This week, we’re speaking about the best way to make your own home really feel like a house. We talk about methods to nest as you first transfer in, and the best way to arrange a house that’s interesting to all 5 senses.
We’re additionally chatting about how our kinds have modified over the previous couple a long time, and clearly … Hocus Pocus 2!!!!
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Present Notes:
Tips on how to settle into a brand new residence with the 5 senses:
Create a consolation field with particular issues that make you’re feeling at residence.
Odor:
Contact:
- Get cozy with a blanket, socks, gown, or new pillow
- Learn outdated books
- Work on a puzzle or play video games
- Use a brand new skincare cream or have a spa night time
See:
- Grasp up curtains or blinds
- Embellish, paint, or body outdated pictures
- Put up seasonal decor
- Create areas for muddle
Style:
- Order your favourite meals
- Make pumpkin spice syrup
- Have a cocktail party
- Household dinners
- Make on a regular basis issues particular
Hear:
Responsible Pleasure Treasure:
Elsie – Mild & Magic sequence on Disney Plus
Emma – Caramel apples, sizzling chocolate, apple cider, and neck heating pad
Listener query from Leslie: How has your model modified over the previous decade?
Elsie – is aware of what she likes and can splurge on these gadgets like boots, coats and clothes from the ’60s, ’70s, and ’90s.
Emma – wears extra jewellery, claw clips and headbands, and extra prepared to embrace tendencies.
Discover out 3 Issues Emma Discovered from The Curated Closet
P.S. Remark and inform us your favourite nostalgic Halloween film!
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Episode 156 Transcript:
Emma: You’re listening to the A Lovely Mess podcast. This week, we’re speaking about the best way to make your own home really feel like a house, together with methods to nest whenever you first transfer in and establishing a house that’s interesting to all 5 senses. We’re additionally chatting about how our kinds have modified over the previous decade or two and possibly apparent, however we’ve acquired to speak about Hocus Pocus 2.
Elsie: Sure, we’ve to.
Emma: We do.
Elsie: Properly, completely happy October. That is the primary time we’ve recorded because it’s been formally October. I’m feeling it. I went for a stroll this morning. There was fall leaves in all places and a whole lot of bushes turning orange the place I stay in Tennessee, and it was simply very lovely and crisp. It was positively the vibe that I used to be in search of. What about you?
Emma: Yeah, I’m attempting to get Oscar into choosing up fall leaves with me. Thus far, it’s not working. He’s solely serious about sticks, actually desires to select up sticks nonetheless, which is cool, however I’m like, have a look at this depart. Have a look at how orange it’s and he’s like, nah mother, that’s not a stick.
Elsie: Yeah.
Emma: So anyway, I wish to know, as of recording this, have you ever seen Hocus Pocus 2 but?
Elsie: I’ve not. Solely certainly one of my youngsters is to observe it and the opposite one is at present fearful of the ghost pillow that I purchased them from House Items. So I feel I’m simply gonna watch it with my one child. Anyway, you inform me what you suppose. Give me the total particulars. No spoilers, however I imply, can you actually spoil a film like that?
Emma: Yeah, I don’t even suppose there’s a lot of a spoiler however certain, I received’t inform you the total plot.
Elsie: It’s not a giant drama.
Emma: Yeah, you already know what’s gonna occur? You bought it? Yeah, I watched it with Trey, who didn’t actually wish to watch it. However in fact, he was like, yeah, I do know you’re into this. Let’s watch it. However he low degree, made enjoyable of it the entire time, which was truly actually humorous. So I’d say his evaluate is like, simply nearly as good as the primary one. Which for him is sort of a C-. However I actually preferred it. I’d say I possibly prefer it much more than the primary in so far as story and performances and various things like that. There’s fairly a couple of youngsters within the film. There’s youngsters who play the witches as kids and that’s a part of the film. Then there’s additionally youngsters who’re having to struggle the witches after they come again, I suppose. They’re not likely preventing them however you already know what I imply. There a few teams of child actors within the film or younger adults they usually all did so good. I had low expectations. I used to be like, look, it is a Disney film. It’s rated PG. It’s based mostly on an outdated nostalgic film so mid 30 12 months olds like me are gonna watch this. I used to be not anticipating a lot. I used to be positively like, this might be no matter and that’s high-quality. And I’m high-quality with it. So contemplating that I assumed they did actually nice. I truly thought it was very entertaining. However actually did callbacks to the outdated film as you’ll count on. Yeah, sort of set it up for a future if they need, which was fascinating. So I used to be into it. I used to be like, I really feel like they nailed the project and it was good. However you already know, is it essentially the most creative film of all time? No, it’s Hocus Pocus 2.
Elsie: I don’t suppose it must be judged by these requirements.
Emma: Yeah, that’s what I feel. Anyway, I liked it, very fulfilling. Very enjoyable. Felt very Halloweeny was enjoyable to observe. I used to be into it.
Elsie: Enjoyable. Okay, nicely, I’m so excited to observe it. I’m actually trying ahead to it. So okay, so that is my foremost query, do you suppose the brand new one is scarier or much less scary than the outdated one?
Emma: Sure. I used to be attempting to consider that as a result of I do know Nova is on the all the things scary practice proper now. However I feel it’s most likely the identical quantity of scary, so she most likely received’t prefer it. It has witches and the zombie man. So I don’t know. It’s not scary. It’s rated PG. There’s songs in it the place they dance and stuff. I don’t know, I feel Nova would most likely nonetheless suppose it was scary however you possibly can inform her Aunt Emma mentioned it’s not scary. No vampires.
Elsie: Properly, we’ll see what occurs however I’m glad you really liked it. I did take pleasure in it, there have been a couple of folks on Instagram who I observe who gave type of like passionate critiques about it, which I assumed was cute and I preferred it. So I used to be completely happy.
Emma: Yeah, I’d say my evaluate is pretty passionate. I’m like positively good if you happen to like the primary one I really feel such as you’ll like this.
