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Cozy, Cottage-Inspired Thanksgiving & Friendsgiving Table Decor Ideas

We’re pretty in love with all that is Thanksgiving, so in celebration of the upcoming holiday we’re sharing an easy, cozy, cottage-inspired Thanksgiving or Friendsgiving table tablescape full of affordable table top finds and simple decor and centerpiece ideas for creating an enchanting, cottage-inspired Thanksgiving table that wows!

Entertaining, Food, Holiday Favorites, Home, Lifestyle

A Cozy, Festive Holiday Coffee Bar with Starbucks® Peppermint Mocha Flavored Coffee & Albertsons

It’s November 1st which means that I can now start celebrating the holiday season in my little corner of the internet with reckless abandon! The thing I love most about the holiday season is that it gives me the chance to gather with the people I love, and when those celebrations happen at our house it’s bliss! Which is why I’m so excited to kick off this special season of gathering with a cozy holiday coffee bar tutorial for you built around the festive coffee blend that fills my cup and my heart with joy throughout the holiday season: Starbucks® Peppermint Mocha Flavored Ground Coffee at Albertsons. Coffee lovers unite!

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Easy, Fun 4th of July Party Ideas, Decorations, Recipes & More!

4th of July week here on Love & Specs continues with something we’re SO excited to share – all the easy, cottage-perfect 4th of July tabletop decor and party ideas and inspiration you can handle complete with fun, festive decorations galore, tasty, effortless recipes and food ideas and a detailed breakdown of all of the tips, tricks and sources!

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Happy Holidays from Us + Our Favorite Winter Sweaters!

As everyone heads home to start the holiday celebrations, we wanted to take a minute to thank you, from the bottom of our hearts, for being here with us this year with some extra lovey-dovey, Christmas-inspired snaps together and a rundown of our favorite cozy winter sweaters for men and women to keep you warm and snuggly on all those cold weather winter travels!

Fun and FREE Christmas Phone Wallpapers featured by top Phoenix lifestyle blog, Love and Specs

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Fun and FREE Winter and Christmas Phone Wallpapers

Our free phone wallpapers/backgrounds for the holiday and winter season are here! Thanks to the genius illustrations of artist Rhian Awni, we got to create six fun, cute, and totally festive holiday and winter wallpaper designs for your cell phone that will keep you smiling all season long. All totally free, and all guaranteed to bring the cheer!

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

An Easy Christmas Craft & DIY Scented Candle You’ll Love!

One of the easiest, most awesome Christmas crafts is here and it also happens to smell heavenly! These adorable little DIY scented candles or holiday “scent pots” as well call them serve as beautiful, simple holiday decor and will make your home smell so good this holiday season!

DIY Yarn Christmas Trees tutorial featured by top Phoenix interior design blog, Love and Specs.

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DIY Yarn Christmas Trees

Get ready for the most fun, easy, lovable holiday home decor DIY ever! We love that decorative yarn/wool/felt trees have gained in popularity in recent holiday seasons, so we’re showing you exactly how to create these holiday decor gems in a matter of minutes!

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10 Guest Bedroom Ideas for the Holidays with Persil® ProClean® Laundry Detergent

Holiday season is here and for us, that means lots and lots of house guests! But as much as we absolutely love it, hosting guests isn’t always easy, which is why we’re hitting you with our 10 easy, affordable, creative guest bedroom ideas and tips for making your guests feel at home this holiday season with some major help from Persil® ProClean® Laundry Detergent and Persil® ProClean® Power-Caps®.

Beauty + Grooming, Food, Holiday Favorites, Style, Winter

Awesome Last-Minute Gifts Under $50 for Her

Procrastinators, unite! We rounded up tons of awesome last-minute gift ideas for her (i.e. the wife/sister/girlfriend/co-worker/mom in your life) that will not only make it in time for Christmas with no rush shipping required, but are also all under $50 so you won’t break the bank!

Men’s Favorites, Style, Winter

Fun Cold Weather Outfits For Men & Women

While you’re gearing up for your upcoming winter travel, we’re helping you pack for that cold winter weather with confidence and showing you some fun, casual cold weather outfits for men and women that will have you smiling through that snowfall!

Holiday Favorites, Lifestyle

Thanksgiving: 3 Things We’re Thankful For This Year

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, we’re getting a little bit personal and talking about what we’re especially thankful for this year and how we get through the trials and tribulations in life, and sharing some fun holiday family photos!

Lifestyle, Style, Winter

New Year, New Resolutions

As we say goodbye to 2016 and welcome the New Year, we reflect on an incredible year filled with major milestones and so much lived and learned. We’re also talking about our New Year’s resolutions!

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I still can’t believe she’s here and she’s all ours @olcartier ! Theophilia “Tilly” James, may you have your mom’s spunk & your dad’s level head. That should keep you sticking to only the good kinda trouble 😉 Let this be your sign that the baby-in-a-bucket photos are absolutely equal parts ridiculous & adorable & 100% worth the effort it takes to drag everyone out of the house 1 week postpartum 🥰 @taq.photography.llc I love you to the moon for always filling these first months with so much joy! #newbornphotography #babygirl #babyphotography #momlife #cottagestyle
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I can’t even believe I’m writing this. I just can’t believe it. We’re still so shocked & sad & just plain, all around devastated. It still kind of doesn’t feel real, but the hard truth is, it is real. And it sucks. Our beloved pup Elvis, the guy who has brought so much love & joy & mischief & laughter into our home & our family for the last 2 years crossed the rainbow bridge this week after a shock cancer diagnoses and an all too quick decline. We never in a million years thought that the pup we brought home 2 years ago, the dog we envisioned growing up with our kids, being a central part of our family dynamic and our memories for years and years to come, would leave us this soon. It’s not fair. He didn’t deserve this. He was always so healthy & so loved & the helplessness, sadness & anger we’ve felt over these last few months as Elvis declined & we got his diagnosis was just beyond brutal. I haven’t really been able to find the meaning in it right now, but what I do know is that we loved him with our whole hearts, and so did everyone else. And I still believe that although loving something, anything this much can be hard & heartbreaking at times, it’s worth it every single time. I’d do it all over again for 2 years with Elvie by my side & so would Chris. He was truly a 1 in a million companion. 🌈
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All about this perfect neutral paint color on the blog! Link is in my bio. We gave this dresser in our bedroom a little paint facelift & tried the color “Shiitake” by @sherwinwilliams . And we’re LOVING it! It’s such a beautiful grey-beige & would be so good in so many different spaces. #sherwinwilliamsshiitake #swshiitake #neutralpaintcolor #bedroompaint #cottagestyle #shiitakepaintcolor
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On the blog now w/ links to decor sources! 👩‍🍼

We’ve made so many special memories in this nursery with Emmet and I can’t wait to reimagine the space for our sweet baby girl! The entire design plan w/ links to all of the decor sources are on the blog (link in my bio) & I’m so excited for everything to start coming to life in here 💕 #babygirl #nurserydecor #babyblog #nursery #nurserydesign
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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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