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How to Style with Fifty Shades of Blue Guest Room Reveal

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Check out my Fifty Shades of Blue Guest Room Reveal at the Highland house. See how I styled this well-used guest room.

Fifty Shades of Blue Guest Room Reveal

I’m finally sharing one of our guest rooms that we call the “blue” room. When we first moved into the Highland house, we somehow named each bedroom by color. This room had blue wallpaper and was a baby boy’s nursery so it naturally became the blue room. There is a lot of blue going on in here so that’s why I’ve called it the fifty shades of blue guest room reveal.

It took me awhile to share this room because it’s usually being used by one of the kids home from college or guests. We jokingly call our Utah house the Holly Hotel because we have a lot of family and friends that come to stay.

There is a Jack and Jill bathroom between the blue room and what I call the “gray room” on the other side.

Guest Room Reveal -Blue and White Bedding

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Lavender and Mint Green Tablescape

Dinnerware, Entertaining, Tablescapes, Uncategorized ·

Lavender and Mint Green Tablescape

I absolutely love lavender season and look forward to it every summer! I dream of creating a beautiful outdoor tablescape in a lavender field somewhere. Since I wasn’t able to do that this summer, I was inspired to create this Lavender and Mint Green tablescape for a luncheon I was hosting at my home.

I had planned this tablescape out in my head for months and just before I was ready to start putting it together, Yankee Candle Company reached out to me and asked if I would like to use their new Dried Lavender and Oak candle from their Farmers Market Collection.

Of course, I was thrilled because I love using candles in my tablescapes. These candles not only look nice, they smell amazing. The timing of this couldn’t have been more perfect.

Lavender and Mint Green Place-Setting

For the place-setting I chose these hyacinth placemats. I like layering different textures and patterns and these worked perfectly. I used mint green

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Montana Cabin Home Tour

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Montana Cabin Home Tour

Montana Cabin Home Tour
So many of you have asked me about our little cabin in the woods so I decided to do a Montana Cabin Home Tour post and share all the details. Our cabin is located in what is called, Gold West Country in southwest Montana. It’s in a little known town called Polaris, which is in the Pioneer Mountains.

We purchased the cabin back in 2005 when it was about 4 years old. The original cabin was smaller and we added on the front section and the porch a few years after purchasing it.

The Living Room Addition
We added on a living room addition so we had a larger place to gather. The original cabin was barely a thousand square feet which made it a little crowded for our family of 6. We hired a local guy to do the addition and I love how it turned out.

The Living Room addition is lower than the main cabin and has made the cabin much more enjoyable with our large family. We chose to do stained concrete floors and put

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Pink Peony Summertime Tablescape

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Pink Peony Summertime Tablescape
 

Who doesn’t love farm fresh pink peonies? I was inspired to create this pink peony summertime tablescape after visiting my friend Amy Brown’s flower farm. She and her husband Steve, own Laughing Goat Flower Farm located in the beautiful town of Enumclaw, Washington. Enumclaw is a farming town located southeast of Seattle and sits just below the foothills of the Cascade Mountains and majestic Mount Rainier.

A Match Made In Heaven
Amy and I met last summer at a floral arranging workshop and it was a match made in heaven. We became fast friends and realized we lived near one another. We bonded over our love of flowers and gardening. I love going to visit Amy and Steve at their farm and seeing all the beautiful flowers, vegetables, and of course, the adorable goats, pigs, and the farm dog Sheila.

Laughing Goat also grows beyond organic vegetables and both Amy and I love growing and eating our own food. Amy is much better at gardening

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Simple Lavender Inspired Centerpiece

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Create a Simple Lavender Inspired Centerpiece
I love entertaining and there is nothing better than a warm summer night in the Pacific Northwest and having my girlfriends over for an outdoor dinner party. I created this simple lavender inspired centerpiece for a dinner party I hosted in my backyard a few weeks back.

For this dinner party, we were celebrating my sweet friend Gina’s birthday. I didn’t have a lot of time to prepare so I kept this one simple and sweet. One way to keep it simple is to create a centerpiece out of potted plants that you can purchase at a grocery store.

Choose a Theme or Color Palette
I always choose a theme or pick a color palette based on something I see that inspires me. When I was planning this party, I had gone to Trader Joe’s to see what flowers they had and to shop for ingredients for the food I was planning to make. As soon as I saw these potted lavender plants and the smaller flowering plants in purple and lavender containers, I knew

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Hosting at Home for the Holidays #8 – Patriotic Tablescapes

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Let’s up your holiday with these patriotic tablescapes and entertaining ideas for your upcoming Memorial Day and/or Fourth of July celebrations.

