HAPPY NEW YEAR – I am so excited to update this space for another year, and to see where 2019 brings us. But before I jump into new content in a brand new year, I wanted to bid adieu to 2018 in the best way I know how – in an honest and personal blog post. So here’s some memories and feelings in saying goodbye…
I wanted to speak candidly today about something that has been on my mind for a few months. As a blogger, it’s my job to constantly be wearing the newest things and pushing products that I love – I am always on the hunt for things to make MY life cuter, better, easier and then I love sharing that with all of you. When I started…
Can you believe my little fox is two? Neither can I. Well, I can, because I can’t really remember a life before him, but it also feels like i blinked and the past few years have flown by. I can remember feeling really insecure and new in this role, and of course I have days and moments where I still feel like I don’t know…
Blogging is no joke, guys. But I think one of the toughest parts of being a blogger is that most people don’t realize that it’s more serious than it seems, and they also don’t realize the many many pressures behind it all, so I wanted to open up to you here a bit about the pressures I myself personally feel from working in this biz,…
The biggest piece of advice everyone and their mom shared with me when I was pregnant was BE OKAY WITH ASKING FOR HELP. When I was a visual merchandise manager at J.Crew, I learned lesson after lesson on delegation, and how the best bosses know what to focus on, and what to pass off. But my anxieties throughout year one as a mom mixed with…
It seems you all love my dad – and I do too! He’s a goofball, he’s fashionable and he’s one of the most important people in my life, so I am excited you’ve been loving seeing him on my stories in his outfits. His father (my grandpa David who Hudson David was named after) was a tailor, and owned a clothing store in midtown in…
The million dollar question that I constantly receive as a blogger is “How do you book work???” Even my parents friends are so curious as to what a campaign may look like from beginning to end, how the work finds me, and how far out I shoot work VS when it is posted, so I wanted to take a second to break it down for…
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…
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…
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?…
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…
(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…
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…
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…
Can you all believe it??? It’s been 365 days since I put in a two weeks at my 9-5 job. Until I dive into my first year, how it went, struggles and successes, let’s start at the beginning for those of you who are new around here. After a 5 month maternity leave from my job as Community Manager at the app letgo, I…
After answering a lot of the same questions regularly through DM’s, I thought it would be a fun idea to compile them all into a blog post that covers most bases! So, here it is, all of my most frequently asked questions answered! How do you edit your photos for instagram? I basically edit my images the same exact same way every time using three different…
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 The weather is getting warmed and the new arrivals are getting BETTER! I am so so excited about everything I’ve shared above. So much fun rainbow coloring, yellows, oranges and pattern! The best part – it’s all under $100. I would take the leap and purchase it all asap, because…
Lately it feels like there is SO much going on at once. So much. But it never feels like it translates through instagram stories, because everything is always shared in small snippets, and sometimes I know from following other bloggers it can feel like they’re being secretive. Or even trying to dangle bait, so that we wait around and wonder what’s really going on (which…