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@lifewithmelphillips

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✨adding a little whimsy to everyday life✨
🎀 selfcare•hosting•hobbies•motherhood
🌼founder: @denverfitfriends |📍Denver
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Book club update on My Husband’s Wife: after our discussion, I’m keeping my rating at 2.5 ⭐️ BUT I think that if I’d only been reading this book (and not constantly being pulled into The Kindred’s Curse series 🔥) I probably would have liked it more. It’s a hard one to get into if you’re constantly switching or putting it down. I absolutely admire the authors thought process and how she takes you through sooo many twists!🕵🏻‍♀️

Since this book is set in a tiny English coastal town, we met at a really cute British pub in downtown Denver. We theme every meetup to the book, so here are a few favorites from this year:

🏊‍♀️ Dolly All The Time: a rooftop pool day at a downtown Denver hotel
🫖 The Things We Do For Love: a Galentine’s tea in Boulder
Shoutout to @lifewithmelphillips , who brings thoughtful discussion questions to every hang 🫶🏼 She also runs a virtual book club on Substack, so if you want that book club feeling from home, give her a follow 📚

What’s the best themed book club meetup you’ve done?

#bookclub #bookclubthemes #bookclubideas #themedbookclub

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When your friends understood the fall assignment 🧡🙏
Kicked off the season with a BYOPumpkin Dish to a dinner party

Menu:
Baked feta pumpkin pasta dish
Harvest Apple salad
Pumpkin soup
Whipped feta pumpkin dip
Pumpkin ice cream sandwiches

hosted by @lifewithmelphillips 🧡
She crushed every detail & even had us do an easy pumpkin petal craft after dinner.

10/10 would recommend this for a fall a girls night!

#pumpkindinnerparty #falldinnerparty #fallgirlsnight #fallgirlsnightin #fallcrafts

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falling for girls nights like these 🧡🍂🥂

moms night in was a BYOP(umpkin) 🧡 dish party & it was the best way to kick off the fall festivities

on the menu:
🍝 pumpkin feta pasta bake
🥫creamy pumpkin soup
🍎 fall apple salad
🧡 pumpkin dip
🍪 pumpkin ice cream sandwiches

craft activity:
🌸🎃 pumpkin petals - this was so cute & fits the cute spooky vibe

we can always count on @lifewithmelphillips to throw a magical gals night ✨ and this is your sign to throw one, too!

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#momsnight #fallcrafts #girlsnightin #everydaymagic #cozyautumn

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A little look back at truly just a FEW of the many amazing experiences we’ve had (roughly the past year) in honor of two anniversaries (and let’s be honest, we are married to each other and IKONICFOX). After all, it’s implied in the name 🦊🦊💍 how lucky are we that we get to call this work?!

✨7 years of IKONICFOX
✨9 years of the Foxes being married (a little snap at the end)

🥂 to many more adventures ahead

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Get your fall cocktail lineup started with @lifewithmelphillips’ Crisp Apple Cocktail 🍎 Fresh apple flavor makes this the perfect cocktail for your first autumn get-together!

Comment ‘RECIPE’ to have the details sent to your DMs and keep tagging #feedfeed for a chance to be featured.

INGREDIENTS:
Ice cubes
2 ounces bourbon
3 ounces apple cider
3/4 ounce (from about ½ lemon) freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 (12-fluid-ounce or 355-milliliter) can OLIPOP Crisp Apple soda, chilled
2 lemon wedges, for garnish
2 fresh rosemary sprigs, for garnish
2 ounces Seedlip Spice 94 (for non-alcoholic version)

RECIPE:
1.Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add the bourbon, apple cider, and lemon juice.
2.Cover and shake vigorously for 10 to 15 seconds, until thoroughly chilled.
3.Fill two rocks glasses with fresh ice. Strain the cocktail mixture evenly between the glasses.
4.Divide the OLIPOP Crisp Apple soda between the glasses and stir gently to combine.
5.Garnish each cocktail with a lemon wedge and rosemary sprig. Serve immediately.

https://thefeedfeed.com/lifewithmelphillips/sparkling-apple-cider-bourbon-cocktail

#applecocktail #applecider #bourboncocktails #falldrinks

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Escaped to the mountains to say farewell to summer & hello to fall 👋 🍂
The best mems made with this crew in a cabin with 5 girls 3 and under 🤪
📍 FairPlay, CO

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It’s not about what you’re doing.
It’s about who you’re being.

That’s the lesson I keep living.

What will happen, will happen.
What I get to choose, is who I am while it’s happening.

I’ve always been proud of my variety and inconsistency. It’s the spice in my sriracha. 🤣 But maybe what I used to see as inconsistency wasn’t actually that random.

I’ve lived long enough now to recognize the rhythm.

I’ve done a lot of different things but how I do those things is often really similar. I like to inspire, to uplift, to build people… I also can be brutally straightforward when I see someone drifting from their best self. I don’t hold back… not my love, my fear, my intensity, my weird… whatever is real is out there for all to see. These things have become the samskaras I have chosen or unintentionally written on the record of my life.

The seasons where I build and the ones where I soften. The moments I reach outward and the ones I return home. The things I shed, the things I find again, and the ways of being I keep coming back to.

Perhaps midlife isn’t about finally figuring out exactly who you are.

It’s recognizing your own rhythms well enough to trust them.

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Photos by the lovely @lifewithmelphillips

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Kinda chic to love what you do 🌈🥰

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it’s kinda chic to book me as your photographer

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This is your reminder to put your oxygen mask on first, this weekend 😘

✨Shout out to @sheilaanne___ and @lifewithmelphillips for hosting such a lovely day, retreat.

👉🏽 Check out both of their pages for more fun, engaging and mindful events. (Sheila is now based in the East Coast, so it was a really special treat to see her)

Be well, my friends 🌱

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born to be a mermaid, forced to be human 🫧🧜🏼‍♀️✨

I had the most magical time at the 🧜🏼‍♀️ Siren Soirée ✨ birthday dinner @lifewithmelphillips hosted this weekend! a true queen of hosting & the easiest person to celebrate 🫶🏼

this was the most beautiful summer dinner party, with sushi, drinks in seashells, cute beachy craft, and an outdoor viewing of Aquamarine (I don’t think I’ve seen it since it came out in 2006, but we LOVED it)

this is your sign to invite the girls over for a mermaid night because I’d 12/10 say yes to that invite over & over 🫧

anyone else loving the mermaid vibes this summer is bringing?? 🧜🏼‍♀️🩵

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#mermaidvibes #mermaidcore #everydaymagic #girlsnight #dinnerparty

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Book Nook Series
but let’s make it all about my book club 📚💙

Our read was ‘Once and Again’ by Rebecca Serle 🌊 A book about second chances. I loved the small magical realism mixed with real everyday life.

We planned a themed meet up to discuss it! Since the book was based in Malibu (and we are landlocked in Denver) we opted for happy hour @thehamptonsocial for coastal vibes and it delivered. 🐚

Have you read this one?

Apparently all of her books have some type of magical element to it. In five years is now on my TBR and I’d recommend one Italian summer as well for a fun and easy read this summer ☀️

#bookclubinspo #bookclubbooks #summertbrlist #denverrestaurants #girlsbookclub

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