Hosting at Home for the Holidays #8 – Patriotic Tablescapes

It’s been a while since my friends Lory, To Have + To Host, and Holliday, Home With Holliday, and I have done a blog hop with our entertaining ideas and tablescapes. We met for the first time in Lory’s hometown of Phoneix, Arizona, last month and we had a wonderful time meeting in person and talking about our love of entertaining and hosting at home.

Together we created this stunning Anthropologie Inspired Outdoor Tablescape in Lory’s beautiful backyard. Lory then hosted us for a delicious dinner in her home with her lovely family.

We are so excited to share with you our eighth post in our blog hop series Holiday Hosting at Home!  Today we are sharing some inspirations for any patriotic parties you may be

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Pink Party Punch that Packs a Punch!

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Pink Party Punch perfect for any holiday gathering.It’s refreshing and packs a punch. Your guests will love this delicious drink!

This Pink Party Punch has been a staple at many of the parties I’ve thrown over the years. It’s simple to make and packs a punch (pardon the pun)!

I’ve made this party punch for baby showers, bridal showers, summertime BBQs, family gatherings, birthdays, and more.

It goes well with any occasion and is a great summertime poolside drink!

Here I made the pink party punch for a PIE-oneer Day Party I hosted for a Utah state holiday.

Summertime or Anytime Punch

Everyone that’s had this pink party punch at any of my gatherings has asked for the recipe so I am finally getting around to sharing it.

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Anthropologie-Inspired Outdoor Dinner Party

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Anthropologie-Inspired Outdoor Dinner Party
I’ve been so excited to share this Anthropologie-Inspired Outdoor Dinner Party tablescape and how it all came about! A few weeks back, I traveled to Phoenix to meet up with two lovely ladies who I met on Instagram. They are both entertaining bloggers and we all love dishes and the art of entertaining.

First I met the adorable Holliday “Holly” Johnson @homewithholliday. Our names are so similar as are the names of our blogs and Instagram accounts. We hit it off right away and became fast friends!

Then I met the lovely Lory Parson @tohave+tohost, who also loves to host and entertain. Before long the three of us were chatting away on conference calls and helping and supporting one another. We decided a retreat was in order so we made plans to meet up in Lory’s hometown of Phoenix, Arizona.

 

Three Peas in a Pod!
As soon as we met, we were talking a mile a minute and we were all so excited to meet each other in person. We had

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Strawberry Recipe Inspiration

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The Utah weather we are experiencing right now may not look like we are nearing summer, but Memorial Day is right around the corner so why not start planning for the picnics and summer entertaining with a few homemade strawberry recipes?

This strawberry cream cheese pie is one of my family’s favorites! I’m hoping for delicious, fresh strawberries so we can have this for the holiday coming up!

 
More Strawberry Recipe Ideas
 

This strawberry spinach salad from my friend Beth of 111 Light Lane looks like it will quickly become a family favorite! I can’t wait to try it this summer!

These fresh strawberry muffins from Ashley at Modern Glam look like the perfect breakfast addition or mid morning snack. I’m all for adding in fresh strawberries wherever I can!

These personalized strawberry desserts by Sara of Twelve on Main are adorable! I always like the idea of having my own portion size pre-made for me so that I don’t have to worry about dishing up

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The Best Macaroni and Cheese Ever

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I got this recipe years ago and it’s the best macaroni and cheese ever. I can’t remember where I found it or who gave it to me but one of my Instagram followers messaged me, (which I appreciate) and said this looked very similar to Giada De Laurentis’ Mac and Cheese recipe. I’m not sure of the origin of it but after reading mine and hers, they are almost the same so I’m crediting Giada for this wonderful take on Mac and Cheese! It’s been a family favorite ever since I made this for them the first time!

This yummy macaroni and cheese recipe is comfort food at its finest and can be your main dish or a side dish. This is my go to recipe when I’ve cooked a ham and have some leftovers! Ham is optional, but I’ve always made it with the ham. This is not your traditional macaroni and cheese recipe because it actually doesn’t have macaroni or cheddar cheese in it! I use egg noodles and a delicious mix of fontina, parmesan, and mozzarella cheeses. I guess it should be called a different

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