DIY
Painting and Adding Shelves to the Reading Nook - FrogTape® Paintover Challenge™ Week 2
DIY
May 14, 2018
Painting and Adding Shelves to the Reading Nook - FrogTape® Paintover Challenge™ Week 2
This project is in partnership with FrogTape®. They allowed us to choose any space to makeover and provided us with painting supplies and $1000 to execute our vision. Last week we showed you our plans for this little nook, then showed you how they changed with the discovery that the ceiling in the nook was actually a […]
May 14, 2018
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Casual Friday
Casual Friday: May 11, 2018
Casual Friday
May 11, 2018
Casual Friday: May 11, 2018
• Last week, our family traveled to Southern California for a short, little getaway. We brought the girls to Disneyland, ate some amazing food, stopped by the beach and even swung by the new McGee & Co storefront in Costa Mesa since it was just minutes away from our hotel. (We stayed at the beautiful […]
May 11, 2018
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DIY
Our Baby's Sleep Formula (and Adding Blackout Curtains to the Nursery)
DIY
May 10, 2018
Our Baby's Sleep Formula (and Adding Blackout Curtains to the Nursery)
This post is sponsored by Conair. I've touched on it before, but we're serious about sleep at our house. We start getting our girls on sleep schedules at 6 weeks--it's not always an easy process--but once they get it, they're set for life. Ours really thrive on lots of sleep and so do Chris and […]
May 10, 2018
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Projects
Adding Marble Flooring to the Master Bathroom
Projects
May 9, 2018
Adding Marble Flooring to the Master Bathroom
Our bathroom floor is installed, heated, grouted and I’m over-the-moon with the outcome. When we were deciding what we wanted to do for our bathroom floors, once it clicked that our shower shouldn’t be marble (but a beautiful, varied green tile), it was clear our floors should be marble. I really envisioned something large format […]
May 9, 2018
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DIY
The Discovery We Made in the Reading Nook at the Cabin
DIY
May 8, 2018
The Discovery We Made in the Reading Nook at the Cabin
Yesterday Jules mentioned a little surprise we discovered at the cabin that really ended up making the entire FrogTape® Paintover Challenge™ project and this post is about that incredible discovery. As a reminder, here’s a look at the space we’re doing. As we've worked on this project, we discovered a couple things about this cabin. […]
May 8, 2018
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DIY
The Start of Our First Project at the A-Frame | FrogTape® Paintover Challenge™ Week 1
DIY
May 7, 2018
The Start of Our First Project at the A-Frame | FrogTape® Paintover Challenge™ Week 1
This project is in partnership with FrogTape®. They allowed us to choose any space to makeover and provided us with painting supplies and $1000 to execute our vision. We're so excited to share that we have been selected to compete in the FrogTape Paintover Challenge® this year, alongside 5 other talented bloggers! We have been […]
May 7, 2018
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Casual Friday
Casual Friday: April 27, 2018
Casual Friday
April 27, 2018
Casual Friday: April 27, 2018
• Thank you so much for your enthusiasm behind the launch of our t-shirt line, ProperTee yesterday! We can't wait to see you all in your shirts and to release more designs we have in the pipeline. Amazon Prime shipping is fantastic, right?! ;) Fun fact: Chris came up with the name ProperTee (a play […]
April 27, 2018
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Design
Our New T-shirt Line is Live! ProperTee by Chris Loves Julia
Design
April 25, 2018
Our New T-shirt Line is Live! ProperTee by Chris Loves Julia
I love a good tee, half tucked into jeans. Tied in the front. Layered under a blazer or a little oversized to lounge in or paint in. As a homebody, I live in t-shirts, which is why we're so excited to announce we launched a line dedicated to home lovers everywhere. ProperTee is an ode […]
April 25, 2018
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Inspiration
Mother's Day Gift Guide
Inspiration
April 25, 2018
Mother's Day Gift Guide
Mother's day is right around the corner on Sunday, May 13 and this is always one of my favorite gift guides to put together. Not because it's my own wish list--but rather, I'm a mom and these are things that have been gifted to me that absolutely made my day and put a smile on […]
April 25, 2018
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DIY
10 Tips for Living Through a Home Renovation
DIY
April 23, 2018
10 Tips for Living Through a Home Renovation
We're currently remodeling our master bathroom, and by that I mean, we actually hired a team of contractors to do the work (our first time ever doing that!) This bathroom renovation isn't the first major remodel we lived through in our home, in fact--it's our last! But we've only done a couple like it, where […]
April 23, 2018
