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Instagram post 2208920078756566374_1283859196 ✨SUPER FUN✨ BOOKISH SURPRISE below... . . My husband and I decided against buying gifts for each other years back when money was tight—spending time together became the gift we chose. But... . . There’s a “gift” I’d wanted for a while now, and we decided Christmas was the right time to snatch it up! (😉) I can’t wait to use my @apolis market tote on my #ExploreDay adventures in 2020—researching for forthcoming novels (two of which work perfectly, being set in Paris and Rome!), especially in the writing of my next one this winter. . . ✨SUPER FUN BOOKISH SURPRISE✨ We now have a title for my next novel, set in Paris during WWII... I am in big, Je t’aime ❤️ with this one, friends!!!!! Cannot wait to share soon. Stay tuned! . . More Explore Days are also coming soon in 2020... I can’t wait to take you along with me on the bookish #storyroad! 👜🧣📚🚙 👩🏼‍💻 . . . . . . #amwriting #apolis #apolismarketbag #apolismarkettote #amwritinghistoricalfiction #storyroads #authorsofinstagram #authorlife #authorresearch #researchtrip #wanderlust #researchismylovelanguage #parisnovel #parisnovels #wwiinovel #comingsoon‼️ #flatlayforever . . 👜: @apolis 🧣: vintage @jcrew
Instagram post 2208162147211499928_1283859196 🍋📖🥄👉 What’s your favorite #newyearnewyou life hack? . . Each time the calendar turns over from Christmas to January, I go into the kitchen with a fav cookbook—like MAGNOLIA TABLE from @joannagaines. I start cooking. Opening cabinets. Cleaning and clearing out. It’s in this letting go of the old and making space to welcome the new that I find energy through the winter months. I missed it last year because of a busy schedule but this year I’m focused on faith, family, home & REST. And my mind makes a scent connection to lemons at the start of each new year—the fresh smell takes over the landscape with positivity and promise for all that’s to come! . . Here’s my favorite January-is-coming #newyearhack: . . 🍋 Slice a lemon (or two!) . 🍋 Combine in a sauce pan with 4 cups of water, 2-3 cinnamon sticks, a tsp. of vanilla extract, and an infuser with leftover holiday mulling spices dropped in (if you have it. If not, don’t worry! It will still work.) . 🍋 Simmer on low heat, stirring occasionally, for an hour—your entire home will smell fresh and clean! (I can’t tell you how many times our boys drift into the kitchen and say, “What are you cooking?!” because it smells so incredible!) . ✨ Super bonus points if you cut up the extra lemons and run them through your garbage disposal— they will clean and freshen up your sink in a snap. . . Let’s hope all this cleaning and clearing and infusing energy gives us a little extra time... to breathe! (And maybe turn a few pages in a first read of 2020. 😉📖) . . . . . . #january #newyearlifehack #lemons #freshandclean #newyear #newyears #newyearsreaolutions #newyearlifehack #lifehack #positivenewoutlook #newyearsresolutions #newyearinvestinyou #magnolia #magnoliahome #magnoliabook #magnoliajournal #amreading #readyforrest #letsdothis #welcome2020
Instagram post 2207717198934435462_1283859196 ❄️📖☕️🕯👉 Last read of 2019 or first read of 2020— either way, I’m totally ex-ci-ted to read FRAGMENTS OF LIGHT from @shellphoenix!!! (She might not know this, but I’m a huge fan. 😊) Got the glow from a candle and hot coffee ready to go. . . I expect it to be as beautiful as THE SPACE BETWEEN WORDS (which I loved), so I’ll let you know how this D-Day at Normandy beach, split-time WWII story unfolds for me. . . 📖 What was your last read of 2019? . 📖 And which one’s up first for 2020? . . . . . . #happyreader #christianfiction #michélephoenix #tnzfiction #lastbookof2019 #firstbookof2020 #amreading #historicalfiction #WWII #WWIInovel #flatlayforever #bookish #historynerdheaven
Instagram post 2206960826479536435_1283859196 ✝️🎄❤️👉 Merry Christmas, friends!! . . My husband snapped this sunset pic a couple months back—a silhouette of our not-so-little boys (complete with super cute floaties on youngest guy!), poolside during our much-needed fall break escape. I fell in love with it for our unofficial Christmas card photo this year because it’s a perfect reminder of what Christmas is all about: family, faith, & togetherness. And in this life—just like the waning daylight he captured in the photo—the time we get can seem fleeting as our loved ones grow. Capture all the memories you can! I promise you that more than ever, we are. . . Much love to you and yours this holiday— The Cambrons 🎄❤️🙏 . . . . . . #christmascard #merrychristmas #merrychristmas2019 #watchthemgrow #momofboyslife
