Despite switching buses outside of my favourite thrift store twice a day it has been a while since I have been thrifting. This week I was able to make the time work and went in to explore however and was very successful. It has been over two months since I have pulled out my spring … Continue reading summer 2021 thrift haul and tips
Last summer we bought a deep freezer. There was the opportunity for us to receive food that wasn’t going to be used due to everything being closed and we couldn’t turn that away so we made space in the garage and filled up our new freezer with food. And fill it we did. Almost a … Continue reading no groceries for a month
Ah April, this month seemed to fly by. Between the false summer we had here in BC (28 degrees and wearing shorts, what?), work starting to truly get busy, and Nigel starting a new job, the end of this month really caught me off guard. Looking back at the books that I read this month … Continue reading the best books i read this month – april 2021
I didn’t mean to take almost a month away from this blog, but somehow it happened. I took a pause for a moment and then that moment moved into weeks as I just didn’t feel called to write anything. I sat down with my computer once or twice fully intending to put a blog post … Continue reading what i’ve been up to
Wow. This is my first post in almost a month, almost since my last reading update and I am not sure where the time went. A break and rest was obviously needed and I am planning an update post on what I have been up to this past month, but for now I will focus … Continue reading the best books i read this month – march 2021
For much of 2020 I didn’t have to take a lunch to work. I was at home all the time so lunches were made at home as well and I always had food on hand. Now that I am back to work full time I need to have a lunch for myself 5 days a … Continue reading low waste lunches
I love libraries. This probably will come at shock to no one that knows me personally, I mean I spent years of my life going to school to work in a library one day, my first stop in a new city is always a library to get a library card, and I am always encouraging … Continue reading libraries
We just finished celebrating Valentine’s Day and Family Day here in BC, days that I really enjoy to celebrate our loved ones, our families, and those people that surround us. Of course we also have the unofficial holiday of Galentine’s Day on the 13th to celebrate friends as well. But today I am going to … Continue reading loving myself
New year, new job, and another 10×10 challenge. If you have followed me for a while you will know that I really enjoy doing wardrobe challenges, including doing 10×10 where I wear only 10 items of clothing for 10 days in a row. Everyone does this differently, and I sometimes do this challenge differently as … Continue reading a february 10×10
Welcome back to my home and welcome back to my declutter series. I have restarted this series on my blog as I have been living in my home for a year now and I have started to notice things starting to pile up and I needed a refresh. Today I am taking you through my … Continue reading declutter with me – bathrooms
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