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Weekend Edition – Essentialism, Office Spaces & Eames Loungers

Welcome to the Weekend Edition where I share everything from design ideas, home decor inspiration, and DIY, to life happenings, products I am loving, organization tips, health and wellness, and really any other topic as it comes to mind. This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. For more information, see my disclosures here.  A little housekeeping to get out of the way at the top - we have been terribly inconsistent recently - thanks ... life. The word for the…

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Weekend Edition – Mini Wreaths, Pie Year Round & The Mountain is You

Welcome to the Weekend Edition where I share everything from design ideas, home decor inspiration, and DIY, to life happenings, products I am loving, organization tips, health and wellness, and really any other topic as it comes to mind. This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. For more information, see my disclosures here.  A peak at Christmas around our house. We decorated for Christmas over Thanksgiving weekend and most years I like to add a little something new to my…

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Weekend Edition – Nashville, Wallpaper Love, Pillow Talk

Welcome to the Weekend Edition where I share everything from design ideas, home decor inspiration, and DIY, to life happenings, products I am loving, organization tips, health and wellness, and really any other topic as it comes to mind. This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. For more information, see my disclosures here.  It's peony season and we rearranged our living room into a new layout we are loving a few weeks ago. That makes me one happy person. May…

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Weekend Edition – Earth Life, Before & Afters, Feeling Springy

Welcome to The Weekend Edition where I share everything from design ideas, home decor inspiration, and DIY, to life happenings, products I am loving, organization tips, health and wellness, and really any other topic as it comes to mind. This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. For more information, see my disclosures here.  Warm, sunny spring days are so good for the soul. I always forget how quickly it can shift my mood, until it does. We've lucked out recently…

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Weekend Edition – Life Update, Summer Planning, and Are We Still Doing DIY Projects?

Welcome to The Weekend Edition where I share everything from design ideas, home decor inspiration, and DIY, to life happenings, products I am loving, organization tips, health and wellness, and really any other topic as it comes to mind. This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. For more information, see my disclosures here.  Life Lately It's been 5 months since I wrote a blog post! I'm back and want to get into a routine of posting regularly again because I…

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My 10 Newborn Essentials

Now that we are through the first month (!) of Leo's life I feel comfortable sharing our must-have items. These are truly the items where without them the last month would have been so much harder! We really tried to focus on buying the essentials before Leo was born because we a) didn't know what items he would prefer and didn't want to buy a bunch of things without knowing him and b) tend to lean more minimalist in our…

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Hello, Leo!

Baby BOY arrived on September 14th at 6:41pm, weighing 7lbs 6oz and 21.25 inches long. Leo William, we love you so! We were so sure baby was a girl for some reason, but we are so very happy our little guy is here. He is the prefect addition to our family and just who our hearts were waiting for. As I am writing this Leo is just over 2 weeks old. 2 weeks! Time really does fly. How did we…

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Pregnancy After Loss

After three miscarriages, once I was pregnant for the fourth time (and stayed pregnant) I thought I would be full of joy and happiness. I was wrong. The thing is, I certainly do feel joy and happiness for this pregnancy, but it has been tinged with fear, anxiety, worry, sorrow and guilt too. Pregnancy after loss has been a very difficult season for me. The first 12 weeks of this pregnancy I thought for sure we would lose the baby,…

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Baby Update – 2nd & 3rd Trimester Recap

It's been a while (almost 20 weeks!) since I last gave an update on the blog about this pregnancy. I'm almost 38 weeks and I thought it was about time for another update. The baby could come at any time at this point, which is surreal, extremely exciting, and nerve wracking all at the same time. 2nd Trimester 17 weeks, 20 weeks, 26 weeks (the growth between 17 and 26 weeks was a lot!!) The second trimester honestly flew by…

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Weekend Edition

Welcome to The Weekend Edition where I share everything from design ideas, home decor inspiration, and DIY, to life happenings, products I am loving, organization tips, health and wellness, and really any other topic as it comes to mind. This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. For more information, see my disclosures here.  Last week I paused my content to give those in the BIPOC community space to voice what’s truly important. I spent time learning, unlearning, and further educating…