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We’re making Turquoise Table history today with our very first pop-up podcast! A few weeks ago, my hospitality partner-in-crime Susie Davis and I recorded a live podcast in my front yard with fifty friends and our special guest, Myquillyn Smith. And y’all, just a hint of what’s to come: this will be the first of many pop-up podcasts because we had so much fun! So if you don’t know Myquillyn, you’re going to fall in love very soon. She’s the brains behind The Nesting Place, a beautiful blog where she encourages women to create warm, inviting homes using what they have, wherever they are. Myquillyn just released her brand-new book Cozy Minimalist Home. And inspired by the book, Myquillyn answered questions from our live audience about how to create a cozy home with less stuff. Music to your ears, right? And be sure to stay till the end, where we dish on a yummy cider recipe you’ll want at all of your holiday parties.
Show Summary:
Y’all, today is so special, because we’re sharing our very first live-recorded podcast! In fact, we’ve called it a “pop-up podcast,” which I didn’t even know existed until now.
We recorded this show a couple of weeks ago in my front yard at the Turquoise Table. When my dear neighbor and hospitality partner-in-crime Susie Davis found out that our friend Myquillyn Smith was coming to Austin, we thought, Let’s do what we love to do and introduce Myquillyn to some new friends. And since Susie and I are Enneagram 7s, we also decided, Let’s also try to host a podcast. Live. In the front yard. with 50 or so people sitting there. What could go wrong?! And y’all, we did it—and we had a blast.
If you don’t know Myquillyn, get ready to fall in love with the Queen of Cozy. Myquillyn has a keen eye for design. And on her blog The Nesting Place, she encourages women near and far on how to create a warm, inviting home with what they already have. Myquillyn’s motto is, “It is It doesn’t have to be perfect to be beautiful.” Love! She’s one of the most genuine, wise, spirit-filled women I can think of.
Myquillyn answers questions from Susie and me and the live audience on how to create a home you love, no matter where you are. I hope this conversation inspires you and fills your spirit as much as it did mine.
So settle in grab a cup of tea, let’s get cozy together and enjoy this pop-up podcast at the table.
Oh, and FYI: my next-door neighbor ‘s lawn guys showed up, so you’ll hear a lawn mower for the first two or three minutes of the show. Don’t worry—it does stop!
Links, Products, and Recipes We Mentioned:
Young House Love: “The Best Light Bulbs We’ve Found for the Entire House”
Thanksgiving Trivia and Thanksgiving Trivia Answers
Recipe: Satsuma Whiskey Cider
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Interview Quotes:
“When we first moved in, for the first couple of months I just had our sofa in our family room, a rug down, the bare essentials. . . . And what happened during those two months was, life became simpler—and I loved it. I got addicted to it. I’m like, Oh, I’m not a horrible housekeeper. I just have too much stuff.”
– Myquillyn Smith
“Maybe I do just have too much stuff. Sometimes I feel like if I just buy one little thing, it will fill a void, like, “Oh, that’ll look really good.” And so then all of a sudden, what happens? You wake up and you have . . . we call it the Goodwill pile because it’s like, Why don’t we just go ahead and put it there?”
– Kristin Schell
“My favorite cozi-fiers are pillows.”
– Myquillyn Smith
“I think it’s harder in a way for creatives, for those of us who see potential and beauty in all sorts of things. We’re like, Oh, I know it’s kind of broken but I could paint that. I can make that look good, so I’m going to save it.” . . . That creative eye and that thought of possibility is a great thing, but also that’s the downside—we start collecting and have this beautiful collection of a bargain-bought hoard.”
– Myquillyn Smith
“Myquillyn talks about [in Cozy Minimalist Home that] buying a sofa is like the biggest stumbling block of anything to buying your entire home. When we moved in to our new house about a year and a half ago, they had staged it with their beautiful furniture. There was a sofa there, a sectional, cool looking. We said, “Can we buy that from you?” It was an IKEA sofa. They had kids and a dog, and it was a year old, and I didn’t care—we paid full price for it. That has been one of my favorite pieces.”
– Susie Davis
“I think a lot of us long to have people over, long to use our home a certain way, but we feel like we have to wait for the next house or for the next project or to finish x, y and z. I realized if I wait until things are done, we will never have anyone over. And that was not the life that I wanted to have.”
– Myquillyn Smith
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