Is your New Year’s resolution to get your life organized? Take control of your paper clutter BEFORE Christmas. Today, I want to share some tips to help you organize your documents. I do think that when it comes to organization that we make it a lot harder than needs to be. As many of you know, we have a small house, 1100 square feet, with no office. We used to have a small secretary desk that we no longer have. However, we do have a writing desk in our upstairs family room that the kids use to color or do projects on. Many of you have asked what we do with our documents and where I ... Read More
Presets, Family Pictures and Printing Photos
I wanted to do a follow-up post on Preset's, printing family photo's and some new frames we added to our front room! My goal with this post is to answer common questions I have been getting about my photos. And I thought with Christmas around the corner printing photos is something a lot of us are looking to do. I know both of our parents and grandparents love to get a new family photo of us. So I will share where I have them printed and how to make your photos look 100% better! Common Preset and Photo Questions- What is a Preset? It is a set edit that you use in Lightroom. They ... Read More
Trader Joe’s Christmas Shopping List!
New season. New Trader Joe's Shopping List! I wasn't going to do a Trader Joe's Christmas Shopping List….but a lot of you asked for it! And I am so glad you did. I found some really fun new Christmas items, thanks to you! And I ended up hosting our book club for December and strictly used all Trader Joe's items. I have learned from years of hosting parties that the easier I make it the happier EVERYONE is! Well, Mainly me. And Kevin, because he helps me a lot. I like to get ready-made food's and Trade Joe's some of the best holiday party foods! Simple things that can go in the crock-pot to ... Read More
DIY Gift Idea- Macrame Hanging Plant Holder
I joined a very creative group of bloggers for a Mystery Box Challenge! The challenge was for us to box up and ship anything that we weren't using anymore and send it to another blogger (that was randomly selected). This idea excited me for a couple reasons. #1- I hope that is would inspire you to do something like this with your friends! I get asked all the time to share ideas of repurposing things. So this entire "mystery box idea" is exactly that, to get creative with random things! #2- It is a challenge sometimes to use what you have and it sure is a good exercise for our brains! Which I ... Read More
Christmas Gift Guide for Her
This Christmas gift guide is basically all my favorite things! Things that I get asked about over and over by all of you! Or things that I can't live without or would love to get for a gift. I hope you like it! Let me know what is your favorite thing on the list or what you are giving to others! (You can click on an image below to shop!) JavaScript is currently disabled in this browser. Reactivate it to view this content. #1- Initial Personalized Necklace- I have have THIS initial necklace that I get asked about daily. It was a gift and was pretty pricey. I ... Read More
Complete Christmas Home Tour with VIDEO and Favorite Things
Hello! Today is last of my Christmas Home Tours! So I thought I would combine all of them and do like a walking tour for you. I also included a 3 minute video of our Christmas Home Tour! So you can see the complete layout of our 1200 square foot cape in Connecticut. I always wonder how homes I see flow together, hopefully you do too and you enjoy this type of tour today. I am also sharing my favorite thing I did with my Christmas Decor this year and YOUR favorite thing. I am basing your favorite thing from the comments I get, the photo's I see of you duplicating what I did or the ... Read More
Bedroom Makeover- Dark Furniture to Bright White with Wallpaper Accent Wall
I am so, so, soooooo very excited to show you this bedroom makeover! This room belongs to neighbors and good friends of mine. We took their room from being dark and cramped to light and bright! Best part- we kept ALL the same furniture! We painted the dark wood bedroom set all white, did a little DIY to the headboard and wallpapered the main focal point wall with temporary wallpaper. It did NOT happen overnight. It took many hours to paint the furniture and I will share the details. And many hours on my part installing the wallpaper. But, the wallpaper really makes the room feel complete ... Read More
12 of the Most Toxic Things in your Home and How to Change It!
I decided to finally write a post that I have been wanting to write about the toxic things in our homes. Two women who I met at different occasions and started talking to influenced this post and me! I have learned a lot from them. One is a scientist and one is a breast cancer survivor. I asked them what the most toxic things are in our homes were and what the number one thing was they would change! I shared it all in this blog post. I want to first say that I am in no-way perfect in any of these. But I am trying and making myself informed. I am not judging anyone who has any of these ... Read More
Winter Master Bedroom and Christmas Kids Room
Today we are going to look into two bedrooms in our little cape! Our master bedroom- turned into a Winter Master Bedroom. And Finn's bedroom all decked out for a fun Kids Christmas Bedroom! I shouldn't say "all decked out" I added a couple little things. But he does have a really cute tree so it feels decked out and super festive. We spend a lot of time in both of these room's, so I love to add some twinkle lights and a little Christmas decor. Actually in a small, 1200 square foot home you spend a lot of time in EVERY ROOM! I am also joining 15 other bloggers to share their Christmas ... Read More
Affordable Christmas Cards and Tips for Photos- Editing and Presets
We took our Christmas Card photo's the other day at our local beach. I have actually taken all of our Christmas card photos for the past three years and I am IN the photo! You know I am pretty passionate about mom's getting in the picture. So I thought I would share how you can take your own family pictures too. And I am in LOVE with our Christmas Cards this year. They are my favorite. Maybe because it was the quickest picture and they are super affordable. The best price I have ever paid for Christmas Cards and the fastest it took to order them. And on this post you can purchase the exact ... Read More
