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Happy Sunday, a day to rest your weary bones. ☠️

Katie + Matt did the thing, Covid be damned. Their

Today on the blog, check out seven of our favorite

Today on the blog, check out seven of our favorites places to find wallpaper. It is our absolute signature move. [link in bio] 📸: @brit.ography

Amber didn’t have very much fun on her wedding d

Amber didn’t have very much fun on her wedding day. 😉 📸: @hannahtoldt

It is unequivocally fall, ya’ll. And we’ve got

It is unequivocally fall, ya’ll. And we’ve got a wheelbarrow of all of the bumpiest, lumpiest, and least bright orange pumpkins we could find. We can’t say Halloween’s orange and black color palette is really our favorite but we are here for the tiny boxes of Milk Duds and skulls. ☠️

Sunday morning routine. 🖤 ⠀ ⠀ Reading has a

Sunday morning routine. 🖤 ⠀
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Reading has always been something I have done voraciously but in the past few years I have neglected it, working too much, being too busy, just generally not making enough time for something I love. But when I was a kid, I used to stay up with a flashlight on school nights to finish a book until all hours 🔦 and get quite annoyed that my parents would literally buy my sister ANY book she EVER wanted because she was much more focused on her rock collection than reading. If they had offered that to me, they likely would have had to take a second mortgage out, and even still my mom often let me pile up quite a stack at our trips to Barnes and Noble (don’t tell your siblings.) The Scholastic Book Fair was my Olympics. 📚⠀
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This year of forced slow down has enabled me to pick reading back up again at madcap speeds making up for lost time. 🤓⠀
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Two things that really helped me get it going are getting a @amazonkindle and downloading the Libby app. I got a Kindle right before we went on our honeymoon to South Africa because I did tend to read a lot on vacation and didn’t want to lug 8 books with me. ✈️ I LOVE physically holding books (and keeping them) but the ability to read in any light and fall asleep without have the book itself land on my face was a game changer. If I really love a book, I can always buy it to keep.
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But, you say astutely, then you pay for a Kindle book and then maybe want to actually buy it too. I am much too thrifty to buy a book for $14.99 to not even own said book so I found myself reading a bunch of free/cheap books available through Prime Reading. Enter Libby, the app that gets me all of the new releases for free from the library and enabled me to start working through the huge list of books I had been keeping but not buying. It’s glorious, it’s free, it downloads straight to your kindle or plays audiobooks right from the app.
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So if you want to read more/read better books without spending tons of money these are my suggestions. If you want to see what I’ve been loving lately, there’s a story highlight of my recent faves. ⠀
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Class dismissed. 👩‍🎓

Do you ever turn your overhead can lighting on? It

Do you ever turn your overhead can lighting on? It feels very aggressive, especially for 2020, when we need all the soft, mood lighting we can get.💡
Can you guess what I had to shove behind the wall to snap this photo? If anyone gets it right, the next round is on us. Clearly it wasn’t those dog-walking shoes. 🤦‍♀️

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