Earlier than we dive into 2025, and all of our plans for this yr, I needed to jot down the entire 2024 private issues we did. I used to be listening to Mel Robbin’s podcast about Making this yr your finest yr but, (it is so good!) and one of many first issues she has you do is undergo your entire digicam roll. There have been SO many issues I forgot that occurred in 2024. Great issues!!! To be sincere, on the finish of the yr, I had extra unfavourable emotions about final yr as a complete, however after I look back–it was undeniably sprinkled with so many highs. DRENCHED even, that I felt like I needed to share a few of that right here in a short-ish abstract.
My takeaways: I am unable to journey as a lot in 2025 (I like residence an excessive amount of.) Nothing fuels me greater than undertaking and an extended stroll (extra of that in 2025!) and the mundane days at residence, the place we’re internet hosting household, have been my favourite components of the entire yr. However this is the way it actually went:
January
January was no less than twice so long as the calendar says it was and all of our happenings this month must show it. It began with that publish vacation vibe—my favourite vibe—the place something goes. Play ship in the lounge the place the ground is the ocean? Sure! Please try this! Bounce from sofa to ottoman. It’s the vacations! (Form of).
The vibe was not pretty much as good after I landed within the ER, After which subsequently out and in of docs for a couple of weeks. I used to be identified with Celiac’s illness, regardless of being gluten free for 10+ years, and CSID (a starch and sugar intolerance.) My intestines took a success however we’ve spent the vast majority of the month cleansing issues up and getting on some enzyme prescriptions I’m feeling a lot better.
All of us went ice skating (as soon as I used to be lastly feeling higher!) And painted the back hallway doors and trim, which sparked so many “the place’s the after?” feedback, I used to be straight up giddy. That truly may need healed me, tbh.
Sprinkled all through the month was all of the new child sweetness with my latest niece, Andi’s daughter Gigi. Life is so good together with her right here. (I (created a sweet moodboard for her nursery!)
February
February was jam-packed—there was one thing nearly every single day! A couple of highlights embrace: Launching our spring Loloi line in Las Vegas (and celebrating with Kenny G!). To not be upstaged by the celebrating I did with my bffs who flew in to help me. We by no means stopped speaking for 3 days (besides possibly once we chilly plunged on the spa and will communicate no phrases!).
Chris and I took my dad and mom to the UNC v. DUKE recreation and it was exhilarating seeing my dad so ALIVE and completely satisfied and cheering!
To not be buried was the sensation of seeing our Pottery Barn Children assortment in shops! It was unreal, after which I rotated and so a lot of our crew members stunned me and got here to see it too! Dream crew. I am engaged on celebrating these large milestones and they’re educating me how.
Once we lived in Idaho, February was simply the MIDDLE a part of winter, however right here in NC, we had a number of heat days already and I’m so grateful that we get to stay right here. Swimming and leaping on the trampoline all yr by no means will get previous. We did my niece Gigi’s nursery, which implies I received to snuggle her a number of instances every week and it nonetheless wasn’t sufficient. What’s higher than a new child?!
I’m a household woman and there wasn’t a gathering this month that didn’t find yourself with us taking part in @bank.gameapp. Like, we are able to’t cease. My sister, Patty came around and taught us. Her go to crammed a gap that I didn’t know I used to be feeling—it was peak happiness. Come again, Patty!
We received tile installed in the mudroom and it. modified. the whole lot.
An excellent month (precise finest month ever??) wouldn’t be so with out my lengthy quiet walks with Cricket. We go miles and miles and miles collectively, and I swear it’s the place I get my power and concepts. I am dedicated to much more strolling in 2025, as a result of after I look again, these have been a few of my most peaceable instances this yr.
March
March felt gentle and enjoyable and I feel that it had lots to do with the climate getting hotter, however spirits have been lifted and I felt like my mind began working once more after its winter hibernation.
After a yr of occupied with it, we lastly selected an exterior trim coloration (and received it authorised!). Perhaps my mind hasn’t been working longer than I believed.
