Erin, Author at The Sunny Side Up Blog

Home Decor

12.06.16

Christmas in the Family room! A Holiday Home Showcase.

So excited to kick off my holiday decor today with some amazing bloggers who are also close friends of mine and share Christmas in my Family Room! If you just popped over from Tamara’s beautiful home at CitrineLiving hello and welcome! If you’re a regular here… hello dear friend and welcome back. :)

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Time for the Holiday Home Showcase! Although I have a confession to make first. For me this is the Holiday Room Showcase! Ha! I’m spreading my decor out one room at a time this December. I take too many pictures to fit a whole house tour into one post and thought I’d save myself a little sanity by sharing one room at a time. Not much mind you.. there’s still a regular amount of insanity going on around here.. but I managed to salvage a little. ;)

So come in! Time for a tour of Christmas in my family room! The halls are decked and feeling all sorts of cozy.

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xoxo, Erin

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Home Decor

12.04.16

Christmas Gallery Wall

Happy Monday friends! I hope everyone had a nice weekend! If you didn’t check in with my blog I shared the winner of the planner giveaway and a new fashion post Saturday if you’re interested! I’m going to be posting fast and furious for the next few weeks to fit everything in I have to share with you all so check back often. I keep hearing Rocky music playing in the background and I’ve warned my family that laundry will pile up and pizza will be a staple this month. Time to BLOG. :) First up: my Christmas gallery wall!

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xoxo, Erin

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Fashion

12.03.16

Fashion Friday.. on Saturday

Happy weekend friends! And happy December! It’s finally here. :) Love this month! It’s crazy and busy, but full of so many good things. The next two weeks my blog will be full of Christmas decor so my Fashion Friday posts are going to be popping up over the weekend. I’m thinking next year my “Fashion Friday” posts need to change to “Fashion whenever I get to it” posts. It’s rare they go live on Fridays! But that’s talk for another day.

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Today I’m sharing a few recent favorites from Nordstrom! My mom took this picture while we were at her house in Utah over Thanksgiving. The trees with the sun shining through are just beautiful! Her whole street looked like it was straight out of a story book. I love going to Utah in the Fall. It’s the only time of year I don’t want to live in San Diego! I want to be one with the cool, crisp air and the changing leaves. Then when the cool, crisp air turns to frost and just plain cold air, I want to go back home to San Diego. :) K.. for the love of cardigans! I have an obsession with them at the moment. You all know how much I have loved this open front cardigan. (Almost identical styles/color options are here and here.) I’ve been wearing it at least once a week since I bought it.

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xoxo, Erin

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Uncategorized

12.03.16

Planner Giveaway Winner!

Thanks again to everyone who entered the 1Canoe2 planner giveaway! I wish so badly I could send a planner to each and every one of you! The winner is Kendall from Miami! Congrats Kendall! Shoot me an e-mail so I can get your information and send you the planner of your choice!

This was so fun and like I said, I wish I could give everyone who entered a planner! I might have to do more of my own giveaways next year. I’m so grateful for all of you! THANK YOU for reading Sunny Side Up and being such a happy part of my life. xo

xoxo, Erin

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Home Decor

12.02.16

Christmas Tablescape – Holiday Entertaining Tour!

Happy Friday friends! What a week! I have been so busy with my kids’ activities and trying to wrap up Christmas decorating and get pictures of everything. I’m more than ready for a weekend! Before we get this party started I just have to say that it was so fun hearing from so many of you for my planner giveaway (still one last day to enter!). I loved hearing a little about some of you and seeing where you are all from. ALL over! It’s just so cool. We all live so far apart but are connected in our love for decor or organizing or fashion or family.. whatever you come to my blog for! We’re connected and I love that. It’s a small world after all. (I’ve been to Disneyland this month.. can you tell?). :)

Ok. Let’s get this party started shall we!? To kick off my Christmas decor this season I’m joining 30 talented bloggers to bring you Christmas tablescape galore! If you are planning on having a dinner party or just want to add some Christmas cheer to your family dinners or to a special Christmas Eve meal, look no further! Huge thanks to Lory from DesignThusiasm for hosting our tour and rounding up this fun group of bloggers. And if you came here from Heather’s fun blog (Setting for Four) hello and welcome!

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xoxo, Erin

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Organization

11.28.16

My new planner and a fun giveaway!

{**THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED**}
Truth. My office does not look like this right now. Currently it is half way decorated for Christmas and full of piles of mail/papers I need to sort through, presents that are half way wrapped and projects that are half way finished. It will be a Christmas miracle if I can get it cleaned up again in time to share my Christmas decor in this room with you all!

But that’s a story for another day. :) Today I’m so excited to be sharing a favorite shop with you and more details on my new planner I recently shared in my Favorite Things post that I’m so excited about! I blog in two places.. my couch in the evening and at this spot in my office during the day. I cleaned things up for these pictures the last time I took them, but usually I have two things out on this desk. My laptop and my planner. I use my iphone to keep track of our crazy daily schedule, but I LOVE having a traditional paper planner with me at all times to keep track of my blog schedule, daily to-do’s, notes, etc.

