- Thank you so much for being here.
- Oh, thank you for having me.
- Making a stop in Nashville here.
- Yes.
- I'm so happy.
So for those people that don't know exactly
what you do and what you're all about,
just give me like a little snapshot.
- Oh, absolutely.
I love to help women get their home looking
the way they've always wanted
so that they can use it the way they've always dreamed.
So it's not so we can show off or be in a magazine,
but so we can finally kind of forget about our home
and use it.
- Oh it's so good and there's such a contentment piece
to your message, which is like the heart of me.
So I'm like, I so love it. - Yay!
- And you've brought some beautiful things.
- I brought some props.
- So cozy and great.
And so a big thing that you do is like the five senses.
- Yes.
- So tell me a little bit about that.
- Well you know, think about when you go outside in nature.
Any time of the year you automatically, without knowing
what day it is, you know kind of the season.
- Yes.
- Like you're gonna know it's fall, or it's winter,
or spring, or summer.
And the reason you know that,
is because through our five senses.
So you can feel the air.
You feel the temperature.
You smell the scent of whatever is blooming currently.
- Yes.
- You hear different things depending on the season
and when we apply that to our home it's of like a natural,
the inside meets the outside,
instead of it feeling disconnected.
- I love that.
- And so--
- It's such an experience too, right?
- It is, yeah!
So it's like all just instead of just visual,
which was the mistake that I made for so long.
I only focused on the visual,
but there are so many other parts
that we can enjoy when we bring that into our house.
- Yes, I love that because you're also not spending
all this money trying to be like,
okay Christmas and then New...
It's like you're trying to hit every little thing,
Easter, and the spring.
It's just like more like, oh no this is the season.
Like it's winter. - It is.
- And it's fall and all of that.
I love that.
- And so we focus on more of the overall supplies
for our home, instead of just like,
oh I'm gonna go to the holiday aisle
and buy one of everything so I pack it away forever.
'Cause that what I wanna avoid.
Like I don't wanna have a part time job packing away my red
and green bins or what have you every season.
- Amen sister.
- I still wanna have a few things,
but I found when my house is ready seasonally
I need a lot less stuff.
- I love that.
Okay so this is winter.
We're doing winter. - This is winter, yeah.
- Which I love.
Okay I'm just seeing this beautiful velvet pillow.
I'm like, I just wanna like touch it.
- Exactly!
I did my job 'cause that, I want.
- I'm already gonna spoil it.
- Yes.
- Can we show?
- This, okay so--
- The zipper, I mean--
- The ideal pillow is one with the zipper,
because you can really zip this up
throw it in the washer and put it back on.
So you don't have to fuss at your husband or your kids
for laying on it or eating on it, that's what it's for.
These are made to be used. - To live in.
- And if you could get the ones with zippers you can do it.
- Yes.
Okay and this stuff this like from HomeGoods, right?
- HomeGoods, so $16.99.
- Inexpensive you guys, you can do this so well.
- Yes.
- I love it and this beautiful throw.
- So I love to have kind of a statement throw
for something really cozy and kind of nubby.
And this has all kinds of different fun textures on it.
- [Rachel] Yes.
- But it still feels like this makes me feel like fall
even when my eyes are closed.
It makes me feel wintery and warm and cozy
and so a throw, switching out those few throws.
Maybe switching out your sheets.
So those flannel sheets on your kids' beds.
They are gonna feel super cozy,
without having to fill their room with extra stuff.
- I love it.
So, so great.
All right I see popcorn.
- You see popcorn.
- We'll just taste.
I'm so excited.
- And so that's just one example.
I mean there are many things that we think of
when we think of winter.
- I think of this.
- Maybe you think of caramel popcorn, the soups, the breads,
making cinnamon rolls.
Remember to get yourself the supplies,
so that you can make those,
if you're gonna have people over for different celebrations.
I know forever I would think so much
about the little trinkets, and like oh the bells,
and the garlands, and the Santa's, and the snowman's.
- Yes, yes.
