Spooky season is in full swing, and we’re so excited to introduce this filter +pack with Rachel Iwanyszyn, AKA Jag Lever! We love seeing all of Rachel’s amazing looks she puts together on her fashion blog and her Instagram. More specifically, we love her moody + mystical vibe, and we can’t wait for you to see more!
Photo by Jag Lever, edited with Lore in #AColorStoryTwilight
Rachel’s photography focuses on a lot of desaturated tones, and we’re so excited to bring these to the app in this filter +pack! One thing that’s really neat about these filters is they preserve a lot of the brighter colors, like orange or red, for a fun color pop in an otherwise moody edit.
Photo by Jag Lever, edited using Fable in #AColorstoryTwilight
These filters lean warm + grey, and many of the green tones shift toward evergreen or olive tones rather than bright, kelly green. We love this aspect of Twilight, and we feel that it has a really cool, fashion-forward feel!
Photo by Jag Lever, edited using Howl in #AColorStoryTwilight
We’re less than a week out from Halloween, and we can’t wait to use the Twilight filter +pack to capture it all! ACS+ users will receive this pack FREE with your subscription—no trick, just a treat! When you use the Twilight pack, be sure to tag us using #AColorStoryTwilight, so we can see all of your magical memories. ✨
xo, Team ACS
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We are SO excited to give you a tour of the holiday house living room today! As I mentioned in 
Below, you can see a little before and after of the space.
The big changes that happened in this room included removing the old built-in media center, refinishing the floors, adding a subtle plank ceiling, refreshing the wall paint, and updating the ceiling fans. I love that with these fans they actually become a design piece as well as a functional one!
Before we started furnishing, the room felt like it was basically all white. Ha. But once we started adding the leather sectional, vintage piano, wooden and wicker chairs, and other little details, the space really started to feel warm and cozy. I’ve had many friends come check out the house now and so often I hear how “calm” the house feels. I love that! Feels like such a compliment as that’s exactly how I’d like the Larsons to feel when they come to stay, and other guests we have in the future.
Although this room is really very simple, there just a few other fun details I want to point out. The mini gallery wall behind the sectional is old family photos of our family from when we were growing up. In the media table, there are hidden games as well as a few Springfield, Missouri books I found online. Just hoping that any guests we have in the future feel at home, but also maybe get inspired to explore our city and the Ozarks a little more as it’s such a special place to us. Thanks for letting me share! xo. Emma
Here is a super easy Halloween window decor idea that we did over at the holiday house this year. It’s seriously one of the most simple (and cheap!) big impact decor options. This is also one of those projects that’s really fun to make and I think you could modify it to make with kiddos, even young kiddos, if you needed a weeknight project.
The idea is to create shapes from paper (black or any dark color) to add to your windows, so at night when you have your interior lights on, the shapes can be seen. There are lots of fun ideas you can see on Pinterest—some are amazingly elaborate! But here’s what I did to create our simple face designs.
Supplies:
Step One: Measure your windows and decide what kind of designs you want to do. I decided on faces that fill up the majority of the window. But there are seriously SO many different things you can do. A measuring tape helps here to determine the window size (especially if your house is old, like the holiday house, and has lots of different sized windows).
Thanks for letting me share! If you decorate your windows this year, tag us so we can see! xo. Emma
Hi there! I have been making an autumn trail mix for probably 15 years—every single autumn it’s a thing I love to do! This year, I shared it on Instagram and got approximately 1,000 messages (haha—I am serious though, it was a lot) asking me to repost the “recipe.” If I’ve learned ANYTHING in my 12 years of blogging it’s that the things you expect to catch on hardly do, and the things you don’t expect can become a big deal.
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Then just mix it together in a large bowl and store in a large jar for sharing!
I pack a little bit of this mix in my daughter’s lunch almost every day. I hope this sparks a fun new tradition for you as well!! xx- Elsie
This year, I decided to add some faux pumpkins to our porch (mixed with real ones) just because they will be reusable year after year. At this point in my life, it’s pretty safe to assume that I will always be a crazy Halloween lady.
I love the vibe, and most of all I like that they are mostly fall-ish (not SUPER Halloween), so I feel like I can still leave them on my porch until Thanksgiving—a whole extra month!
For the painted pumpkins, I took a few afternoons and a favorite podcast and painted soft repeating patterns. I did a lot of moons, a few spiders and some checkered pumpkins. Most of them took two to three coats of paint. Let it dry completely between each coat.
I chose paint that is 
This project took me two afternoons, maybe 3-4 hours in total. It was just really spread out due to dry time. I’d LOVE to see your spin on this project. The best part is you can customize it to your style!
You may have already heard (if you follow us on IG) that we are making a walk-through “haunted house” for the neighborhood kiddos families at our holiday house for Halloween this year! This is probably THE project I have been most excited about the entire year because I love Halloween, and also Elsie and I are just dying (spooky pun!) to create something for our hometown that aids in the creation of those magic childhood memories. 🙂 Today, I’m sharing just one part of the project with you—our DIY full moon photo backdrop.
Why a photo backdrop? This is what will be at the very end of our haunted house, in the backyard. We wanted a spot where families could grab a quick photo together. We landed on a spooky forest with a full moon and werewolf because, well, it’s Halloween-y for one. But also, it’s loosely inspired by the Goosebumps book, The Werewolf of Fever Swamp. Much of the haunted house is inspired by those books and we even have around 50 copies of various Goosebumps classics that kids can take in addition to candy at the end of the haunted house. It’s a readable treat. 🙂
Step One: Cut out all your cardboard shapes. For me this was a “forest,” which consisted of a background of trees and two trees that would stand alone. I also cut out the moon shape for the full moon in the middle. If needed you can duct tape your recycled boxes together. I was aiming for my forest to be around 6 feet tall.
Step Three: Assemble the backdrop. For me, I had a space the back piece could just lay flat against (I duct taped it in a few places to help it stay in place). I also added some black paper behind the back forest piece and I may make it a little taller on Halloween night in case we have any big families or tall parents coming through. 🙂 Then I also stapled the standalone trees and the moon to the painted saw horses. I stapled the moon fabric in place as well. Then I just added my little LED light behind the moon and set my werewolf in place. Ha!
Excited to see families use this on Halloween night! Plus, this was super fun and a great way to reuse cardboard. I’d love to make a different theme of this kind of cardboard photo backdrop for another random party/event in the future. Thanks for letting me share! xo. Emma