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xoxo, Erin

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Home Decor

11.28.16

Christmas signs and Cyber sales

It’s about that time friends. Time for FUN mail. Isn’t getting the mail in December the best!? Whether it’s Christmas decor I’ve ordered for our home, gifts being delivered that I’ve ordered for others on-line, or Christmas cards from loved ones, I can hardly wait for the mail to arrive this time of year. Want to see some fun mail I just got this weekend!?

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You all know how I feel about wooden signs. Aside from loving the look/style of them, I think they are such a fun way to personalize your home. Plus I love supporting small businesses! Here is a peak at my office decor (oh yes.. we are decking ALL the halls around here this year). :) My Rudolph sign came in the mail and I’m so excited about it! I fell in love with this sign the second I found it on etsy. It’s from a shop called This Hand Painted Home. I reached out to Taylor about this sign and she is an absolute sweetheart. She has so many fun Christmas signs in her shop! I wasn’t sure where this would go when I ordered it, I just knew I had to find a spot for it somewhere. It looked so cute and festive everywhere I put it, but this spot in my office won. It just makes me smile every time I walk in this room! Plus it was a big hit with my kids. Huge Rudolph fans around here. :)

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xoxo, Erin

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Favorite Things

11.24.16

2016 FAVORITE THINGS! (Gift Ideas for everyone on your list!)

Happy Thanksgiving friends! We made it over the river and through the woods. I’m always relaxed at my mom’s house! Plus we all know I’m a much better assistant than head chef when it comes to Thanksgiving. ;) I’m so excited to be sharing a post I get excited about every year.. my annual FAVORITE THINGS post! For those of you who are newish to my blog (hi and welcome!), every November I share a round-up of my very favorite things from the year and then later follow it up with favorites from a friend’s annual Favorite Things Party. My friend decided that this year just to mix things up she is going to have her party in the Spring, so those favorites will be coming later. But don’t fret, I’ve got lots of fun favorites for you this year. It was hard to choose my top picks, but I think I’ve done it! These are truly the things I love most of all. I also added some family favorites as well so hopefully this post gives you lots of fun holiday gift ideas! Ready for this monster of a post? It’s a long one. Grab a snack and let’s go!

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xoxo, Erin

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Fashion

11.20.16

Friday Fashion/Favorites (on a Sunday.. again) :)

Happy weekend everyone! I hope yours is going well! My kids get the whole week off of school for Thanksgiving and I honestly look forward to this week all year. Thanksgiving and Christmas prep are the best! I shared this picture on IG last week when our tree went up. We were all fanning out the branches on the tree when one of my kids decided to turn on “Yes Virginia There Is a Santa Claus” and there went my help. Ha! I have to admit, I love that movie too so we all took a mini break from the decorating. :)

Then back to our Christmas music and we picked up where we left off!

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xoxo, Erin

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Fashion

11.17.16

My favorite kids’ clothes and toys from Nordstrom!

I embrace and love things in every stage my kids go through, but if I had to pick a favorite stage – one I could lock my kids in forever – it would be age 5/6 (Kindergarten/First grade). It’s not as physically demanding as the baby/toddler stage, but they are still so little. They say adorable, hilarious things. Their curiosity and excitement for life is unmatched.

And they love their mom. :)

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xoxo, Erin

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Home Decor

11.16.16

Reader Favorites!

Friends. I have a fun post today! Not long ago in this Friday Favorites post I added this:

K.. this is totally off the subject, but if you have a picture of something that was inspired from my blog (something you bought/did in your home that I’ve done, clothes you bought from my fashion posts, something you do with your kids I suggested, etc…anything!) I would love to see it and share the picture! I get so many fun pictures e-mailed to me of fun things you are all doing that were inspired by my blog and they make my day. I thought it might be fun to start sharing some of your pictures in a post here and there! So e-mail me your pics! Can’t wait to see them. :)

Your e-mails started rolling in! They have all been so much fun to read! I’ve been getting e-mails with pictures like this for years and I’m so excited to share some of them with all of you! It makes my day to see spaces/purchases/anything that has enhanced your life that was inspired by my blog. Here are a few of your pictures.. (most of them were snapped quickly with cell phones which I love. Real life!)

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xoxo, Erin

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Fashion

11.11.16

Friday Fashion/Favorites

Happy Friday friends! Man. I’m tired this week! I don’t know if I’m still recovering from the time change (Kole has been up by about 5:15 am every morning this week) or from staying up so late watching election coverage the other night. Either way, I’m excited to sleep in tomorrow. My kids have the day off of school for Veterans Day and they all have strict instructions to wake up, turn on the TV and leave mom alone. That should give me until at least 7:00 am.

Beggars can’t be choosers. I’ll take it. ;)

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Speaking of my lovely kids, my girls are joining me for today’s post sharing their favorites from Nordstrom! (Then I have some new favorites of mine at the end of the post!) My girls were clearly not in the mood to hold still when I snapped these pics before school. Some sort of dance move is going on here and I’m pretty impressed with myself that I caught El’s smile mid move. Clearly I’m well trained in the art of pre-teen photography. ;) Regardless, this “I’m only here for the SNACKS” shirt is a favorite around here. And couldn’t be more true regarding most events we attend.

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xoxo, Erin

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