While you are at home quarantining with your family, check out this small list of things to do that I created! It has some book recommendations that I have been recently, entertaining podcasts, and activities to do with your family. 

  It took a while, but I finally got Frankie's room all put together. The girls were going to share the room but the clutter was driving me nuts! So I caved and just gave them separate rooms. I then started and stopped the project in-between vacation trips. I still have some touch up paint to do, but I am pretty proud of how it turned out.
  One of the pieces I am most excited about is Frankie's print of her birthday. I used Mapiful to customized my very own print for her room. The stars are what the night looked like on the day she was born. She has been such a delight in our life and this print is just a special addition in her room. 

  How I treat these moments teaches my children on how to handle future moments. It's the difference on whether they respond with kindness or react with fear. Faith, hope, and love are the currency of Heaven and I have the ability to release Heaven wherever I go. Often times, people don't realize what storms they are carrying inside of them, so their lives replicate the storms that are fuming on the inside. During this time, let us lean into love. It doesn't take much, I promise.

I am usually the person that has the great idea to give everyone in my office a nice homemade gift at Christmas time or Christmas update card around December 15th. That's way too late to stat thinking about that. Honestly, I get so busy and it seems so daunting that I inevitably give up and make a note that next year will be my year. So when I got the opportunity to work with Basic Invite, I had a few requirements for my self: A.) it had to look pretty, and B.) it had to be easy. And that was exactly what I experienced with Basic Invite. I went through the whole process and tried a variety of different  options (all pictured) from home stationary, family thank you's, Frankie's baby announcement, Ryan-Kate's  preschool graduation, and a hypothetical anniversary party. The ease of each project sold me! When I received my samples I was blown away with the quality of each of my items, and I didn't even get the gold foil option! Right now, Basic Invite is offering 15% off with code: 15FF51. 

Basic Invite has a line for their graduation invites, announcements, and thank you's. I created a mock up for Ryan-Kate and I loved how it turned out! I loved the interaction with the whole process, they double check your work and once you approve they send it off to print! I consistently have spelling errors and admittedly am not a details person. So the fact that someone else can check my work was an added bonus. 

I bet many of you don't remember the time I had purple hair for about 6 months. If I knew then that I know now, I would do things way differently. In the process, I fried my hair and it took a while to get it to where it used to be. I think hair should be fun and an expression, also, hair grows back! So don't be afraid to shake it up a bit. I got an opportunity to try Overtone's for brown hair line so that brunettes can try color too without all of the damage. Overall, I loved the ease of this product with my hair. The coloring system is easy: just apply to dry hair and wash away with hot water 10-15 minutes later. No extreme bleaching or harsh chemicals. It is a vegan, cruelty-free product too! The smell is almost like the love child of spearmint and rosemary. It's pretty refreshing.