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Best Last Minute Nordstrom Anniversary Sale Picks
One of the best sales of the year is coming to an end: The Nordstrom Anniversary Sale. Emily wrote about her picks here when it started! I, on the other hand, tend to be a bit disorganized about sale shopping, so if you also fall into that category, this post is for you. I went…
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Our 2025 Summer Landscaping Reveal (With Full Process)
I’m currently caught in the “why would anyone live anywhere else” fever dream that is “Oregon in The Summer”, and while I intellectually know there is no perfect place to live, right now, up here, it’s magical (and has been since March – 2025 was a real pretty one). This backyard is certainly serving up…
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5 Women Reviewed Abercrombie’s Viral Best Selling Dress…Here’s What We Think
Earlier this summer, I stepped into an Abercrombie location at the Christiana Mall in Delaware. This was not the Abercrombie of yore – there were no dark lights, no overpowering scent of cologne, no ear-splitting bass. Nary a shirtless teen in sight! On the contrary: this was the new Abercrombie. The 2025 version. The transformation…
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Our Regrind Driveway Review – 3 Years Later Would Asphalt Have Been Better?
Now that our latest construction project is done (the garages) and until we start the next one (the carriage house), we have fewer trucks, cars, and equipment wreaking havoc on our property, which made me stare at our regrind driveway with fresh eyes. I just reread the original article, from three years ago, debating all…
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Our Summer Fashion Staples: The Clothes That Make Us Feel Great And Keeps Us Cool
Now that we are about a month into summer, Marlee posed the question the other day, “What are everyone’s summer staples?” A big gab sesh started so naturally, we then thought that it was a pretty great blog post idea. So here we are! And much like a capsule wardrobe, it’s helpful to really pinpoint…
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We Found The Best Garage Doors Ever – See For Yourself
I never thought I’d be this excited to show you the prettiest garage doors ever. When we finally agreed to invest in making our garages better, our goal was to make them functional, but we had very low expectations on how beautiful they would be. Our garages aren’t on a street where neighbors can see…
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Nordstrom Anniversary Sale Picks (And Some Favorite Non-Sale Pieces On My Body)
I tried to sneak into the Nordstroms Anniversary sale before I was allowed to try things on to show you, but it was a mad house and I didn’t have a card (and then ran into The Daily Tay – I HAD NO IDEA SHE LIVED IN THE PNW!!) and got distracted. So I looked…
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Our Secret Source For Affordable Extra-Long Curtains (+ 27 Of Our Readymade Faves Under $100 Including The Pair Arlyn’s Eyeing For Her Living Room)
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in design, Design 101, Featured, Other Category, Rooms, roundup, Roundups, Shop, Shopping, Whole HouseTwo years ago, I explored the idea of doing a DIY blockprinting treatment on the existing curtains in my living room (below). I’m here to confess that two Julys later, they still look exactly the same. I could never commit to a pattern or color, let alone the time and effort it was going to…
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Can You Use The IKEA PAX Closet In Your Garage? (Look…We Are!)
They did a study once where they scanned customers brains before entering The Container Store and then again leaving (with all the organizational goods) and found that dopamine levels had spiked – and not just because of shopping (which as we all know, does give you a high) but they concluded it was due to…
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Why We Don’t Have Our Rugs USA Line Anymore
So so so many of you have DM’d or commented asking a lot of questions about what happened to our rug line – why am I not on the site anymore, and do some of our rugs have a new name? It’s been confusing, and until now I wasn’t able to share (and hoped to…