Elsie: Good. Properly yeah, I positively love the primary one and there’s not that many youngsters Halloween films that we watch yearly like not as many because the Christmas films. So I really feel just like the extra the merrier. Simply convey them our method yearly if Disney Plus desires to do a banger every year. Yeah, that may be nice.
Emma: Hocus Pocus 3 with sort of a unique factor now, into it, could be into it, would watch.
Elsie: I like it. Okay, nicely, listeners should write us on Instagram or e-mail us at podcast@abeautifulmess.com and inform us what’s your nostalgic film that you just watch yearly, particularly if you happen to’re watching with youngsters, we simply wish to hear it. We’re in that zone. I wish to add a couple of extra Halloween and some extra Christmas. Like final 12 months, we watched Halloween City for the primary time, which was not one thing I watched as a toddler and it was pleasant. It was completely good for my youngsters’ age. So okay, so this week, we’re speaking about the best way to make your own home really feel like a house. So we acquired a selected listener query. The query was how do you make your own home really feel like a house whenever you first transfer in. Then I assumed we may like develop this into additional subject of the best way to beautify your own home for all 5 senses as a result of that’s one thing that I like and keen about. I’ve all the time had an obsession with the 5 senses, particularly in relation to your individual setting in your house. However yeah, first let’s speak about how we settle in. So Emma is at present residing on the pink home about to maneuver into her new home that she’s been transforming nearly the entire 12 months. So inform us what you’re going to do the primary week to assist your self settle in.
Emma: By the point we transfer in, they’ll most likely solely be like every week left for Halloween. So I’m undecided I’m even going to actually do a whole lot of decorations, however possibly only a couple. So aside from the plain, which is like unpack containers and ensure your beds arrange and issues like that. Large one for me, I suppose this might be below a see or sight so far as the 5 senses, however is ensuring that we’ve blinds all the home windows that we wish blinds on, positively bedrooms, so particularly Oscar’s bed room, as a result of his bedtime will be sort of early. He additionally wakes up early. So anyway, so ensuring we’ve blinds in order that sleep is a precedence. Additionally, like typically loos, our loos are at present the one home windows are into the again of our home. So it’s not as large of a precedence so far as your neighbor will for certain see you bare like you already know, it’s not fairly that degree. However nonetheless like ensuring we’ve one thing for this. In order that’s type of a giant one. I do know that’s sort of possibly boring, however I really feel like blinds or curtains or each, is type of one thing that you could sort of overlook and then you definately transfer right into a spot and then you definately’re like, oh my gosh, I can’t sleep the solar was in my face instantly at 6am.
Elsie: Yeah, I feel that’s an ideal tip however I’m not gonna lie, it’s boring. What’s one of many stuff you’re going to do to make your self like really feel one thing? It’s not essentially simply sensible. Wish to really feel the nostalgia of residence straight away.
Emma: Yeah, so positively burn some candles. I’m actually into candles.
Elsie: Do you might have a favourite candle?
Emma: So they’re a sponsor of the podcast, however I additionally sincerely love their candles. It’s known as the Burlap Bag, and doubtless certainly one of my favorites, so I’ve two favorites of theirs. They’ve a whole lot of actually good sense. However my two favorites is one known as baked bread after which one which’s known as greatest scent ever. Bake bread smells precisely how you’ll suppose. So it makes your entire home scent such as you’re baking and I like it. I truly love candles that scent like meals. I do know some folks don’t like my husband’s, he’s like high-quality with them. He doesn’t care. He is aware of I like candles. He’s like wherever you need, however these aren’t his favourite. However then the opposite one, greatest scent ever, it’s not likely a soapy lavender. It smells rather a lot prefer to me whenever you’re in an anthropology retailer if that makes any sense. Form of like a bunch of good-smelling candles . I truthfully don’t know the best way to describe it, however it’s not a meals scent. It doesn’t scent like cleaning soap, which a whole lot of florally are different issues sort of smells soapy to me, which isn’t unhealthy, however not essentially my favourite. So anyway, the candle that’s known as greatest scent ever is superior and one which each my husband and I like in order that too. I most likely will bake one thing as a result of that’s one other pure option to make your own home scent much less like a building zone and extra like folks stay there if you happen to bake one thing.
Elsie: Yeah, I’m going to make use of our code and get these candles simply to strive them out. My husband loves candles and I’m like 50/5. I’ll go extra into it however like I feel a whole lot of candles are simply too sturdy. Anyway, I’m taking away out of your second inform us, so that you’re going to bake one thing whenever you first transfer in.
Emma: Sure, positively. I don’t know what but. I haven’t like deliberate that however one thing.
Elsie: I wish to make pumpkin seeds. I like baking these pumpkin seeds yearly. I try this a few occasions and the Chex Combine and that’s what makes me really feel prefer it’s fall.
Emma: Yeah, your pumpkin seed recipe which it’s actually extra of a way I suppose however it’s on the weblog. I feel we up to date the pictures final 12 months as a result of it’s only one that like we hyperlink on a regular basis as a result of it’s so good.
Elsie” Yeah, I imply, if you happen to didn’t develop up doing it, then you definately would possibly wish to use a recipe the primary time you do it, after which after that, you most likely received’t want it. Like I do it each single 12 months with out fail, it’s such a really feel good factor to do. So everybody should bake pumpkin seeds. That is your homework from the podcast for the week.
Emma: Do it.
