Coast Monthly Magazine | Easy Living, Texas Gulf Style
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Welcome to Coast Monthly, the magazine celebrating the unique Coastal Lifestyle found only along the Texas Gulf Coast. Each month you’ll find a stable of talented and committed writers, photographers, and designers working constantly to tell the great stories about the nautical culture, tasty food, beautiful art, and unique fashions along the Texas Gulf Coast.
Coast Monthly Magazine | Easy Living, Texas Gulf Style
2y ago
This ancient silver bowl of mine, it tells of good old times, Of joyous days and jolly nights, and merry Christmas times; They were a free and jovial race, but honest, brave, and true, Who dipped their ladle in the punch when this old bowl was new.” Oliver Wendell Holmes “On Lending a Punch-Bowl” Ever ..read more
Coast Monthly Magazine | Easy Living, Texas Gulf Style
2y ago
We asked on Facebook: What is the best coastal present to give or receive? Fresh oysters! Nate Skinner A surfboard! Karen Barbier Coffee table books on Galveston architecture at Galveston Historical Foundation bookstore; funny gifts from Strand Brass and Gracie’s; chocolate-covered almonds from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory and/or surfwear from James Fulbright. Eliza Thomas Quigley ..read more
Coast Monthly Magazine | Easy Living, Texas Gulf Style
2y ago
Couple happily fills 10,000-square-foot home with Christmas spirit “Who doesn’t love Christmas?” Janet Dick asked. “You get to have the childlike heart again, dinner parties, decorated trees, presents and the joy of family togetherness. I hide little things in the trees so when people come over, especially the kids and grandkids, they see the tree ..read more
Coast Monthly Magazine | Easy Living, Texas Gulf Style
2y ago
Ceilings stand out in this historic Nicholas Clayton house in Galveston Anyone who enters this historic East End Galveston home should look up. Considered one of renowned Victorian architect Nicholas Clayton’s earliest designs, this 1877 two-story home on Market Street has the most interesting ceilings of almost any house on the island. The house was ..read more
Coast Monthly Magazine | Easy Living, Texas Gulf Style
2y ago
Islanders create a coastal Christmas theme at their Colony Park home Chris Mitchell loves decorating. And after a long career in event management, she’s well set up to create impressive displays at her Colony Park home in Galveston. “My husband, Dave, had to make special bins in our garage for all my stuff,” Chris said ..read more
Coast Monthly Magazine | Easy Living, Texas Gulf Style
2y ago
December cover model dishes on growing up in Moldova, falling in love and joining the famous Gaido family Cover model Anastasia Gaido always has loved architecture and what she calls the art of dwelling. As a young girl growing up in Moldova in Eastern Europe, Gaido spent summers visiting her grandparents in the countryside, she ..read more
Coast Monthly Magazine | Easy Living, Texas Gulf Style
2y ago
December cover designer shares her love of Christmas and how to add seaside accents to the holidays Coast Monthly asked Emily Root to help us create the perfect Christmas setting for this issue’s cover. She delivered with subtle seaside accents and décor. She and husband, Brian, own Emily’s Home Building, Remodeling and Design Services, which ..read more
Coast Monthly Magazine | Easy Living, Texas Gulf Style
2y ago
Photographer and artist Joey Quiroga explores the beauty of the upper Texas coast Deck the walls with art so lovely. Seashells always have been favorite elements to design the perfect coastal Christmas wreath. A variety of different colored shells, starfish, driftwood and twigs create a personalized coastal wreath. It’s the most wonderful decorating time of ..read more
Coast Monthly Magazine | Easy Living, Texas Gulf Style
2y ago
With a shortage of traditional tannenbaums, it’s time to get creative One way to extend holiday cheer is to buy a potted tree or plant to decorate and later put in your garden. With the shortage this year of live Christmas trees, being a bit creative might be the solution to several problems. “With COVID ..read more
Coast Monthly Magazine | Easy Living, Texas Gulf Style
2y ago
Unwrap these must-do angling opportunities this holiday season In honor of the Christmas Season, here are 12 opportunities all anglers should consider pursuing. Take them as a rodbender version of “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” or suggestions for New Year’s resolutions. Either way, I hope these pursuits challenge you to become a better angler, and ..read more