As someone who has been working from home for the last 3 years, I want to offer a few tips to those who’ve made this transition recently. Working from home is a huge transition that we glamorize while we’re stuck at the office, but in reality working from home offers a lot is distractions and the main problem being loneliness. Luckily, there are a lot of things you can do to stay on track and stay connected to your coworkers. Hope you find these tips helpful as you transition to your home office.
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Interiors & Exteriors
What To Look For When Buying A Home
On my most recent “ask me anything” I had a reader ask me how I found the fixer-upper apartment that we completely renovated last summer and the truth is I got lucky and my husband had lived there for an extensive period of time and when he found me I found the apartment. However, before
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Interiors & Exteriors
Home Office Makeover on a Budget
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Hunter Fan Company for Hunter Fan Company. All opinions are 100% mine. This winter was a productive one! I set out to update my office and that is exactly what I did. Now that we renovated our entire home, we are trying to fill
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Interiors & Exteriors
Home Furnishings with CORT Furniture Rental
The worst thing about moving is without question moving the massive pieces of furniture. The essential pieces of furniture that make a home livable. Add to the inconvenience of moving but if you end up moving for a short period of time, say for school or work, the annoyance of moving increases exponentially because you have
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Main Dishes
Extra Cheesy Broccoli Cheese Soup Recipe & Cheddar Pop Tarts
Last week we celebrated National Cheddar day with Tillamook on Instagram and I can’t get over how amazing this broccoli cheese soup recipe turned out. I’ve never actually made this at home before, I’ve only ever devoured it from a giant bread bowl at Panera and indulged in the fact that I was basically eating
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Interiors & Exteriors
Cleaning Products that Bring Joy
If you’re one of those people who gets motivated to work out with buying new workout clothes, then I bet you’re also the type who finds an excuse to clean when you get new cleaning tools. Unless, that’s just me… but surely I can’t be alone in my endeavor to have pretty and functional cleaning
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Desserts
Sugar Free Nutella Hazelnut Bread Pudding
Yep, starting this recipe off with an anecdote. This was supposed to be a French toast bake, which Jan had declared was her new favorite breakfast casserole. I was trying to piggy back off of the fame of our Blueberry Brioche French Toast Bake with this sugar-free Sola Bread, but ended up declaring this a
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Breakfast
Creative FAGE Plain Greek Yogurt Mix Ins
This post is sponsored by FAGE; however, all thoughts and opinions are my own. This is a big year- not only is it a new decade but I also turn 30 in August. It almost doesn’t feel right, internally I still feel 17 but the calendar doesn’t lie. I’ve made a resolution to myself to
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Breakfast
Brown Butter Chocolate Walnut Banana Bread
I had a difficult time whether to categorize this banana bread recipe as breakfast or dessert. On one hand, I think we can all agree that banana bread is really a banana cake that we deem acceptable to eat for breakfast. On the other hand, no one can accept eating cake for breakfast as a
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Interiors & Exteriors
The Best Places to Buy a Rug
Generally, rugs are expensive, and expensive purchases create a lot of “hemming and hawing” on my part, particularly because I’m obsessed with getting a good deal. Now that we’ve finished the bulk of ourhome renovation, I’ve been obsessed with covering up our newly finished 120-year-old floors with rugs. For someone who has been relatively commitment-averse
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Interiors & Exteriors
Spice Drawer Organization (Takes Only 1 Hour)
I have either completely lost my mind or I have finally reached peak adult with this very neat spice drawer organization makeover. I’m going to lean toward the latter and say that I’ve finally become that adult who has an organized spice area in our kitchen. We debated where to put our spices when we
