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holiday gift guide : stocking stuffers (under $25)
ok one last gift guide, because i couldn’t resist putting together some smaller items under $25 — and they are ALL amazon prime so you don’t have to worry about them arriving in time, yay!
last year i did two stocking stuffer gift guides, for him and for her, but this year… i didn’t feel like it. so it’s mostly unisex! stockings can be so hard because you want them to be nice and fun and thoughtful but you also don’t want to spend a ton, right? i mostly went with useful items this year, i think maybe because i’m a mom lol? hope this helps you!
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holiday gift guide : for the cook
i think we are just on the verge of being done with holiday shopping! so hurry hurry, here are a bunch of pretty kitchen items for the chefs in your life.
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holiday gift guide : for the jetsetter
todays gift guide is for the travel obsessed friend or relative in your life — totally not me lol, but i do own packing cubes as you guys may remember lol. here are a bunch of items i think they would love! Read More
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holiday gift guide : for the entertainer
yes i’m a homebody but i also love to entertain, and even more than actually entertaining i love to collect beautiful items to serve my non existent guests — there are few things more satisfying than laying out all my pretty dishes for a party, i really think even more than actually using them! Read More
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how to make your own handwritten holiday card
this post is in partnership with mixbook
here are our holiday cards this year! i know holiday cards can feel corny but i really love sending them out now that we have arlo, and it’s just fun to have a little holiday ritual that involves my relatives we don’t get to see often. i love the tradition of setting up my little assembly line of my cards, envelopes and stamps, and addressing all my envelopes while watching xmas movies. Read More
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holiday gift guide : for the homebody
v much guilty of being a complete homebody most of the time, we love being home and comfy with all our comfort-inducing items, i put together this gift guide with simple comforts in mind. comfort!!! Read More
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a modern “cool kids” holiday table
this post is sponsored by bed bath & beyond
i am a little too excited about this! technically arlo is still a little young to be off on his own, but looking over at the little kids at their own table is one of the most adorable things in the world ever. today i am partnering with bed bath & beyond to share some tips for how to setup a kids table that looks cool enough for grownups to sit there!
you guys remember on broad city how abby was a bb&b aficionado? that’s me. i have a drawer full of coupons and i’m there every couple months to exchange my soda stream carbonators. i know the store can seem so massive and overwhelming, but it’s actually organized in a way that makes shopping really easy since the sections are all categorized. it’s def a one stop shop for holiday entertaining, i think a lot of people assume they just sell roasting pans and towels but they so many have gorgeous things i honestly struggled narrowing down what to use for the table.
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holiday gift guide : littles
i feel like i’m slacking already on gift guides, but here is the first one! i get asked for baby and kid gift ideas the most so i thought i’d start here 🙂 here are some things arlo loves and some things i really want to get him! Read More
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how to make your own instagram links in bio page
recently i realized it would be so helpful to have more links on my instagram bio, because i honestly spend way too big a portion of everyday referring people to shop my baby faves, shop my house, etc and it would be so much easier for me to have them all there — so i started looking into linktree and all of the alternatives and realized not only in order to customize them it would be $5 a month, but that it also basically takes the traffic away from your site which really seemed like a bummer. and not at all worth it.
since you do only get to have one link in your bio, it can be really limiting! i have lots of links to share! so i am so excited about having this now. it’s also easy enough that i can add temporary links or swap them out whenever i feel like it.
i am SO not wordpress or HTML savvy or anything like that, but i was able to make my own alternative in 10 minutes and it looks cute too! so i thought i would share how to do it in case you wanted to make one. the instructions are basically just to download this plugin, but hey if i can help one person then, like i’ve done my job.
(these instructions are for wordpress only, sorry!)Read More
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our master bedroom refresh
this post is sponsored by casper
ok so our bedroom was the first room we finished, you may remember the big reveal? i can’t help but wanna change things up over time (to be honest i’d love to swap out some of the furniture too but that will have to wait for now) so i decided to do some other updates! it feels the same but fresh to me and i’m really happy.
the updates were inspired by our brand new mattress, the Wave by Casper. we have a new tradition that we lay in bed on weekend mornings to watch tv and cuddle with arlo, just like i used to do as a kid too — when i was a kid my brother and i would lay on the couch and we’d ask our parents to “SET US UP!!!” which meant turn on cartoons, put blankets over us and give us a bowl of dry cheerios. arlo is loving getting tv time and we are loving our cuddles. the only issue is he has literally already spilled food a dozen times on our bed. (another new tradition is changing our sheets sunday evenings!) our mattress was looking pretty ragged so i was so excited to start fresh and actually use a mattress pad this time! Read More
