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Modern Fun and Games for Labor Day

Copycathcic Designer Destination: The Claremont Hotel San Francisco Bay Area. An historic castle of a hotel outfitted in bright white and glam decor.

Happy Friday! Who’s ready for the 3 day weekend?! I’m right there with you. I hope you all plan to take advantage and have some fun planned! We definitely do. Feel free to follow along on Instagram 🙂 And in the meantime, you can live vicariously through my post, because I’ve picked out all the best-looking, chic, modern and of course fun goodies for your viewing pleasure! I’m dying over that skateboard and the surfboard. Yes please and thank you.

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Disneyland and Galaxy’s Edge in 1 day

How to do Disneyland, Galaxy's Edge and Disney's California Adventure Park in one day with a 1 day park hopper ticket and Disney MaxPass | Best tips and itinerary to do all the best rides at Disneyland in Anaheim, California | Modern and minimalist packing list by copycatchic and travel plans with Disney

We decided to fly down to Southern California last week for our summer vacation and of course, if I’m in SoCal, it’s pretty much a given that I’m going to Disneyland! And with the recent opening of Galaxy’s Edge, there was no chance we’d miss out on that!

I was pretty concerned that the park would be ridiculously crowded, especially with Galaxy’s Edge just newly-opened, because July is the peak of the summer. But luckily the park wasn’t as busy as predicted. In fact out of all the times we’ve visited recently (trips in March, May and June) last week’s visit was probably the least crowded! I’d really recommend taking a last minute trip to Disneyland if you can swing it this summer!

We had a packed itinerary consisting of a road trip and some serious beach time, so we only had one day to spend with Disney (usually we spend at least 3 days there). So I went into full on research and planning-mode, determined to fit everything we needed into that one day. At the top of the list? Galaxy’s Edge!

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School’s Out, Let’s Celebrate!

A bright, multi-color, neon, modern end of the school year party for kids with Drew Barrymore's new Flower line at Walmart. Simple, clean and easy kids party decor and entertaining set up for a modern ice cream party. copycatchic luxe living for less budget home decor and design daily finds and room redos — This post is in collaboration with **Walmart** and the **Drew Barrymore Flower Collection**.

This school year really passed by fast this year. I’m still reeling, but really looking forward to lazy days and sunshine! For Arden and Conrad, the countdown is on. We only have one more week left!

I always like to celebrate with the kids by taking them to ice cream on the last day of school. I thought it would be fun to host an ice cream (and other sweets) social with school friends at our house this year.

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36 Hours | Rosemary Beach Florida

copycatchic 36 hrs in Rosemary Beach Florida 30A Hipster designer destination budget travel guide - Explore Rosemary Beach with the whole family with Vacasa | 30A spring break | copycatchic luxe living for less budget travel guides and itinerary — Photo by Vera Hogenson

A few weeks ago during spring break, we decided to do a very stereotypical thing for spring break…We went to Florida! Where did we go in Florida? No, not Disney World, no, not Miami, no, not Ft. Lauderdale. We went to Rosemary Beach. Now you may have that blank look that most of our friends gave us when announcing our destination. Or if you’re from the Mid-West or the South you’ll know EXACTLY where. Rosemary Beach is a lesser known beach destination on the gulf coast (commonly referred to as the Emerald Coast) or inner coast of Florida. There’s a tiny little strip of a highway called 30A rolling through a bunch of gorgeous little beach towns each with their own distinct personality. We mostly spent our time in Rosemary beach and it’s gorgeous cousin, Alys Beach, just a hop, skip and a bike ride down 30A.

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Gift Guide | Easter Basket Favorites with World Market

I tend to veer away from getting too commercialized when it comes to Easter baskets. Gone is yearly the tradition of getting a bright, new (very plastic) Easter basket filled with fake, plastic green grass and fake, plastic, disposable eggs. I cringe just thinking about how wasteful that all was! I like to purchase items that kids will use over and over again or that I can repurpose.

modern minimal natural garden themed easter baskets for kids less candy more fun copycatchic luxe living for less with world market — This post is in partnership with World Market.

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Fall Season Bucket List

Fall is my favorite season and it enjoy it to the fullest, I like to create a bucket list of things to do. Most of the items can be done for little to no dolla-dolla bills and you will be spending lots of time with your friends and family. Just how I like it! I started compiling a list of my favorite fall activities after realizing how successful our holiday advent calendar was during December. I figured why not priorities some fun fall activities as well?!

No Makeup Home Tour

I can’t believe that I’m doing this you guys…but yes, the first home tour of our new house that I’m posting is a No Makeup Home Tour. No staged, professionally photographed glamour shots in this post. But I guess it makes for good “before” pictures, right? When Kyla first invited me to take part, I had no idea we’d be moving a few weeks later!

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Gift Guide | Mother’s Day Wish List

A few of my favorites and a few things on my wishlist for mother’s day! Just in case you need a little help figuring out what to get those mamas in your life!

36 Hours | Disneyland with Alaska Airlines

A couple of weeks ago we took a quick trip for Arden’s 7th birthday. The destination? Well, where would almost any 7 year old tell you they’d like to go for their birthday? Yep, DISNEYLAND.

We decided to surprise her, which was the most fun ever. I packed a bag with a bunch of new Disney-themed goodies (see the packing list below) and had her open it to guess our destination. As you can imagine she was pretty ecstatic! I think I love Disneyland just as much as she does so…we were all pretty happy 😉

We’ve been to Disneyland quite a few times and I thought it would be fun to share with you my favorite tips and tricks to help save you time and money (and your sanity) when planning a trip there. Because believe me, it makes a huge difference on whether your trip is one to remember or if it will make you never want to visit the “happiest place on earth” ever again.