Entertaining
The Top 12 Fall Scents for Your Pura Smart Diffuser - 2024
Everyone gets excited to decorate for fall (same!) but an often overlooked element of decorating is how a home smells. Scent is such a powerful tool in making your home feel warm, welcoming, and seasonal. When I think about fall scents I definitely want some spicy or woodsy notes in there like cardamom, amber and […]
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September 27, 2024
Gift Guides!
Housewarming Presents Your Friends Will Love | Gift Guide
Buying a house or moving into a rental is a really big life event that can have a lot of stress surrounding it. It's also a really big accomplishment. It can sometimes be months if not longer before you feel settled enough to have people over. But even before they're ready for guests, I think […]
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September 20, 2024
Lifestyle
The Best Fall Candles in 2024
Every year, I love to revisit my favorite fall candles—I keep a lot in storage if we haven't burned through them yet. Bringing out those tried-and-true candles always evokes scent memories. Like a game night we had with some dear friends last year. Or the backdrop to an amazing fall dinner that Chris whipped up […]
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September 12, 2024
Product Tests
Tried & Tested Dripless Tapered Candles
There is a romanticism about a drippy tapered candlestick, but it doesn’t translate into real life. There’s nothing romantic about wax dripping all over your table, counter, or mantle. Lately, I've only been buying dripless tapered candlesticks. I want to be able to light candles for dinner on a weeknight and just enjoy them, not […]
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August 28, 2024
Lifestyle
Elevate Your Candle Ritual: The Complete Accessory Guide
I'm so excited to see the overwhelming response to our HouseWarming collection with Lightwell! This scent is everything I want in a candle, and it's truly humbling to know you'll be enjoying it in your homes. CLJ x Lightwell HouseWarming Candle | Brass Candle Pedestal | Brass Match Holder | Coffee Table Books | Handled […]
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April 11, 2024
product lines
The Home Collaboration Years in the Making...
I love candles. It's not a secret. I love to round up my favorites seasonally, and the cat's out of the bag about my candle credenza. Lighting a candle just makes everything feel more... homey. I've found that they're a great way to romanticize my rituals — especially in the evenings when I'm going to […]
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April 10, 2024
Product Tests
The Best Winter Candles & Pura Scents For Your Home
There’s no place like home for the Holidays, and there’s no quicker way to make your home feel ready for the season than with fragrance. To me, a home can be clean, tidy, and decorated, but the finishing (and sometimes forgotten) touch is how it smells. Isn’t it incredible that certain scents can trigger a […]
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December 8, 2023
Decor
5 Simple Fall Decor Tips
When it comes to seasonal home decor, I like to keep things fairly simple. My tips for making my home feel more cozy are simple enough to do in an afternoon (I did)! But most importantly, none of this is going to break the bank! In fact, I bet you can find most of this […]
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September 8, 2022
round up
Top 16 Best Fall Scents For Your Home
A couple of years ago we tested a bunch of fall candles and shared the Top 21 Best Fall Candles. We've been dying to do it again, but this time with a twist. In addition to candles, we tested Pura scents and reed diffusers because there's no wrong way to fill your home with yummy […]
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August 25, 2022
Cleaning & Organization
My Top 16 Pura Scents For Spring!
Reading this back, I realized this might sound like a sponsored post, so to be clear--IT'S NOT! My sister, Andi, turned me onto Pura in our last house. I bought two devices to prep our home to sell, because it's true what they say, smells can leave a lasting impression. Honestly, I wasn't immediately sold. I […]
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March 31, 2022
Decor
The Top 21 Best Fall Candles!
Over the last few weeks we have taken on a very important task--smelling a lot of candles. There's no doubt that one of the best things about Fall are the scents and with so many out there and only a limited amount of weeks, (we're starting TODAY!) we didn't want anyone wasting any time with a sub-par […]
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September 1, 2020
Decor
The 11 Best Candles for Spring
Last week, when it was still cold and snowy here, I picked up this Water Lotus candle from Target (it comes in the cutest bowl container!) and it has such fresh and bright scent to it. With the first day of Spring next week (!!), we're decluttering, cleaning everything top to bottom, shedding heavy throws from the […]
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March 16, 2017
Decor
11 Favorite Candles for Fall
It's unofficially fall around here! The weather has dropped into the 60s, we're sipping (whole30) soups, and I've swapped out some decor in the living room--more on that in a later post. But perhaps my favorite home related switch that occurs every year are the scents. Doesn't fall have the best-smelling candles? The best! Over the weekend, I […]
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September 6, 2016
