GIFT GUIDE FOR MEN
I like to think that I’m a pretty good gift giver. Honestly, if I didn’t work where I do, I’d want to be a personal shopper! I looove finding gifts for people…except for guys. Oh man, especially my husband..he is so hard to shop for! So for this gift guide, I enlisted his help and found you some pretty amazing things for the special man in your life!
I like to think that I’m a pretty good gift giver. Honestly, if I didn’t work where I do, I’d want to be a personal shopper! I looove finding gifts for people…except for guys. Oh man, especially my husband..he is so hard to shop for! So for this gift guide, I enlisted his help and found you some pretty amazing things for the special man in your life!
Ember Travel Mug. OH M GEEEE I want one of these sooo bad! It keeps your coffee the perfect temperature! (AMERICAN LINK) (CANADIAN LINK)
Counterman Set (AMERICAN LINK) (CANADIAN LINK)
Hatchet (AMERICAN LINK) (CANADIAN LINK)
Aeropress (AMERICAN LINK) (CANADIAN LINK)
Wireless Headphones (AMERICAN LINK) (CANADIAN LINK)
Happy Christmas shopping everybody!!
XO, Laura
LONDON'S UNICORN FIRST BIRTHDAY PARTY
Our sweet London Rose turned ONE last month! We celebrated by throwing her a Unicorn First Birthday Party and we had SO MUCH FUN!
Our sweet London Rose turned ONE last month! We celebrated by throwing her a Unicorn First Birthday Party and we had SO MUCH FUN!
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We had Marlboro from Marlboro Wang Photo and we loved working with him! So professional and the shots were amazing! Thank you so much Marlboro and Lachlan!!
Our stunning cake was made by Rachel Cakes. Rachel made our wedding cake, first anniversary cake (which was a replication of our wedding cake that James surprised me with!), Luca’s birthday cake, and London’s baby shower cake! If you are in Victoria, BC and are in need of a cake, then do yourself a favour and contact Rachel!!
For the food, we went with a brunch theme because breakfast is everything in our house!!
We gave London a cupcake for the first time at the party and at first she had no idea what to do but once she got a taste, she just dove right in. It was the sweetest! And when asked her age, she put up a finger and said ONE!
She brings us so much JOY! I honestly don’t know what I would do without her little bright light!
Thank you to everyone who came and loved on our little London!!!
XO,
Laura
GIFT GUIDE FOR THE HOSTESS
It’s almost the most wonderful time of the year! We’re planning on doing all our shopping in November as December is just NUTSO for us (which I’m sure is the same story for everybody!) Today’s gift guide is all about the HOSTESS! This is the person in your life who LOVES entertaining and having people over! It may be your BFF, sister, mother in law or you (if that’s the case, send this on to your hubby!)
It’s almost the most wonderful time of the year! We’re planning on doing all our shopping in November as December is just NUTSO for us (which I’m sure is the same story for everybody!) Today’s gift guide is all about the HOSTESS! This is the person in your life who LOVES entertaining and having people over! It may be your BFF, sister, mother in law or you (if that’s the case, send this on to your hubby!)
So many cute items and some of them are on sale!! More gift guides coming your way soon!
XO,
Laura
PUMPKIN RECIPES PERFECT FOR FALL
I recently took a poll on Instagram Stories (ps. here’s the link to my instagram if we’re not friends on there yet!) and asked you all what you wanted to see on the blog. Most of you requested RECIPES!
I have soooo many recipes I’d love to share with you but I first need to take pretty pictures, ha. But in the meantime here are four mouth watering Pumpkin recipes! I wish I could eat each of these RIGHT NOW (and I also wish the calories would NOT count, ha) I may just have to do some late night baking….
I recently took a poll on Instagram Stories (ps. here’s the link to my instagram if we’re not friends on there yet!) and asked you all what you wanted to see on the blog. Most of you requested RECIPES!
I have soooo many recipes I’d love to share with you but I first need to take pretty pictures, ha. But in the meantime here are four mouth watering Pumpkin recipes! I wish I could eat each of these RIGHT NOW (and I also wish the calories would NOT count, ha) I may just have to do some late night baking….
PUMPKIN CREAMCHEESE MUFFINS
These ones are UN-FREAKING-REAL! They are 1000000x better than the Starbucks version and won’t cost you an arm and a leg. If you really want to wow someone, you need to bake these.
