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How to Choose and Take Proper Care of Your Kitchen Knives

Choosing and taking care of knives

Chris Cooks

How to Choose and Take Proper Care of Your Kitchen Knives

Though I don't do a lot of food posts anymore, some of our long-time readers may remember a time when I was pretty involved in that niche of the blogging world. I was on a couple Ambassador panels, and whenever I'd go to a meet up with other food bloggers, it was inevitable that someone […]
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May 31, 2018

Lifestyle

The Master List of All the Best Memorial Day Sales 2018

Lifestyle

The Master List of All the Best Memorial Day Sales 2018

Happy Memorial Day Weekend! We are crossing off a few projects and then headed to the cabin for some R&R. Almost everyone is having some sort of sale. Here are our favorites in the home and style category!: Home Sales West Elm Up to 30% off everything with code SAVEMORE Target Up to 30% off Home and […]
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May 25, 2018

Lifestyle

How We Keep Our Floors Clean with A Big, Hairy Dog (and 3 little kids)

Cleaning & Organization

How We Keep Our Floors Clean with A Big, Hairy Dog (and 3 little kids)

This post is sponsored by BISSELL We get a lot of questions about how we keep our home clean with a big, hairy dog like our sweet Willow romping around. I usually smile and say, "We just love her more than we hate the hair."--which is, I mean, best practice. But the truth is, we […]
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May 24, 2018

Lifestyle

Casual Friday + Blogs are Dead

Casual Friday

Casual Friday + Blogs are Dead

I had a realization this week when I was out to dinner with some girlfriends--Blogs are dead. I don't think necessarily in the way that a few people said they would die a few years ago, but  Wednesday night, one of my best friends looked me in the eye and said, "I never read blogs […]
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May 18, 2018

Lifestyle

Casual Friday: May 11, 2018

Casual Friday

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 […]
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May 11, 2018

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Casual Friday: April 27, 2018

Casual Friday

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 […]
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April 27, 2018

Lifestyle

Casual Friday: 10 Things That Made Me Happy This Week

Casual Friday

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 […]
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April 13, 2018

Lifestyle

Casual Friday: April 6, 2018

Casual Friday

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 […]
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April 6, 2018

Lifestyle

How to Host a Low-Key Game Night

Entertaining

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. […]
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April 5, 2018

Lifestyle

Casual Friday: March 30, 2018

Casual Friday

Casual Friday: March 30, 2018

Last week, we were in Austin at a conference and I missed Casual Friday. Like, truly missed it. But, at the same time, we learned so much at our conference that was put on by our ad network. It was our first time attending a blog conference (which shocked everyone!) and the blogging world is […]
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March 30, 2018

Lifestyle

Easy & Amazing Overnight Easter Ham

Perfect Easter Ham

Recipes

Easy & Amazing Overnight Easter Ham

Easter is upon us, and everyone is scrambling to find that perfect ham recipe, stockpiling the 30 ingredients required for it, and preparing to realize late Saturday night that they have neglected the entire rest of the menu. That sentence is a little too specific for the writer of this post (*cough*) to not have […]
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March 29, 2018

Lifestyle

5 Tips For Getting Kids to Eat And Eat Healthier

Chris Cooks

5 Tips For Getting Kids to Eat And Eat Healthier

This post is sponsored by Blue Apron. The first 50 people will receive $40 off their first two weeks of meals, here! One thing that Chris and I have always strived to do is feed our kids good, real food while sitting down together for dinner every night. But if you have children, you know […]
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March 20, 2018

Lifestyle

Casual Friday: March 16, 2018

Casual Friday

Casual Friday: March 16, 2018

It was Spring for, like, 2 hours here and then it dumped 6 more inches of snow but it still lit a Spring cleaning purge fire under me. I emptied my closet of all the clothes I never wore this winter. I bagged up all my maternity clothes and 98% of the baby clothes that […]
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March 16, 2018

Lifestyle

Premier Day Picks!

Lifestyle

Premier Day Picks!

Every once in awhile, there is an epic sale day from the Williams Sonoma umbrella of brands (Rejuvenation, Williams Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Mark & Graham, West Elm) and they call it Premier Day. And some things are just 25% off, but I hunt for the 50%-90% off--that's my happy place Here are the best deals […]
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March 15, 2018

Lifestyle

Casual Friday: March 9, 2018

Casual Friday

Casual Friday: March 9, 2018

Willow has been acting off. We brought her into the vet and discovered she slipped a disc in her back. We got medication for her and have been trying to help her rest, per her doctor's orders, but she's still not acting like herself. It's so hard to know that something is wrong with your […]
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March 9, 2018

Lifestyle

I went in for LASIK and they did PRK surgery--My Experience

Health & Beauty

I went in for LASIK and they did PRK surgery--My Experience

I've been waiting to write this post until my vision became a little more stable and maybe I was a little less angry about the situation I'm in--but so many of you have asked about my eyes "How are they doing?!" that I thought I'd take this normal "Casual Friday" post and talk about how these […]
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March 2, 2018

Lifestyle

Ep 60: Fear and the Final Episode

Lifestyle

Ep 60: Fear and the Final Episode

It's a hard day. But it's a good day. Today's episode of The Chris Loves Julia Podcast with Preston Pugmire will be the last of the series. Despite the million+ downloads, multiple sponsors per episode and the success stamp that most people would put on the podcast, including me, last week, I had a major […]
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February 26, 2018

Lifestyle

Weekend Sales! February 24, 2018

Lifestyle

Weekend Sales! February 24, 2018

This week, in my instagram stories, I showed off how we organize our toys in the playroom and after having these storage dressers for over a year--we still couldn't love them more. The multiple, small containers allows every different toy to have a spot and the label holders help the girls to know what goes […]
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February 24, 2018

Lifestyle

Casual Friday: February 23, 2018

Casual Friday

Casual Friday: February 23, 2018

This week had a lot of highs and lows with healing from my eye surgery (I'll touch more on next week), finalizing an exciting partnership launching later this year, to somewhat abruptly closing another chapter--more on that in Monday's podcast. But maybe what feels most exciting is finalizing a lot of the finishes for the […]
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February 23, 2018

Lifestyle

The 9 Things We Snagged From the Big Macy's Sale

Lifestyle

The 9 Things We Snagged From the Big Macy's Sale

This post is sponsored by Macy's.  I mentioned a couple weeks ago, that Macy's was having a huge home sale where you can save, 30-50% + Extra 20% off Home with promo code PRES. It's the last week of the sale (ends 2/19) and I wanted to share the amazing steals we snagged before it's […]
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February 15, 2018
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