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Top 5 Friday: 5 Passions for 2019 Happy Friday Friends! It’s been a whirlwind of a week after spending 3 days with my son on a 5th grade field trip! It was an incredible experience and I wouldn’t trade it for the world but I sure was pooped when we got home Wednesday night! And…
Top 5 Friday: Favorite Gifts For Health Nuts Happy Friday friends! Clearly I’m not on my game since this is the first of the week but hey, what can I say? The holidays are kicking my butt and they’re aren’t enough hours in the day. Do you feel me?!?! For Top 5 Friday this week…
Top 5 Friday: 5 Favorite Original Christmas Gift Ideas Happy Friday Friends! I hope you’ve had a great week and are excited about the upcoming holiday! We’re definitely ready for a few days off to spend with family! For Top 5 Friday I’m sharing unique Christmas gift ideas to jumpstart your gift-giving juices. I’m…
{Source} Top 5 Friday: Favorite Christmas Decorating Themes OH HEY FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!! Raise your hand if you’re ready for the weekend! Well…October snuck up on us and we basically skipped Halloween as far as decorating goes. And since we’re not hosting Thanksgiving this year I’ve officially decided to jump right into Christmas. Mmmkay! Seeing as that…
Top 5 Friday: Favorite Modern Fireplace Screens Under $300 Happy Friday friends! We’re in West Point, NY today exploring the campus of the United States Military Academy where Kevin’s son is in school. And we’re super pumped for the Army vs. Air Force football game tomorrow! Make sure to check out my Instagram stories for…
Top 5 Friday: Current Favorite Netflix Shows + Movies Happy Top 5 Friday everyone! I thought it would be fun to share the top five favorite shows and movies that I’m loving on Netflix in case you’re looking for something to start this weekend. Family friendly shows and FBI/CIA-type dramas are usually my preference. I…
{All photos via Serena & Lily} Top 5 Friday: Best of The Serena & Lily Catalog Happy Friday y’all!!! Hope you’ve had a great week! We’re ending the week with a little Darius Rucker and Lady Antebellum tonight and I can’t wait. I haven’t been to a concert in forever! One of my favorite decor…
Top 5 Friday: Top Five Tips For Getting More Sleep TGIF!!!! I don’t know about you guys but I’m so glad the weekend is here! I can’t wait to do a little bit of purging the house and a whole lot of relaxing. I’ve been doing a lot of research lately on fitness and nutrition…
Top 5 Friday: My Favorite Slouchy Sweaters Under $100 Happy Top 5 Friday Friends! You should all know by now, especially if you saw last week’s T5F, that I’m all about the slouchy clothes and over tight-fitting everything except workout gear! Maybe it’s the ill-fitting 90’s boyfriend style (think Duck Heads and Tommy Hilfiger shirts…on…
Top 5 Friday: Favorite Girlfriend Jeans In My Shopping Cart Happy Hurricane Friday y’all! North & South Carolina are bracing for Hurricane Florence right now so I think that was an appropriate greeting! But in all seriousness, we feel pretty safe here in Charlotte but we’re really worried about the #OIBHappy house! She’s all boarded…
Top 5 Friday: 5 Ways To Live That Nantucket Life Happy Friday everyone! To say that I’m a little obsessed with Nantucket since we returned from our trip is the understatement of the century! I just might be planning a complete yard makeover specifically inspired by all of the magnificent gardens we saw. And since…
Top 5 Friday: Nantucket (or any outdoor adventure) Travel Essentials Happy Top 5 Friday!!!!!!!!! As of right now we’re into our second full day in Nantucket so I thought it would be fitting to share my Top 5 Travel Essentials for exploring a New England beach town – particularly when you will be exploring via…
Thank goodness for Friday of the weirdest week ever! I’ve got to say, I don’t love holidays in the middle of the week because I feel totally out of whack with my days…but I guess I shouldn’t complain, right?! I do hope you all had a wonderful 4th! Today for Top 5 Friday I’m sharing…
Top 5 Friday: Must-Have Summer Outfit Staples Happy Top 5 Friday y’all! And TGIF too! Who’s ready for the 4th of July but wishing that it would fall on a Friday instead of a Wednesday??? Oh well, I’ll take it :) I haven’t had a chance to put together my summer capsule wardrobe post so…
Top 5 Friday: Favorite Jute Rugs With Fringe Under $300 TGIF friends!!! I hope you’ve all had a great week! Not too long ago I shared my favorite area rugs for Top 5 Friday Today I’m specifically shopping for a jute rug for our living room and I thought I would share my research with…
Top 5 Friday: Our Top 5 Favorite Beach Necessities! Happy Friday y’all! My grandmother is staying with us this week so her, my mom and little man headed down to the #OIBHappy house and I joined them yesterday. School is over and summer has begun so I’ve got major beach brain. And in case…
Top 5 Friday: Modern Ceiling Fans (with lights) Under $300 Y’all…how is it Friday already? I guess that’s a good thing but this short week sure did fly by! So I kind of fell into a little living room update over the long weekend and I’m on the hunt for a new modern ceiling fan….
