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TGIF!!! Ready for the weekend! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

How beautiful is this space?? I started following @robyns_frenchnest long ago. Her house is stunningly unique! And her personality is so genuine. Over the last few months she has been such an encouragement to me. Not just because she is someone who has WAAaay more followers than me, but because she has been consistently showing up to leave me supportive feedback and love. I’ve been able to message her and feel like she is truly the sweet personable gal you hope is behind the screen. She’s a fellow teacher, like me, so I have major respect for all she gives to the world! If you don’t follow her, you should definitely go take a peek! ☀️🤗

Needed this affirmation. ☀️☀️☀️

This summer, I was asked to give a little makeover to the front office of the school where I teach at. I had so much fun putting the plan together and sourcing all the new decor items. There are just a few more items to check off the list and then I can give you a full tour of the space! Until then, here is a little #shelfie sneak peek. 😁🙌🏻

Sunday Evening! Let me ask you— do you pick out your clothes the night before for work or do you wake up and just grab something in the morning? Well, I’ll tell you how my plan goes. Pretty much the first few weeks of school I’m REALLY good about prepping the night before. Outfit, lunches, bags, to do lists, etc. Give it a few weeks and my over-preparation-ness starts to wear off. Anyone else like this?? 🤣🤣 One thing that has helped is having a capsule wardrobe & cohesive color palettes in my closet. Even when I am slacking on picking clothes out the night before...I know I can quickly throw an outfit together. My latest favorite staples: leopard print (in moderation!) and RUST colored clothing. Basically neutrals in my book! 💁🏻‍♀️❤️ . Well, here’s to going in my closet RIGHT now and getting READY for tomorrow! 💪🏻🔥

Good Morning friends!! Whew, the last two weeks have been BUSY. School started back up which means my little boy started Pre-K at my school! It has been so fun and he has done a great job adjusting. He’s especially well adjusted to waking up early again...especially at 6AM on Saturday 😩😬. In addition to all this, I began my masters program! I have been just a tad overwhelmed trying to re-learn how to LEARN again. Like, how does one write papers and properly include citations?!? 🤪 Also trying to set up a good schedule for getting in work, school AND family time has been an adjustment too! Basically... AUGUST = ADJUSTMENT for me!! Looking forward to a chill weekend to recoup and get ready for a fresh week ahead. Hoping to get back to more decor talk soon—gotta have my outlet! 💁🏻‍♀️ . What does your August look like so far??

2 more days left of summer break. Where did those two months off go?!? 😩 . It’s always bittersweet when summer ends. I look forward to getting back to work and seeing my coworkers and students, but I will REALLY miss the slow summer days. It’s especially exciting this year because my son starts PreK and will be coming to school with me!! I can’t wait to see him around school! . The plan for the next two days: CLEAN CLEAN CLEAN & REST REST REST! 🤗🤗🤗🤗 . When does school start back in your parts?

Remember my 4th of July tablescape? Well, I wanted to show you how I kept the exact same setting and made just a few tweaks for a simple summer table instead! All I did was trade out the flags for some white tulips and add some a few lemons to the table! Can I even tell you a secret?!? Those tulips are faux!! They are the best “real feel” flowers I’ve ever seen (or felt 🤗). Love keeping them on hand for when I don’t have time to get fresh!

Did a little shopping at Target today and I am loving the school items in the dollar spot! I’ve picked up several little things that will be very useful in my classroom. I also picked up some items that will be very CUTE in my classroom too 😍😁. Like this $3 pot. Y’all know I love anything black and white so I think this composition notebook designed pot will be just perfect! It’s a great size to stick a little plant in...or pencils or ....whatever else us teachers need on hand! . Oh, and you see those #vintagebooks ? They are almost 100 year old books and contain the childlike-handwritten name of my Granny. One of the many reasons I LOVE old books, but even more so when they are family treasures! 💛💛💛 . Check out my stories to see what else I found while shopping at @target today!

When Leo’s great grandmother gets him his very own vacuum...he wakes up the next morning and says,”Let’s vacuum Mommy!” 👦🏼💛👩🏻 . #notanadd #butshouldbe #dyson

Today’s agenda included a BIG CLEAN of the house. Like, get everything put away and CLEAN. No excuses. No leaving the house until it’s done type of priority. And I did it! There are still a FEW things set on my dining table that are being given away tomorrow, but other than that I think I did pretty good. Am I the only one that feels like I deserve a medal for actually getting it done?!? 🤣🤣 After I cleaned (which included finally running the vacuum 🙌🏻), little guy and I went out for the rest of the day. See my stories to see how our trip to feed the ducks went 😳🦆. When we got home tonight after church it felt SO good to come home to a clean house. Now to make sure it stays this way...😬🤞🏻. Climbing into bed feeling GOOD tonight! . Ps—dusk is my absolute favorite time to be in my house. I love how cozy everything starts to feel!The dust bunnies tend to disappear about then too... 😉🤣.

One of my favorite ways to add personality to my home is through LARGE prints. I have several scattered throughout my home and it’s one of the easiest and cheapest ways to get great design! For this project, I was looking for something to go in our master bathroom We have dark gray walls in there with zero natural light in this spot so I wanted something to balance that. I found this beautiful black and white botanical print on Etsy for about $4. Sent it to my local printer to get a 20x30 size for $10. I reused a frame I already had and BAM...mission accomplished! . Disclaimer: it’s impossible to get a good picture of this room; especially while cropping out the commode ...because who wants to see that?!? 🤣Swipe for the best shot I could get. 🙂 . Now tell me— do you use these same type tricks for large statement pieces in your home too?

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