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The Best After-Christmas Sales to Shop Right Now

We’re back from a much-needed holiday vacation, and we’re rounding up some of the best after Christmas sales and deals currently taking place across the web and in stores, and showing you some of our favorite items from said winter sales to help you sift through the noise and get to the good stuff!

Holiday Favorites, Lifestyle, Men’s Favorites, Style, Winter

Holiday Party Outfits

Who’s ready to party? We are! We are! We’re serving up some fun, festive holiday party outfit ideas for him and her that are anything but boring. So get ready to deck the halls, celebrate the season and clink a glass or two with friends, family and co-workers in style!

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!

Men’s Favorites, Style, Winter

Casual Winter Outfits for Him & Her

Now that Halloween has come and gone, we’re ready to step into November and the cold weather season in style and get into our casual winter outfit favorites for him and her! Velvet, boots and a cool winter color palette, oh my!

Fall, Lifestyle, Men’s Favorites, Style, Travel

Fall Colors Weekend Getaway: Northern Michigan

In search of the very best weekend getaway this season to see the fall colors? We’re telling you all you need to know about what we think is the very best quaint, cozy little town in the country to see the best fall colors, and it’s right in our beloved Northern Michigan!

Fall, Men’s Favorites, Style

Back to School

We may be long past our younger school days, but that can’t stop us from rounding up our best back to school outfits for him and her and reminiscing about all of our favorite fall activities when school was back in session!

Style, Summer

Casual Summer Style

It’s all about casual summer style today and perfecting the art of polished casual style with one of my favorite striped summer tops, high-waisted denim and comfy, cute pink slide sandals!

Fall, Style, Summer

Summer to Fall Transition Outfit

You may still be savoring summer, but I’ve got my shopping eye on summer to fall transitional outfits and the perfect pieces that can pull double season duty, like the silver huarache mule that I can’t stop wearing from Latigo!

Style, Summer

Our New Look + The Bib Top Trend

Today’s post is all about our new look here on Love + Specs, my last few days on Walloon Lake in Northern Michigan and my love for the bib top trend.

Men’s Favorites, Style, Summer

Beat The Heat: His & Hers Summer Style Staples

The heat wave has officially hit Phoenix, which means we’re pulling out all of our favorite summer style staples to stay cool and look perfectly polished all summer long!

Lifestyle, Spring, Style, Summer, Travel

Sugar Reef, Bequia

Looking for the perfect relaxing Caribbean getaway? Look no further than Sugar Reef on the secluded, tranquil island of Bequia. We’re telling you all about this beautiful estate and our incredible time at Sugar Reef Bequia.

Style, Summer

Summer Date Night Dress

Talking about our vacation withdrawals, our post-vacation date night and the summer dress from the Who What Wear collection at Target that I can’t live without!

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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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