Erin, Author at The Sunny Side Up Blog

Home Decor

02.09.17

Decorated and Organized Laundry Room (with color!)

Friends! I’m so excited! I’ve decorated our upstairs laundry room and finally got around to taking pics to share with you all! (Before pic above!) But before I show you I have to tell you 2 things..

1) A few days ago I did eleven loads of laundry in one day. Yes.. you heard me. ELEVEN LOADS! I’m not kidding. Lights, darks, towels, and sheets for me and my husband. Sheets for each of the 3 kids’ beds. Kids’ towels, lights, darks, and one load of kitchen/extra towels. BAM. Eleven loads. Every one washed, folded, put away and all beds made. I went to bed that night exhausted.. it was literally almost all I did that day in-between running kids around! I had to share because it was a new all time record for me. Has anyone hit that record or surpassed it? If so, I’m taking us to lunch. ;)

2) I’m going to a design blog conference in March and a sweet friend recently let me know that I’ve been nominated for two awards at the conference! Best Overall Design Blog and Best Writing on a Design Blog. I have no clue how I was nominated but I’m so incredibly honored. I wanted to share my fun news with all of you because I have all of you to thank! Some of my blog friends were also nominated for different awards and I’m so excited for them. You can check out the blogs nominated and cast your vote for a winner in each category HERE. I feel a little silly saying “go vote for me” but I don’t know.. after doing eleven loads of laundry in one day I sort of feel like maybe I deserve to win something. Ha ha.. kidding! Kind of. ;) If you do take the time to vote for me and my blog THANK YOU! Huge thank you. (It’s a super quick survey and should take just seconds!) If not, thank you for your support and for reading and I still love you. :)

Ok.. on to our decorated and organized laundry room (with color)!

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xoxo, Erin

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Fashion

02.04.17

Fashion/Favorites/Life Lately

{mint sweater/similar jacket here and here/jeans/similar boots/monogram necklace}

Happy weekend friends! Sharing some recent favorites with you today! My first Fashion/Favorites post of the New Year! It’s about time. :) And it’s a long one! I’ve got lots of pics to share so grab a snack and settle in. Let’s hit the fashion first! Then on to other things I’m loving and things we’ve been up to lately.

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xoxo, Erin

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Blogging

02.01.17

Reader Survey Responses!

Hi friends! I’m short on time tonight.. (what a day.. I feel like I’ve been putting out one fire after another! Is it the weekend yet!?). I wanted to pop in quick to share some of the results of the Reader Survey I posted in the beginning of January. HUGE thank you to everyone who took my survey! So many of you took time to comment (thousands of you!) and I can’t tell you all how much I appreciate it! So much great feedback. Sometimes blogging can feel a little one sided.. I seem to be the only one doing all the talking around here.. ha! ;) I love having this survey to hear all of your thoughts and opinions! You are all my people! And so kind. Your feedback means a lot to me. I had so many favorite comments. Here is one of them..

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xoxo, Erin

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Organization

01.30.17

Organized Decor Closet

How is the organizing coming along everyone? Are we motivated? Or not so much? I had a burst of energy this weekend (so happy to finally be feeling better!) so I finished two projects and started another one. LOVE productive weekends. It helped that for some reason my kids didn’t have a lot of activities going on Saturday or Sunday (not the norm!) so I was able to stay home, spend time with my family and just chip away at things I’ve been wanting to get done. What I wouldn’t give for more weekends like this one!

The second item on my 2017 “to-organize list” after organizing my girls’ bathroom drawers was my organizing my decor closet. You all know I like to switch my decor around ~~constantly~~ once in a while. :) In our previous house we were tight on space so extra decor I wasn’t using at the moment was stored anywhere I could find room like in my master closet and in my laundry room cupboards. (Both of those are past organizing posts if you are looking for more ideas!) When we designed our new home I knew I wanted a closet just for home decor. The picture above kind of shows where this closet is located in my house. Walk in our front door (looking into our formal living room), hang a left and go around the corner. My architect tried to talk me into making this just a coat closet. It’s close to the front door and he kept trying to convince me I would want more room to hang people’s coats if we were entertaining.

Nope. I knew that would be the case maybe twice a year. There are only a few months people can even wear coats in San Diego! I stayed strong and convinced him I needed a bigger closet, more shelves and less coat space. So happy I did!

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xoxo, Erin

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Holidays

01.25.17

Simple Valentine Party Ideas

Today I’m joining a fun group of blog friends to share ideas for hosting a Valentine party for the kids! These ideas could be used if you are throwing a large party, or just want to do something special for your own kids on Valentine’s Day. If you are visiting from Lucy’s fun blog Craftberry Bush welcome! So happy to have you here today. I’m sharing a simple Valentine tablescape and a few fun treats that were seriously SO easy to put together. Like took 20 minutes easy. My kind of party. :)

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xoxo, Erin

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Home Decor

01.25.17

A trip to the ER and a clean slate

Well! It has been an eventful few days at our house to say the least. Saturday morning I felt great and pulled my office apart re-organizing half of the room. Sunday morning I went on a walk with my husband in the morning, came home and suddenly had a stomach ache. By noon I was sicker than I’ve been in a long time. SO sick. Like living in the bathroom sick. I wasn’t sure if I had eaten something bad or if it was the stomach flu.. all I knew was that it wasn’t good. I made it through the day (barely and like I said.. living in the bathroom) and went to bed around 9:00. At 2:00 am I woke up feeling sick and rushed to the bathroom. The next thing I remember my head was pounding so badly and my husband was holding me. I’ll spare you the gory details (there were lots of them) but for the next 20 minutes I basically went back and forth between vomiting and passing out until he finally called 911 and an ambulance came and took me to the ER. (I had passed out initially falling flat – forehead smack on the bathroom tile – and the noise woke my husband up.. thank goodness.)

