Okaaay, I realize that the title of this post is very very negative, but I wanted to have a little chat with you all! I was talking to one of my blog friends last week, and we were discussing whether we think having an assistant as a blogger is really necessary. Then we started to talk about the whole production of blogging – the cross-promotion…
My very first post on this blog was in May of 2011. There’s so many people who stumble upon my instagram page and ask me WHO ARE YOU and HOW DID YOU GET HERE? The truth is I’ve been here, for a very long time, working tirelessly on growing this blog, and today I am going to share with you some of the big milestone…
Sometimes it’s hard for me to leave things out from the internet – like to make a conscious decision to omit the truth. I guess it isn’t exactly LYING to you all, but it also feels wrong to not be entirely honest about both the good and the bad, because that’s really what life is about, the good mixed with the bad and how we…
In the past I’ve talked about tips for flying with a toddler and tips for flying with a baby, but I’ve never posted specifically about which toys I am packing for our journey, and I think that the things I’ve chosen to bring on the flight are a HUGE determinator in the success of the flight and how well Hudson behaves. When I wrote my…
Hudson and I are headed to California to visit my best friend Sara, and meet her new baby girl Luna! We’re so excited, but my biggest anxiety is not brining too much stuff, because I will be traveling alone with a toddler and only have two hands! haha! My original goal was to only bring a backpack, but I quickly realized that with Hudson’s things…
Last week Matt was in San Francisco for work, and was able to spend time with our best friends’ and their new 6 week old baby. I’m actually visiting next week, and we ended up being able to both meet her, but separately. It was really interesting hearing about his time with her, and his time with a newborn baby in general, almost two years…
What is the best and worst part of being a blogger husband? The worst part is that Steffy finds it hard to disconnect and is on her phone a lot, and the best part is having a flexible lifestyle, being able to travel and some of the gifted items we receive from campaigns! What are you responsible for when it comes to the blog?…
Out of all of the questions I answer daily, this may be the most frequently asked one, so it’s about damn time I make it into a cohesive blog post for you to come back to if you’re interested in starting down the path of becoming a blogger! To be honest, when I built this little space, things were SO DIFFERENT. A lot of the…
I think it’s a mystery to many people what blogging actually looks like – it’s such a new field, and the workflow is so different for everyone, but I wanted to share a raw and unedited version of what a day in my life looks like. Hudson is in daycare 3 days per week, so this only applies to the 3 days I am at…
BEFORE: If you remember our master bedroom in our old apartment, you can probably sympathize with us on our new master bedroom in this home. The positives were that we gained an entire home, which we’re so thankful for, but a huge negative was how tiny the master bedroom is here. Our home was built in 1954, so there wasn’t the same emphasis on…
The part of instagram that you don’t usually see is everything that goes in to every. single. post. Even things that are shot in my very own home have tons of effort put into them, so I thought it would be fun to show you the step by step I take to get my kitchen ready for a shoot! This is usually what happens before…
I am now at that age where I am constantly being invited to weddings, or baby showers. A few years back it was TONS and tons of weddings, but lately it’s been more baby showers, and “sprinkles” for my friends having their second babies! It’s so wild watching everyone become parents, it really puts my life into perspective, and makes me realize how we are…
As most of you know, we are HUGE coffee lovers over here. I am team French Press, Matt is on team Pour Over and we are BOTH on team cold brew! Once it gets warm outside, we usually would head out to our coffee shop for cold brew. We had never brewed it at home, but knew it took quite a while to make and…
(typical test shot – me in my workout clothes LOL!) It has been a while since I’ve posted a behind the gram post (More here, here and here!) so I figured it was time to get real, and show a bit of the behind the scenes! It has been a busy month for us over here, and we spend the two days Hudson is in…
I received so many kind messages after posting the first post in this new series, so I am back for another week full of blogging pros and cons! I really love showing some of the back end of this job, because while an instagram feed may look perfectly curated, behind the scenes there’s tons of e-mails, contracts, post reviews, copy edits, back and forth between…
I created a post about traveling light with a baby, and what we couldn’t live without when Hudson was a baby, but I haven’t shared my diaper bag ever, so I figured there is not time like the present! The things I pack are of course ever-changing depending on what Hudson is eating, the toys he is into each month and the weather (hello extra…
As I’ve mentioned before in other posts, while being a blogger has SO MANY plusses, and seems so glamorous on an instagram feed, it has it’s challenges as well. Compared to other industries, this industry is very secretive and hush hush, and I find that a lot of other bloggers out there enjoy not revealing too much of the behind the scenes, because it takes away…
As you may or may not know, I am working together with West Elm on a sister series, sharing a room reveal per month as we slowly renovate our new home. You can read about each room, and the process behind the design of each space over on their blog, but in case you missed their post I wanted to add the images on my…
I am sure we each have a space in our house that exists, but rarely gets used. It’s usually a corner, or a nook that we just cannot figure out what to do with, or that ends up storing older furniture we’re not enthused about. This was that corner for me. It housed an IKEA bookshelf that collected dust at my last apartment, but we…
When I started to blog back in 2010, blogging wasn’t a way to push product. It never even occurred to me that anybody cared about where my clothing was from, I assumed people would just save my looks in an inspiration board somewhere, like I used to do from Lookbook.nu. I can remember screen shotting looks I liked from the site, and saving them into…