We began the month on the Biltmore with our crew for a planning retreat and many visible eye sweet to feed us. I had absolutely the honor of going to see Olivia Rodrigo with my sister and daughter and niece and we sang our guts out.
We’ve got a purpose to swim each month in our pool and our youngest two are at all times up for checking that bucket checklist merchandise off. (Replace! We did it!) Chris heated up the pool for a pair weekends and it felt like summer time.
In March, Chris received lasik eye surgical procedure. It was powerful for him throughout, although. He did it with out the prescribed valium (actually simply by no means picked it up), simply the numbing drops throughout the process, and the sheer panic! Earlier than, throughout, after. Solely remorse was not chilling out a bit beforehand.
Our Pottery Barn Children assortment hit shops and I might cry (okay I’ve), the display is so beautiful. We had an enormous meet and greet to have fun and it was an enormous spotlight.
And on the final day of March, we celebrated Easter and I marveled at how blessed I’m to be my women’ mother.
April
We kicked off the month styling our cabinets with something a little more—unusual, let’s consider?
We painted the exterior trim Cromwell Gray, and it was the BEST determination ever. Chris did a assessment of his favorite hot sauces and I examined steam mops (spoiler: the winner stunned me!). We launched our HouseWarming collection with Lightwell, and candle-o-clock received higher than ever.
We ended the month with a spring house tour that felt like a breath of contemporary air.
Might
The easiest Might. We took a visit to Bora Bora with our greatest mates and Oak Island with our OTHER finest mates. It was there that we skilled probably the most magical sundown of our lives. It stored getting an increasing number of vibrant.
Greta began highschool and we threw an enormous dive-in film get together to have fun (the primary of many). I received to have fun mom’s day with my mother simply ten minutes away, and we performed Ticket to Experience again and again… out of nowhere and it nonetheless hits.
We had an epic pool party at night with a brand new projector display screen. Chris made a cucumber crunch salad that had us all in love. The highs have been excessive and carried us by all of the lows.
June
We ended the month escaping to Lake Lure (our first time!) and it charmed us in all the most effective methods. We kayaked and swam in a personal lake for hours, we climbed to the highest of Chimney Rock, we loved temps under 100 for a couple of days. It was so arduous to see the city tragically disappear with the hurricane so shortly after.
We launched our peel and stick wallpaper line and travelled a LOT for work. Three journeys this month—to York, PA to offer ultimate log off on all of the printed papers and tour the unbelievable York Wallpaper manufacturing facility. To Charleston to shoot with our @loloirugs fam. (So grateful we have been capable of take our little ones with us on set) and to San Francisco to shoot our fall line with Pottery Barn Children! I ended in @vintagerugshop whereas within the space and it was in some way even higher in actual life.
We hosted Chris’s brother’s household from out of city and celebrated Father’s Day, in between all of it and I made a decision the Friday earlier than to set a table for 24.
July
The month kicked off with Summer School: Home Styling 101! I talked about my ideas & tips for making entries, kitchens, bedrooms, and residing rooms really feel extra polished and like an expression of you. It was an enormous undertaking and partially fueled by Chris’s best-ever steak frites.
We installed a stair runner in our again stairwell (I gave that undertaking a 6 out of 10 for the way I misplaced momentum after shopping for the fallacious measurement rods). There was a household journey to the lake with our household and my sister who got here in from Idaho. After which a household journey to Idaho to see everybody we miss.
August
This August, the whole lot sort of felt prefer it got here crashing down, however after I have a look at the highlights, I am unable to assist however be so grateful for each second. We celebrated Polly’s birthday, and we checked off over final summer time work journey to San Fran.
Rather a lot occurred on the outside this month: Our contractors put in copper gutters and so they could be the crowning jewel! The mudroom window was completely transformed into a door (and it is turned out higher than I imagined).
