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How to Make Soap: A DIY Gift Idea

We’re showing you how to make a beautiful, moisturizing soap the easy way for a festive, thoughtful homemade gift this holiday season! Cool DIY gifts for the win!

DIY, Food, Holiday Favorites, Lifestyle

DIY Chocolate Spoons for Coffee or Hot Chocolate

Need an easy, fun and tasty DIY holiday gift idea that anyone would love? Look no further than these delicious DIY chocolate and salted caramel stirring spoons for coffee or hot chocolate. Mouth. Watering!

DIY, DIY Home Decor, Home, Home Decor

How to Make Potpourri for Fall

Looking for a chic, easy way to give your home that yummy Fall scent, on a budget? Come learn how to make pretty potpourri for Fall with stuff that you may already have hanging around the house!

DIY, DIY Home Decor, Home, Home Decor

How to Make a Candle with Fall Scents

Want to customize your own scent for Fall and save those precious pennies while doing it? Come learn how to make a candle with Fall scents at home in just a few easy, affordable steps!

DIY, DIY Home Decor, Home

How To: DIY Board & Batten Shutters

Shutters are like the frosting of exterior design, and today we’re showing you how to make easy DIY board and batten shutters for your home so you can make your exterior sparkle and shine! Come see our new shutters and the shutter color we love and the full tutorial for making your own shutters at home!

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Our 10 Most Popular Cottage Style Home Decor Finds of 2019

In case you missed any of the action this year or are getting ready to tackle some fun room makeovers or decor updates of your own in 2020, we rounded up the ten most-clicked cottage style home decor items that we shared here on the blog and on Instagram in 2019, and we’re breaking down where each of these live in our home, why we love them and showing pictures of most of the items in our spaces!

DIY, DIY Home Decor, Holiday Favorites, Home, Lifestyle

DIY Gilded Wood Christmas Ornaments

We’re sharing another fun (and super easy!) holiday DIY project today that’s perfect for adding that gorgeous, cozy glow to your Christmas tree this year – DIY gilded wood Christmas ornaments! These adorable, rustic wood ornaments are a breeze to make so you can even get the kiddos involved in this one, and they fall right in line with that Scandinavian-inspired, natural holiday decor vibe we love. So what are you waiting for? Come make your house merry and bright with us this season!

DIY, Home, Room Makeovers, Tour Our Cottage Style Home

Our Entryway & Guest Bedroom Decor Refresh Ideas Made Easy

Today we’re sharing our super simple, cottage-inspired entryway and guest bedroom makeovers full of easy decor ideas. Even better, we’re sharing the recent home improvement revelation that has been a total game-changer for us and allowed us to kick the “hangxiety” and hang anything and everything with ease – High & Mighty! Seriously, friends, if you’ve ever hung anything or plan on hanging anything on your drywall in the future, you need this in your life!

DIY, DIY Home Decor, Home

How To Make Easy DIY Wood Floating Frames

We’re showing you how to easily make these super fun DIY floating wood gallery frames in just a few easy steps, on a budget! Bonus: this project can be completely customized to fit your own style and needs with minimal effort and max impact!

Cozy Cottage Farmhouse Breakfast Nook featured by top Phoenix lifestyle blog, Love and Specs

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Our Cozy Cottage-Farmhouse Breakfast Nook

We’re firm believers that everyone needs a cozy breakfast nook no matter what the size of your abode, so come get some breakfast nook ideas and inspiration by way of our own little breakfast nook that’s freshly updated for spring morning sippin’ and sitin’!

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Our Cozy, Cottage-Farmhouse Master Bedroom Makeover

Another day, another room makeover! Today we’re taking you inside our long overdue cozy cottage-farmhouse master bedroom makeover, complete with comfy white bedding, a fun and funky mix of pattern, texture and styles that breaks all the rules and sources for all of the cottage-farmhouse decor items that we included in the room. Come snuggle up with us!

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An Epic Football Game Day Party with Bashas’ and Dr Pepper

As we settle into winter and dive head first into the joy and cheer of the holiday season, there’s yet another reason to celebrate that’s fast approaching that our house takes very seriously — bowl season! So today we’re showing you how to create the most epic “vintage game day” themed football party filled with food, drink and decor ideas PLUS one heck of an amazing game day recipe!

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Been cooking up something special for 2023! 💕@olcartier #baby #babygirl #babyblog
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Game. Changer. 🥰 This was my first request when we talked about the shower with our builder @hill.farm.design & now that we’re in here, I can confidently say that it was 100% worth it! #bathroomdesign #bathroomremodel #bathroomdecor #bathroomrenovation
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It’s the heated shower bench for me 🧖‍♀️ Our new primary bath is finally finished & you can just find me here for the foreseeable future, k? 🫧 #bathroomdesign #bathroomrenovation #bathroomdecor
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#Ad The perfect celebratory cocktail! Chris is whipping up his special NYE cocktail, the Pomegranate Paloma Spritz with his favorite tequila, @lobos1707 Joven as the star of the show! Screenshot the end of the vid to save this recipe that I 100% think you need in your life, or find it below.  You can find Lobos 1707 Tequila & Mezcal at your local @totalwine or buy online with link here: https://bit.ly/ShopLobos1707 (linked in bio) #Lobos1707Holiday #Lobos1707NYE
POMEGRANATE PALOMA SPRITZ
To cocktail shaker add:
1 oz grapefruit juice
.25 oz pomegranate juice
1 oz simple syrup
1.5 oz Lobos 1707 Joven Tequila
ice
shake vigorously
rim glass with black salt
add pomegranate seeds to shaker
add mixture to glass
top with sparkling Rosé
garnish with dehydrate grapefruit wheel
Put on your party hat 🥳
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Our NEW fun, totally free 2022 Holiday Phone Wallpapers in collaboration with the incredible @rhianawni are on the blog ready for you to download, share with friends & enjoy & I hope you love this vibrant, festive set as much as I do! Happy holidays, friends!🎄
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Making a beautiful, moisturizing soap at home is almost TOO easy using the method I shared on the blog & it makes such a fun holiday gift idea for friends, neighbors, fam, teachers & anyone else in your life who likes a good pamper sesh. Head to the link in my bio if you need a fun, easy, zen holiday craftivity in your life rn 🧼🫧 #holidays #christmasdiy #diygifts #homemadesoap

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