Elsie: Okay. So the one factor I do to settle in, that’s slightly bit completely different from what you mentioned, is I did this the final time we moved to the home we at present stay in, and I’m going to do it perpetually if I ever transfer once more. And that’s why I packed a consolation field for me and a consolation field for the youngsters. I put some stuff in my consolation field for my husband too as a result of he doesn’t care, it sort of counted for each of us. It’s one field that you could get it out proper whenever you transfer within the first day and set out these particular issues. So positively like a candle, a candle lighter, like if that’s one thing that you already know. I feel mine had some pictures. It had some issues in it that I used to be simply afraid that had been fragile that I used to be simply afraid to lose like that type of vibe. Then for my youngsters, it had, in fact, my daughter has a particular piggy doll, after which a particular pillow. Then they’ve each their blankets and their bedding. I feel it’s a good suggestion whenever you first transfer in to convey the outdated blankets and bedding with out washing them and simply put them down in order that they have like this comforting, acquainted scent to sleep with. Apart from that, just a few enjoyable toys in order that they really feel instantly prefer it’s their room, their area. You don’t have to fret about discovering containers. So if you happen to’re shifting the week earlier than Christmas, then put some Christmas issues in or because you’re shifting the week earlier than Halloween, it’s most likely too late for you since you’re already boxed.
Emma: I feel we sort of did this, oddly sufficient, as we moved into the pink home, as a result of all the things you’re itemizing, I’m like aside from a candle. We didn’t convey any candles. I’ve simply been stealing yours. Hahaha.
Elsie: Yeah, if you happen to had been bringing a suitcase, and also you had been gonna stay in a resort for a month, what would you place in it. That’s principally the stuff you need straight away, like your skincare that you just use each night time, issues like that. Even like a change of garments or no matter, in order that you already know instantly what that you must do. Two occasions in the past once we moved, I hosted a child bathe the day after we moved. So I needed to pack, initially, all of the cookies that I made for my good friend’s child bathe, my garments that I needed to put on, and my make-up. However in any case, it’s attainable. It’s just a bit bit extra strategic. So I feel the opposite factor in regards to the first day you progress in or the primary weekend is to do a pizza get together or no matter your favourite meals is that you could simply order and simply put a blanket on the ground and simply have meals in your empty home with your loved ones, I feel is so candy snd such a cheerful reminiscence. I nonetheless bear in mind once we first moved into this home, Emma was right here serving to us and we had been sitting on the steps consuming pizza as a result of there was no chairs. Do you do not forget that?
Emma: Yeah.
Elsie: It’s only a joyful exercise that I feel ought to all the time be completed. It’s like a christening. Okay, so let’s speak in regards to the 5 senses as a result of I feel that is such a great way to consider adorning your own home. Everybody, your different homework, I’m actually into giving homework this episode. Your different homework is to put in writing out every of the senses and simply make your individual little checklist of two or three issues for every one that makes you’re feeling that sturdy, nostalgic feeling of residence as a result of it’s positively completely different for everybody and it is best to positively personalize it and such as you’re gonna hear from our checklist. There’s a whole lot of preferences concerned. Everybody’s might be slightly bit completely different, however I feel so particular. Okay, so we’re beginning with scent. I feel scent is the simplest one as a result of it’s so instantaneous, like lighting a candle. Okay, so my favourite candle is from this nonprofit in Nashville known as Thistle Farms. It’s a great, great, trigger. Look it up if you happen to’ve by no means heard of it, we’ll hyperlink it within the present notes. I’d say it’s essentially the most inspiring charity possibly I’ve ever been concerned with. It’s actually great. Anyway, their candle that I like known as santal amber. I’ve all the time stayed slightly bit away from scents which have the phrase amber in them as a result of I really feel like that additionally means musky. So I feel everybody ought to do this candle if you happen to type of like, I don’t wish to name it musky as a result of I don’t suppose that’s correct, like type of a what’s the fitting phrase? Like slightly little bit of it reminds you of like cologne.
Emma: I used to be gonna say it’s nearly like cologne however not so heavy in a method. Yeah, extra of a person scent or no matter. I don’t know. , Cologne.
Elsie: Properly, it’s I imply, it’s not floral. It’s not fruity. Yeah. So anyway, and I like woodsy smells, however I wouldn’t even say it’s woodsy, however it identical to is a pleasant, refined, gentle scent. It’s actually distinctive. I’ve had numerous their candles they usually produce other good ones too, however that is the perfect one.
Emma: I do love their candles. As quickly as you mentioned it, I used to be like, oh yeah, I’m glad she’s mentioning them as a result of their charity is superior. However their candles are additionally simply actually good. I feel they’ve a Christmas one which’s like, Christmas tree small, you already know? Yeah, that one’s so pretty and simply nice for the season.
Elsie: So yeah, I additionally suppose that their candles are extra made with pure elements, which is fairly onerous to seek out. Numerous those which might be are nearly like they haven’t any scent so this is sort of a completely happy medium in that. Okay, so the opposite factor I do love important oils. I feel I all the time will. We beforehand in one other enterprise lifetime in the past, we had our personal little important oils model that we had been doing for some time. This can be a little secret, I feel I might need mentioned this earlier than, however I’m undecided. However slightly secret is that we made a vacation scent. So the one which I like now that you could nonetheless purchase known as, it’s from the model Plant Remedy and the scent was known as vacation season. So we had a scent that was nearly like this, it was identical to slightly bit extra orange added in. It was positively going to be known as vacation or one thing like that after which on the final minute, we modified the title to homebody as a result of we simply needed to trick folks mentally to know that you should utilize all of it 12 months. It doesn’t must be only for the vacations as a result of I feel that when one thing says the phrase vacation on it, you’re feeling like you possibly can’t use it in the summertime. However I take advantage of the Plant Remedy vacation season 12 months spherical. The one variations is that this time of 12 months I add a few drops of the apple cider one which they make. Then within the summertime, I add a drop of candy orange or one thing. However truthfully, I identical to that scent 12 months spherical. It’s gentle and refined. It smells to me just like the cleansing provides I like to make use of and it’s not likely like a Christmas tree scent.
