Month: October 2020

The Best Pies to Order Right Now for the Holidays

The Best Pies to Order Right Now for the Holidays

Sending a fancy gourmet pie for the holidays can be a fantastic luxury gift. Or even just an excellent micro-luxury for you to arrange for your own food joy this holiday season. If you’re all in on this idea, what are the best luxury gourmet sweet and savory pies to order by mail? Our ace correspondent Abbie Martin Greenbaum has curated a list of the 12 best gourmet mail-order pies to order online right now, just in time for the holidays.

The Ultimate Luxury Gift Guide: The Best for Fitness

What’s the best luxury gift for the person who is extremely active and serious about fitness, whether they prefer a home workout, the great outdoors or a socially distanced return to the gym? Our ace correspondent Julie Chang Murphy (who teaches kick-boxing in her free time) has the answers. Here’s our luxury gift guide for what to buy this holiday for those who are serious about fitness, whether their passion is hiking, yoga, running or working out in their home gym. And hey – you might want to buy a couple of these for yourself, too!

The Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide: The Best in Modern Luxury

The Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide: The Best in Modern Luxury

In a year when gift-giving is a wee bit challenging, here at Dandelion Chandelier we’re turning to some of our expert friends to help us curate gift guides that are totally right for this moment. This modern luxury holiday gift guide with ideas on what to give as the best wellness and other gifts of 2020 is curated by Georgie “GG” Greville, co-founder and creative director of Milk Makeup. We love the mix of the best luxury gifts in wellness, well-being, mindfulness, beauty and products from independent brands – what could be more on-point for 2020 holiday gifts that that? If we have to go back into hibernation, we want all of these around us to help make it bearable. Come and discover! Thanks so much, GG! 

The perfect books to read to feel like the month of November.

The Perfect Books to Read to Feel the Month of November

We’re always looking for our next great read – so what are the best books to read that will make us feel like November? We’ve shared a list of the best new book releases coming in November 2020.  For additional ideas, here’s our take on the perfect books to read that capture the mood of the month of November. These are our top 12 picks of not just what to read this November – these are what to read in any November.

Adopt 8 Pandemic Gift-Giving Rules for 2020 Holiday Joy

Adopt 9 Pandemic Gift-Giving Rules for 2020 Holiday Joy

It’s holiday gift-giving season, and this year is going to be unlike any other in modern memory. As challenging as 2020 has been so far, with coronavirus lockdowns, job losses, personal losses and protests against racial violence, really, seriously, who’s in the mood for holiday shopping? We feel you, dear reader. But do not despair. Our ace correspondent Julie Chang Murphy has done some research and she’s sharing 9 gift-giving rules (guidelines, really) about how to think about holiday 2020 shopping – and holiday joy – in the midst of a global pandemic. Adopt some or all of these pandemic gift-giving rules, and you may actually have a shot at generating some 2020 holiday joy.