Instagram post 2205992012593927295_1283859196 🎄❤️👨‍🍳👉 I spent #christmaseveeve yesterday with these cute North Pole elves—Grandma and our Little Chef (and oldest bro not pictured)—who took charge of baking for the holiday. Flour covered everything (including us) and some of the cookies came out a little like sugar blobs once baked (hats off to you, @britishbakeoff, because y’all make biscuit creation seem way easier than it is). But we had a BLAST! . . Favorite part? A Christmas #cookiehack we saw on IG... . 👉👉 CHRISTMAS COOKIE HACK: Take an angel cookie cutter and cut out your cookie shape. Shave off the head and to celebrate the new #StarWars movie—Voila! You have #babyyodacookies!!!! . . Our green icing came out a little like an ogre instead of a young Jedi master, and I am NOT a baker so I spent time doing all the dishes and cleaning the kitchen—but I did join in on some decorating. F-U-N!! . ❄️ And, coolest thing ever? That snowflake apron was made by Little Chef’s great-grandmother before he was born and now that she’s gone on to be with Jesus, it’s his prized possession. #memoriesmadehere 😭❤️ . . Happy, merry, cheery, blessed Christmas Eve, dear hearts! May your Christmas cookie dreams come true! ❤️🎄 . . . . . . #christmaseve #holidaybaking #holidaybakingbegins #authorlife #authorsofig #youngchef #chefColt #littlechef #notshortonlove #christmasmemories #grabdmasandgrandsons
Instagram post 2205239940860795493_1283859196 🎄🎁❄️👉 What #merryandbright moments are on your schedule today? . . Monday morning of Christmas week for this gal = waking before sleeping littles, brewing peppermint bark coffee, and getting lost in 1940s France (code for: writing on next novel) by the glow of the Christmas tree. All things MERRY AND BRIGHT to follow with kids home for Christmas break... baking sugar cookies with grandma. Watching Elf for the thousandth time. Making real hot chocolate and snuggling in. (And I might just sneak in writing another chapter or two if there’s a break in the action!) . . Here’s praying your Monday is filled with those merry and bright moments with those you hold dear! 🎄🎁❤️ . . . . . . #christmasweek #christmasweek🎄 #christmasweek2019 #allthingsmerryandbright #bakingcookiesday #christmaseveeve #christmaseveeve🎄 #authorsofinstagram #authorlife #amwritingfiction #newnovelcomingup #christmasflatlay #christmasflatlays . . Favorite plaid 🧣: @jcrewfactory
Instagram post 2203825628254384295_1283859196 🎄📚🕯👉 Happy Saturday, fellow book nerds! What are you up to today—reading, shopping, wrapping, cooking? . . It’s 4 days before Christmas... so obviously I’m eating sugar cookies for breakfast, wrapping last-minute gifts (books!) and writing on next novel by the glow of the Christmas tree (and trying not to wake my guys who are all still fast asleep in their beds). Oh, to have weekends where we don’t have to set the alarm clock but we wake early on our own because it’s such a magical time of year and don’t want to miss a thing! . . Happy holiday weekend, dear hearts! ❤️🎄 . . . . . . #christmasflatlay #christmasbooks #christmasbookstagram #amreading #amwriting #historicalfiction #christmasdecor #bookstagram #christmasbookstack #christmastime #bookstack #booksharks #booknerd #booknerdchristmas
Instagram post 2203044835848512811_1283859196 ❄️🎄📚👉 Ever judge a book by its cover? (Me too.) I’m smitten as anything for books on royals. Add in gorgeous cover art + chilly December temps (even though there’s no real snow in our forecast), I’m SOLD—time to stay in and thumb through a blissful new story, right? . . This is a favorite cover for me this year: THE OTHER WINDSOR GIRL by Georgie Blalock. What’s on your list? . . (I also ❤️ the cover for TO BEST THE BOYS by @maryweberauthor. If you haven’t seen that one, make it a last-minute Christmas gift to yourself!) . . . . . . #coverart #theotherwindsorgirl #historicalfiction #favoritecovers #bookclubofinstagram #bookclubofinsta #georgieblalock #lovereading #happyholidayreading #pickupabookandread #booksaboutroyals #royalsbooks
Instagram post 2201198383237036595_1283859196 ❄️🎅🎄☕️👉 What’s the view outside your window today? . . It snowed in the Hoosier state!! (Looked like the North Pole on Christmas Eve...) Big, fluffy snowflakes—the perfect kind that drift on the wind but don’t stick to the roads. The kind that remind us its December and the snowflakes are still in the “Christmas magic” category until they turn dreary in January. The kind I loved watching float down out the front doors of my coffee shop spot this morning, as I drank a Peppermint Bark latte and pecked away at a laptop keyboard. . . It was perfect. And... I hope it does the same tomorrow. ❄️❤️ . . What about you, fellow book nerds? Any snowflakes outside your winter window? . . . . . . #christmasbookstagram #christmasbook #flatlayforever #christmasflatlay #booksofig #booksharks #christmasbookstagrammer #christmascookies #peppermintbark #peppermintbarklatte #cozychristmas #cozylittlechristmas #sugarcookies #cookiesforsantaplate #cookiesforsantatray #hohoho
