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Casual Friday: May 12, 2017

Casual Friday

Casual Friday: May 12, 2017

It's been a jam-packed week and I'm feeling ready for a nap. I'm looking at you, Mother's Day. At the beginning of this week, I had a surge of energy--at last! I cleaned everything from top to bottom and then shopped our house to rearrange a few things in the entry. I pulled this blue bench from […]
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May 12, 2017

Lifestyle

Ep 37: Peeling Back the Curtain on the One Room Challenge™

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Lifestyle

Ep 37: Peeling Back the Curtain on the One Room Challenge™

20 featured bloggers, 200-ish participating bloggers, six weeks. The One Room Challenge is now in its 11th season and Julia and Chris are part of it. We're talking details about how The One Room Challenge works, how bloggers are chosen, how they feel about being involved and what they get out of it. Chris and […]
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May 8, 2017

Lifestyle

The Guide to Everything We Did Babymooning in Maui!

Lifestyle

The Guide to Everything We Did Babymooning in Maui!

We got back from our babymoon Wednesday evening, so in lieu of our normal Casual Friday post, I wanted to share a little bit about how we spent our 4.5 days in beautiful Maui (the other two days were mostly traveling). This isn't an expert's guide--we were first timers!--but I did want to make it […]
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May 5, 2017

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The Next Step in Meal Prep

Blue Apron

Chris Cooks

The Next Step in Meal Prep

This post is sponsored by Blue Apron. Every blogger it seems takes their turn writing a post that is essentially their own version of a "How to have your act together, like me!" post. We've all read them, and they're equal parts inspiring and depressing, sometimes with little relevance to our own personal set of daily […]
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May 1, 2017

Lifestyle

Casual Friday: April 28, 2017

Casual Friday

Casual Friday: April 28, 2017

Aloha! Chris and I flew to Maui yesterday for some much needed R&R and a little babymoon he surprised me with for Valentine's day. The funny thing is, we have never taken a babymoon before, but I guess it's our last one so we're living it up before becoming a family of five! We've never been […]
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April 28, 2017

Lifestyle

We Got A Sleep Number Mattress (And We're Giving One Away, Too!)

Sleep Number Mattress

Health & Beauty

We Got A Sleep Number Mattress (And We're Giving One Away, Too!)

This post is sponsored by Sleep Number®. This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to Stacy Mehan! We're so excited to not only share a big bedroom update that happened around here (we got a Sleep Number® mattress!) but WE'RE ALSO GIVING ONE AWAY! We have had such a positive experience with the brand and we […]
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April 25, 2017

Lifestyle

Ep 36: The Woman's Place in DIY, Broken Noses and Giving Yourself Some Credit

Keyless Entry

Lifestyle

Ep 36: The Woman's Place in DIY, Broken Noses and Giving Yourself Some Credit

"I could never do that." Almost every time we share the final photos of a project, we have someone make this comment. We start this episode by talking about it, and how people need to give themselves a little credit. "I've never done that" sometimes becomes "I can't do that," but it shouldn't be that way. […]
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April 24, 2017

Lifestyle

Casual Friday: April 21, 2017

Casual Friday

Casual Friday: April 21, 2017

(Old photo snapped of our group. Me, mid-story, looking only a little nuts. Haha) It's not news that one of our favorite things to do is to have people over. It started a long time ago, before we even had kids or a mortgage. Shortly after we were married, we hosted our first Friendsgiving. We didn't […]
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April 21, 2017

Lifestyle

Casual Friday + 24 week update!

Casual Friday

Casual Friday + 24 week update!

I haven't had the chance to put up a Casual Friday in a couple weeks due to traveling and projects, and there's so much I am excited to chat about today, including a little pregnancy update later in the post. While I don't share a ton about my pregnancies generally, I thought it would be fun […]
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April 14, 2017

Lifestyle

Behind the Scenes Video of the Baltimore Kitchen AND Ep 35: Why Your Neighbors Might Hate You and Give Me More, Baltimore

Lifestyle

Behind the Scenes Video of the Baltimore Kitchen AND Ep 35: Why Your Neighbors Might Hate You and Give Me More, Baltimore

Thanks for all the love with yesterday's big reveal of the Baltimore kitchen! Due to popular demand, I've added a very candid, behind the scenes video Jules took throughout the renovation to the bottom of this post. You'll see how each day played out, which is nerve-wrecking to re-watch, how much fun our team had together and […]
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April 11, 2017

Lifestyle

Ep 34: Selling Your Old Stuff and You Put WHAT In The Dishwasher?!?

Lifestyle

Ep 34: Selling Your Old Stuff and You Put WHAT In The Dishwasher?!?