Emma: Sure and I had a complete set. I’m out of it now so I want to purchase extra however this entire autumn scent set from Plant Remedy. It had all these completely different ones. It was like autumn rain and Harvest Moon and apple cider and just a few completely different, suppose {that a} pumpkin one. What’s superior about important oils is whenever you’re utilizing it in diffuser, you possibly can sort of combine. Like the way you’re saying you employ the Christmas scent, however then you definately add various things all year long in order that’s so enjoyable. Then additionally, since we’re speaking about scent and the senses, aside from candles or diffusers with oil making your own home scent, I additionally suppose the scent of laundry. I really feel prefer it’s sort of a giant factor in life as a result of after I put garments on and it nonetheless sort of smells like good from being washed, I simply actually love that. Then additionally after I’m folding laundry, it’s only a good little deal with if all the things smells good, and that’s after I use important oils aside from to diffusing them is like on the wool ball and placing it within the dryer along with your garments. I like to make use of the seasonal scents for that. So like this time of 12 months I’ll do extra autumn pumpkin issues and at Christmas I’ll do extra fir needle in that kind of stuff. I sort of prefer it when my garments scent just like the season.
Elsie: Yeah, one different factor that I like, I don’t even know if that is scent. I feel it’s it’s a little little bit of scent however it’s additionally a sense, is our residence has a whole lot of sliding doorways and we love leaving all of the doorways open. This time of 12 months you are able to do it. There’s sort of a whole lot of the 12 months in Tennessee that you are able to do it and spring and fall. It’s simply such a superb feeling to have a whole lot of contemporary air in the home. In order that’s a factor I’d add in there too. Okay, so ought to we transfer on to the touch for the subsequent of the 5 senses. So simply to love, get it out of the way in which early on. I feel the plain ones are like having a pleasant blanket, having some cozy socks. I like my cozy socks. I like slippers, like a pleasant gown, like issues like that, that make you’re feeling like you already know, however let’s transcend that. So I prefer to have a whole lot of issues to the touch, like a whole lot of outdated issues. A number of the issues I wrote down our books, a whole lot of outdated books in the home like the sensation of studying a paper guide. It’s like a superb sensory expertise in comparison with simply listening to books on a regular basis. Puzzles, video games, I simply began ordering classic dominoes to only fill little bowls with them and I simply suppose that’s so candy. So I feel issues that simply give like a way of the previous that may be a good feeling to me and simply enthusiastic about issues that I identical to like to the touch like take pleasure in touching, positively puzzles is certainly one of them. What about you?
Emma: So one I like it when I’ve a skincare cream that is available in slightly glass container. I like tapping the glass container on my rest room countertop. Normally, it’s like marble or quartz and it simply makes this little sound. Within the morning I do it I all the time take this little second to be like I like that sound in my head as a result of I identical to it. It’s simply this humorous little faucet so it’s good. It’s sort of good when issues aren’t in plastic. Clearly, watch out with glass, my son can’t get ahold of it as a result of he may break it. However anyway, right here’s a not as enjoyable one, however sort of vital is we stopped utilizing sponges for dishes and now we solely use brushes. You possibly can nonetheless get like a small bush handhold. It simply makes it the place I really feel like holding a sort of soiled sponge whenever you’re getting in the direction of the tip of its life, type of a bummer. You possibly can all the time placed on rubber gloves. I’ll if I’m doing a cleansing the entire home second, then I truthfully will placed on rubber gloves. However simply doing the dishes at night time, I don’t placed on rubber gloves each single time. It simply looks like such a complete factor. So I like utilizing a brush as a substitute of a sponge simply from holding the wooden half, the deal with as a substitute of getting to carry the sponge. Then I do know we’re not alleged to be apparent ones however I simply gotta point out as a result of I actually did convey it over right here to the pink home. I used to be like I’m not going to be with out, it was my pillow. I’ve this Agility facet sleeper Pillow. Anytime we street journey someplace, anytime I can’t even when I can match it in my suitcase if we’re flying. If I’ve sufficient area, I take it with me all the time as a result of I sleep so significantly better with this pillow. I feel Trey has one too and he didn’t convey his over to the pink home. I feel he sort of regrets it however he can’t have my pillow as a result of it’s for me. So yeah, and it has a satin pillowcase on it, which I feel is sort of good to your hair and your pores and skin. I additionally identical to the texture of it. It’s sort of cool to the contact, which is sweet whenever you’re going to mattress. I identical to my sleep to really feel the identical on a regular basis. I don’t wish to really feel like it is a entire completely different pillow like consolation degree or the sensation of the cotton on you. I don’t know, I prefer it being the identical each night time. One thing about it’s very comforting to me.
Elsie: I feel pillows are extraordinarily vital.
Emma: Properly, ought to we speak about see, sight?
Elsie: Sure. Okay. So yeah, issues that you just have a look at, clearly, you need your own home to be lovely like nobody desires an unsightly residence. Eliminating muddle and adorning and portray your partitions sure coloration, I really feel like that’s all sort of apparent. So I’m considering of it extra of just like the little issues that you just see on daily basis that catch your eye and make you’re feeling completely happy reminiscence. I simply began accumulating artwork. I feel I’m going to spend the subsequent few years on it. I don’t know why, I do know why I by no means did. I by no means did as a result of I felt prefer it was a wealthy folks factor to do. However I don’t suppose I noticed that you can gather artwork, sort of actually any finances, as a result of there’s numerous unique artwork on Etsy. I simply purchased a classic portray, issues like that, which might be very reasonably priced. So anyway, I feel I simply by no means felt like I used to be like able to graduate to it after which just lately I did and I used to be like, oh my gosh, I want I’d have completed this like 5 or 10 years in the past. It’s a group that I can already see is gonna take a very long time. I feel that it’s extra particular to gather issues which have a reminiscence connected to them or make you’re feeling one thing, simply sentimental artwork that offers you, for me I need a completely happy reminiscence connected to love nearly all the things in my residence. So I can’t gather issues rapidly. I don’t need hauls. I don’t need like an enormous field of stuff I would like one factor at a time. One other factor, I prefer to see pictures round on a regular basis, however I personally don’t prefer to have large pictures of my household, however I’ve a whole lot of little ones. So we’ve a whole lot of picture books. We’ve got a whole lot of bowls stuffed with Polaroids and picture strips and issues like that. Then we’ve that one large hallway that has all of the household pictures. I personally can’t have an enormous wedding ceremony picture or an enormous household picture framed. It simply makes like, I don’t know, I simply don’t prefer it. I feel for me, like numerous little ones was the reply of how to try this. Then clearly, clearly, clearly, seasonal decor is sort of my all the things. I simply love the sensation of switching issues up all year long and having issues that you just don’t use on a regular basis in order that they really feel particular whenever you get them out and put them away.
