Home for the Holidays

Each year we spend Christmas at home.  Family visits and with three kids we really enjoy a relaxed time the comes from being home for the holidays. This is our second Christmas in our new home and it has undergone more changes in the last few months.  We finally said good-bye to the last of the outdated, late 90's burgundy and gold-brown walls that permeated the house and hello to a spruced up and lighter palette of blues and greens and grays. Our house is really beginning to feel like our home. Day one of decorating. We needed new things to go with the new paint colors throughout the house. We quickly realized how lucky we are that Garnet Hill sent us new stockings for this Christmas from their Hable Christmas Stocking collection. They match perfectly with the new paint … [Read more...]

Summer Gems with Garnet Hill

*Disclosure: TMC was not compensated for this post.  Products received are for review purposes only. Opinions are 100% my own.   A Rhode Island specialty: the clamcake Growing up in the southern part of Rhode Island meant a lot of things.  Summer was a golden time abundant with summer gems.  Pristine beaches punctuated with salty air that blew warm and damp after long frigid winters.  Everything tastes better in summertime, am I right? One of my favorite parts of summer in Rhode Island was and still is the crunchy on the outside doughy and soft on the inside: clamcake.  Fry up the white cornmeal mixture tossed with quahogs (that's a clam to you non-RI folks) and add a little bit of salt before noshing.  Bliss! To me, it is a bite of summer each and every time I eat one.  Now that I … [Read more...]

Garnet Hill Kids Micro-Fleece Jacket: Style It Your Way

What are some of the benefits of your mom loving clothes and being a style blogger?  Sometimes the little ones get to pick out something fun to wear too! Like this cute Garnet Hill Kids Micro-Fleece Jacket. My youngest daughter is definitely the future style maven out of my three girls.  She takes the longest to get ready in the morning, lays out her clothes from underwear to outerwear all on her floor each day right down to the accessories.  Hair bows, socks, skirts and leggings are mixed and matched. Frequently she is seen wearing something different throughout the day.  But she was missing one key item her sisters had and she didn't. If you're looking to complete her outfit, shop baby shoes at https://www.solesox.com.au/ for a stylish and comfortable addition to her … [Read more...]

With a Cherry on Top

Now that spring is here we tend to spend a lot of time outside.  In the new place we have replaced sitting on our front stoop with reading on the porch, running around the back yard, more yard work (which I sort of love because it is another excuse to get outside) and exercising outside with bikes, runs and long walks.  It's bliss! When it comes to our middle girl, The Comedian, she may have been a fall born baby but she is all spring.  From catching caterpillars, to tucking lady bugs into jars and just plain ol' digging in the dirt it is hard to keep her inside or clean.  If I can get her off to school without a hole in her pant leg or bugs in her pockets it is an easier morning.  But just like me she has her girly moments.  She knows a cute dress when she sees one.  This sweet … [Read more...]

#GHSummerStyle

The weekend promises to be blissfully warm and next week will be even hotter. Before long the pool (right across the street!) will be open and I'll be spending a large amount of time there.  Wearing the same cover up, flops and sunnies gets old fast.  I looked to Garnet Hill this spring for some easy looks that will stay strong all summer long.   Garnet Hill Calais Knit Dress/Eyebobs Polarized Sunglasses Black & Square Tortoise Ann Cole Mesh Cover-Up/Gentle Souls Break My Heart Gladiator Sandals Each piece is on-trend without going into the realm of being unable to wear after just one season.  What more could you ask for? FOR MY GIRLS Mexicana Embroidered Cotton Dress for Girls/Girls Paper Straw Fedora/Hooded Terry Cover Up My oldest daughter has the cover up in Real Teal and … [Read more...]