Easy Floral Arrangement Tip For A Pro Look

Well hey there, happy new month! We had a tough May over here but I am determined to take things up a notch and truly share the content that brings me joy on here, the content I know all of you follow me for. Time for expanding on how we make life, our home, our wardrobe and our job things we love. Pouring energy into the parts of life that bring me joy in hopes to feel and inspire that energy and joy and love around all of us.

Now onto todays post, a hack and a message close to my heart. It is no secret that my most favorite way to enhance our home, dinner table or get together is a beautiful arrangement of flowers. I credit it on my sister working at a floral department in a supermarket, where she learned so much but also was really incredible at making even the simplest flowers beautiful. I took all of her tips and knowledge and my love for flowers to create my own professional looking arrangements.

I truly enjoy making things a little "extra". It's almost a form of self love for me, a well styled home, a decorated counter top, or simply setting the table once a week (like I did above) by pulling out a table cloth (even with 50 cent plates!), a beautiful floral arrangement and something as small as filling a pitcher with ice water, and lemon can bring your family together for a meal and etch a memory. You almost want to eat slower and savor in not just the table setting but the people around that table. Creating and stretching every day moments into something you really really love and enjoy.

This little hack has been my key to styling flowers in a larger vase for years now and I wanted to share it with you. I also want you to know that you don't have to spend a ton or wait for a super special occasion to do this.

I also urge you to look beyond the box and fill your basket with inexpensive "filler flowers" and one base flower for your arrangement. Also any vase or pitcher will do but the wider/larger the better for this trick, since it simply allows you to fill

1. Use clear tape to create a grid! If you use a glass vase it will hide the ends of the tape but I don't mind because the flowers really hide it.

2. Trim flowers (always cut at an angle) to match the height you are looking for, I like them to be all different heights because it gives the arrangement texture and height. I promise I will share a video on my Instagram exactly how I do it the next time I buy flowers!

3. Place each type of flower in the square grid, I like to arrange each type of flower at once so that I can spread them out evenly before moving on to the next bloom.

Easy peasy! And I am telling you the more you arrange them this way the more you play around with it the better you get at it. I love creating one for the dining table, the entry and the kitchen counter. Makes me so happy and does not have to cost a lot!

Here is to a summer of making even the smallest moments as special as can be because if there was anything that 2020 taught is was to relish in the little happy moments!

xoxo

Natalie

Glass Pitchers that will spruce up your table.

Set the table outside with these beautiful items.

Home Spring Wish List

We have about 10 weeks left in this house. TEN. Ugh. How did the months slip away? Anyhow having lived in someone else's home, with someone else's stuff, I am ready for my own. And for my own stuff around the house and as Ami keeps saying, we are all ready for our own pictures around the house.

Can you believe that by the time we leave this rental it will have been 1 year since we left our apartment in NYC!? One whole year since we moved out of our Tribeca apartment in the middle of a pandemic, not knowing we would never go back to that apartment together as a family (my husband was there in July for the movers to move our stuff into storage).

Since living at the beach I am really into just lighter, brighter aesthetics and adding warmth with textures in rugs/throws and pillows. Here is a mood board I created for a friends living room with some tips on how to update your living room for Spring.

Love these cane chairs, with a fur sheepskin would look so luxe in a living room or office, honestly adding one of these fur throws to match your sofa or chair can really change up a space.

I love this side table, for a couple books, this small Chanel book, and this bright Peonies book is so sweet (coffee table books can really help with adding some Spring colors and complete a room), and since it's a small surface I would do a bud vase or two, this set is a great deal.

This white sofa would look incredible across from the chairs, With a soft blanket (to drape when the kiddos are on it, hahaha!).

Pillows pillows pillows! Throw pillows can easily lighten up a space. I would do two like this solid one with tassels and then a second like this one with a pop of blue, Style it with one of each on either side of the sofa. And maybe even a lumbar one if you have a sectional (would also look great on a bed).

Large baskets to hold extra blankets or toys is SO NECESSARY! I also came across this one is stunning with a lid.

Love these abstract candle holders and this coffee table that is an incredible deal and looks so luxe.

Some super budget black out curtains to brighten up, I would hang with these clips. And I am obsessed with these lamps!

I hope that this inspires you to refresh your space for Spring on any kind of budget. Because I am a strong believer that changing up your space and rotating different pieces can really change up a space.

xoxo

Natalie

Self Care & Where I Shop For My Favorite Pajamas

Well, hey there sweet friends.

I chatted about finding your own self care routine. Not just what the world tells us to do but what are the things that fill your bucket, and allow your body, heart and brain to feel good. What are the things that you can do for YOU and for no one else. I shared the things I love to do are taking time to blow out my hair, painting my nails, hot epsom salt baths, a really good glass of wine (in quiet), a good book, a walk on the beach alone, really great soft pajamas and most of all time to myself.

Whatever you choose to do as self care, make sure you schedule it like any other task. And do something daily. I do this so that I won't let my cup be completely empty to remind myself I need some ME time!! So I am telling you from experience, scheduling it on your calendar, setting reminders, alarms, waking before the family, putting together a group chat, and making it a PRIORITY.

Since most of my self care can be done in pretty pajamas, I am sharing my favorites and where I shop for them!

Amazon

(Love these cozy cotton pjs! These satin ones I ordered as gifts so soft and look wayyyy more expensive. This star set comes in so many prints, and easily a lounge set for drive-thru.)

Banana Republic. (60% off sale right now!)

(My newest obsession are the BR pajamas! My sister got me these, the cut and fit is so flattering. This red set is pretty, and this tank set is cute! I ordered these blue print top and pj pants! I bought these heart ones and loving the star ones.

Gap.

Loving this cardigan, and pant set it's just so soft and pretty and cute! This blue stripe set (I have a sleep shirt) is so perfect for spring! Love the pointelle leggings are just so cute!

Target.

Striped PJs, I Think I have them in 3 colors in storage and so cute. This satin jumpsuit is so cute!! This tye dye pj set is cute, I have this leopard one is so adorable.

Floral PJ's are cute!

Loft

They are having an amazing sale right now!

These cat ones are so cute, love that it's a short and long pants. This leopard tank one is similar to one I have from two summers ago! Any one need some for St Patty's Day, these are so cute! And I ordered these strip ones for my mom for Spring!

Lunya (these were a very nice gift from hubby and now I want the short set!)

I hope that this little reminder to make time for yourself comes in a good time. Because honestly for a lot of us it has been a year of isolation, of taking on childcare, cooking duties, trying to stay fit, work, trying not to yell, saying yes too often, and like for us not knowing what the plan is for a "normal life". It is not just draining but sad, and this is why I try to turn to myself and see what I need to change my perspective.

xoxo

Natalie