Author Archives: Andrea Howe

Andrea is the founder of For The Love Of, a lifestyle blog dedicated to approachable, modern living. She writes about style, her love of DIY, and living a healthier life through wholesome, nutritious cooking. She is also a regular contributor at Babble.
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You can find Andrea on Instagram @andreavhowe and @gwynethmademedoit

Making Clothes Work For You – Part 1 The Tank Dress

I’ve heard quite a bit lately that I look great, and I don’t even look like I just had a baby 4 months ago.  I always say thank you and appreciate the compliment, but I am always a bit perplexed when people say I don’t look like I just had a baby.  I always wonder […]

The Craft Cabinet

{our dining room, free of the head chairs and centerpiece} I never intended to become a DIY blogger, it just happened by chance.  Over a year ago I posted a tutorial showing how I had made a necklace, just for fun, and within a few weeks and many thousands of page views later, I started […]

chipping away at the life list

In November of 2010, I attended Camp Mighty.  We had homework to do before we arrived, and it was in the form of writing a life list; 100 things you would like to do during your life.  Boy, I had no idea the emotions it would stir up for me.  100 items is a lot […]

Styled Post Photography Tips

As I continue to slowly get into the swing of things in the new year, I thought I would introduce you to a very talented friend, Ashley of House of Lovelock.  Ashley shoots weddings on the weekends and stays home with her four beautiful children during the week, while her husband works at a local […]

Daily Style – An Afternoon At the Museum

Sweater and Pants – James Perse; Booties – Sam Edelman last seen here; Crossbody – Marc by Marc Jacobs Well helloooo there my friends!  Happy New Year and welcome back to reality, live and in living color in the year 2013!  I hope your holidays were warm and wonderful.  Ours were very special since we […]

Looking Back Through 2012

When you decide to ditch your other blog and start a new one from scratch, there’s usually some anxiety that comes with it, but when I launched For the Love Of with my first post in March 2012, I had no doubt that this was the place for me.  I have been blogging since 2008 […]

Merry Everything

Hello friends.  This is my last post of the year and I’m looking forward to taking some much needed time off with family and friends over the next week and a half.  I’m wishing you all a wonderful Christmas and rest of the year.  Before I sign off, I wanted to share with you a […]

New Years Eve Style – Entertaining At Home Addition

My Christmas list is almost complete, having pretty much finished all of my shopping, baking and now just some wrapping to get done, which I always like saving till the last minute anyhow.  Something about the harried rush of trying to wrap every single gift in between the kids trying to sneak a peek, gives […]

Looking Forward

leggings and sweater – H&M; boots – Hunter I was wondering how after the last few days, and my own feelings on the way we conduct ourselves online, I was going to genuinely segue back into daily style posts.  More so, I was wondering how I would post something so trivial as what I’m wearing […]

For the Love Of Laughter

In light of the heaviness of yesterday’s post, I thought I’d share something that made me smile yesterday, and keeps making me smile every time I watch it.  Hayden just started laughing a couple of weeks ago.  I’m terrible about recording all those moments the second they happen, so we’ll just say he started giving […]