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If you are an avid reader of this blog, you’re probably already familiar with the challenge I’ve given myself for the month of August, but if not, welcome, and you may want to go read this post and this post before you continue. I will say I’m having to get a little more creative withContinue reading “August Act of Kindness: Week Two”

So far in my kindness challenge for this month, which you can read more about here, I have made actual monetary donations to two nonprofits so far. One has been covered in my first week overview, and one will be covered in my overview published this Friday. And while my donations weren’t not monumental byContinue reading “Seven Ways to Help Nonprofits for Free”

As you know if you read last Friday’s blog post (if you didn’t, it will make more sense if you go back and read it now), I am going to be doing an overview of the past week of my August Act of Kindness Challenge. Let me tell y’all so far, I am really havingContinue reading “August Act of Kindness: Week One”

Back in December, leading up to the start of the New Year, I made all kinds of resolutions of what I wanted to accomplish in the New Year. I based my upcoming year off of “The Happiness Project” by Gretchin Rubin. If you’re familiar with this book, Gretchin, essentially creates a theme for each monthContinue reading “Aligning Your Actions With Your Goals and Dreams”

I know we all feel like the world is crazy right now. Lately, I have been finding it hard to see the good in the world around me because it just seems like there are so many terrible things happening, so much chaos all around us. I know I am not alone in this feeling.AndContinue reading “What Will August Bring?”

For today’s blog post, I wanted to talk about a very simply DIY you can do that is very cheap and sustainable. I have been getting into using my sewing machine more and more, as you may know if you read my post about stepping out of my comfort zone and my reusable napkin project,Continue reading “DIY Reusable Makeup Pads”

If you have read my previous posts about reorganizing my closet or my bathroom, you might have already considered how much of an impact a space can have on your mental health. But what about a space that you spend several hours a day in? For you that might be home office/dining room that you’reContinue reading “Making Work a Little Happier”

So I know it’s been a while since I posted, and I wanted to apologize for that. I got off my regular schedule when I went on vacation, and it’s been hard to get back to it. That on top of some personal things going on in my life have not made it easy toContinue reading “A Birthday and Many Thanks”

So as most of my Instagram followers probably already know, I recently went on vacation to the beach. The beach was in Florida, but it’s fairly remote, and my family and I took precautions while there. The trip had been planned months ago, before the pandemic had become such a part of our normal life,Continue reading “Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone and Making an Impact”

Even before I started this blog, I was trying to tell myself to choose happiness. I read the book The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin a little over a year ago now, and before tragedy struck so early in the year, I had modeled a series of new year’s resolutions for each month off ofContinue reading “Living By Personal Mantras”