It's time to Springify the house, and we're talking about how that happens for the Marcums. We talk about best practices and places for buying and selling used furniture and house items on-line. Then we play a game revealing things you wouldn't believe you can put in the dishwasher. It just might blow your mind. Listen […]
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March 29, 2017

Lifestyle

Casual Friday

Casual Friday

Casual Friday

Earlier this week, Chris and I went to lunch and got to talking about our house. The conversation turned into some interesting/quirky facts about it that I'm sure we'll share in a future post one day. But the funniest one, that we are reminded of almost daily, is when we hung wallpaper in the entry, we […]
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March 24, 2017

Lifestyle

Casual Friday + Facebook Live Today!

Casual Friday

Casual Friday + Facebook Live Today!

We'll be doing our first Facebook Live today at 11:15am MST, shopping for our new mattress! Join us here. This week got off to a rough start as we dealt with serious hackers from Japan. Within a matter of minutes, our site was redirected to a Japanese audience, they had set up shops under hidden […]
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March 17, 2017

Lifestyle

Ep 33: Apartment Therapy Founder Maxwell Ryan, A Happy Home

CLJ Master Bed

Lifestyle

Ep 33: Apartment Therapy Founder Maxwell Ryan, A Happy Home

Episode Sponsored by Thomas Avenue Ceramics If you need tile for any project in your home, use Code CLJ to receive 20% off any order at www.thomasavenueceramics.com/CLJ. Listen to the latest episodes on: iTunes, GooglePlay, Stitcher. Title: Ep 33: Apartment Therapy Founder Maxwell Ryan, A Happy Home Show Notes: Maxwell Ryan stops by the podcast this week to talk to the gang about Apartment […]
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March 13, 2017

Lifestyle

We're Having A...!

Lifestyle

We're Having A...!

Dress sold out (similar)  I snapped this photo on Sunday afternoon, the day before we went in for our ultrasound. Besides my little bump, you can also see our house on a normal day, with little dolls strewn about and a jacket wearing the furniture. I was feeling very anxious that day. Even though we were 18 weeks into […]
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March 3, 2017

Lifestyle

Ep 32: White Paint Isn't White, and You're Super Unorganized

Lifestyle

Ep 32: White Paint Isn't White, and You're Super Unorganized

Episode Sponsored by Thomas Avenue Ceramics If you need tile for any project in your home, use Code CLJ to receive 20% off any order at www.thomasavenueceramics.com/CLJ.  Listen to the latest episodes on: iTunes, GooglePlay, Stitcher. Title: Ep 32: White Paint Isn't White, and You're Super Unorganized Show Notes: The gang listens to Julia crack eggs of knowledge all over our heads about how […]
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February 27, 2017

Lifestyle

Casual Friday + President's Day Deals!

Casual Friday

Casual Friday + President's Day Deals!

The new rug for the living room arrived this week (more on Monday!) and we love it so much. We got a lot of inquiries about purchasing our blue rug, but we rolled it up and put it in storage for now because we still love it so much, too, and will likely use it in the future somewhere. […]
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February 17, 2017

Lifestyle

Ep 31: Sorry, But Your "Classic" Design Is Just Trendy

Ep 31: Sorry, but your classic design is a trend

Lifestyle

Ep 31: Sorry, But Your "Classic" Design Is Just Trendy

Listen to the latest episodes on: iTunes, GooglePlay, Stitcher. Title: Ep 31: Sorry, But Your "Classic" Design Is Just Trendy Show Notes: This week the gang talks about proper technique for asking a friend to assist with a DIY project. Then we revisit an old hot topic and update our response to a question about the usefulness of remodeling when you […]
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February 13, 2017

Lifestyle

Casual Friday

Casual Friday

Casual Friday

Many of you have noticed things have been different around here for awhile. We're still getting multiple emails and questions every day wondering when our post schedule is going to get back to its normal Monday-Friday. First, we couldn't be more grateful that we have such a strong and loyal readership that we get to share our […]
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February 10, 2017

Lifestyle

Ep 30: Why Is Beyoncé Always Trying To One-Up Us?!?!

The day Faye was born

Lifestyle

Ep 30: Why Is Beyoncé Always Trying To One-Up Us?!?!

Listen to the latest episodes on: iTunes, GooglePlay, Stitcher. Title: Ep 30: Why Is Beyoncé Always Trying To One-Up Us?!?! Show Notes: Chris and Julia are having another baby! This is the conversations about family episode. Next week we will bring you the DIY and Home design elements once again. Yes thats next week, you won't have to wait two […]
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February 6, 2017
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