Every year I set goals, not resolutions. Resolutions get pushed to the wayside so easily, but goals these feel more actionable to me. More solidified. I'm setting 3 goals this year: 1) more mindfulness 2) grow my business and 3) have fun So to practice more mindfulness in the new year, I've set 3 actionable [...]
Category: Mindful Living
Finished Reading | When Less becomes More by Emily Ley
This post contains affiliate links, when you shop through them I earn a small compensation (at no additional cost to you) through which I am able to support this website and my family. I'm an Emily Ley fan, even if I constantly find myself playing the comparison game. She is such an inspirational business woman, [...]
Mindfulness | Define + Do
Someone asked me the other day what mindfulness was. I thought it was a silly question to ask but then I realized how I practice mindfulness is not necessarily how my neighbor, yoga instructor, or my Republican friends may practice mindfulness. Everyone does mindfulness whether they admit or recognize it or not, and everyone does [...]
Wear It Wednesday | Solely Co
Hi friends! A long time ago when I first started doing Wear it Wednesday, I used to interview folks that inspired me. Well, I met someone who inspires me and knew I needed to share her with all y'all!Her name is Carmen and she is a blogger & textile scientist that lives here in Colorado [...]
Wear it Wednesday | TheONE08 Vegan Handbags
Full Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links, when you shop through them I earn a small compensation (at no additional cost to you) through which I am able to support this website and my family. I am also receiving a free bag from TheOne08 As a blogger and fashion stylist in the ethical sphere, there [...]
Setting up my 19-20 Academic Weekly Simplified Planner
A few years ago, I was beginning a new planner every few months because I didn't like the format or the size or the color scheme or whatever I was using. I was a long time Emily Ley fan and while I loved the planners from the outside looking in, I was afraid to commit [...]
Finished Reading | Buy the change you want to see by Jane Mosbacher Morris
When I see books focused on ethical fashion and practices, I'm drawn to them, naturally of course, but I quickly become bored because I already know what they are telling me. Not the case with Buy the change you want see by Jane M. Morris, founder and CEO of To the Market. Jane tells readers [...]
Earth Day | Minimizing your Fashion Pollution
Reducing my use of single use plastics has been a huge driver for me over the last 12 months, and while that is all good and dandy as a fashion focused blogger how can I be more aware of how what I wear impacts the earth? Because it does. This earth day post is all [...]
Wear It Wednesday | My Experience with a No Buy Month
With the minimizing rage of 2019, in full swing from Marie Kondo-ing our entire lives, to me realizing I was impulsive buying too often. I decided to step back during the month of March and do a No Buy Month. The rules were: 1. don’t buy anything for my closet 2. definitely nothing new 3. [...]
What does ‘mindful living’ mean?
I revamped my header and some design details recently on my blog. January is a great time to update are reevaluate my blog and the direction I’m going cause if we’re being honest. This poor blog has been all over the place in the last 8 years since I started! One of the things I [...]
