When I started Chris Loves Julia 14 years ago, Instagram wasn't around. There wasn't a social media handbook, and the term "influencer" was still in its infancy. Yet, here we are, 1 million Instagram followers later, and we've been able to turn our love of DIY and renovating into a full-time business with a team […]
For the last 2-1/2 years we've been sharing sneak peaks, deep thoughts, personal stories, and honest truths every Thursday night through email. We call it our Love Letter and it's exclusive, although anyone can sign up to receive it! I've been sifting through the archives and I almost can't believe some of the memories and […]
If you're here for the DIY/Design, feel free to skip this post! But if you've wanted to "do what we do" or even thought about it for a minute, then this post is for you. For 12 years I've been writing on this blog, opening up our doors to all of you readers, and we've […]
Last Saturday we shared a bunch of Small Business and discounts to encourage you to support them during this time of economic uncertainty. And today, I wanted to shed light on another kind of small business--content creators. Chris Loves Julia employs and supports 8 different families (we're a small business!) and I know so many […]
A few years ago, Chris and I started noticing a surge of influencers in every niche. And we also started seeing an uptick in the amount of requests from brands we were getting. We worked through them, started setting guidelines for ourselves, establishing our pricing and overall figuring things out as we went. Then two […]
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