Highland Park
The four homes selected for the 2013 New Friends New Life Holiday Home Tour were unveiled Oct. 3, and boy, are they stunners! These amazing mansions will be featured on the nonprofit’s annual fundraiser on Sunday, Dec. 8, and you do not want to miss out!
This year’s tour spans the Park Cities and Preston Hollow, including two homes on Highland Park’s famed Beverly Drive. New Friends New Life helps women reclaim their lives from the sex industry, become self-sufficient, and rescues trafficked teen girls and sexually exploited women and their children. The tour, now in its 14th year, is the organization’s chief fundraiser.
We couldn’t be happier for Tayler Carson Sandvick, a Dallas stylist to the truly creme de la creme, as she is set to star in Million Dollar Shoppers, a new Lifetime Network show. According to Theresa Gubbins with CultureMap and the inimitable society blogger Cynthia Smoot, Sandvick, who is a sought-after personal shopper in Dallas with a background in couture, will partner with the quirky Gregg Asher for the show. I’m definitely DVRing the premiere episode on Oct. 10, right after Project Runway!
Sandvick, who has even been approached by a fan while filling up her car at a gas station, is just overwhelmed by the support she’s received from the show so far. “Honestly, it’s amazing,” she said.
Read MoreThis baby is like a boyfriend you had in college who you wanted so very badly but he married the prom queen (or, depending on your pref, king) and went off. You thought of him or her occasionally, perhaps while dusting off photographs. (He/she was BEAUTIFUL. Like in a Kennedy-clanesque way. He/she was your “girl…
Read MoreI’m just back from the beach, so I was catching up on my news reading when I saw that there was some pretty hairy crime in the Park Cities. But I’m not going to let the news of a robbery at knifepoint make you think that Highland Park isn’t a safe place to make your…
Read MorePrivate school tuition for two kids is just absolutely ridiculous. If you could forego all that and live in an area that has fantastic community values and very little crime, well, do we have a rental for you. Buying inside Highland Park ISD can be a protracted bidding war, so renting is often more accessible.…
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