Hello hello! Pleased Friday! Pleased weekend to ya. What do you may have occurring? We’ve got a Christmas dinner at a buddy’s home, a squadron Christmas celebration, a birthday celebration, and two birthday brunches. So many enjoyable actions packed into the weekend! I’m hoping that in between the occasions, we are able to compensate for some home stuff (and that I can lastly sort out the laundry mountain that’s taken over our mattress. I used to be doing a load every evening, and issues simply received out of hand in a short time…).

One thing thrilling on the best way: Favourite Issues begins MONDAY! You’ll want to examine again right here.. the prizes are SO good and I can’t wait to hook up 10 reader mates with a few of my all-time favourite issues.

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It’s time for the weekly Friday Faves celebration! That is the place I share a few of my favourite finds from the week and across the net. I all the time love to listen to about issues that you just’re loving, too, so please shout them out within the feedback part beneath.

Friday Faves

Study:

One in all my large objectives for 2023 is to determine TikTok. I fought it for SO lengthy, however the actuality is that’s the place persons are hanging out proper now. And as a client of the platform, I find it irresistible. It took the algorithm a short time to get to *know* me, nevertheless it positively is aware of me now. (Deliver on the entire unimaginable choreography, chef life behind the scenes, singing movies, inside adorning, vogue ideas, and fast recipe movies.) I actually need to begin creating content material on TikTok and offering worth in a brand new method, however I really feel overwhelmed by the platform, particularly with the totally different modifying strategies and options.

Fortunately, my buddy Amber – we have been in Jill’s mastermind collectively – simply created a course ALL about TikTok, together with a masterclass, and I’m so pumped to do it. She’s been crushing it over there (274k followers!), and he or she’s going to share her ideas and methods. I do know this may not be relevant to everybody, but additionally know that a variety of reader mates have on-line companies and are concerned in social media, so for those who’d like to hitch me in her TikTok course, the hyperlink is right here!

It’s $200 off proper now and the value jumps on Monday when the course begins.

(Amber is on the far proper of this pic from our Scottsdale journey a couple of month in the past)

We’ll be on Instagram dwell right now speaking about TikTok if you wish to take part then, too – I’d like to see you there!

Learn, watch, pay attention:

This Josh Groban video that popped up on my YouTube playlist whereas I used to be working. What a banger lol. However severely, this is among the songs that made me love him again in highschool. It’s so good!

Talking of favourite songs, what was your most-played Spotify track in 2022? That is mine! I’ve listened to it SO many instances this yr:

Began this e book and whereas it took me a short time to get into it, I’m having fun with it to this point.

Vogue + magnificence:

This sweater arrived and it’s even higher than I believed it will be. The material is top of the range and I picked the heather camel shade.

Darkish pic however you will get the concept:

LOVE this cheek palette.

I’ve been loopy about Vuori for on a regular basis informal apparel, and have been eyeing this half-zip. I feel I’ll go for it this weekend and pop it below the tree. 😉 If you happen to’re nonetheless reward procuring, I’ve tons of concepts right here:

Present information for vacation hostesses and below $50 faves

For the boys

For her

For the youngsters

Health and good eats:

A dessert board. We had some mates over for dinner final weekend, and I used this Ina Garten tip and made a dessert board for dessert. It made it really easy and everybody may have what they needed.

I made some chocolate peanut butter bars, after which added totally different cookies and chocolate pretzels from the Complete Meals cookie bar, together with some chocolate mousse bars from Dealer Joe’s. The children had sizzling cocoa, and the adults had tequila sangria.

For the meal, we had appetizers (a large attractive charcuterie board my buddy introduced over, sun-dried tomato dip and crackers), my fave fall salad, roast hen, potatoes, and recent sourdough.

I’m so grateful that our children launched us to a few of our closest mates. Making mates as an grownup may be laborious and awkward, and I really feel so grateful that our children have the sweetest mates with superb mother and father. 😉 We’re having a household dinner tonight and a Secret Santa change for the crew – it will likely be a blast.

Hope you may have a contented Friday and I’ll see ya quickly with Favourite issues!
xo

Gina