Top 5 Friday: My Favorite Graphic Gym Tees Happy TOP 5 FRIDAY!!!!!!!!! One thing I love about a regular gym routine (other than the health benefits) is that it’s the perfect opportunity to wear graphic tees and tanks! Let’s face it, an almost-40-year-old can’t really get away with walking around all day in fun graphic…
Top 5 Friday: My Favorite Mexican-ish Restaurants In The QC Happy Cinco de Mayo y’all!!! Okay, so I know it’s not actually Friday but I thought that saving Top 5 Friday for Cinco de Mayo Saturday would be a perfectly acceptable thing to do! In lieu of this fun (and somewhat irrelevant holiday in the…
Top 5 Friday: Our Favorite Easy Outdoor Plants Happy Top 5 Friday friends! Today I’m sharing my top 5 favorite easy plants perfect for freshening up your outdoor spaces for spring and summer! 1. Hydrangea Hands down my favorite plant/flower. Like most, I love them for their beauty and vibrant color but they also make…
Top 5 Friday: Current Favorite Paint Colors (Our Home + More) It’s Top 5 Friday y’all and I’m sharing my current favorite paint colors! And really, who doesn’t love to talk paint? It’s probably my favorite design related subject, although I find the older I get the less I actually enjoy the act of painting!…
Top 5 Friday: Favorite Things To Do In The Spring Oh hey, it’s FRIDAY!!! And it’s Good Friday and the Friday of our spring break at that!!! Woot woot! In honor of trying to coax the spring weather out of it’s shell a little bit, I thought I would share my top 5 favorite things…
1. / 2. / 3. / 4. / 5. Top 5 Friday: My Five Favorite Flat Sandals For Spring TGIF and happy March Madness!!!!! I absolutely love this time of year and the games have already been exciting! I hated to see Davidson lose but what a fight they put up against Kentucky! And…
Top 5 Friday: Favorite Productivity + Personal Finance Podcasts Happy Friday guys! And since it’s Friday that means I’ve got a Top 5 Friday post for you and it’s all about my current favorite productivity / money podcasts. Let’s jump right in… 1. Journey to Launch This is one of the very first personal finance…
Top 5 Friday: Top 5 Current Favorite Books From All Genres Happy Friday y’all! Did everyone have a chance to enter the giveaway for the custom design board from Wednesday’s post? If not you can enter HERE or head over to this Instagram post. Today for Top 5 Friday I thought I’d share my current…
Top 5 Friday: Top 5 Favorite Area Rugs Under $500 Happy Friday you guys! I hope you had a great week and have some fun plans this weekend! It’s going to rain some here but we’ve hit temps above 70 the last two days and I think I’m going to call it – spring is…
Top 5 Friday: Five Favorite (Not Just) Style Bloggers Happy Friday folks and what a week it has been! Today for Top 5 Friday I want to share my five favorite style bloggers that share so much more than just their impeccable abilities to put together fabulous outfits day in and day out. These ladies…
Top 5 Friday: How To Get The Modern Farmhouse Look Happy Top 5 Friday friends! Today’s top five tips are all about creating the modern farmhouse style in your home! I’ve got some easy ideas for achieving the Fixer Upper-look that we all crave these days and it’s really not as hard as you think!…
Top 5 Friday: 5 Tips To Get Your Money Game On Track Oh heeeyyyy it’s Friday! Who’s excited??? Remember a couple weeks ago when I was talking about the awesome sauce coming at’cha in 2018 and a few new things that would be thrown in the mix? Well, today’s the day and I’m talking a…