With the tip of August, and the tip of summer time, I wrote a big personal update about the entire behind the scenes you did not see this summer time and the large lesson all of it taught me. It was a difficult time for me, however I am so glad to know the place I belong now.
September
I by no means needed September to finish. The start of the -Ber months holds a lot pleasure. We went on a household trip to Disney and Common Studios and walked 27 million steps a day, and we couldn’t get sufficient of it.
We began adorning for fall and settled right into a back-to-school routine and early bedtimes —thank goodness! I couldn’t sustain with summer time mattress instances! And asking two totally different individuals this month to take our household’s picture whereas we have been out needs to be some sort of file. All the time awkward within the second and at all times price it.
This month, we launched our collaboration with Poppy & Pout—it was so enjoyable for us to pair recipes with lip balm flavors!
October
October, it felt like the whole lot modified. The leaves. The climate. My sleep schedule (for the more severe). Daily felt like 100 days and but, all of it went too quick.
We began the month exploring a new-to-us lake city with my dad and mom and fell in love with lake life once more. We launched our new Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Teen, and Pottery Barn Kids (with holiday!) collections AND Lola blankets and Loloi rug and pillow traces, and jumped over to Excessive Level marketplace for a meet and greet to have fun. (Goodness, we now have the kindest, most stunning individuals on this neighborhood. I want I might hug you all every single day.)
Chris’s dad and mom flew in for his birthday in the course of the month and we soaked to each minute with them. Chris’s mother handed on her famous roll recipe and that was a present that was untoppable.
We went to Pinehurst for the primary time with mates and as a non-golfer myself, I used to be like, yeahhhhh what’s to not like about this? Sure! I’d love a drink at halftime, thanks!
A dream of mine got here true this month: We launched The CLJ Shop!! For over a yr, our crew has been engaged on this. We would like this to be an actual useful resource for something you wish to buy, in order that it takes a few of the overwhelm out of purchasing. All of those merchandise have our CLJ seal of approval. There might be extra to come back—just about new issues added every day—so test again usually!!
On the finish of the month, we stunned the women with a fun Halloween decoration for our house and ended the month taking part in the sport of Clue irl for Halloween as Professor Plum, Miss Scarlet, Mrs. White, Mrs. Peacock and Colonel Mustard. (1986 model).
November
I’ve mentioned it earlier than, and I’ll say it once more: our house is an autumn. The fall home exterior house tour was a lot enjoyable to movie—I feel it was my favourite tour but.
Talking of fall hues, I am nonetheless not over the brand new colorways of our CLJ x WallPops peel-and-stick floor tiles! I can’t wait to see these in your houses and see how you utilize them in your personal DIY initiatives. Are you crew Jade or Oxblood? I attempted them out on the ground of our major lavatory, which is admittedly giving me some inspiration for our first big project of 2025!
Yearly, by finest mates and I get collectively for an extended weekend collectively, and this yr we met in Sedona. It was colder than all of us thought, but additionally much more stunning and fully rejuvenating earlier than the hustle of the vacations actually kicked in.
I chatted about our (secret-revealed) sink pedal that has modified our kitchen recreation. It was so useful for Chris’s easy Thanksgiving menu. After which impulsively, it was Christmas around the house!
December
We celebrated our large yr with our CLJ crew at The Bridge Membership with probably the most wonderful meals and much more unbelievable individuals. We labored so arduous this yr, we determined to let our whole crew have the month of December off, and it was actually nice to spend extra time centered on residence, and fewer time centered on working a enterprise. We had lunch on the new Rooftop RH Restaurant and frolicked simply dreaming within the gallery.
My favourite moments have been at residence, in fact. Sitting by the fireplace, watching films as a household, wrapping items, and counting all the way down to Christmas with our women.
For Christmas, we stunned our women with a visit to Costa Rica! We rang within the new yr on the seashore, as a household, and it was my favourite household trip so far. We went zip-lining, and noticed so many monkeys and swam within the ocean and mirrored on the yr. I am so excited to share the plans with you! We’ve got so many wonderful concepts for 2025.
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