My Favourite Articles and Links This Week

Not that you’re probably doing much clothing shopping these days, but if you are – 13 questions to ask yourself before buying new clothes.

If you miss going out to bars and restaurants, this website is amazing. Customize your bar ambiance!

Want to identify clouds? Here you go.

I loved this story of how one person has been coping with the loneliness of Covid isolation by befriending the local wildlife.

This field of colourful lights isn’t just magical to look at, it increases plant growth.

My Favourite Pins This Week

Yes, I am one-hundred-percent recommending grilled cheese as a meal. You can add a side salad, sure, but grilled cheese is the perfect comfort food and eating a really amazing grilled cheese for dinner will make you happy. It makes me happy, so I assume it will do the same for you? This decadent delight is made with goat cheese and honey and a little bit of heat and will definitely feel fancier than a cheese slice. It’s a gourmet grilled cheese, because you deserve gourmet grilled cheese! Pinterest link is here, and the full recipe is here.

I am very intrigued by these cappuccino cookies! The white chocolate, not a lot of ingredients to pull together, and a delicious cafe-worthy treat all in one sounds pretty good to me right about now. Pinterest link is here, and the full recipe is right over here.

If you would like to have a fancy bar-style cocktail, but without any alcohol, this spicy grapefruit paloma is just what you need. Made with flavourful ingredients that make you feel like you are having something special, while still keeping your wits about you. And you could drink it while listening the bar sounds in the link up at the top, too! Now you’re basically having a night on the town, aren’t you? Pinterest link is here, and the recipe is here.

Well hello, self care! This is a wonderfully easy recipe for a rose milk bath. What’s a milk bath, you may ask? Milk is full of ingredients that skin loves, and so is this milk bath recipe, made with epsom salts, powdered milk, rose petals and essential oil, this soothing soak is just the sort of thing that would be a total treat. and would be a nice porch-drop giftable for someone in your life, too! Pinterest link is here, and the full instructions are over here.

So many felt flower crafts require a cricut, but this is a great one for making 3 different types of felt flowers by hand (well, with scissors, and a hot glue gun for assembly). A great idea, and they are so pretty, don’t you think? Pinterest link is here, and the full DIY for each is over here, with links to helpful videos.

Sorry for the silence last weekend- it was a PA Day on the last day of the week, and for some unknown reason it was a short day of at home online learning, and time just completely escaped me! I hope you all had a really great long weekend, wherever you are. It’s been cold here in Toronto, and more snow than usual- but there seems to be a lot of that going around these days. Stay warm, friends!

xo Julie