Shop our kitchen: [show_shopthepost_widget id=”2995369″] Top 5 Friday: Tips For A Fresh Home In The New Year Happy Friday friends! Friday is pretty much my favorite day of the week and it just got a little bit better! As you heard me mention in my 2018 goals post I’m adding a new series to…
Top 10 Favorite Posts + Projects of 2018 Happy Saturday friends! I know I don’t typically post on Saturdays but I’ve had some relaxing time at my parents #OIBHappy House to get some posts written so I thought, “Why not!”. I hope you all had wonderful Christmases and are looking forward to the New Year….
{This post is sponsored by Aera. All designs, ideas and opinions are my own. Thank you for supporting the brands that make Simple Stylings possible!} 5 Tips For A Simple, Happy Home (& keeping your mom brain sane!) Happy Monday friends! I hope you had a wonderful weekend of Cinco de Mayo and Kentucky Derby…
Favorite Things Friday Vol. 22 Happy, happy FRIDAY!!!!! I’m shouting it from the rooftops this week! Last Friday I was covered up with party prep for the Diet Coke End of Summer Bash so I’m looking forward to hanging at home tonight with a few friends over! Without further ado, here are the favorites for…
Happy, happy Friday! I’m doing a little happy dance over here after a long, hectic week and I’m ready for the weekend! What about you? First off, I wanted to share a dear friend with you today who is an incredibly talented photographer and an equally amazing person! If you follow along here you have…
Favorite Things Friday Vol. 19 HAPPY FRIDAY Y’ALL!!! I hope you’ve had a great week! We just finished our first week back at school and although I’m exhausted, little man had a great week and I’m embracing the return to routine! Hair Cut First up on the Friday agenda is the topic of hair! Wait…
Favorite Things Friday Vol. 16 Happy Friday everyone! I hope you’ve had a great week and here are my top favorites!! *** These 9 lovely dinnerware combos from Emily Henderson. My favorite is the Nautical Navy! Which is your fave? One of my favorite blogging weeks of the year is The DIY Playbook’s blog week! If…
{Photo: Jeena Studios} It’s FAVORITE THINGS FRIDAY VOL. 13 Y’ALL!!! Here’s what I’m loving this week… One of my most favorite entertaining blogs, especially in these summer months: Lauren Kelp! This is one to check out for sure! Aren’t those marigold cocktails above gorgeous? We’ve talked Crocs on here before, I know, but I can’t tell…
Hey hey Friday! Today is a great day! My 7-year-old son is off school for a teacher workday and this morning we ran a mile together without stopping! It was so great to see him make it to the end! Naturally our course ended at Starbucks so we had to reward ourselves! You can see…
Hey hey! Let’s just say I’m kind of excited about this project and I’m happy to finally be able to share it. I threw out a few teasers on Instagram and now you can see the end result. Let me ask a question first before we get started! Who loves to entertain but doesn’t have the…
Welcome to Favorite Things Friday Vol. 4!!!! My favorite day of the week! Let’s start this Friday off with the incredibly hip new CB2 patio line! I’m loving these peplum tops from Old Navy for Spring – especially the price tag! Another perfect Serena & Lily room! You can shop the room below: [show_shopthepost_widget id=”1509352″] …