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Cute Backgrounds & Wallpapers, Holiday Favorites, Lifestyle

Cute, Free Valentine’s Day Phone Wallpapers & Desktop Backgrounds for a Season of Love!

I am beyond excited to share our very first cute, fun and totally free Valentine’s Day phone wallpaper and desktop background set with you guys so you can spend the season of love enjoying all the hearts, kisses, flowers, pink, purple and puppy love your heart can handle!

Home, Home Decor

Sunny Cottage Style Summer Decor Ideas to Love

Those summer scenes we daydream about during the winter months may look a little bit different this year, but the arrival of the punchy, peppy summer decor I love so much is giving me seriously happy summer feels from behind my keyboard! I’m sharing tons of my favorite cottage style summer decor finds and ideas from around the web in hopes that it might inspire some fun summer decor daydreams of your own or just inject a little summer sunshine into your day!

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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!

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Cottage Style Spring Home Decor to Love: Floral Prints, Pastels & Woven Accents Galore!

The spring season is my favorite time of year to refresh and stock up on home decor and that’s definitely because the home decor that hits the shelves (and the web) during this magical time of year definitely speaks to a cottage style lover like myself, with tons of pretty florals, pastels, fresh greenery and woven accents in abundance! Spring has pretty much arrived here in Phoenix, but just in case you’re stuck in colder climates we’re here to lift your spirits by rounding up some fun and awesomely affordable spring-inspired cottage decor finds, so you can inject some spring sunshine into your home no matter what the weather looks like outside your window and save some pennies, too!

Holiday Favorites, Home, Home Decor, Lifestyle

Cottage Cute Valentine’s Day Home Decor Ideas You’ll Love All Year Round

My favorite season for home decor? Valentine’s Day season! I absolutely love capitalizing on the excess of heart prints, the pastel color palette and the romantic, playful decor pieces that hit the shelves and the web this time of year, so today I’m rounding up all of my favorite cottage style Valentine’s Day home decorations that you’ll love all year round!

Home, Home Decor

Spring Cottage Style Home Decor We Love

Spring always ushers in an abundance of fun, romantic, gorgeous cottage style home decor pieces to love, so we’re capitalizing today by rounding up all of the fresh, spring-ready, cottage-inspired home decor pieces from around the web that we’ve fallen in love with this season. Cottage style lovers unite!

Holiday Favorites, Home, Home Decor, Lifestyle

Valentine’s Day Home Decor You’ll Love All Year Round

Valentine’s Day holds a special place in my heart – I’ve always looked forward to this time of year when the sweet cards, candy, heart-covered clothing, flowers galore and pink decor would start to hit the shelves! So today I’m sharing the love and rounding up my very favorite Valentine’s Day-inspired home decor items that are out there right now that also happen to be tasteful and subtle enough to feel totally appropriate and not even a little bit obnoxious (in my humble opinion) in your home all year round. Just doing my best to fill your entire year with a little more love!

Spring, Style, Winter

Spring Fun Meets Winter Function

Can’t wait for spring and spring outfits to come, but stuck in winter weather for the foreseeable future? We know, it’s a bummer! But you can turn that frown upside down because today’s post is all about how to have fun with color and inject that spring pep in your step (and outfit) while you’re still battling those freezing temps!

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!

Fall, Men’s Favorites, Style, Winter

Fall & Winter Wedding Guest Outfits

Fall and winter weddings and holiday parties are the best, but do you get stuck wondering what to wear to a fall wedding or winter party? From long sleeve midi dresses to berry lips to the “new” blue suit to pocket squares, we’ve got you covered in this post all about dressing up for those special fall and winter occasions! 

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!

Fall, Style

Fall Outfit Inspiration

Sharing some fall outfit inspiration today with a beautiful embroidered, statement sleeve top and some seriously bold wide-leg pants from Anthropologie and rounding up some of my other favorite fall fashion finds from Anthro!

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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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Hello, dream mattress! Our new eco-friendly mattress, the Organica from @amerisleep is here & I don’t think I’ve been this excited about a home upgrade in a loooong time! Since we’ve been sleeping on the Organica for the last month, we’ve NEVER slept more soundly. It’s such a game-changer! Shipping was also so fast & easy, Organica is made with all natural latex & eco-friendly materials so we can feel good about what we’re sleeping on every night & it sleeps cool & comfortable, just the way we like it. If you can’t reach me don’t worry, I’m just napping 😴 #amerisleep #amerisleeppartner #mattressinabox #madeintheusa #fiberglassfree #sleeporganic #bestmattress #sustainableproducts

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