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xoxo, Erin

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Home Decor

01.18.17

Pink and Aqua Blue Preteen Girl’s Bedroom

Alright friends. Today I’m sharing Addison’s pink and aqua blue bedroom. FINALLY. I seriously can’t believe I’ve been in my house 3 years now and haven’t taken pictures of my girls’ rooms sooner! Part of the reason I waited so long is because is they aren’t finished! I kept thinking I would finish them completely and then put pictures up on the blog. But I’ve had a recent epiphany and have realized two things. One: If I wait until they are finished I might never post them. Ha. :) And Two: According to my recent survey most of you want progress pics! So progress is what you’ll get. :) Here is Ad’s blue and pink bedroom mostly decorated and a lot cleaner than it usually is. ;)

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xoxo, Erin

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Family

01.16.17

Life Lately

Hello hello friends! I hope you all enjoyed the weekend! Extended for some people. I’m so happy to have my kids home from school Monday and a short school week ahead! I’ve been doing a lot of organizing around here (love a productive weekend!) and one thing I worked on today was cleaning up my picture folders on my computer. (You can see how I organize my pictures here. That post is 4 years old and I still do it the same way! If the system isn’t broke, don’t fix it.) :) I thought I’d share some random pics I came across of what we’ve been up to lately before we dive into more organizing together! Because if I don’t share it on the blog it’s like it didn’t happen, right? And we can’t have that. ;)

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xoxo, Erin

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Organization

01.11.17

Girls’ Bathroom – Organized Drawers

Alright friends! Let’s get this organizing party started, shall we? :) In my last post I shared what I do at the beginning of every January.. I make my annual “to organize” list. It gives me a plan and a place to start! One of the first spaces on my list this year that I wanted to tackle was my girls’ bathroom drawers.

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xoxo, Erin

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Organization

01.10.17

Getting Organized (where to start!)

You guys! I can’t thank you all enough for taking a minute to answer the questions I asked on my recent survey! I have so enjoyed reading all of your responses. Every single one of them! If you haven’t taken the survey yet and are a regular reader here I’d love to hear from you! You can find my survey here.

One question I asked on my survey was what you are all struggling with specifically when it comes to organizing. WOW! You all have given me enough blog content for three straight years! Ha! So many of the same things were repeated over and over and they are a lot of the same things I’ve struggled with too! I’ll share some survey responses with you soon, but for today I wanted to quickly address a few words I heard over and over.

“I don’t know where to start!”

You guys! I have been there so many times! When we have a lot of clutter and spaces that are a mess we just don’t know where to even begin. It’s overwhelming to say the least! To get rid of this feeling, I do the same thing every January. Time to make a plan of attack! It helps me so much with that overwhelmed feeling of “where do I start!?” If you feel overwhelmed by everything you want/need to organize this year and don’t know where to begin do this:

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xoxo, Erin

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Blogging

01.05.17

Sunny Side Up Reader Survey (2017)

What a week! I’m not going to lie, it was rough around here getting back in the swing of things after Christmas break! Kole started school Tuesday and my girls started school Wednesday and I’d like to say that it has felt good to be back in our routine the past two days, but all I feel right now is.. tired. The routine is busy and I’m tired. And we’ve only been going two days! Ha! Re-entry. Never an easy thing. Plus I have bronchitis.. did I mention that? I’ve been sick. :( So that’s where a lot of the tired is coming from I’m sure. I hope all of you are adjusting better than I have. ;)

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xoxo, Erin

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Organization

01.05.17

Five favorite things that keep me organized

My friends! It’s time. What time you ask? My favorite time I answer. The time of year when the rest of the world gets an itch to do what I love to do year round.

Time to organize. :)

I’ve got so many projects in the works and fun things to share with you all this year! But first I’m sharing my top Five Favorite Things that keep me Organized. My sweet friend Kris of Driven by Decor invited me to join her along with Jennifer of Dimples and Tangles, Pam of Simple Details and Lisa of Shine Your Light for the fun “My Five Favorites” series they host each month. This month’s theme is Five Favorite Things that keep me Organized. I’m not going to lie. This one was tough for me. Tough to narrow my favorite organizers down to a mere five. ;) But here they are.. my Five Favorites! (*affiliate links used)

1 – DREAM DRAWER DIVIDERS

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while you know how I feel about dream drawer dividers. They have been one of my all time favorite organizers for years! I use them in all of our clothes closets, in my pantry (pantry post is coming!), and in my bathroom drawers (also coming!). They expand to fit any size of drawer and don’t take up a lot of space. Such a great way to keep things in their place and make the most of the drawer space you have. Love them!

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xoxo, Erin

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1 – DREAM DRAWER DIVIDERS

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