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how we traveled safely during quarantine

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how to deep clean your dish rags

35+ things to do while you’re stuck at home with kids

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35+ things to do while you’re stuck at home with kids

kitchen drawer video tour

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kitchen drawer video tour

5 time-saving mom hacks

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5 time-saving mom hacks

disneyland with a toddler

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disneyland with a toddler

7 ways to cozy up your bedroom for fall

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7 ways to cozy up your bedroom for fall

how i’ve been enhancing my bedtime routine

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how i’ve been enhancing my bedtime routine

how we babyproofed our house

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how we babyproofed our house

how to choose the perfect white paint

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how to choose the perfect white paint

arlo’s bedtime routine (at 18 months)

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arlo’s bedtime routine (at 18 months)

how to make your own handwritten holiday card

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how to make your own handwritten holiday card

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bringing a new baby home to cats

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bringing a new baby home to cats

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a trick or treat spritz! every year i bring myself

a trick or treat spritz! every year i bring myself a drink for trick or treating, but this year i have the CUTEST CUP EVER - this is the @shopsimplemodern harvest collection!!! it’s cupholder friendly and has double wall insulation to keep drinks cold or warm for hours. they come in four cute spooky designs, obviously the dancing skeletons is my fave though.

if you want the link sent straight to your DMs, comment NEED
or shop them on my LTK https://liketk.it/4TpXc

🎃 and recipe for my trick or treat spritz! 🎃
- ice
- aperol
- prosecco
- blood orange italian soda
- garnish with cinnamon sticks (and GUMMY EYEBALLS IF YOU DARE)

#simplemodernpartner #HarvestCollection

izzy has the best uncle ever, he made this video f

izzy has the best uncle ever, he made this video for her 2nd birthday and i can’t not cry every time i watch it! i had to share! he totally captured her joy and light and her barbie and her cute little booty shake she can’t help but do all day 🥹 thank you @bestofbhorror

the entry built-in in pictures! our room feels SO

the entry built-in in pictures! our room feels SO much bigger, now you gotta swipe all the way through to see the before the day we moved in 🫣

slowly turning our little house in the valley into my coastal beach cottage lol

my baby is 2 😭 izzy you are such a freaking del

my baby is 2 😭 izzy you are such a freaking delight— the absolute sunshine of our house and our lives, we are all enamored with you and can’t get enough because of your infectious joy.

our family is so much better with you in it 🥹

the most hilarious, affectionate, spunky, scrappy, wild, strong willed tiny little diva and the girliest girly girl there ever girl. i wish you all the barbie and bows and bubbles in the world 🎀💕

#izzyboomer

the REVEAL of our built-in!!! we gained soooo mu

the REVEAL of our built-in!!!

we gained soooo much storage, we finally have a place for our shoes, izzy’s toys, our board games, our office supplies, i’ll do a full tour of the inside once it’s actually a little organized.

ps i am sooo excited i can decorate the little nook for xmas!!!! 🥹

the details —

@ikea furniture pieces we used : 2 shallow depth pax wardrobes, 1 kallax bench with doors, 1 billy bookcase

doors and trim and birch bench top all made by my Tasker on @taskrabbit (the shallow depth pax units only have sliding doors so we made them from scratch, they’re MDF!)

paint color is @sherwinwilliams eventide

#ikeahack #ikeahackers #entryway #entrywaydesign #mudroom

our entryway built-in PART 2!!!! there are lots of

our entryway built-in PART 2!!!! there are lots of incredibly talented power tool wielding moms on instagram, but that’s not me so instead i rely on @taskrabbit for like every sort of task i either can’t do or don’t want to do 😆 after assembling the cabinets and painting, our Tasker did the rest -

- built MDF doors from scratch
- built all the trim pieces
- cut out the baseboard behind the bench so it would sit flush
- constructed the most gorge piece of birch for the benchtop
- built paneling and shelving for above the bench
- hung the peg rails
- fixed the floor that was unstained under the original cabinet we removed
- replaced our disgusting old totally non-aesthetic wall vent
(and not seen — he also moved outlets for us so we can still use them!!)

if you haven’t used @taskrabbit, i really do swear by it! we’ve had them clean up after parties, hang christmas lights, replace toilets, pick up a birthday dinner from a restaurant far away, even break down and haul away our cardboard — like, literally everything 😆

BUILT IN REVEAL coming next in part 3!!!!

#TaskrabbitPartner

our entryway built-in PART ONE!!! we have needed

our entryway built-in PART ONE!!!

we have needed to do this ever since the day we moved in, this wall and the original cabinet here was just such a giant waste of space and we have so much stuff and so little storage.

it took a LOT of measuring (and quadruple checking) to come up with a design of ikea cabinets that would fit in this space and not be too deep for our tiny corner where the door is.

we did two shallow depth pax cabinets (but need doors built because this size pax doesn’t have regular doors ofc), one kallax shelf on its side to be the bench and a tiny little billy bookshelf on the right to fit in our tiny corner.

next we decided on the paint — i wanted to change it up from a cream color i’d probably typically go with and went with @sherwinwilliams eventide!

and yes you can paint ikea furniture but you gotta sand and prime SOOOO MUCH. i used STIX primer and it was a loooong super boring process.

next up i’m building the doors and the trim pieces!!! LOL JK i’m ABSOLUTELY NOT CAPABLE OF THAT AND WE ALL KNOW IT!!!!

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