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Entertaining, Food, Home, Lifestyle, Style, Summer

Easy 4th of July Entertaining, Decorations and Food Ideas for Fuss-Free Holiday Fun!

4th of July may look a little bit different in our household this year thanks to baby boy’s impending arrival, but we’re still celebrating our favorite summer holiday by sharing this year’s festive 4th of July decorations and food spread for easy entertaining!

Entertaining, Food, Home, Lifestyle, Style, Summer

Easy Summer Entertaining, Tablescape & Food Ideas You’ll Love

Summer is here… well unofficially at least! And to celebrate we’re sharing our annual fun, easy, pretty summer backyard entertaining setup in hopes that we can inspire all your summer 2021 outdoor hangouts, with a little help from our favorite festive summer treats, Peanut M&M’S® Red White & Blue Mix and SKITTLES® America Mix! Come see all the summer entertaining, tablescape and food ideas you’ll love!

Entertaining, Food, Home, Lifestyle

The Best Orange Streusel Coffee Cake Recipe

A spring and Easter-perfect orange streusel coffee cake recipe that is not only mouthwateringly delicious, but completely unforgettable. Sweet, citrus flavors, cinnamon streusel and fluffy cake, oh my!

Mulled Wine by popular Phoenix life and style blog, Love and Specs: image of a woman holding a mulled wine gift basket filled with mulled wine, cinnamon sticks, cloves, oranges, and a bottle of honey.

DIY, Food, Holiday Favorites, Lifestyle

Easy Last-Minute Christmas Gift: DIY Mulled Wine Gift Basket

Searching for easy last-minute Christmas gift ideas that are as fun and festive as they are affordable? Look no further than our super cute for DIY mulled wine gift basket that’s filled with tasty goodies your friend, neighbor or co-worker would love!

Sparkling Ice Drinks by popular Phoenix lifestyle blog, Love and Specs: image of two gift baskets filled with Sparkling Ice drinks, cookies, drink mix in a mason jar, and pine sprigs with dried oranges.

DIY, Entertaining, Food, Holiday Favorites, Lifestyle

DIY Spiced Sparkling Ice Holiday Mocktail Gift Basket

We’re getting a head start on the holiday season by sharing an adorable DIY spiced sparkling holiday mocktail gift basket for friends or neighbors that’s as easy to whip up as it is fun to make!

Entertaining, Food, Home, Lifestyle

Our Husband vs. Wife Battle for the Best Easy Summer Cocktail with Q Mixers & Albertsons

To celebrate the summer season the best way we know how we’re mixing up not one, but two tastier than tasty summer cocktails, inspired by two of our favorite Q Mixers flavors from Albertsons! Come see the easy recipes for Chris’ refreshing Basil Lime Gin & Tonic and my bright, delicious Blood Orange Mezcal Mule and vote for which Carter cocktail is your favorite summer sipper!

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10 Creative Ways to Celebrate the Simple Wins or Major Milestones with Cinnamon Toast Crunch™ & Albertsons

In case you haven’t noticed, we’re really into celebration around here. Give us all the happy, all the time! We love it. We live for it. We thrive on it. We grow from it. Which is why, with a little help from someone we know will absolutely, positively put a smile on your face, Cinnamon Toast Crunch and our friends at our go-to neighborhood store for all of our celebration supplies, Albertsons, we’re slowing it down today to convince you that you can and should be celebrating the small wins, major milestones and everything in between. We’re also sharing our favorite creative, simple, easily executable ways to celebrate the little things, so you can freeze the moment!

DIY, Entertaining, Food, Holiday Favorites, Home, Lifestyle

How to Host a Winter & Holiday Season Bucket List Party

We’re taking this whole winter and holiday season bucket list idea up a notch by throwing a fun bucket list party for family and friends with the help of Chinet® so everyone you love can get in on the action! We’re showing you how we threw our own easy, fun-for-all-ages bucket list party complete with holiday decorations & tons of tasty treats, plus all the info you need to throw your own bucket list party with the ones you love this season, no fuss required!

Entertaining, Food, Holiday Favorites, Home

Easy Holiday Hosting Ideas with Hillshire® Snacking & Albertsons

Holiday hosting hacks, tips, tricks and ideas that make it easier for us to entertain and connect with the people we love throughout the holiday season are kind of our jam, which is why I’m so excited to share this fun little hosting idea that has made our hosting lives so much easier, with help from our friends at Hillshire® Snacking. This is the year we master this holiday hosting thing together, guys!  

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!

Entertaining, Food, Holiday Favorites, Home, Lifestyle

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!

How to Make the Best Root Beer Float, a recipe featured by top Phoenix life and style blog, Love and Specs

Entertaining, Food, Home

Recreating Childhood Magic With a Summer-Inspired A&W Root Beer Float Party

We couldn’t think of a better way to kick off the summer season than by taking a trip down memory lane in celebration of A&W Root Beer’s 100th anniversary, and throwing one epic backyard root beer float party! When we were young an A&W Root Beer float was the ultimate sign of summer celebration, so we’re showing you how to recreate this easy, delicious root beer float party in your own backyard this season, perfect for entertaining family and friends of all ages!

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