Weekly Happiness

Weekly Happiness

This past week has been quite the dose of magic, whimsy, and surrealism that I've desperately needed in my life. It started with David London's Surrealist Garden party called "Illuminated" that I went to with the wonderful April. Stay tuned for a write-up on that all...

50 Ways To Make A Mess

50 Ways To Make A Mess

I believe creativity is a huge part of the process, journey, and concept of self-love. In fact, it's one of my 10 Commandments of Self-Love and my blog's tag line is "Where Self-Love Meets Creativity"! Creativity is something that saved me when I needed help, and I...

Weekly Happiness

Weekly Happiness

I feel like I've been allowing myself to get into a bit of a routine that's bordering on a rut (well, for this Gemini, anyway), and I need to do something to shake it up. I'm really missing burning, and that's exacerbated by seeing so many people go off to the mecca...

Self-Care Changes With Age

Self-Care Changes With Age

The past few months, I've been making a lot of jokes (based in reality) of "I'm not doing that, I'm thirty!" and it's actually been pretty reflective about what I've been saying yes to (for maybe too long) and what I'm allowing myself to say no to. Sometimes it's...

25 Ways To Embrace Your Inner Child

25 Ways To Embrace Your Inner Child

An Uncustomary Babe requested a post of ways to embrace your inner child. I thought about it for a little and wondered how this list would ultimately be different from my suggestions of ways to play. After talking about it a bit, I realized the important distinction...

Snail Mail Game Show — Revived

Snail Mail Game Show — Revived

It's been way too long since we did a round of the Snail Mail Game Show. Back around Thanksgiving, the mail I was sending out from my front door was getting stolen and it seemed that no one received their envelope for Round 16, and I never followed up on it with...

Black Cat Appreciation Day

Black Cat Appreciation Day

An unusual holiday I get to personally celebrate now that I have one in my life/house, is Black Cat Appreciation Day! It falls every August 17th, and it's actually a really important holiday! I've seen varying research on whether or not the numbers are reliable, but...

Weekly Happiness

Weekly Happiness

This past week was Joe's birthday, and even though his plans for the weekend drastically changed he found the good in everything and it's so amazingly refreshing to be around that all the time. He gets news that would make me cry and he just takes a shower and comes...