As for today’s blog post, let’s dive into this week’s roundup of Friday favorites! The “meat” of this blog post is a deep-dive into something I’ve been pouring a lot of time into behind the scenes so I hope you’ll forgive me for monopolizing this post with a breakdown about my new ShopMy page, but I’m so, so hopeful this will be a helpful resource for all of you. I hope you all have a fantastic weekend!
Things I’m Loving Friday
THIS DEODORANT!! It’s the aluminum-free deodorant that dominated my college girlfriends’ group text after my friend Leah hyped it up and we all tried and loved it. I’ve been using it for a few weeks now after ordering a sample pack and cannot stop smelling my armpits. I opted for the sample pack because all of my friends seemed to love a different scent most and, after trying all of them, I get it! I am typically someone sensitive to scents but all of them are so fresh and clean and simply lovely. My favorite is the santal & vetiver scent — I swear it makes me smell like some kind of a combination of a luxury hotel and a hot guy. (I even ordered the body mist in this scent after loving it so much.) I have never been a superfan of a deodorant before but Salt & Stone got me and I love the way my armpits truly smell fresh and clean at the end of every single day. Even the sweatiest members of our friend group are raving about it and 16,000+ positive reviews don’t lie! LOVE LOVE LOVE it.
I made a craft storage bin very similar to this one for my nieces as one of their Christmas gifts and very quickly realized just how handy it would be for our family, too. We’ve been using it for several months now and I love how it keeps almost all of the boys’ markers, crayons, colored pencils, gel crayons, glitter pens, etc. all in one place. (The interior bins are long enough to hold colored pencils and Crayola Clicks markers which hasn’t been the case with others I’ve tried.) We keep it on a low shelf in one of our Walmart cane cabinets where all the boys can easily access it and it’s one of those things they pull out nearly every single day for a myriad of projects and creations.
Ahhh this is something I am so, so excited about, as it’s a resource I hope will be helpful to all of you. For years (truly, years), I’ve heard feedback from all of you that it can be really, really hard to find past recommendations or shares, especially those I share on social media. I’ve toyed around with options like LTK (very popular in the fashion community) but never loved it outside of individual product shares as I found the LTK app cluttered and glitchy and also never loved the way it requires an app download to view a lot of products linked by a creator at once. And then I found ShopMy!!!
ShopMy feels like a breath of fresh air to me as a creator and, as a consumer, I find it a million times cleaner and so, so much easier to navigate when visiting another creator’s page. It’s easy to browse and feels so much more organized and less clunky than other options out there. Over the past month or so I’ve leaned into ShopMy more and more and have only heard positive things from all of you via Instagram which, above all, is most important to me. I’ve poured so much time behind the scenes into making my ShopMy page an easy-to-navigate resource for you guys and finally feel like it’s at a point where it’s “blog worthy” enough for me to share it in this space too. So let’s go on a little ShopMy page tour shall we?
(Note: In the future you may find my page by clicking my ShopMy link — I also have it saved to my Instagram bio — or Googling “PBFingers ShopMy” and it will be the first result.)
Here is what you will find when you visit my PBFingers ShopMy page:
This is the section I am most excited about, as it allows me to upload applicable Instagram Stories at the end of every day. After 24 hours, IG Stories typically disappear and along with them any of the shares I may have uploaded to Instagram that day. In the past, this has made it next to impossible to save anything or find prior IG Story shares you may think about days or weeks in the future. Now, at the end of every day, I’m going to save any IG Stories I think may be of interest (recipes, workout links, fun product finds, outfit links, etc.) to the ShopMy Instagram page so you may check this out in the future if you ever find yourself thinking about something I shared in the past.
My Outfits
If you’re familiar with LTK or are most interested in fashion-related shares, that’s similar to what you’ll find in this section. This is where you can find all of my outfit shares in one place!
Shelves
This section includes items rounded up in various categories including: Beauty Favorites, My Everyday Jewelry, Skincare Favorites, Summer Sandals, My Sneakers, My Bags, Favorite Home Finds, etc. If you click on the specific shelf of interest, you’ll see the items listed with more detail about each item, as you may see in My Go-To Beauty Favorites shelf here:
Best Sellers
The section where you can locate all of the previous months’ best selling items.
Things I’m Loving Friday
If you ever feel like it’s difficult to locate past Things I’m Loving Friday finds, this is the page for you! I went back and added as many TILF favorites as I could from the past year and a half here, with brief descriptions to make browsing a breeze.
Gift Guides
A collection of all of my gift guides in one place!
Discount Codes
If brands ever provide discount codes to me that I can pass along to you, I’ll be sure to list them here!
That’s everything… for now!
If there are any categories or pages you’d like included on my ShopMy page to make it even easier to find whatever you’re after, please feel free to let me know. I want this to be a very helpful resource for you and if there’s something I’m overlooking, I’d love for your insight!
Also, for any fellow creators, here is my ShopMy referral if this is something that interests you for your own page. I’m also an open book, so feel free to drop a comment, send me an email or an Instagram DM with any questions you may have and I’ll be sure to get back to you!
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Friday Flashbacks
Chicken and Chickpea Salad (‘Tis the season for all the yummy salads!)
Chocolate Chip Sweet Potato Muffins (I made a batch of these muffins for our family this week and am so glad they’re back in my life!)
Question of the Day
Anything fun on your agenda this weekend?
What is one thing making you smile today?
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SO excited for your ShopMy page! I have come back here lots of times to search for a link you mentioned (esp. when I need to give a gift), so I really appreciate you putting in the effort and investment to make this so easy for us to find!
Thank you for the feedback, Abbie!! I’m really hoping it will be helpful for those who have not found my stuff particularly easy to locate moving forward! 🩷🩷