Affiliate links are used in this content. This episode is brought to you by Canvas People.  Get your own 11×14 Canvas People print, for free! Just visit CanvasPeople.com, upload your photo, and enter this special code: LOVELY. Show Notes- This week on Cultivating the Lovely, MacKenzie Monroe talks with co-host Jodi McKenna about the less… Read more…

  Phew- 2017 was a doozy! Anyone else looking forward to leaving this last year in the dust and blazing into 2018? I know I am! While there are still many daunting things in store for me personally in 2018 (you can see this post and this video in our Facebook group if you’re curious what’s… Read more…

Affiliate links are used in this content. This episode is brought to you by Prepdish.com/Lovely– Visit them today for your FREE two week trial! Show Notes- This week, MacKenzie talks with Dana K. White, who blogs at A Slob Comes Clean. There Dana writes about learning to manage and maintain a tidy house when it doesn’t… Read more…

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Affiliate links are used in this blog post.  Thank you for your support! It was a really fun and fast-paced show this morning, so here is a quick little rundown for all of you who missed it or wanted any of the links we mentioned- 1. We all agree the Man in the High Castle… Read more…

As you all know, I love me some homemaking, but I also fail at it, a LOT!  That is why I am so excited to be starting our little Thursday LIVE sessions on Facebook, (and Periscope, when I feel like doing two shows) where we can get really honest with the hard stuff about homemaking… Read more…

Physical and mental exhaustion is something I am far too familiar with. Especially over the last year with starting CTL and my husband working almost constantly, a girl can just get plumb worn out! Now, I wouldn’t change a thing about it. I am so blessed and thankful for my amazing family…but that doesn’t change… Read more…

Well, here she is, my first solo show of Season 2!  If you didn’t already hear, the plan for this year is to do a new interview and a new solo show each month this year and in the solo shows I will be focusing on just one topic to help with cultivating loveliness in… Read more…

You can listen to the audio version of this blogpost right here! Alright ladies, this idea has been stirring around in my head for quite some time, and honestly, I have posts that I truly could have written since the beginning of the year but all the while I have felt like I couldn’t because… Read more…

  In this episode of Cultivating the Lovely I’m chatting with my BFF Stacy Myers of HumorousHomeaking.com. Stacy is sharing her thoughts on clutter of all kinds and how the KonMari Method and book The life changing Magic of Tidying Up changed her life.  Stacy talks about how decluttering is more than just throwing out our… Read more…