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2020: Celebrating the Wins, Reflecting on Challenges and Small Moments of Self Care Week 1 from Rowena Tsai’s Productive Potatoes Worksheets in Notion that you can duplicate and fill out for yourself! I felt compelled to post this as a marker/reminder how I think my 2020 personally went. Rowena created more worksheets for self reflection/intention setting – I’ve done up to Week 4 and so far…

Kintsugi: How This Broken Year Can Be Seen as Beautiful

Hard to believe this is only my 2nd post for 2020! But who could blame me? Absolutely everything slowed down this year. People are hurting. My neighbor who was inches close to retiring has been out of a job for most of the year. Work has been sparse for child caregivers like my mother-in-law. So many are behind on rent and bills. There’s political turmoil pretty much everywhere.  This past…

How to Cultivate a Growth Mindset

How to Cultivate a Growth Mindset

It’s been a hot minute! Coming back with some personal growth tips that I hope are practical and helpful. I’ve done all of these things at some point, and I’m always doing tip #1. The downside is I have poor memory of the past lmao but the upside is I’m constantly striving towards my goals. It’s a tradeoff I’m willing to make. Let’s start:

1. Spend more time…

Mini Bedroom Makeover! Nightstands, Wall Art and Light Installation

Mini Bedroom Makeover! Nightstands, Wall Art and Light Installation

I used up a lot of my free time in the summer making my apartment more visually acceptable lol. Here are the results!

Before

It was barren. As much as I love a minimal aesthetic, I wanted to juxtapose our mental institution/orphanage headboard with something a bit feminine/industrial/vintage. That was the worst…

6 Month Plant Update and Propagation! Pothos, Philodendron and ZZ Plant from The Sill

6 Month Plant Update and Propagation! Pothos, Philodendron and ZZ Plant from The Sill

TLDR; they’re doing just fine! In this post I’ll have before and after pics, share some tips of what I’ve done to them and how I’ve even spread the plant love to my bedroom. Let’s go!

Befores and Afters ZZ Plant

Since getting it I’ve:

repotted

checked for root rot

This plant gave me the most epic…

7 Personal Development, Productivity and Minimalist Youtubers to Help You Live Your Best Life

7 Personal Development, Productivity and Minimalist Youtubers to Help You Live Your Best Life

I’ve been drinking some type of Kool-Aid lately. I’m not really sure what got into me but after my husband and I moved out of his parents’ place and into our 1 bed apartment, my values started shifting. Suddenly there was more space in my head (and physical space) to think about what I want next for…

Lifestyle Design – An Honest Blog

Lifestyle Design – An Honest Blog

Over the past 2 years I’ve been thinking a lot more about creativity, productivity and making that push to create in my spare time for the enjoyment of it, outside of my 9-5 grind for a paycheck. I’m fortunate enough to create for a living, but it does limit what I get to make.

But why does it have to?

I finally realized that the reason I started gravitating…

The Sill – House Plants Unboxing and Mini Review!

Long time no see, online journal! This post will be a review for The Sill. What is it?

Disgusted with my local Home Depot’s sad winter selection, I took to the internet to look for new house plants, like any other good Millennial would. I literally just googled “house plants” and The Sill was one of the first websites that came up. It’s an online shop with cute and simple plants for sale. At the…

Skincare Review! Tonymoly Goat Milk Premium Moisture Cream & Emulsion

Skincare Review! Tonymoly Goat Milk Premium Moisture Cream & Emulsion

I loooove using milky skincare products. Something about them just seem healthy and super hydrating for my ultra dry skin. The past few months (fall/early winter) my moisturizer of choice has been Tonymoly’s Goat Milk Premium Moisture Cream and now that I’ve emptied it I just thought I’d write a mini review. I’ll also share a…

Hello 2019! New Year Thoughts, Planning and Useful Tips

New Year:

The time we are usually the most introspective.

The time when writing the date we still put last year’s out of habit for the first few days.

We will be writing that same set of 4 numbers for 365 days.

If there were no such marker as 1 year/year end, would we be looking back at our successes, sorrows, triumphs and struggles over those hundreds of days so intently, searching for lessons…

How To Edit and Add Music to a Painting Timelapse For Instagram

Hi hi! This is really so simple. I’m gonna show you with screenshots of how I made the Jimin drawing timelapse on my Instagram. And all the other ones for that matter lol. Let’s get right to it 🙂

Download the Slow Fast App and Splice App. Both are free! Slow Fast is the simplest video velocity editor I can find that allows you to speed up or slow down your video by quite a bit. I like to speed up…

Watercolor Starter Kit! Decorative Florals for Invitations – Noob Practice

Watercolor Starter Kit! Decorative Florals for Invitations – Noob Practice

Wow my control sucks lol. I wanted to share these anyway – These are practice florals for an invitation I’m so excited to be creating 🙂 I’m the first to say my watercoloring skills are extremely subpar so I’m taking some time to do a few practice sheets to get the hang of it.

Before I get into that, here are the materials…

BTS Haul! VT Cosmetics x BT21 Collab Lippies, Swatches and Review, Love Yourself: Answer Album Unboxing and a Mini Rant

Warning: this post is imbued with non-stop fangirling. I always loved BTS’ music but I never considered myself part of “Army” until I saw them perform live at Citifield at the beginning of last month. That show was honestly a gamechanger for me and made me really pay attention to each individual member outside of my bias, Jungkook. Extra warning – this post will have a bunch of eye candy pics…

Unexpected Haul, Cancun Edition! Cute Japanese Goods from Miniso

Unexpected Haul, Cancun Edition! Cute Japanese Goods from Miniso

Cancun, where have you been all my life?I always thought you were just an overrated tourist/spring break beach destination but last month’s 4 day getaway trip actually exceeded my expectations. It also helped my husband and I were in very fun company. Outside of the all inclusive resort activities (nonstop tequila shots) we went…

New Year, New Planner – 2019 Hobonichi Haul and Setup!

New Year, New Planner – 2019 Hobonichi Haul and Setup!

Incoming haul photo bomb! I really only bought 3 items from jetpens.com but it’s not hard to admire them all.

What the eff is Hobonichi?I was new to this Japanese planner brand as well, until I binge watched a bunch of Youtube videos about it. I couldn’t stop thinking about its minimal grid aesthetic, the 1 page per day layout and all the…

Touring Scenic Peru! 4 Lesser Known Travel Tips

Touring Scenic Peru! 4 Lesser Known Travel Tips

It’s been a while, my online journal!! The later part of summer and now early fall has been busy with travel and life changes and I’ve finally settled back into a somewhat comfortable routine. More on that later.

For now I’m gonna lowkey show off that I went to Peru with my husband in late August 💖🇵🇪 Don’t worry I’ll keep it short cause there are…

Top 5 Things I Love About The East Coast

To counter my “Things I Hate” post, of course there has to be a “Things I Love”. And I do love living here. Here are only some of the reasons why:

  1. Everything has a history

From New York to New Haven, New Hampton to New Hampshire — everything “New” is old again. The design & architecture of Grand Central still amazes me and there are plenty of historic buildings and sites to marvel at.…