The Nest-Collective

09/10/2026

⭐️ SEPTEMBER SPECIALS! ⭐️

The next 2 weekends are open at The Nest in Silverthorne and it’s literally PEAK leaf🍁 peeping time!
🐶 Dog Friendly
🏓 Game Room
🛌 4 bedrooms + 2 lofts+5 baths: Sleeps 12
🔥 Hot Tub

Grab another family and lock in!
$1200 all in, either weekend. 🙀
*Early checkin/late check out
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🔗 www.thenest-collective.com/the-nest-silverthorne-co

09/08/2026

You had me at Sous Vide…

One of my favorite parts of The Nest Collective has always been finding experiences for our guests that make a trip feel like more than just a place to stay.

And sometimes… we get to be the guinea pigs. 😉

For Crosby’s 13th birthday, we surprised him with something that felt so perfectly him.

Instead of another physical gift, we brought Melissa from The Everwell House | Colorado Private Chef into our home, along with her “in real-life” sous chef, Ryan, and let Crosby step into the kitchen as a jr sous chef for the night.

Watching him light up was everything. ❤️

He got to learn alongside them, ask questions, help prepare his favorite meal (because obviously turning 13 calls for a really good steak 🥩), and experience what it actually feels like to cook alongside professionals.

As The Nest Collective has grown, I’ve realized more and more that hospitality isn’t just about creating beautiful homes, it’s about helping people create the experiences they’ll remember inside them.

So when we recommend something to our guests, I want it to be because we’ve experienced it. Because we know the people behind it. Because we know how it makes US feel.

Because the best souvenirs from a trip usually aren’t things at all.

They’re the stories you tell afterward. 🫶🏼

Vacation Rental Chef | Personal Chef | Experiential Design

09/01/2026

Part 5. WE MADE IT. 😂

Against all odds, our poorly documented bedroom renovation series actually has a finale. 😜

Did we film all five parts? Absolutely not. Did I call it five for funsies, of course.

Did we suddenly become wildly more productive when we decided to rent our primary home for the FIRST TIME and realized we needed another finished bedroom? (Or actually just finished. PERIOD. (That’s what happens when you spend 6 years focused on your vacation rentals and not your own personal home…but I digress)

Apparently, nothing gets a room across the finish line quite like an actual deadline.

And honestly, this is my favorite part.

The wallpaper. The bedding. The rug. The little details that take a room from we’re working on it to a place where I genuinely can’t wait for someone to stay.

There are still drapes to hang because apparently I refuse to ever be 100% finished with anything. 😂

But Part 5 is here.

The finished-ish reveal.

Miraculously filmed.

08/31/2026

Because if we’re going to replay our mistakes 47 times in our heads…

we should at least give the good stuff the same airtime.

Send this to that friend who needs to remember that one good serve out of 143 😆

And ps…font enlarged for my fellow perimenopausal friends that are tired of dropping down their readers when doom scrolling the gram. I got you.

Pickleball humor | Hosting downtime | travel inspo

08/27/2026

Okay, I’ll be honest.
Figuring out how to make a trendy carousel for my weird little niche probably takes a professional about ten minutes. It took me probably four hours 😂

So…be nice to me. Actually, better idea, be nice to me by dropping a comment about something you’d add to this list. 👇🏽 Maybe it’s about white sheets, or checkout instructions…but humor me and play along! 🫶🏼

Here’s the thing, I was a nursing major. Yes it’s practically hospitality these days but it’s not marketing, not business, nursing. Zero classes in that to get a masters. Everything you see here, that’s me in mentorship groups and going down rabbit holes of Instagram courses that honestly fill my heart with a different kind of “joy” than the day to day systems, operations and guest communication.

And you know what, I’m having fun figuring it out in front of you, mistakes and all. It’s kind of like my evolution of hosting over the last six years. My attention to detail is way more on the forefront than is was in 2020. Design, guest experience, the home as it is lived through and enjoyed has always been important, but now it’s practically mandatory. And I can guarantee you I’m much harder on myself than I was when I first started (if that’s even possible).
And like Dolly said “You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try!”

So fellow Hosts, what’s your version of the 4 star review for rain on their vacay? Guests, what’s the thing you wish all hosts would just do and even standardize?
Who knows, maybe this needs to have a part 2 🫠

Hospitality | Vacation Rentals | What Would Dolly Do? 😉

08/27/2026

08/27/2026

Sometimes we just might need a little light in the darkness.

🫶🏼

08/25/2026

Maybe the bigger risk is never finding out what could have happened if you’d just gone for it.

Since 2020, so much of this has started with a feeling.

Not a perfect plan.
Not a guarantee.
Definitely not everyone else understanding it. 😂

Just that little voice that says, I know there’s something here.

And somewhere along the way, we’ve learned to trust it.

Because sometimes you can spreadsheet it, overthink it, ask everyone’s opinion, list every reason it might not work…

Or you can look at a view like this and think:

Yeah. I want to see where this goes.

Maybe it works exactly the way I hope it will.
Maybe it becomes something I haven’t even imagined yet.

Either way, I’d rather take the risk than spend years wondering what if.

And for the record, people can tell me someday that they’re tired of seeing this view.

I won’t be. 🤎

Colorado vacation rentals | side hustles | hosting with passion