Elsie: Yeah, I feel I’ve a whole lot of the identical ones however like in my very own method or no matter. Like for instance, I did this assortment of pictures each month whereas Oscar was zero to at least one the place he’s subsequent to a donut. So each month, it’s extra donuts. So by the tip, it was a dozen donuts.
Emma: I simply realized that that’s completed now.
Emma: It’s completed. Yeah, we completed in June as a result of he turned one. We had already purchased our new residence and we had been already nicely into the renovation course of. So I simply wasn’t very motivated to place these all collectively, framed and grasp them up, as a result of I knew it was going to finish up some place else within the subsequent home. I didn’t understand how large I needed it to be as a result of I may make it enormous or I may make it small. So anyway, that’s one of many first household pictures that isn’t already framed that I’m going to determine the place I would like that in the home and grasp it up as a result of I simply love them. I like seeing how a lot he modified the primary 12 months. I feel all dad and mom most likely realize it’s the identical factor on a regular basis. But it surely’s simply so cute. I can’t wait to place his little donut pictures up.
Elsie: I assumed it was like actually unique and enjoyable.
Emma: So except for artwork and household pictures, one other factor is muddle. So I’m sort of enthusiastic about that for our subsequent home. So two issues with them. One, we get a whole lot of packages, each for work and for all times. So I’ve a spot in our laundry room, which is fairly near our entrance door. That’s going to be the place we put packages and containers. Earlier than Christmas, you find yourself with a whole lot of packages and typically you’re ready for a few issues to return earlier than you wrap all of them collectively. So it simply sort of sits and finally ends up sort of cluttering your entryway or someplace for us it’s all the time like a kitchen counter or the eating room desk. It’s identical to consistently stuffed with packages, not on a regular basis, however particularly sure occasions a 12 months like Christmas I feel. We’re gonna have a spot that’s designated, right here’s the place the packages can go. In the event you open them straight away, nice however if you happen to wait a pair days or no matter, it’s not simply in the way in which. In order that after which the second factor is, I don’t understand how I’m going to do that but, however I’m positively going to have slightly, there’s slightly nook that’s the place you stroll within the storage door. Which might be the door we’ll use more often than not as a result of we’ve a two automobile storage at our new home. But it surely’s fairly near the entrance door too. I simply need slightly desk with some bowls and a few hooks, I wish to place the place I can put my purse and put keys or if I’ve introduced in mail. I really feel like our once more, kitchen counter or eating room desk simply all the time has like my purse. We each even have like a fanny pack and we put on them sideways. So it’s simply sort of like these issues are all the time sitting out and also you don’t actually wish to go put all of them the way in which in your closet as a result of if you happen to’ve simply gotten residence and also you’re about to go some place else, it doesn’t make any sense to try this. So simply having an entryway throw desk, a whole lot of occasions folks name it that since you throw your keys or no matter. I simply need a spot like that, that’s very very similar to, right here’s the place all the things goes. Then additionally, if you happen to’re like, the place are my keys, it’s like, nicely, if you happen to put them on the spot, then they’re all the time there. It simply turns into extra easy and simple to maintain monitor of issues as a result of I simply don’t like all of the muddle. I’m attempting to actually take into consideration muddle within the new home. I simply wish to preserve issues as a result of I like to gather stuff and I like seasonal decor. So it’ll get full, however I simply am considering via like how can it keep very clear and minimal and decluttered.
Elsie: Yeah,I feel that’s nice issues to consider.
Emma: Let’s speak about style.
Elsie: Yeah, I like the concept of getting dinner events, Thanksgiving, brunch with household, having folks, over simply particular methods to make your espresso extra fancy, like each little factor. I like that kind of hostess vibe. Then certainly one of my daughters is obsessed in regards to the household dinner. She’s identical to a really conventional child and he or she all the time is like, can we sit at a household as a result of we don’t do that a lot but. At their present ages, we normally feed them they usually’re sort of sitting on the kitchen island consuming after which they go to mattress after which we eat individually. So anytime we’ve a giant meal, the place we do all of it collectively, they simply like it they usually suppose it’s very particular. So anyway, I don’t know, I feel that for me, it’s like the small print that go into speaking about espresso. Like having like a cute recipe, I’ve been holding a factor of straightforward syrup all the time in my fridge the place I simply make it and it lasts like a month or so. As soon as I really feel prefer it’s getting outdated I simply make a brand new one. I’m like why didn’t I all the time do. That is so easy. Anyway, inform me what’s in your tastes checklist.
