Naturally Clean: The Seventh Generation Guide to Safe & Healthy, Non-Toxic Cleaning by Jeffrey HollenderMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
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Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Review: Naturally Clean: The Seventh Generation Guide to Safe & Healthy, Non-Toxic Cleaning
Naturally Clean: The Seventh Generation Guide to Safe & Healthy, Non-Toxic Cleaning by Jeffrey HollenderMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
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Saturday, March 13, 2021
Join Me at the World's Largest Sims VIP Fan Site
Some of the reasons I like The Sims Resource VIP:
- Fast and easy downloading of custom content (CC)
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Thursday, January 28, 2021
Cottagecore: Not Just an Aesthetic!
According to Architectural Digest:
"Cottagecore is a movement hearkening back to agricultural life, skills, and crafts. “As a concept, it embraces a simpler, sustainable existence that is more harmonious with nature. Aesthetically, it’s a nod to the traditional English countryside style, romantic and nostalgic,” says Davina Ogilvie, founder of Wovn Home"
That said...
Cottagecore (not a term I love but I am working on coining something else) is not just an aesthetic! It can be a way of life!
Any dwelling can be a "cottage". It's not just decor! It's a feeling...a way of living.
To me, cottagecore is a simpler way of life. Cooking from scratch, mending/repairing/junking instead of buying new, growing your own food or buying from local farmers when possible...even a Misfits Market subscription...all of these things are cottagecore to me.
Yes, you can be cottagecore in your Minion jammies. Yes, you can be cottagecore even if you don't have a place to grow your own food. Like all things in life, cottagecore is adaptable to your specific lifestyle. It's not appropriation.
Remember: “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”- Oscar Wilde
If you adjust your daily life to fit cottagecore and adjust cottagecore to fit into where/how you live then you can live cottagecore without buying a farm or living in prairie dresses (which I love, but some folks just can't do).
Let me know in the comments what you think cottagecore is or how you are adapting it to your lifestyle.
Also check out How to Cottagecore Your Life for a quick primer.
WTH is Hygge?
It occurs to me that some of you may not know what hygge is:
hyg·ge
/ˈh(y)o͞oɡə,ˈho͝oɡə/
noun
- a quality of coziness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being (regarded as a defining characteristic of Danish culture).
My absolutely favourite hygge site is How to Hygge the British Way (y'all know I am a huge anglophile)...check it out!
#CosyCore
2-Ingredient Pumpkin Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 box spice cake mix (you can sub yellow cake if you prefer a milder cake)
- 1 (15-ounce) can pure pumpkin puree (NOT Pumpkin pie filling, 100% pumpkin)
- Tips:
- Mix in 1/2 cup raisins or chopped nuts if desired.
Steps
- Mix the pumpkin and the spice cake mix powder together and drop by heaping tablespoons into greased muffin cups.
- Bake at 350 18-22 minutes or until a knife comes out clean.
Sunday, January 17, 2021
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Thursday, October 1, 2020
Review: Christmas for Beginners
Christmas for Beginners by Carole MatthewsMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Oh Carole...how you love to play with my emotions!
I spent most of the book wanting to bash the handsome actor about the head & shoulders with a tea towel.
The ups & downs...heartbreak & teen-angst...
Oh my this book was a lot!
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Sunday, August 23, 2020
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Review: With or Without You
With or Without You by Drew DaviesMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Not bad...
From the cover I was expecting a light, fluffy, Chick Lit read. This one was a lot deeper than I expected.
It did drag a bit and as a solid introvert I didn't always identify with the themes of loneliness and silence but I can appreciate their place in the story.
It is however a journey of self-discovery, forming connections, and finding one's self amidst uncertainty, guilt, and unexpected change.
Again, not bad but not exactly my cup of tea.
BLURB:
How long does a coma last?’ I ask.
‘Days, weeks, months?’ the nurse replies with a shrug, although her eyes are very kind.
‘But on average?’
She just smiles, unable to give me an answer.
Wendy’s life can be neatly divided into two: before and after.
Before her husband’s car accident, it was just the two of them. They never took the train at rush hour, and they avoided their noisy neighbour upstairs. Naveem devoted his spare time to vintage train models, and Wendy to re-reading the well-thumbed pages of her favourite books. It didn’t matter what others thought about their small, quiet life together – they were happy.
After the coma, Wendy barely recognises herself. When she’s not holding the love of her life’s hand, accompanied by the beep of the life-support machine, who is she? The nurse tells her to talk to Naveem – that he can still hear her – but she doesn’t have a single thing to say.
Suddenly Wendy can’t bear the silence. She needs something, anything, to talk to Naveem about. Suddenly she’s losing herself at fairgrounds packed with crowds and candyfloss, she’s at the airport, waiting for the whoosh of the planes as they take off, making friends with the neighbour she has spent over a decade avoiding.
Knowing that every breath her husband takes might be his last, Wendy has no choice but to try to carry on without him. Should she feel guilty about living while his life is on pause? And when – if – he wakes up, will he still love the woman she has become?
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Thursday, July 9, 2020
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