Sharing a few things I’m loving lately, including home finds, fashion, beauty favorites, coffee, and everyday products I’m actually using and enjoying.
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The Urban.Apron Home Guide is a free download featuring Anna Beck’s favorite recipes, kitchen staples, everyday traditions, and inspiration for a meaningful home.
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The best classic blackberry pie recipe with fresh blackberries, a flaky homemade crust, and simple ingredients. Perfect for summer gatherings and holidays.
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Looking for the best running songs? Here's my favorite fast running playlist, plus why running has been a lifelong passion and how I fit it into busy mom life.
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Learn how I make my morning coffee at home with an automatic Chemex coffee maker, organic coffee beans, Nutpods creamer, and my favorite frothing trick for a rich, coffee shop-style latte.
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A personal essay about finding purpose through motherhood, career, and life's changing seasons. Learn why purpose evolves and how to embrace your next chapter.
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The best chewy M&M cookie recipe! These soft homemade M&M cookies are easy to make, loaded with chocolate candies, and perfect for parties, holidays, or anytime.
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Explore our family guide to Saugatuck, Michigan with kids! After four summers visiting, I'm sharing our favorite beaches, restaurants, coffee shops and things to do.
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Simple summer activities for kids ages 5–8…no elaborate plans required! From water balloons and sidewalk chalk to swimming, bike rides, and catching fireflies.
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Easy Funfetti Cake Mix Cookies made with just 4 ingredients! These soft, chewy cookies are perfect for baking with kids and ready in about 20 minutes.
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From crowd-pleasing cookies and homemade pies to refreshing summer cocktails and easy side salads, these are the recipes I come back to year after year. They're simple, family-friendly, and perfect for celebrating the long holiday weekend.
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Discover my 5 favorite Oliveda products after using them for over 2 years. See the skincare and wellness products I use every day and why I love them.
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Learn how to make an easy Hugo Spritz with St-Germain, Prosecco, fresh mint, lime, and club soda. This refreshing summer cocktail is light, bubbly, and perfect for patio nights or entertaining.
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The bakery-style chocolate chunk cookies I make again and again. Made with dark brown sugar and chopped dark chocolate, chewy centers, and melty chocolate in every bite.
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My real-life summer favorites as a mom of three, including simple summer activities for kids, easy recipes, skincare favorites, coffee, cocktails, and the little moments making this season special.
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Summer skincare routine for busy moms! See my simple morning and nighttime skincare routine, favorite Oliveda products, red light therapy, and collagen.
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New to Oliveda? Learn where to start with my beginner's guide, featuring the products I recommend most, plus tips for building a simple waterless skincare routine.
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This recipe for easy fruit pizza cookies seems like the perfect one for summer and the summer holidays (memorial day, fourth of july, labor day). Or also just because. It’s a fun one to make any time of the year. Fruit pizza is my childhood favorite. The fresh fruit over a cream cheese frosting and a soft cookie crust suddenly becomes the perfect combination when you bite into it. And it’s relatively easy and fun to make! Especially with kids.
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A personal reflection on motherhood, ambition, evolving careers, creative chaos, and learning that you don’t have to stay in one lane. Sharing life lately, summer transitions, family, wellness, and the story behind how Urban.Apron has evolved over the years.
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Discover why I’ve worn Warby Parker glasses for over a decade - from law school days to motherhood in St. Louis. Sharing my honest experience, favorite frames, affordable prescription glasses, and why glasses become so much more than just something to help you see.
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