Living
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Decorating with Photo Prints
I love taking pictures, but rarely take the time to print them! Needing to put something up on our new walls, I recently bought some square photo prints from Artifact Uprising to decorate with. The prints came in looking beautiful, and at 5×5 with a white border they looked clean in a grid up on the wall. The photos I picked to print were from the frequent surf trips with Chris, which we started when we were dating. Seeing our history on the wall brightens my day. It’s so important to me to carry around a camera for this, to remember what happened and what it really looked like. There…
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The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up Book Review
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Organizing and Decluttering, by Marie Kondo, came highly recommended by so many friends and I have finally finished it! My boyfriend and I moved into a house together recently, and I started yoga teacher training almost immediately afterward. We unpacked all of the boxes right away, but it happened in such a rush that I still don’t know where many of my belongings are in the house. I have this dream of floating into this perfectly organized home, knowing where everything is, and just being creative in my space. I don’t know that life will ever actually be like that, but with Marie Kondo’s…
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Green Juice Recipe for a Healthy Happy Day
I love green juice. It is delicious and gives me energy. Have you ever seen those happy green juice people and wondered what that was about? This green juice recipe is your chance to get in on the action, and it’s very simple to make. There is, of course, the green juice debate. Is juicing good for you, or are you losing vital fiber and nutrients, by wasting and throwing away the substance of the veggies and fruits that you added into your juice. I’m not a nutritionist, so I’m not really qualified to take a position on either side of this debate. Most people will recommend that you eat…
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Big Magic Book Review
Big Magic is one of those books that sneaks up on you. Maybe, like me, you keep spying it out of the corner of your eye on Instagram, blogs, or reading lists. It makes its way on to your To Read list, but you don’t buy it right away. But the sheer volume of positive reviews escalate it from To Read to To Read Right Now. And then you are so glad that you did. The full title of the book is Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, and it is written by Elizabeth Gilbert. The very same Elizabeth Gilbert who wrote Eat, Pray Love, although this book is a different animal.…
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Outlander Floral Nail Art Tutorial
This floral nail tutorial originally started as a basic geometric minimal ombre manicure with squoval tips. But then I started watching Outlander while I did them. If you haven’t seen Outlander yet, you must. I couldn’t stop. I had heard from several friends that the Outlander book series is amazing, but the premise didn’t intrigue me much so I hadn’t picked it up. Outlander is a time-travel romance… See what I mean? They already lost me. In the 1940s, a woman named Claire and her husband are reunited following the end of World War II and go on their second honeymoon to a remote town in Scotland, where Claire is transported to the 1840s…
