If I could, I would have fresh flowers in every room of my house. They add color and texture and scent and life and always make a room feel more lived in and complete. Gorgeous flower arrangements can be super expensive so I typically just find… Continue Reading…how to make grocery store flowers look fancy
Have you read the children’s book called I Had A Favorite Dress? It’s the cutest. In the story, the girl outgrows her favorite dress and turns it first into a new shirt, then a skirt, then a hair bow and so on. The illustrations… Continue Reading…DIY Pillow From a Favorite T-shirt
Do you all love instagram? It’s easily my favorite social media app and my slight addiction. I love posting and interacting, of course, but I equally love scrolling through my feed and being inspired over and over and over again. When choosing feeds to follow,… Continue Reading…19 must-follow instagrammers
Happy first day of Fall! I feel like I’ve been in fall mode for a few weeks now (what with the fall home tour and fall outfits being the topic of conversation around here) so I’m pleased that it is officially my favorite season of all.… Continue Reading…First Day of Fall (free prints and giveaway winner!)
If I could only dress for one season, I would always and forever choose fall. As much as I love the sun, what I love even more are jeans and layers and boots and sweaters. Since we can all use a few new outfit ideas,… Continue Reading…Seven Favorite Wearable Outfits For Fall (with current sources!)
This is a big week around blogland filled with lovely fall-ified homes. After posting my home tour on Monday (see it here), it has been so fun to pop around each day peeking into the rooms of dozens of bloggers. I’ve grabbed a few of my favorite images… Continue Reading…favorites so far in the fall house tour
Happy Fall my friends! Each season a bunch of bloggers join together to share fall decorating ideas. The tour is FULL of gorgeous – yet real life – homes with inspiration galore. Laura at Finding Home starts things off (see her home here) and we’ve… Continue Reading…fall house tour 2015
This week is Make Your Bed week hosted by Crane + Conopy, an online resource for gorgeous bedding at affordable price points. They generously sent me a new white duvet and shams with handsome gray piping detail (see it here) which looks so crisp on a… Continue Reading…the beauty of an unmade bed
Months ago I spotted the most striking watercolor birthstone artwork in the Minted catalog. The collection caught my eye and I kept coming back to it trying to decide where I could put a print or two in our house. I really loved all of them,… Continue Reading…the annoying framing saga of my new favorite artwork
This summer, my newest obsession has been listening to audio books. I listened first to this one, then this, this and this (even though I had already read it and seen the move. It was so fantastic even for a second time and maybe even… Continue Reading…a book recommendation for you
Well, it’s back to school season. We still have two weeks before our kids head back, but it seems like facebook and instagram are filled each day with smiling kiddos in new shoes wearing too-big backpacks starting off their new school year. In honor of our… Continue Reading…Fun freebie: Back to school clip art
My friend Julie and I have a joke: every time she texts me with a question, the answer appears on the blog a few days later. So either she asks questions that I’m totally thinking about at the same time OR her question spurs on a blog post… Continue Reading…Doing the half-tuck (how to wear your shirt)
You all know I’m a forever-and-always neutral girl. But mixed in, I usually have a certain color I’m drawn to at the moment. Sometimes it’s blue (usually it’s blue), sometimes mustardy-yellow, once it was orangey/peach. Right now, I’m feeling emerald green. This deep, pure, bright-ish-but-not-too-bright… Continue Reading…Inspired by Emeralds
Sometimes I look back at the post archives on the blog and think it’s fun to see what was going on one year, two years, even four years ago to the date. When I came across this post from August 15, 2011, it felt like a good… Continue Reading…Four years ago: blogs are like …
Slowly but surely, Audrey’s room is coming along. The gallery wall really stepped things up a notch and it got me motivated to add some cuteness to the other walls. When you have one side of the room filled with art, it makes knowing what to… Continue Reading…DIY Bulletin Board
