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family travel, home, lifestyle, and organization · January 4, 2016

Our Travel Map

We redid our guest room not too long ago, and my neutral-focused room turned into the “travel room” (you can see more pictures here). T and I travel quite a bit, so at our wedding we had a map of…

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collaborations, home, lifestyle, and organization · October 27, 2015

Master Bedroom Redo

When T and I moved in together almost five years ago, we were both coming from apartment living and had little furniture. I remember how empty the living room felt the night before the furniture truck showed up to bring…

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home, lifestyle, and organization · July 28, 2015

House Updates

Our house is a typical New England Cape, which means that it has a bedroom on the first floor. This room served as T’s office for a little while, but then that room just became the “put it over there”…

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home, lifestyle, and organization · December 17, 2014

Interiors: Sitting Room (+ a giveaway!)

There’s one room in my house that I absolutely adore, mainly because it looks like it hopped out of one of my home interior Pinterest boards.  We were using it as an office, and (as you can see below) storage for…

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home, lifestyle, and organization · May 8, 2014

One Room Challenge: Week 6 (the end – for now!)

Over the past 6 weeks, I learned quite a few things:  I’m a big fan of taking on a big project when I have a million other things to do (actually, I knew that already); I do well at home…

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home, lifestyle, and organization · May 2, 2014

One Room Challenge: Week 5

Real progress has been made this week! Not only is the ceiling repainted and the terrible blue gone, but the furniture has arrived and is ready to go into the new room.  We accomplished a lot in the past week: including…

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home, lifestyle, and organization · April 4, 2014

One Room Challenge: Redoing the Guest Room

I’m taking part in a One Room Challenge (originally found here), where a group of bloggers make over just one room in their house over a 6-week period. This is perfect timing, because I’ve been thinking about what to do…

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About Alyssa


Hi, I’m Alyssa. Mom of three, wife, dog mom, blogger. I write tips and tricks on motherhood, focusing on baby gear reviews, the best toys for kids, family travel, and home organization.

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