Emma: So I suppose two issues for our new home that I’ve been planning and we’ll see how they prove however they had been deliberate for within the kitchen with tastes. So one is we’ve an space that’s primarily going to be the espresso bar. It additionally has some cabinets which might be larger up the place we will put liquor bottles or wine bottles so these can be found too. However largely it’s the espresso bar. I’ll be trustworthy. So our present residence and even on this pink home the place we’re staying as a result of it’s so near our final home, there’s a espresso store we will stroll to. Truthfully, Trey and I stroll there like on daily basis, nearly. So it’s so good to identical to, go get a latte in the midst of the day. It’s such a motivator to be like, I’m gonna get a bunch of stuff completed, after which at three, I can stroll to go get a latte. I’m like that’s not attainable on the subsequent home. there’s a espresso store and strolling distance however it’d be a strong 30 minute stroll there and 30 minute stroll again. So I feel I’ll do it every so often as a result of I like strolling. However I can’t actually do that in my work day, it’s simply an excessive amount of trip of the day. I received’t be capable of get all my work completed within the time that I’ve. So anyway, so the espresso bar, I’m attempting to make it extra, I suppose fancy for a brand new home since I received’t be capable of exit and get espresso as simply or as usually anyway. I simply need to have the ability to make selfmade principally lattes. I haven’t purchased all the things for it but. Thus far, it’s like what I’ve completed is deliberate an area for it amongst our kitchen cupboards the place home equipment can sit out as a result of I don’t need them sitting out in all places. I’ve a spot the place I don’t know the best way to clarify this however it has two tall cupboards on either side. Then it has slightly little bit of open shelving and in there, we acquired like 4 shops put so we will plug in like gooseneck kettle in order that we will make tea or make pour-over espresso, which is normally what we make. We’ve got a Nespresso and I feel we’ll most likely simply preserve that for an espresso factor as a result of we like it. However I would do one thing else sooner or later, like get a particular factor like sometime for Mom’s Day, I would ask for it. I’m not planning it proper now however ultimately. Then I want to purchase a milk frother as a result of I simply love the foamy milk each every so often. I don’t have one at present so I have to get one. However these are fairly low-cost and there’s numerous completely different varieties. You may get slightly wand or you may get slightly kettle that you just pour the milk in and it sort of frosted in there both method. So I have to get one thing like that. However I additionally wish to have a couple of syrups. They may sit out in the event that they’re extra retailer purchased but when I make them I’ll most likely put them within the fridge simply because I feel it’s a greater technique for longevity. However yeah, I like making like on our website, I’ve a pumpkin spice latte syrup that I’ve made for years and I like it so you already know issues like that. So I simply wish to have extra, make extra of slightly espresso store in my home since we received’t be as shut to at least one anymore, which is completely high-quality. However simply sort of considering that via. In order that after which the opposite factor that I deliberate for in our kitchen is we’ve these two cupboards the place you open them up, after which they’ve the pullout rollout cabinets, and you may sort of set them at completely different ranges if you’d like. So primarily, that’s our pantry. I’m going to make not less than one of many cabinets be actually organized just like the House Edit. Hopefully, we’ll see how I do. I needed to have snacks for Oscar as a result of he’s beginning to get to an age the place he can sort of seize issues himself. So like all the suitable snacks for him, I wish to sort of have in slightly spot and see how that goes. He nonetheless sort of has, like his snack cups. It’s like toddler pleasant, the place you possibly can attain in, however you possibly can’t essentially dump all of it on the ground as a result of he would. So it’s like we’re at that age the place it’s like we will strive slightly little bit of issues however he’s nonetheless fairly messy. So principally, I don’t care about messes. That’s high-quality. That’s a part of studying. I simply hate losing meals. So I’m attempting to let him be taught and let him do issues. However when all the meals finally ends up on the ground, that’s all the time a bummer as a result of it’s like, okay, nicely, how can we not be fairly so wasteful as a result of these things isn’t free. Graham crackers don’t develop on bushes, Oscar. Yeah, anyway.
Elsie: So if my youngsters ever spilled meals on the ground, I’d by no means know as a result of our canine simply eats it so quick.
Emma: Our canine is a choosy eater, sadly, so far as being a cleanup crew. He eats like half of it. Like sure issues he received’t even contact and I’m like, okay, nice.
Elsie: The following one or the final one is listening to. So I’m positively enthusiastic about music. To start with, playlist for every season. I feel that’s such a cute concept. So we do just like the Google properties. We are inclined to play the identical music time and again. Like if I’m cleansing, we’ll hearken to Frank Ocean or no matter. I feel it will be good to get extra into making a playlist that’s greater than only one artist. Do you ever try this?
Emma: I’ve a couple of Spotify playlists that I do know the title of it and so I’ll say that as a result of we even have the Google House. We don’t hear so we’re actually lacking it. However I additionally actually love after I’m at your own home and your women will yell at Google to play like Ninja Turtles or one thing like that. It’s simply cute.
Elsie: It’s cute. Yeah, they positively know the best way to request their Frozen songs and issues like that. In order that’s high-quality. There are some bangers. Then I feel having like, we’ve a document assortment. So I like taking part in data. I feel it’s so cool and particular and it’s completely different. It’s positively completely different from the way in which that we hearken to music now with streaming as a result of it’s a must to hearken to the entire document starting to finish and flip it, it’s simply extra deliberately. I feel that there’s type of an artwork to listening to a complete document and memorizing a complete document that could be misplaced sooner or later generations that you already know, it’s particular from our childhood from like having CDs and stuff. I suppose yet one more factor I’d add is, I like the like, so our pool has the little waterfall, and I like the water sound. So sooner or later, even when I didn’t have a pool, I’d love to only, I like the sound. I feel it’s simply such a pleasant, I feel that’s a part of why we depart our doorways open a lot is that it’s simply such a pleasant sound to have in your house all through the day.
Emma: Oscar sleeps with a sound machine. Trey and I don’t usually however we clearly did at any time when he slept on our bed room the primary six or 9 months. I can’t bear in mind how lengthy it was actually. I like how after I go to you, you all the time have sound machines in your visitor bedrooms. So I really feel like that’s one other factor on the hear checklist is admittedly something that helps with sleep or simply makes one thing really feel like residence. So yeah, not everybody likes sound machines or issues like that however I do suppose it’s sort of on the checklist for lots of people.