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Art
New Abstract Art In the Bedroom
Art
April 19, 2018
New Abstract Art In the Bedroom
A few weeks ago, we shared a big, fat bedroom progress post. It was actually sponsored by Loloi, who provided the rug for our room, and I felt like I needed to have something above our bed for those pictures. So I ran down to the guest room and grabbed my favorite cloud print that we have […]
April 19, 2018
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Projects
Our Master Bathroom Renovation, 2 Weeks In: On Plumbing and Choosing the Right Fixtures, Heights, Valves & Drains
Projects
April 18, 2018
Our Master Bathroom Renovation, 2 Weeks In: On Plumbing and Choosing the Right Fixtures, Heights, Valves & Drains
This Master Bathroom project is a doozy! The beauty of DIY is, in many cases, you can figure things out as you go. You do the work when you have the time, or you order the materials as you get the money, or you take it step-by-step and eventually see it all come together. This […]
April 18, 2018
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Design
Good Looking Ugly Stuff: Dish Drying Racks, Plungers and Toilet Brushes
Design
April 17, 2018
Good Looking Ugly Stuff: Dish Drying Racks, Plungers and Toilet Brushes
Every Wednesday night, on Instagram Stories, Chris and I hop on and answer a bunch of questions for about 10-20 minutes. We call it CLJ Q&A. (Psst, it's saved to my highlights until the next one!) This past week, someone asked "What do you do about plungers and other horrible things that are necessary but […]
April 17, 2018
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Casual Friday
Casual Friday: 10 Things That Made Me Happy This Week
Casual Friday
April 13, 2018
Casual Friday: 10 Things That Made Me Happy This Week
1. I took 20 minutes and zhooshed the kitchen last Sunday, with a few new things and the freshness always makes me fall in love with a room all over again. It also inspires me to keep the counters clearer and invite someone new over. We added this printable equivalents chart (I tore the edges of like […]
April 13, 2018
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Design
Our Whole House Color Palette
Design
April 11, 2018
Our Whole House Color Palette
This post is sponsored by ColorReader by Datacolor. There's a discount code at the end of the post for our readers! "Do you mind sharing the color of your walls?" is a question we get all day long! There have been so many times I thought the same thing while scrolling through instagram or flipping […]
April 11, 2018
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DIY
Our Master Bathroom Renovation, 1 week in: It Gets Worse Before it Gets Better (right?)
DIY
April 10, 2018
Our Master Bathroom Renovation, 1 week in: It Gets Worse Before it Gets Better (right?)
Well, we're a week deep into our bathroom renovation--(the first time we've contracted a crew to do a full job like this in our house) and there's so much to share. Like, first of all, it doesn't look like this anymore. And I don't even miss it (yet)...talk to me in 2 weeks. Those are […]
April 10, 2018
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Design
The Good, The Bad, Would We Do It Again?
Design
April 9, 2018
The Good, The Bad, Would We Do It Again?
Every year, we tally up our most asked about questions regarding things in our home and give you our honest review of them, including the good, the bad, and would we really buy/do it again? In 2017, we covered our (old) living room coffee table that we wouldn't do again and since replaced, the craft […]
April 9, 2018
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Casual Friday
Casual Friday: April 6, 2018
Casual Friday
April 6, 2018
Casual Friday: April 6, 2018
What are you up to this weekend? Our little Faye Faye (Faye-Fee, Fayebelizer) is turning 4 tomorrow! She asked for a swimming party, so we rented out a local hotel's pool for two hours for her, a couple friends and cousins. Faye is love. She just exudes so much love. She never hit the terrible […]
April 6, 2018
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Entertaining
How to Host a Low-Key Game Night
Entertaining
April 5, 2018
How to Host a Low-Key Game Night
Last weekend, we hosted a low-key game night with 10 of our best friends and it was so much fun! I shared a few snippets on my Instagram stories and got so many questions about the logistics--how we pulled it off with kids, what did we do for food and what games we played. […]
April 5, 2018
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Decor
Sale Alert! Extra 30% off All Sale at Urban Outfitters
Decor
April 4, 2018
Sale Alert! Extra 30% off All Sale at Urban Outfitters
This Loft bed is on sale for $524! (originally $1879) Urban Outfitters is having a big ol' sale and it's my favorite kind, too. Sale on sale. All sale items are an ADDITIONAL 30% off at checkout, no code needed. Here are 18 things that I think are worth a look if you're in the […]
April 4, 2018
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