I'm sitting in my office, and I haven't been able to be in here longer than five minutes since Monday, the day we lost our girl Gracie. So that feels like an improvement to yesterday, where I couldn't even open my eyes without crying. Did you know that you can cry, even when your eyes [...]
Category: Personal
Buy Nothing New In 2021
Some time at the beginning of last year, before the pandemic, before social distancing, before the dining room closures of my favorite restaurants and bars, I watched a segment on Hasan Minhaj's Netflix Series Patriot Act that centered its discussion around fast fashion. Following the half hour eye-opening episode, I made a vow for 2020: [...]
Life Updates: Matryoshka, Mental Health, etc.
I have never done a post like this before but it feels more appropriate to do a long-form update than mixed up in my Instagram stories. I always feel like bloggers who post titles like this are about to slap you with some depressing news. That's not the case for me right now, it just [...]
We Bought A Commercial Property!
Typing that out gave me the biggest sense of achievement... We bought a commercial space! We own it! It's ours! It's been a long time coming but I figured I'd write up about the process of buying a commercial building for those who may be interested in following along or doing it for themselves. This [...]
FAIL!: How I Messed Up BIG In A Project… TWICE.
I’m all about being real with you all and today’s post is.. ahem. Embarrassing? Kind of. I’m going to tell you all about how I made two expensive mistakes in one project and the advice I got on how to feel better when we mess up. I’ve been pinning raised garden bed ideas since we [...]
New Year Affirmations, Not Resolutions
This post may contain affiliate links. If you're the kind of person who gets equally caught up in and annoyed by New Year's resolutions, then welcome to the club. As a person who is in recovery from an eating disorder, my resolutions often looked like "lose ten pounds," "work out harder," or "get a six-pack". [...]
Navigating Intuitive Eating Through The Lens Of An Eating Disorder
Trigger warning: eating disorders, anxiety, depression. Eating disorders and disordered eating have been a recurring set of characters for as long as I can recall. As far as I am aware, I've lived with some form of body dysmorphia and disordered eating since at least the third grade. In order to best discuss my experience [...]
How To Style Your Holiday Portraits
The History Behind Our Portraits As you probably know, Jake and I really, really love to dress up. And by "Jake and I" I mean I love any excuse to dress up and Jake is a great sport and therefore a perfect partner for me. Three times now, we've styled Christmas portraits that are a [...]
A Christmas/Holiday Spotify Playlist You Aren’t Sick Of Hearing (Yet)
Hi, all! And happy holidays! I created a fuzzy fall feelings playlist a few months ago and a lot of y'all loved it. So here I am, doing it again. I used to work in retail, and the playlists around the holidays were all bubblegum pop mixed in with some of the classic crooners we [...]
Giftless for Christmas: Why We Decided To Ditch Presents
Ha... I know. The last post I published was a gift guide. And now here I am, giving you this: the case for why Jake, myself, and our families decided to quit gifts cold turkey this year. Let me start off by saying I can only recall Jake and I exchanging gifts once or twice [...]