Instagram post 2199623141268099878_1283859196 🦁📚👉 The votes are in, Dickensons! We heard you—our next read in #whatthedickensbookclub is: THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE by C.S. Lewis This is one of my favorite books ever, and Aslan—one of the BEST characters in all of literature. I fell smitten with this story in 5th grade (ages before I ever knew I’d be called to write myself) and have loved it ever since. SO excited our book club readers chose it! Join author sisters @sarahladdauthor @katherinereay and moi as we read (or re-read, Ha Ha!) and gather to discuss the 1st week of January. 🦁📚CARE TO JOIN? < Link in bio > It’s fun and free! Head over to Facebook for What the Dickens Book Club group. Send us a request and you’re in! Happy holiday reading!! . . . . . #bookclubofinstagram #narnia #childrensliterature #cslewis #cslewisbooks #chroniclesofnarnia #aslan #favoritechildrensbook #bookclub2020 #thelionthewitchandthewardrobe #thisisnarnia #saraheladd #katherinereay #kristycambron #wtdbookclub
Instagram post 2199487710304088147_1283859196 🎄✉️✍️ I was thumbing through stacks of vintage letters in a book shop earlier this year, and came across this Christmas letter issued to a customer from the old Montgomery Ward Co., Chicago.... over 90 years ago. . . It’s a random piece of history, yes. But look at the date—Dec. 1929! . . I couldn’t help but think of what had happened in late October of that year and how lives had been changed by it. The thread of our nation’s economy has begun to unravel at the point this letter was mailed—was this the last Christmas this gentleman had for a while? Did he still have a job to pay for his purchases? Did he have a family to provide for and this letter proves his hard work to do that at Christmas? . . History nerd that I am... I can’t say how just yet (it’s a secret!) but I was so smitten with this letter that I bought it, and I’m incorporating it into the story of my next novel. Montgomery Ward opened in 1872 and finally closed its brick-and-mortar doors in 2000 (though it reopened as an online retailer some years later), which made this piece of history all the more fascinating to hold in my hands! . . Diving into writing projects today, remembering this letter, and how our lives are so threaded with yesterdays that we have to acknowledge them to fully understand today, and have hope for tomorrow. . . 🎄 And P.S. — The Christmas seal on the envelope is what captured me! How gorgeous. SOLD! . . Merry Christmas, Christmas shoppers— May your every endeavor end with an outcome that says it’s paid in full! 😉 . . . . . . #montgomeryward #pieceofhistory #amwriting #historicalfiction #1929 #livinghistory #historynerd #historynerds #vintageletter #historicalfictionwriter #historyrocks #authorsofinstagram #author #authorlife #research #montgomerywardchristmas #newnovelontheway
Instagram post 2198762631685327443_1283859196 🎄🎁📚👉 What are your favorite type of gifts? Mine: stories. . . “Christmas doesn’t come from a store, maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more.” —Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! . . 🎁 When money got tight a few years back, we scaled Christmas buying back with it. We tried out the “gifts template” for our kids: something to wear, something you need, something you read. (Santa got the glory with the fun “wants” category. Sneaky guy! 🎅) . . Walking through a season of buckling down for a few years taught us what we did want instead of what we didn’t—and that was to not have gift-giving be the focus of our holidays. We shifted. Big time. To gifts *of* time to celebrate Jesus together. And they’re my favorite type of gifts by far. . . It’s one of the reasons why I so love books. 📚And Christmas movies. 🎄🎥 And board games. ♟ And those experience gifts—taking those you love somewhere WITH you. ✈️ Then gifts are magically transported from something that gets stacked, worn, broken, lost or given away to the things of absolute beauty in this life: shared stories become memories. And memories become US. . . We’ll never forget our trips to Disney. 🐭 Or researching crumbling castles across Ireland. ☘️ Or spending time at the Ringling Bros. circus world in Sarasota, FL 🎪... All memories our family now cherishes. And along those same lines, it’s sharing a storybook with our kids on a cozy December evening (by the light of the Christmas tree!) that I’ll always remember now as they continue to grow. . . Wherever our gifts take us—whatever translates to memories of our past holidays of red + green—praying stories are a beautiful part of that. (And now, to finish the Christmas shopping. Even if it’s scaled back, still has to get done!) 🧣😉🎄 . . . . . #bookstagram #booksandbooks #redandgreen #redandgreenchristmas #redandgreenbookstack #bookstack #christmasbookstack #booksharks #christmasbookclub #favoritegifts #christmasshop #happybirthdayJesus #redeeminglove #thecaseforchrist #iamrahab #aprairiedevotional #achristmascarol
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