Kendra Scott and Zac Brown plan a Thanksgiving blowout with their blended family (Exclusive)

It may be Halloween today, but jewelry designer Kendra Scott is already thinking about Thanksgiving.

Scott, 51, talks about his musician fiance, country singer Zac Brown of the Zac Brown Band.

“He’s next level. He’s also published cookbooks. And my son (Cade, 24) is also a chef. He’s been working in restaurants since he was 18. So they take care of the cooking and I just take orders like a sous chef. I cut vegetables and do whatever they tell me to do.”

Scott said this year’s feast will be one of the new traditions. All eight children will be involved in the big celebration, which will be held in a barn on Scott’s ranch near Austin.

“We’re going to have about 25 friends, and Zach and I have eight kids. We’re like the Brady Bunch: four girls and four boys.”

Between now and his next vacation, Scott says his main focus is traveling and preparing for the busy season.

“We opened 25 stores this year,” she says. “That’s why I’m busy visiting stores and seeing as many members of the Kendra Scott family in retail stores as possible.” The holiday season is like the Super Bowl. ”

For Scott, that means going into a brick-and-mortar jewelry store and interacting with customers. “A pop-up for our new Western brand, Yellow Rose, will be held in Nashville. From there I will be meeting with customers and trying to spread joy as much as I can.”

When she’s not busy working in her shop, she started making jewelry in her spare room for $500 and has since grown it into a billion-dollar business, and can be found giving back in many ways through the Kendra Scott Foundation.

On October 27, she teamed up with singer Ciara to donate the “Yellow Library” to PS 161 Pedro Albizu in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, New York. The Mini Library, part of the Scott Foundation, is a yellow bookshelf filled with stories about children from all backgrounds to promote early literacy in all children.

“I realized there was a need for this,” Scott, 51, said of Yellow Library.

“There are a lot of Spanish-speaking kids in Texas, and their libraries didn’t have books that they could relate to or that their parents could read aloud to them. So we wanted to give Title One schools a program where they could actually access these kinds of books, where kids could see themselves reflected in the stories and think, ‘Okay, I could be him or I could be her.'”