Elsie: We’ll hyperlink ours within the present notes. The factor that’s particular about this sound machine is that it’s not like a sound machine that you could get in your telephone or a digital, most of them are digital sounds. All of them have a loop in them. It’s the kind of factor the place when you hear the loop, your mind can like obsess over it. I used to be by no means capable of finding any sound machine that I may deal with the sound of it as a result of I can identical to hear, you can additionally hear voices and noises in digital sound machines. Anyway, so this one is sort of a small fan. Then the way in which that you just flip it, makes it louder and softer and so there’s no loop in any respect. It’s only a fan however it’s in a extra compact method. So we pack them once we journey. I positively suggest it if you happen to’ve ever had any sort of points with digital sound machine then that is positively a superb subsequent factor to look into.
Emma: Yeah, Oscar has the very same sound machine. We like it too. Random tip for anybody on the market who’s pregnant. That’s most likely the primary factor I want we had packed in our hospital bag for when Oscar was born was a sound machine as a result of we stored utilizing a sound machine on our telephones for him simply to assist him sleep as a result of infants they’re used to no matter it seems like inside a womb, I suppose. I don’t know. I don’t know what it seems like in there however one thing I suppose. Anyway, in order that was most likely the primary factor that I want we had packed that we didn’t was the sound machine. These are actually fairly small. They’re not like a giant factor so you can completely pack it.
Elsie: Okay, so we’ve not completed a responsible pleasure treasure within the very long time. It’s certainly one of our unique first segments once we began our podcast that may by no means die as a result of we are going to by no means eliminate it. However I feel we’re very free on like what we contemplate a responsible pleasure too.
Emma: Yeah, we’re fairly free with it.
Elsie:m So have you ever heard of this? It’s like a docuseries on Disney Plus, and it’s known as Mild And Magic.
Emma: No.
Elsie: Okay, so I received’t inform you all the things about it. So I knew it was about focusing round George Lucas and the start of Star Wars and issues like that. I used to be like, I’m sort of . I’m like slightly bit . I’m not serious about Star Wars, sort of in any respect. It’s simply not my factor. I’m serious about film making so we gave it an opportunity. I’m so glad we did as a result of it’s pure motherf*cking magic. Everybody ought to watch it. So it exhibits the beginnings of George Lucas and in addition Steven Spielberg’s film careers and the way they developed their strategies for particular results in a predigital world. So it’s like a whole lot of crafting a whole lot of hand constructed fashions, a whole lot of puppets, injecting slightly little bit of white dye into water to make like a cloud, like actually is a deal with for the mind when you’ve got a artful mind. Which I do know most if not all of you do. It’s simply inspiring. It additionally simply makes you’re feeling that inventors magic the place you understand that these folks found out the best way to do one thing that had by no means been completed. They’re telling their story about it. I like watching it. I feel we’re most likely nearly via the entire this like one little season one little mini sequence and it’s simply great. So I like to recommend everybody watch it. It’s known as Mild and Magic and it’s about this, I suppose not so small particular results firm that George Lucas began within the 70s.
Emma: Very cool. That sounds enjoyable.
Elsie: Yeah, sure. What’s yours?
Emma: I’ve put down some meals stuff. So principally, I have to go to the frocery retailer, which I solely store as soon as every week, however I’ve been shopping for caramel apples and sizzling chocolate.
Elsie: Is it like a caramel apple? Like ithe caramels already on the apple and you narrow it up?
Emma: Yeah, you narrow it up. Yeah, it has nuts. I feel they’re higher if you happen to make them your self. I’ll be trustworthy, however I don’t. I’m simply shopping for them they usually’re scrumptious. We ate one final night time like for dessert after dinner. Then sizzling chocolate and cider. Which I really feel like some persons are both one or the opposite however I like each, not on the identical time. Some nights I’m like sizzling chocolate, some nights I’m like apple cider, some nights I’m like sizzling apple cider with slightly little bit of rum it. Then I feel this was my responsible pleasure treasure years in the past or a very long time in the past however I’m bringing it again as a result of I didn’t understand how a lot I missed it and liked it. That is one thing that I didn’t pack for the pink home as a result of I assumed we had been solely going to be right here for like two weeks. However now that I do know we’re gonna be right here for extra like 4 to 6 weeks I used to be like, I gotta go get this. So actually, I went over to the home yesterday and was digging round looking for it. I wanted to seek out extra garments for Oscar to as a result of simply gotten chilly. So I used to be discovering all his colder climate garments that I purchased him and didn’t understand I would want. So I’m digging round within the containers and I opened one up and I discovered my rice heating pad. I used to be like all proper.
Elsie: Oh my gosh. For individuals who haven’t listened to our podcast for a very long time. I don’t know if it’s like a Midwestern factor or if it’s an American factor, or if it’s grandma factor. It’s a grandma factor. It’s type of like a giant beanbag that you just warmth up within the microwave and then you definately put your shoulders.
Emma: Yeah and I like it.
Elsie: You’ll must hyperlink one within the present notes in case they haven’t seen one. I like it. That’s an ideal responsible pleasure.
Emma: Yeah, we’ve an e-mail query. You possibly can all the time e-mail us at podcast@abeautifulmess.com, which is the place this got here from and that is from Lesley. She says, I’ve been studying A Lovely Mess since 2009 and it’s actually the one weblog I’ve learn constantly each day since discovering it. That claims rather a lot in regards to the longevity of your model I feel. I used to be studying after I was 19 via my 20s and nonetheless now 32. I do know. Yeah. It’s loopy to think about how a lot my private model has modified since 2009 and the latest fall clothes 2022 put up jogged my memory of this. So I’d love to listen to the way you suppose your model has modified over the previous decade and extra. You may have each all the time had such distinctive kinds not outlined by particular tendencies, and I like you for the individuality. Your entire readers have, in fact watched your clothes model evolve and I’m to listen to your tackle all of it.
Elsie: Ah, that’s such a pleasant message. Which means rather a lot to us. I do really feel a particular bond with individuals who have learn our weblog for greater than 10 years as a result of that does simply imply that principally they’re prepared to vary with us. We’re altering our curiosity as we get older and I feel it’s actually particular.
