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A Few of My Favorite Things: Fall Edition!

touch lamp / favorite things

Hey heeeeeey, let’s have a little favorite things action today! (promise I’ll never say it like that again.) You guys seemed to really get into the Cozy Winter edition. And the Summer edition was fire. So, here we are with an autumn edition! Which is my favorite edition of all the favorite things and their […]

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Across the Universe – Will Weidner

Across the Universe - Will Weidner / Bev Cooks

I have no way to introduce this post without sounding completely unhinged. So I’ll just go for it. We all know of Will’s blistering obsession with the Beatles. (I mean, my work is done, right?) The boy is swallowed. He constantly teeters on who he’s more like, musically and personally: Paul’s sweethearted nature and unrivaled […]

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Hold Me – The Nightlight Sessions

Hold Me - The Nightlight Sessions / Bev Cooks

Another summer, another sooooong! I know I don’t have to tell you about our summer tradition of visiting family in Little Rock, AR. Old news, yes. And I know I don’t have to tell you that each year we pick a song from the ’80s or ’90s, slow it down and vibe it out. You […]

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The Way It Is – Nightlight Sessions

The Way It Is / Nightlight Sessions

Another summer, another song! You know our summer family tradition of traveling to Little Rock, Arkansas, where my parents live, along with my sister Barbara and her husband Dustin, and their girls Breckon and Leighton. I know you know this! I’m just telling you again. Want me to say all that one more time? Just […]

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Will and Natalie’s New Bedrooms

Will and Natalie's New Bedrooms / Bev Cooks

I wanted to put an exclamation point on that title but I do in fact enjoy having human friends. We gave the kids much needed bedroom upgrades! At last. It was so time. They’d been sleeping in beds the size of bobby pins. It was one of those ordeals where we (by we I mean […]

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Cozy Winter Favorite Things!

candle / bev cooks

A gift guide . . . in January? Naw. Let’s think of this as HYGGE SEASON INSPO. All caps necessary. Also I don’t have a recipe for you so this is what you get. Ha! Oh. Perhaps you got a little Christmas money that you’re sitting on and need help in deciding what to get. […]

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French Café Kitchen Curtains!

New French Café Curtains / Bev Cooks

I finally put up new curtain hardware! And we went French, baybuh. This simple (but effective!) kitchen tweak has been on my to-do list for eons. Long ago when we got the new casement windows I kept teetering between fabric or pull-down. Fabric or pull-down. I wanted to something billowy and airy, but would it […]

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