- Nothing wrong with that,
but if you don't have the basic things
so that you can serve people,
and that's a great place to start
with getting those winter supplies for your home.
And when you look at this tray,
there's nothing about it that says Christmas or holiday.
It doesn't have a snowman on it.
It doesn't have a stocking, anything like that.
It's what you put with it,
and we can use it right,
I can use this on Fourth of July.
- Oh yeah totally, yes.
- That's our goal.
We want those candle sticks.
We want those bowls and serving trays that we can
hopefully use year-round or at least half a year
and get more mileage out of them.
- So great, I love it.
All right next, sound.
- Yes.
- Or hearing, or whatever that sense is.
- Absolutely!
Well I like to have a playlist for every season.
I know it sounds kind of dorky,
but there's something that happens
when you listen year after year,
and you probably have a Christmas album that you love.
- Yes, I was gonna say Michael Buble.
- There you go.
- I love it and it does, it reminds me of Christmas.
So I'm like, I want something like that now all year round.
- Yes!
- And you play and you remember.
- And so you can have your winter, spring, summer,
and fall playlist and you wanna make sure you have a way
to amplify that sound somehow in your house.
- I mean how adorable is this?
- Isn't that cute?
- So cute.
- So this is not electronical at all,
so you just set it there.
- No batteries, no plug in.
- And it works as an amplifier.
It's from Target.
I think it's 20'ish dollars.
I set mine in my kitchen,
so that we can actually hear the playlist
that I've curated.
- Yes, oh I love it.
I secretly wish I was hipster, like super cool.
Could wear a hat, like I wish I was one of those people.
- You can wear a hat, you can so wear a hat.
- But the record player, I don't even know where to buy one.
- Amazon, you can buy one on Amazon.
- Yeah, that's right, Amazon has everything.
But this makes me feel like, cool.
- It's like the next best thing.
- Yes, oh great.
I see a scented candle, and I smell it, and it's wonderful.
- Yeah!
- So smell is big.
- It is!
You know when we close our eyes in our home,
listen, if we don't have any visual decor out,
but if you can smell popcorn,
if you can smell the smell of like your favorite candle
that smells like winter to you.
So it doesn't necessarily have to smell like winter
to everyone else, but what feels good to you.
Or essential oils, whatever it is.
If you're cozied up in a blanket,
suddenly it feels like winter without any visual decor.
- Yes.
- So we save that visual for last.
- Now isn't scents like the number one key of memory
or something like that?
- Yeah, it triggers nostalgia,
and so the first thing you notice
when you walk into a space, if there is a scent,
you know you're gonna pick up on that right away.
- Yes, so great.
Okay last is visual,
which we've kind of been doing this whole time.
- We have.
- But you have like a great tip around the house.
- Yeah, well when you look at all of this stuff individually
I didn't buy any of it from the holiday aisle.
So a lot this I can use year round,
half a year, whatever it is.
I can use this outside.
What makes this feel like winter is the evergreen.
I'm staying in a local hotel.
I just picked this from the parking lot.
There is something magical about bringing that evergreen,
or magnolia tree's, or whatever it is, into your home
and it suddenly triggers
that Christmas time wintery feeling.
- Yes and it smells so great too.
- It smells so good, yeah.
- Oh I love that. So it's like bringing nature
into your room.
- Yes.
- And I'm so excited, your new book is out.
You guys you have to check this out.
Okay so tell me a little bit about this.
- Well it's Cozy Minimalist Home.
So it's how to get the most amount of style
with the least amount of stuff.
- So great!
And you're on Instagram, you're everywhere.
- Yeah.
- So where's the best place to connect with you?
- Instagram is the number one place
that I love to hang out, @thenester.
You will never come away leaving bad about your house.
Hopefully you'll always leave feeling really motivated
and happy about even those imperfect parts of your home.
We just embrace those and call them lovely limitations
and use those as jumping off points to get creative.
- That's so great, you guys.
The Nester, you are fantastic, absolutely fantastic.
So make sure to check out the book, and thanks for stopping by.
- Oh it was a pleasure, thanks for having me.
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