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Autumn Coziness 101 : My Fall Essentials

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My latest feature!Babes!

With cozy swing in full season, there’s no better time to refresh your at home coffee bar for maximum latte love – and I’m so thrilled to share that I got to collaborate with Rent. to share my best tips on making yours as extra as possible. (As if there’s any other option. 😉)

Check out the entire article in all its glory here: How to Make a Coffee Bar at Home: 7 Essentials for Setting Up the Perfect Home Coffee Station| Rent.

..and after that, let’s catch up with a few more of my autumn must haves, shall we?
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And she’s BACK:

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Photo of Elle in the drivers seat of a black convertible mustang, overlooking desert in Boulder City, NV. She's wearing rhinestoned heart shaped sunglasses which you can see in the drivers side rear view mirror.

It’s taken a while, but let’s brush off the cobwebs around here – shall we?!

Honestly – life is great here. We’ve traveled and celebrated so much this year and I’ve just kinda neglected this space since the fiasco that was renovating our house went haywire. (More on that later. 🙃)

Here’s what I’ve learned while I was away, and what I intend on doing here going forward:

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Love & Routine In The Age of COVID-19

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Listen, y’all – we’re in a shithole dumpster fire era that we’ll look back on as our ‘Great Depression”. It’s insanity – I refuse to try and wrap my head around it, and am staying the hell home at all costs unless the end-of-times supply of wine I bought runs out (priorities). This being said, we’ve gotta try and find some joy and normalcy amongst the madness.

Here’s my best tips to do so, chilled glass of Rosé firmly in hand:

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My Instagram Theme Is a Massive Creative Buzzkill and It’s Not Cute™️

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Full disclosure : I’ve fully become a prisoner to my very pink, Barbie fantasy Instagram theme. It breaks my heart to admit it, because it soothes my Virgo soul to see all of the gorgeous flamingo pink accents work in harmony throughout the grid. However, the grim reality is I’ve fully stopped even attempting to post because the opportunities to flood a photo with that much pink can be few and far between in daily life (no matter how much pink lipstick and sunglasses you wear..).

So, now it’s decision time : let my account go completely stagnant, or find other ways to find happiness on the platform.
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To Blog, Or Not to Blog : The Perfectionist’s Guide to Just Doing the Damn Thing

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Readers, I’ll be honest.

I’m a shit blogger.

Not because I don’t have things to say, or the ability to communicate them.. no, far worse.

Perfection paralysis.

Here’s a few of the things I’ll be doing around here to get out of my own way and into the the mildly-popular-micro-influencers-in-my-very-niche-corner-of-the-internet hall of fame, and why they might be good practices for all sufferers of PP – whether you have a blog or not.

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