Culture & Community
Impact & Give Back: Royal Family KIDS Camp
Transforming Lives with Unconditional Love and Hope Royal Family KIDS Camp (RFKC) is a transformative nonprofit dedicated to changing the lives of children in the foster care system. This organization, part of For The Children Inc., has spent over 35 years training...
Social Living: The Buie Family
Fair Home on the Fairway -Liesel Schmidt The massive home in Madisonville where Mandi and Brandon Buie are raising their four children is an impressive and imposing sight from the moment you set eyes on its white stucco French modern exterior, surrounded by...
Impact and Give Back: Haute Mama Collective
Bringing Up Baby -Liesel Schmidt Women have been having babies since the beginning of time, but bringing a little one into the world, like everything else, has gotten more and more expensive. According to recent research from the Peterson-Kaiser Family Foundation...
Social Living: At Home in the Familiar
At Home in the FamiliarBy Liesel SchmidtPeeking from behind an expanse of grey planking that serves to obscure the main floor and offer a sense of seclusion, privacy, and sanctuary, this New Orleans-style courtyard home in Covington was a dream come true for EROS...
Impact and Give Back | St. Tammany Parish Animal Services
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Rescue Me -Liesel Schmidt As humans, we are more or less the maters of our own destiny—in so much that we are given free will and choices throughout or lives that guide our circumstances. Animals, however, are not given that...
Gingerbread Cocktail
Recipe courtesy of Garrett Hornsby @_secondhandchef_Ingredients Ice1 ounce Gingerbread Cream Liqueur 1 ounce Baileys1 ounce Rum Chata 2 ounces Heavy CreamDirections 1. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice.2. Measure the Baileys, Rum Chata, heavy cream,...
Social Living | The Ziegler Family
Life in Black & White Photos by Summer Davis Photography Interior Design by Lesle Veca of V Home & Interiors Story by Liesel Schmidt Completed in December of 2022, the Ziegler home in Perdido Key may not have had much time for its walls to weather or its...
Belle Maison: The Jackson Family
With its sloping roofline and use of ridge tiles, Hardie plank, brick and stucco, the Jackson home in Abita Springs is like something out of a picture book—a touch of European design set alongside Goodyear Pond and overlooking the second green at Money Hill. Built in...
Impact and Give Back: Women Build
A Woman’s Work-Liesel SchmidtHome equity.It’s a phrase that we’re all familiar with, a dream and a goal that people live their entire lives working toward. All of us have a need to feel as though we’ve found a home of our own, a place that is ours and ours alone,...
Belle Maison | One House, Two Homes
One House, Two Homes -Liesel Schmidt Looking at the white sided façade of the four-level home built by Frank Stuart and Vince Luizza, one would be hard-pressed to identify this as anything other than a beautifully designed home, unified in its aesthetic and offering...
Impact and Give Back | Kendra Cares
The Beauty of Caring -Liesel Schmidt Childhood is a time that should be filled with magic, possibility and endless wonder. But for many children, those years of innocence are shadowed by the worries of medical issues that necessitate long hospital stays filled with...
Belle Maison | The Edwards Family
This Modern Space -Liesel Schmidt With its geometric design and clean lines, the white stucco home owned by Miguel and Yvonne Edwards follows the aesthetic of so many European homes, giving it a unique appeal against the contrasting designs of the other homes in its...