The countdown is on: 19 days 'til Christmas! Who's excited??? *we all raise hands wildly and cheers eggnog* We've decked the halls...TBH, we've had the halls decked since the day after Halloween. J used to be soooo against this so as to not "detract" from Thanksgiving (his #1 holiday), but I finally convinced him to open that mindset up a bit. It's … [Read more...]
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Gallery Walls 101: How to Master your Gallery Walls with Shutterfly
If I wasn't a full time blogger, I'd be a full time gallery wall maker. No joke, yo! This girl is such a sucker for a good gallery wall. I loveloveloved a good gallery before I even knew it was a "thing," too. For my freshman year dorm room (a big deal for collegiettes), my *entire wall* over my bed became a gallery of photographs, tacked up with … [Read more...]
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9 Unexpected, Funny Things You Argue About After Moving In Together
May signifies the one-year-anniversary of a lotta things. Namely, graduating college, buying a house, and moving in together with my then-fiancé. #phew. We had had a *brief* taste of what cohabiting together would be like one summer when I crashed at his apartment so I could easily commute to my internship. I figured if we made it out alive after … [Read more...]
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The 14 Keys to *Really* Spring Cleaning
Spring has SPRUNG! And with it, all the fun spring things. Namely, spring style, spring allergies, and spring cleaning galore. We talked a little about spring style here and here. Spring allergies are here full force; turns out, I actually ended up having an emergency trip to the eye doctor yesterday morning, because my eye allergies turned into a … [Read more...]
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HOUSE TOUR: Our Master Bedroom
WHAT A WEEK. A quick personal note before diving into the house tour...I'm beat. ICYMI, I was in NYC all day yesterday for brand meetings and a speaking engagement at Hofstra University (shoutout to CUR's first intern, Sarah, for making that happen!). What y'all didn't see on Snapchat and Instastories was me hot-messing my way through the streets … [Read more...]
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House Tour: Home Office Decor Ideas
I am SO BEYOND STOKED to share this post with you guys (finally)! First off, it's just been a long time coming. I started unveiling rooms of our house one-by-one in June of 2016. Y'all. That was almost a year ago already. Excuse me 2017, but can ya slow the heck down for a hot sec?!? My home office decor was always later on the list, because it … [Read more...]
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5 Cleaning Hacks using Bleach (for Millennials with no time!)
You don't need me to tell ya that adulting ain't easy. The glory days of chores when "sweep floor" or "fold laundry" were the hard ones are looooong gone, and now the choice is: do I step up my ish and actually learn how to thoroughly *clean*, or do I skate through life pushing things under rugs (literally), living the pretense of a clean life but … [Read more...]
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HOUSE TOUR: Our Guest Room
Christmas is THIS WEEK, y'all. Where the heck has time gone?! Santa, I've been real good. I'll take a Kate Spade gift card. ;) We've been unveiling our house tour room-by-room as our house becomes a home; today I'm sharing our guest room! I lovelovelove our guest room because it is #Blessed with natural light. We're slowly but surely turning it … [Read more...]
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Christmas Home Decor Tour
THE COUNTDOWN IS ON. Christmas is 10 days away. Like...what?!?! Am I the only one *completely* unprepared for this?! Dear Lord baby Jesus, can we postpone until, like, March so I have all of my ish together before your arrival? While I was in school, I SO desperately wanted to go all out with Christmas decor. I had a mini purple tree with maybe … [Read more...]
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HOUSE TOUR: Basement + Bar Cart
Guess what's baaaaaack??? Our house tour! It's been a hot sec since a room has been revealed, and honestly, it's because sodangmuch has been happening around these rosy parts (like BossPitch), and sodangmuch has been happening for us personally, so it's been hard to keep a house photo-ready, ya feel? But today, I'm stoked to be unveiling one of our … [Read more...]
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HOME TOUR: Kitchen + Dining Room
TGIF. Very excited that it's time for another unveiling of our house tour as our house becomes a home, room by room! ICYMI, J and I are getting married in T-minus 8 days (!!!), and I've been showing y'all the lay of the land of our new house in a fun lil' series of room reveals. Today, we're playing a game of "spot the traveling donuts" in our … [Read more...]
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HOME TOUR: Living Room
HAPPY MONDAY, Y'ALL. Was it just me, or was last week's 4-day workweek the longest workweek ever. There were not enough buckets of coffee to get me through last week with grace and gumption. But this week has TONS in store...my new CUR intern (!!!) will be with me in my office on Tuesday - stay tuned for those shenanigans on Snapchat - I'll be … [Read more...]
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