The kitchen is the heart of our home, and it's also school command central! Both of my boys go to a year round preschool a couple of days a week, so we haven't yet experienced a true back to school season, but we have implemented a number of systems in our kitchen that keep us organized for school day in and day out! Today I am guest blogging over at Pretty Well Organized and sharing the details of each of these kitchen systems. From organizing school paperwork to packing school ... View the Post
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Behind the Scenes of My Better Homes & Gardens Photo Shoot
When I was in law school rushing home from my contracts class everyday so I wouldn't miss an episode of Trading Spaces, I could have never imagined that one day I'd see photos of me and my home spread across two pages of Better Homes & Gardens. Talk about a "pinch me" moment!! Last week, Blue i Style celebrated its fifth anniversary. When I started this blogging adventure, I was still practicing law full time, Beckett was only 14 month old, and I was 6 months pregnant with Cooper. ... View the Post
{featured} DIY Laundry Countertop & Shelving for Under $65
Hi friends! I am blogging over at Pretty Well Organized this morning, sharing all of the DIY details on how we created a countertop and shelving in our laundry room for under $65! When we first moved in to our home, I really wanted to install a Formica countertop in our laundry closet with cabinets above, but with all of the other new expenses - including the cost of a brand new washer and dryer - there just wasn't any extra money in the budget. Nonetheless, I still needed to find a way to ... View the Post
An Anniversary Flashback to Our Black, White & Blue Wedding
Today Scott and I are celebrating our seven year anniversary! I just returned from the Haven conference, and I should be unpacking and doing laundry, but instead I've been looking back at the photos from our wedding day and reminiscing! And since I love to see other people's wedding photos, I thought maybe you would like to see some of my favorite photos from our big day! {All photos by BLF Photography} Right after we got engaged, we began looking for wedding venues. We both love the city, ... View the Post
{featured} I’m Sharing Tips for Organizing Kids’ Closets
It's a busy Friday, folks!! I just kicked off Five Minute Friday with a post about how I created an organized baking drawer in a few short minutes. {If you don't know what Five Minute Friday is all about, you can also read last week's introduction here!} This afternoon I am also blogging over at Pretty Well Organized, where I am sharing my best tips and tricks for organizing closets for babies & toddlers, with suggestions for how to adapt the organizing systems as your ... View the Post
{featured} Six Creative Ways to Organize and Decorate with Wedding Mementos
Today I am guest posting over at Pretty Well Organized on the topic of organizing memories. My husband and I will be celebrating our seventh anniversary this summer, but I still feel like our wedding was just yesterday, in part because we are surrounded by wonderful memories of that special day throughout our home. Like most people, I have hundreds thousands of photos of our wedding and the events that surrounded it, and I know that even just getting those photos into an album can seem a ... View the Post
{five minute friday} A Pretty & Easy Way to Hang Wreaths on Front Doors
Fall is just around the corner, and I'm excited to start swapping out some of my summer colors for fall decor in the next week or two. Last year, I found some gorgeous peacock feather wreaths and I can't wait to hang them on our front doors again this year! Our front doors are quite tall and have frosted glass panels, and as a result, a lot of standard wreath hanging methods don't work well for us. I don't want to put any nail holes in the front of the doors, and those over door metal wreath ... View the Post
12 Ways to Organize the Laundry Room
My friend Melissa, from A Prudent Life, and I share a passion for creating stylish organizing solutions, and we recently started a hashtag challenge on Instagram where we are asking you to play along by tagging photos on a weekly organizing topic using #organizingwithstyle - and you don't have to be a blogger to participate! For week 2 of the challenge, we asked to see photos of how you use stylishly organize your laundry room, and today, we've rounded up some ... View the Post
{family} Merry Christmas from Mine to Yours
I hope everyone is having a wonderful and very Merry Christmas! I thought I'd take the opportunity today to share our family Christmas card {which we ordered from Tiny Prints again this year}. The top hat is the one Scott wears as part of his costume while working for a professional Christmas caroling company, The Original Dickens Carolers, each holiday season. Beckett just loved that hat this year! He kept trying it on himself, then putting it on Cooper's head. It was so cute that we ... View the Post
{featured} I’m Sharing Tips for Organizing Toiletries
It's that time of month again when I share some of my favorite organizing projects over at Pretty Well Organized, and today the topic is toiletries. Scott and I are fortunate to have a large bank of six drawers in our master bathroom, which provides us plenty of space for organizing all of our smaller toiletries. I first organized these drawers when we moved into our home, and more than five years later the organizing system is still working well for us. That hardly ever happens! Normally ... View the Post
What It REALLY Looks Like to Live with Kids…And 10 Tips to Clean Up the Mess Faster
Things are getting real, today! I'm talking about what it REALLY looks like to live with kids and all their toys! I hear from friends and readers alike that they don't believe that our house can really look like the pretty pictures on the blog all the time, because life with kids is messy. And you know what, that's absolutely true! My boys are just like all other kids...they leave a trail of toys and disaster everywhere they go. But thanks to some simple organization, I can take any room in ... View the Post
{featured} Liebster Award and Some Q&A About Me
I received a nice little surprise recently when I learned that Allie, the lovely blogger behind Cute Kid, Ugly House nominated me for a Liebster Award. Thanks so much, Allie!! Liebster, which means "dearest" in German {or so I'm told}, is an award that is passed from one blogger to another as a way to demonstrate appreciation for what we do. While some bloggers seem to be busy competing with one another trying to be the next big thing, it's nice to know that there are other bloggers out ... View the Post