@aww.sam

We celebrated our 2nd anniversary yesterday and I simultaneously can’t believe it’s only been two years and already been two years! And our extra party guest this year 👶🏼🤰🏻 gave me a lot of acid reflux as a gift haha! So excited for our next journey in life together, love ya kid @kyleinthewilds!!! 💗 (Photo: @marycostaphoto, Florals: @wildmusefloral)

I haven’t had as much energy this year to do crazy costumes (I’ve got a lot of projects brewing though, baby included 😂), so I’m showing you the tutorial for this easy jack o’lantern costume +beret on the blog! Perfect for the pumpkin patch and all of your virtual Halloween parties, and is super still cute bump or not! 🎃🎃🎃 Do you all know what you’re dressing up as yet?? Link in profile

It’s October 1st, so turning that beehive into a spider nest!!!! 🕷🕸🕷🕸 After you all loved the Holiday tree hair last year, I wanted to give you an easy Halloween hair idea! Tease your hair into a beehive, hair spray web onto your hair, and twist in spider rings 🙌

My favorite little corner of the deck 💗 This space we made over with @athomestores has provided me with a much needed calm spot throughout the past few weeks of pregnancy, especially in the mornings when the wind is blowing the pergola shades and the birds are chirping. We’re going to get started with the other side of our deck next, and I’m thinking either fire pit or outdoor bar area? Which would you do??

✌️ Groovy, baby! ✌️ We’ve been keeping a BIG secret here the last few months, and @kyleinthewilds and I could not be more excited to welcome our groovy baby to the disco March 2021!!!!!! 📸: @studiok10photo

As we’re gearing up to wrap up some home projects, I wanted to share one of my favorite transformations we’ve ever done in our loft in NYC (swipe for the before!) ➡️ We did this on a tight budget and finished the whole space in under $300, excluding appliances. It was not the most ideal set up and our style has changed a little since then, but I definitely miss this cozy kitchen! 💗💗💗

So excited to share with you the full retro-themed meal I teased on stories!!! 🍧🥮 I’d been in a bit of a baking rut, and our at-home dinners have been on the same loop every week, so I decided to consult with some of my vintage recipe books to create this spread complete with a pineapple upside down cake, jello creations, @aperolusa’s , and even a pineapple shaped cheese ball! 🙌 I want to make these themed meals a regular thing, so what theme should we do next? +

Nail art is the only thing keeping me sane this year 🙃😅💅🏻 Celebrating the end of the longesttt week (did anyone else feel this??) tomorrow with some confetti nails by @theeditorialnail pre-pandemic.

You all know how much I loveee a 🍒cherry🍒 motif (and flavor!), so I was inspired by @drinkbai’s newest flavor, Zambia Bing Cherry to throw a virtual cherry-themed party with our friends. Each bottle of Bai is filled with exotic, real-fruit flavor that is infused with antioxidants and tea extract, and I think this is my favorite yet! P.S. I made the cherry centerpieces out of honeycomb decorations, and cherry napkin rings out of pipe cleaners and foam balls 🙌 Feeling my creativity slowly coming back!

I started Aww Sam out of my one bedroom apartment in Brooklyn back in 2015, and even today I wish I had multiples of myself to finish the tasks running your own business entails! 😅😂 Especiallyyy for the calls and emails haha! When I jumped into this venture, I had absolutely no knowledge on how to run a business, let alone, a business that was profitable enough as a full-time job. Five years later, my husband jumping on board, and a lottt of changes, and I still feel like I’m learning something new every day. I recently started reading : Crafting Business on Your Own Terms by @jaimeschmidt who had a similar journey to my own when she started Schmidt’s Naturals. It's been so helpful learning about how to embrace and navigate growth, which is something I've been struggling with as my business expands. 📚 This book is such a great resource for any of you hoping to start your creative dreams, and even those that already have your own business. I know a lot of you run small businesses, and I would LOVE to hear about how you started and what you do below!!! 👇 @booksparks

Let me introduce you to our finished guest room mural!!!! 🌼🎨 I’ve always wanted to do a large-scale mural in our home, so we partnered with @behrpaint to use my favorite minty green color, Wishful Green M410-2, from their new BEHRⓇ Color Trends 2021 Palette to paint this 60’s floral dream. We created our own stencils and were able to finish this whole wall in just a few hours with no detailed hand-painting necessary! 🙌 Head to the blog for the tutorial and make sure to check out the rest of the !

Used my favorite cookie-decorating technique today to make these cloud patterned cookies! (Inspired by @blush.daisy earrings and the nail art I did) ☁️🍪 The clouds are made out of cookie dough too, and it’s such an easy way to spruce up shortbread cookies if you’re like me and not great with icing.