PUMPKIN SPICE SNICKERDOODLES
These ones are from a super old blog post but you guys, they are soooo good and sooo easy to bake! Just mix up the few ingredients, roll the dough in some pumpkin spice sugar and then bake and voila, delicious cookies!
PUMPKIN SPICE SCONES
Let’s just say these have a pumpkin spice butter drizzle on them. Seriously, thinking about them makes me drool a bit! They are pretty easy to make and sooo delicious.
MELT IN YOUR MOUTH PUMPKIN COOKIES
Pumpkin cookies with pumpkin with pumpkin butter cream icing…need I say more!!
Hope this post inspires you to light a candle, make a pumpkin spice latte and get you pumpkin bake on!!!
XO,
Laura
4 WAYS TO ORGANIZE YOUR LIFE
You guys, I’m going back to work in ONE WEEK. It is blowing my mind that this time next week, I’ll be WORKING!
I’m a mixed bag of emotions right now!! Firstly, I love my job so much. I have amazing co-workers and I get to do what I’m passionate about doing!! Buuuuut I will miss my lazy days with my babies. This time around I’m only going back 4 full days instead of 5 which means I’ll have one more day with the babes! That day gives me soo much peace. It was so different going back last time because I was already 4 months pregnant with London and I knew I’d be back home in 5 months. All that being said, I am SO excited for this new season!!
But with the transition, I know I need to get my butt in gear!! And for me that means ORGANIZING EVERYTHING!
You guys, I’m going back to work in ONE WEEK. It is blowing my mind that this time next week, I’ll be WORKING!
I’m a mixed bag of emotions right now!! Firstly, I love my job so much. I have amazing co-workers and I get to do what I’m passionate about doing!! Buuuuut I will miss my lazy days with my babies. This time around I’m only going back 4 full days instead of 5 which means I’ll have one more day with the babes! That day gives me soo much peace. It was so different going back last time because I was already 4 months pregnant with London and I knew I’d be back home in 5 months. All that being said, I am SO excited for this new season!!
But with the transition, I know I need to get my butt in gear!! And for me that means ORGANIZING EVERYTHING!
4 WAYS TO ORGANIZE YOUR LIFE:
Here’s what I’m doing to help keep our household organized as I make the transition back to work!
ORGANIZE WORK CLOTHES
I’m saying PEACE OUT to the days of wearing leggings all day/every day and HELLO to wearing cute work clothes! Because my body has changed so much in the past two years, I needed to update up my wardrobe. I purged a BUNCH of clothes and then found some new tops. My favourite one that I’m wearing in these pics is from Pink Blush. I wore a ton of their stuff during pregnancy but they also make cute non-maternity clothes too! This top is my favourite. So comfy and goes with everything! I’m in love with the puffy sleeves.
I’m going to lay my clothes out the night before. It saves me sooo much time in the morning!PREPARE THE NIGHT BEFORE
Mornings are going to be CRAZY. James will still be working in October so on days where we have outside care, I’ll need to have things organized and ready to go. For me that means, laying out my clothes + kids clothes, make my lunch and make sure there is food for the kids, and meal prep for dinner next day. This list makes me a bit anxious thinking about it BUT I’m reminding myself that spending 30 minutes the night before is waaay better than being a train wreck who’s late to work the next day!!
MEAL PLAN
Meal planning will SAVE YOUR LIFE. Ok, not like Jesus will but it will save your sanity. It seriously helps us soooo much. We tend to plan out the meals on Saturday and then do our big shop Sunday morning (we’ll have to change that to Saturday soon as I will be working Sundays!) I try to make at least one meal that will have leftovers. Check out my pinterest board for meal ideas! I write it all out in my planner and then check to see the day before if I need to defrost or do any other prep!
TIME BLOCK
This is something that I just started to do but it is helping me sooo much! It’s super simple and probably a lot of you are doing it but you basically just block out time in your weeks for different things. This will be VITAL for me to do when I’m back at work. Obviously I’ll have to do it with my workload but also for my evenings. I have a blog/IG, beautycounter biz, workouts etc etc to fit in. So when I time block, I give that thing undivided attention and don’t get distracted with watching IG stories (which I soooo do, all the time!!) Time blocking has helped me become WAY more productive!
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I’d love to hear what keeps you organized!! Let me know your tips in the comments!
Xo,
Laura