3.3 million followers later, Wit & Delight has become a resource for others to feel less alone in the ups and downs of their journey through life. It's a place where readers can find suggestions on where to travel, eat, or shop from someone they’ve come to know as a friend.
Wit & Delight brings our mission to life through products, experiences, and visual content. We strive to create useful, accessible, and beautiful products that live in harmony with our customer’s lifestyle. Our design process is founded on collaboration—not just amongst ourselves, but with real-time feedback from product users.
Thank you for being here. For being open to enjoying life’s simple pleasures and looking inward to understand yourself, your neighbors, and your fellow humans! I’m looking forward to chatting with you.
I'm Kate
Arends Peters
I first started Wit & Delight in 2009. In 2013, I began publishing personal essays exploring my journey through divorce, mental illness, and an undiagnosed learning disability. That experience showed me style without life is just imitation.
Hi, I’m Kate! Welcome to my happy place. Wit & Delight has changed my life forever for one reason: you.
Scorpio Sun, Sagittarius Rising
Astrological sign
INFJ + Enneagram 8, Wing 7
MEYERS BRIGGS, ENNEAGRAM
Irish Dancing
hidden talent
Sing and Dance Like Beyoncé
talent i wish i had
Seeking Truth and Helping Others
What's my passion?
Fried Egg and Black Coffee
Breakfast of choice
Seeing Potential in Failure
Strength
Cheese.... Any and All Kinds
Weakness
Second Guessing Myself
BAD HABIT
In taking life’s little pleasures seriously, that a home is a haven, that beauty isn’t always pretty, and that a relationship with oneself is the ultimate love story.
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What we wear should make us feel authentically ourselves-- powerful, confident, unique.
Authenticity is what you do when not seeking approval for your actions.
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We’ve taught over 24,000 students how to craft their message and social media presence. A clear brand strategy goes miles deeper than graphics and copy. These courses cover the foundation of everything I’ve put into Wit & Delight, and I myself continue to use these strategies on a quarterly basis.
Personal and Lifestyle Branding: Building Your StoryBook Now ›
How Kate Built This
Personal Branding: Crafting Your Social Media Presence ›
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OUR HOME
We purchased a 1950s Cape Cod rambler in St. Paul in 2020, full of wild colors and “dated” bathrooms. We’ve been slowly remodeling it room by room and documenting the process along the way.
MY better half
Always keeping it real, Joe’s true talent is bringing comic relief to almost any situation. You’ll find him as a regular guest on the W&D Instagram account. Fun fact: Joe’s shoe collection is far more extensive than mine.
OUR FUR BABies
Winnie Bear is our unofficial team mascot/therapist and Pearl is our court jester. Together, they are the most cuddly English Labradors you can imagine (and, yes, their hair is everywhere).
Our Human Babies
August Joseph and Bennett Katharine are our two children, born sixteen months apart. While they don’t show up in the W&D feed every day, they run the show and provide endless entertainment in our lives.
