marie BradbyAfter a day of teaching ballroom dance — waltz and foxtrot, rumba and cha cha — professional dancer and teacher Lindsey Rutherford doesn’t just go home and relax at her farm in New Albany, Indiana. She rides her horses or her four-wheeler, or she boats or camps in her favorite spots in southern Indiana.She also tends to the miniature animals on her farm — Half Pint Hooves farm — where she raises donkeys, cows, and horses for use in live nativity scenes and unicorn birthday parties. “I’m pretty much outdoors all the time, [...]

By |2018-05-23T13:19:57-04:00October 16, 2017|Passions|

“My Husband Picks Fights With Me — I Want Peace!”

Q: “My husband’s pettiness is driving me crazy. We argue over everything and nothing at all. We argue over everything and nothing at all. For instance, I like going out with my friends every week, but he makes sure to ruin each time by blowing up my phone with texts and picking fights with me about minor details. After six years of marriage, we seem to be drifting apart, and I’m finding myself dreading going home. How can I get him to understand that if he would stop being picky about how I clean the [...]

By |2017-10-15T08:30:00-04:00October 15, 2017|Just Ask Joyce|

Her Heart is with the Animals

By Bella Portaro-Kueber  Generous, giving, and humble...These apply, but there are various words to describe Johnna Kelly and her impact on various animal nonprofits in Louisville. From Metro Animal Services to The Animal Care Society, Johnna does what she can, when she can, and does it with passion.“I believe my love for animals started when I was a little girl,” says Johnna, an area sales manager for Waterford crystal. “I would bring home any animal I could. In my parents’ house we had cats, dogs, and fish. At my grandparents’ house it was all of [...]

By |2017-10-14T08:30:00-04:00October 14, 2017|Passions|

What this Master Distiller is Reading, Watching, and Listening to

By Megan M. SeckmanJoyce Nethery and her daughter Autumn merged their talents together to create Jeptha Creed Distillery. Photos by Trina WhalinA lifetime of career moves went into preparing her for this great venture. She earned a chemical engineering degree from the University of Louisville’s Speed School, worked as a process engineer in a distillation unit, spent six years teaching high school chemistry and physics, then shifted gears to become the CFO of her husband’s companies for a decade, and, last but not least, learned the art of growing the perfect heirloom tomato. Now, a [...]

By |2017-09-25T08:30:00-04:00September 25, 2017|She's Reading|

Stephanie Wheeler: “Set our intention and go”

By Bella Portaro-KueberWhat chapter of life are you in? Is it your first, or is it your second? Lifestyle coach Stephanie Wheeler explains it’s our first chapter that usually ends with a turbulent experience, leaving us with the options to pick ourselves up and put together a life that we want, or let the experience defeat us and be stuck in a chapter that never progresses.Stephanie chose the first path and moved onto a second chapter.When her second chapter began, she was a stay-at-home mom with two small children. She didn’t know exactly where she [...]

By |2017-09-23T08:30:00-04:00September 23, 2017|Health Battle, Passions|
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