Emma: We’re speaking about clothes kinds and the way our private model has advanced through the years. So what are your ideas on that for your self?
Elsie: Okay, so for myself, I truly really feel like my clothes model has not advanced as drastically as my residence model in any respect. However I additionally suppose that the way in which that I current in pictures is completely different from the way in which that I actually gown. What you placed on for a day that you just take pictures isn’t all the time the identical stuff that’s simply on a regular basis clothes. So I really feel like my on a regular basis clothes might be principally the identical because it’s all the time been, slightly bit completely different. I do know myself very well now. I do know what I like. I do know what I’ll use, so I’ll splurge on, most yearly I’ll purchase a pleasant pair of trainers. I do know that I like my coat assortment. I’m very into my coats, type of the muse of my private model is that I’ve all the time actually preferred the late 60s, early 70s. I’ve all the time actually preferred the Nineties. So if it’s a development that hits in these areas then I do know it’s for me. Like this 12 months just like the Birkenstocks development, I’m like, that’s for me. I like it. Yeah, I feel I do have to do a Curated Closet redo. We’ll hyperlink The Curated Closet within the present notes for anybody who hasn’t tried it. They’ve a wonderful workbook the place you possibly can work via your closet if that you must clear out, if you wish to redefine your self. General, I sort of really feel like I do know now what works for me. There’s so many tendencies that I’m identical to high-quality with appreciating them for different folks and ignoring simply because I sort of really feel like I’ve lived lengthy sufficient now that I’ve like type of like tried all of it on. Is that how you’re feeling or do you’re feeling completely different?
Emma: So after I did the Curated Closet, which I additionally wrote a put up considerably just lately, that was three classes I discovered from The Curated Closet, so we may hyperlink that as nicely. Principally, after I did that I feel what I actually discovered was that I had an actual lacking space in my wardrobe, which is rather like, high quality fundamentals that I can put on time and again that match me nicely. That is top of the range. I don’t all the time purchase high finish designer issues. That’s not likely my finances and elegance, however simply issues which might be going to final. So I really feel like I put on extra fundamentals and strong issues than I ever did earlier than. However I nonetheless really feel like in some way my model nonetheless looks like, not less than to me, put collectively and nonetheless colourful and nonetheless one thing sort of completely different on a regular basis. Which is humorous as a result of I don’t actually attempt to purchase bizarre stuff a lot. I really feel like I used to all the time attempt to purchase bizarre stuff. That’s all my closet was simply bizarre stuff.
Elsie: You may have numerous bizarre glasses. That’s like an adjunct that makes your entire outfit extra funky.
Emma: It’s that and I feel I put on extra jewellery than I used to. I additionally am actually into claw clips and headbands. I’m extra serious about embracing tendencies that I like then after I was youthful. I feel after I was youthful, I used to be very, it wasn’t that I used to be caught up, it’s simply that I actually needed to be a person. So tendencies made me sort of flip off from one thing as a result of I used to be like, oh, all people’s sporting that so I’m not as . Truly, I’m most likely extra stylish than I was as a result of I’m simply extra prepared to embrace it. I don’t suppose I’ve as sturdy of a need. I feel I’m simply extra assured in who I’m as I age. Each in my physique and identical to who I’m usually so I don’t really feel as sturdy of a must be so individualistic in my trend model or actually something. I simply really feel like, oh, I’m who I’m so you possibly can suppose I’m cool or not. I don’t actually need to impress you with my new gown.
Elsie: Yeah.
Emma: I simply put on one other jumpsuit as a result of I like them.
Elsie: I like to be an outfit repeater. I positively repeat my greatest outfits rather a lot and that’s high-quality.
Emma: Similar Similar.
Elsie: Alright, after which we’ve a message from Ashley, that it’s simply so good. I needed to learn it. It says simply needed to say thanks for creating the Childhood Magic website. This weekend, I did two crafts with my 4 and one-year-old, which means they made a multitude and I did the craft. Undoubtedly learn about that. However we had a lot enjoyable. Thanks for the PDFs and the inspiration. So thanks, Ashley for sending us that message. I simply needed to offer everybody a fast replace on Childhood Magic since I do know that we initially mentioned it was launching in August, which was so humorous in hindsight, as a result of now it’s October. So our web site is up the place you possibly can view it at childhoodmagic.com however it simply doesn’t have just like the design placed on it but. Then we’re simply ready, I feel it’ll be inside the subsequent month or so. However you possibly can go forward and think about the content material, you possibly can go forward and make initiatives, and we’ve been filling in Instagram with movies. So it’s there, it’s prepared for some pleasure along with your youngsters. She’s proper, there are a ton of PDFs and printables. There’s a whole lot of video games that you could print out and different issues like that. Then Emma has made essentially the most lovely, superb slime archive identical to each sort of slime and playdough you’re going to very impressed.
Emma: There might be extra. There’s a superb quantity however there’s extra coming.
Elsie: There’s a superb selection. We’re gonna do science experiments. That’s positively a class we wish to work rather a lot on. So anyway, thanks to your assist. It simply means rather a lot that individuals have been sending us good messages and already utilizing the location although it’s not even absolutely launched but. It warms our hearts and it makes us really feel like our summer time of doing youngsters crafts was completely price it. So thanks for that. So please subscribe to our podcast if you happen to haven’t but that method you’ll get the replace each week, and it’ll be in your feed when we’ve a brand new episode. In the event you haven’t ever left us a evaluate, please depart us a evaluate. Our critiques are fairly good, however they might be higher. In case you have a pleasant factor to say, it will imply rather a lot to us. Anytime you need e-mail us at podcast@abeautifulmess.com We love listening to from you and we love answering your questions and getting requests about subjects. We all the time need extra subjects to do. All proper we’ll be again subsequent week.
