After building the authentic pizza oven in Marthas Vineyard, we knew we had the itch, and needed to find a way to create the same type of pizza experience in our home. For us, it is about more than just pizza. It’s about everyone in the family chipping in and helping to make the dough, it’s about spending our mornings cooking and then it’s about…
If you’ve been around here for a while, you’ve probably noticed that I share “shopping collages” on most weeks. I love rounding up my favorite fashion finds from around the web, and I love seeing you all shop off of my faves! For full transparency, there was a point where I would sit and create all of the collages, but now our system looks a…
I talked a bit last year about how I create cute instagram stories, but I wanted to pop back on here and share an incredible resource that I recently found and have been using to make my stories MUCH cuter for the Fall and Holiday season – PicMonkey! For a while I was using my phone to edit videos and photos, but more recently I’ve…
I am sure you all can tell by now if you’ve been following along on stories, but making Youtube a priority is a HUGE goal of mine in 2o19. In the past I always saw taking photos for my instagram as my number one job, but I’ve been trying to keep an open mind and be okay if there’s day that I don’t post on…
It’s that time of the year when we all want to order our holiday cards, and share our holiday photos online, so I thought it would be helpful to pop-in and share a little bit about how we get the shot in our living room, and the few small details that make or break the photo! I hope this is helpful! 1 – LIGHTING IS EVERYTHING:…
One of the most frequent questions I see in my DM’s weekly is “How do you edit your photos??” About a year ago I created a Youtube video explaining my editing process, but I’ve since adjust it a bit, and wanted to put my favorite apps into writing, in a space you could click through to them in an easier way! I edit all of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I absolutely love sharing the ins and outs of being a freelancer / full-time blogger with you all. As you guys know, Matt is a full-time freelancer for the film union in NYC, and I am a full-time blogger, so YUP we both freelance. It sounds impossible, but we make it work (in the most crazy way possible) and aside from the uncertainty of our…
The other day on instagram stories I shared a bit about a skincare product that I have been using and absolutely love. I mentioned that the product was sent to me to test out, but that the post was not sponsored, and I had a few questions about this. A lot of you were baffled that being sent a product doesn’t = sponsored content, so…
Something you don’t hear too many bloggers mention on their platform is growth, but behind the scenes it’s something that’s talked about a lot. Of course, engagement is very important as well (how many likes or comments your photos are receiving) in order to prove your “influence” to brands that are hiring you, but like I mentioned in this post, growth is what I tend…
The question I am asked more than anything every single day probably 50 times a day (lol I wish I was exaggerating, but it’s okay because that’s what I am here for!) is how I edit my instagram stories! There’s always fun new apps that come out and make it easier to create beautiful content for stories, but there’s 3 apps that I use the…
There’s this huggggge stigma revolving around bloggers claiming that the job is easy, it isn’t really work, it isn’t even really a JOB, etc. etc. Yes, I get it, walking around a mall and shopping doesn’t feel like work a lot of the time, and picking selects from line sheets is still REALLY fun, but there’s a lot of other aspects to the job that…
Let me pose a challenge to you: On your next trip, pack only 12 pieces of clothing (or one piece for each day of your trip). On this trip to Denmark, I challenged myself to become a minimalist packing pro, and I snapped some pics along my journey. Here’s what I am choosing to pack on my 12 day Euro trip (Hint: They are…
As you guys who have followed along for a while may know, we’re huge roadtrippers. Since Matt and I met, we’ve been on more roadtrips than we can remember (here’s one of my faves!) I’m excited to share 7 tips to prepare for a roadtrip that we swear by! 1. Stay organized – We make sure everything we’re bringing with is stored in an organized fashion,…
Instagram engagement is one of the biggest hot-button topics for bloggers and social media managers who are looking to run their feeds professionally. For work, we use a management platform called AgoraPulse, which allows us to keep an eye on incoming comments from Facebook, Twitter and instagram and comment back. I’ve been wanting to find something similar, but less expensive, to use for my blog,…
At an event this week, the topic of pushing your Instagram posts to Twitter came up. People said they were frustrated, because when they automate their Instagrams to Twitter, all they are able to post is a link (like below). Everyone knows tweets with images perform better, so this can be frustrating! Today we’re going to fix this! Have you heard of IFTTT? It stands…