
Party Pics: Inside Our Mother x Trove Brunch
Written by Katie Hintz-Zambrano
Photography by Kate Skogen
There are so many beautiful things about expecting and welcoming a brand-new baby. One of them, when it comes to your home, is the clean-slate effect that a new soul often has. With each new character added to your family, there’s a nesting process and an urge to purge the stuff that you don’t need and bring in items for the baby that you love. Of course, of those things that are no longer needed now, you might need them again. Which is where Trove comes in.
The San Francisco-based company is on a mission to help people love the spaces they live in, by offering a modern, convenient, and tech-savvy method of storing the stuff they still want to hold onto, but don’t necessarily need collecting dust around the house. For $99/month, Trove comes to your home, carefully packs up your load (or you can opt to pack it yourself), photographs and makes a digital catalog of the contents of each box, moves it all to a private vault, and will come back to your home to return a box or pick up a new box on-demand, as needed. Plus, Trove will take care of tossing or donating up to 500lbs of unwanted goods from your home! All you have to do is tap a few computer keys to get this process going. Which has to be music to a very busy—or pregnant—mama’s ears.
In celebration of Trove’s new Baby Plan, which is ideal for clearing out your nursery nook or transitioning your baby to a toddler set-up (but still holding onto baby items for a future sibling), Mother co-hosted a private brunch for expectant and “new” mamas in San Francisco at the beautiful Stable Cafe. Check out our photos below for all the deets.
- Our beautiful brunch spread at Stable, complete with a roaring fire, Bi-Rite sandwiches and veggies, Sweetgreen salads, "ugly fruit" by Imperfect Produce, and hot cocoa and tea to complement the crisp February day.
- Our tabletop wares included Ikea's blush-colored ceramic plates and Harlow & Grey's deep green and rose gold paper versions.
- Our play-and-cuddle nook, complete with Gathre's jumbo-sized polkadot mats, Campaign's new emerald and blush pillows (and a patterned version by Loom Goods), and Lovevery's play gym.
- Wise words from Trove.
- Cozy furs and knits on mothers Emily Scott, Shahidah Zareef, Natalie Bowen, and Meg Shackleton.
- Brand-new mama Andi Teggart of Bare Snacks and Defne Crowe of Made PR.
- Delicate florals by Little Petunia in an IKEA vase. Sandwiches by Bi-Rite, fruit by Imperfect Produce, and salad by Sweetgreen.
- We're pretty obsessed with this mini kitchen by Milton & Goose in our play space.
- And so is Vega..
- Animal party on the Gathre mat!
- Beautiful mama of 4 Shahidah Zareef.
- Artists and textile-designing mamas Jen Garrido and Dana Haim.
- Publicist Joanna Riedl and Emily Carter of Imperfect Produce in front of our pretty tablescape.
- Rosé-colored IKEA glasses + Halcyon rosé.
- Defne Crowe and baby Penny, along with Surya Kishi Grover of Tosan. Florals by Little Petunia.
- Twin mama Besse Gardner, of Nest.
- New mama friends Besse and Kelly Lack.
- Sally Colwell of Salesforce.
- Designer Lindsay Robinson's beautiful, blue-eyed daughter, Piera.
- Beautiful blooms added by Little Petunia.
- Thank you, Amanda, for your cake/work of art!
- Served on top of IKEA plates with Harlow & Grey napkins. Almost too pretty to eat.
- Almost.
- Beautiful custom vase gifts from Trove, all lined up.
- All the "new" and expectant mothers! Defne Crowe, Susan Work, Jen Garrido, Natalie Bowen, Flora Tsapovsky, and Edyta Szyszlo.
- Big laughs with Joanna Riedl, photographer and mama-to-be Molly DeCoudreaux, sex-ed specialist Julia Feldman and her son Lev, and Mother's Katie Hintz-Zambrano.
- Stable's terrariums + Little Petunia's blooms in pretty IKEA vases.
- Pampering station and mini-manicures by Parlor Mini Spa.
- Sandwiches + smooches.
- Mama catch-up time.
- The tiniest member of the Monastery family.
- Daphne Palomares and daughter Camila enjoying the Lovevery play gym.
- The indoor-outdoor setting at Stable.
- Expecting mama and florist Stephanie Hughes of Little Petunia.
- Artist Amy Reid Hirst, textile designer Dana Haim, and Brit + Co. creative director Anjelika Temple.
- Jen Garrido and Bkr co-founder and expecting mother Tal Winter.
- In Good Company's Sarah Ewick.
- Trove's Janette Andrawes (right) and Katie Hintz-Zambrano of Mother (left) cozy up.
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Our baby-themed Trove gift bags were filled with amazing goodies: EZPZ's Mini Mat, IKEA's wooden stacking rings, a printed swaddle by Solly Baby x Jenny Pennywood, a beautiful book and gift certificate by "farm to highchair" baby food company, Yumi, Bloom Baby wipes, Aden + Anais floral-print diapers, a Belly Mask by Hatch, The Pop pacifier by Doddle, a brand-new pillow cover by Campaign, and gift certificates by Credo Beauty, MNT Studio, Noble Carriage, and Milton and Goose.
For more on Trove's Baby Plan and other storage solutions, check out MyTrove.com.
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