My Favourite Articles and Links This Week
Literary party games? Sign me up!
Complaints have no magic. So true.
Why you shouldn’t hit the snooze button. Although I find the advice of ‘go to bed earlier’ to be completely unhelpful, in the same category of ‘just get over it’ – if it were that easy, we’d all be doing it. I hit it no fewer than 3 times each morning. It goes off at 6:50 a.m., and I don’t get out of bed until 7:20 or until James starts calling for mama, whichever comes first. Even one of my cats starts meowing at me from the first alarm, and it still doesn’t get me out of bed. My reason is this – I sleep with three blankets (of varying size, thickness, and textures, because I’m ridiculous), Guy with one duvet. When my alarm goes off, Guy is always already up, so at the first alarm I find his duvet and pile it on top of my other blankets and I burrow down under what is, at that point, a solid twelve inches of blanket. Then I fall back into a deep 10-minute sleep that is so good, it’s better than the whole night.
Huh. I think I just live-journalled my way into realizing I need a weighted blanket.
My Favourite Pins This Week
Baked teriyaki chicken and rice – this is one of those amazing one-pan dishes that comes together brilliantly for weeknights, and if you love pineapple in savoury dishes (I love pineapple all the ways,so YES!), then you will love this. You need to buy the instant minute rice to pull off not pre-cooking the rice though! Pinterest link is here, and you can find the recipe details right over here.
My friend Erica and I spent an evening decorating easter themed sugar cookies with royal icing, and it was so fun! It is a lot easier than it looks, even if you haven’t tried it before. This is a great step-by-step that is super simple, especially since you are only doing stripes and dots. Highly recommend. Pinterest link is here, and the recipe and how-to is here.
Scrunchies are back and are a really easy sewing project, perfect for using up scraps of favourite fabric. I personally haven’t used a scrunchie since the turn of the millenia, but I could be convinced. Pinterest link is here, and the full sewing tutorial for them is here.
This is a really cute idea for dyeing easter eggs- with shaving cream and food colouring! I have never dyed eggs with the kids because the mess factor and all that food colouring seems like a recipe for staining disaster, but shaving cream is a lot less splashy and drippy than liquid… I think I’ll be giving this a try. Have you ever dyed anything with the shaving cream method? Does it work well? Pinterest link is here, and the full tutorial is here.
I’m not big on the Marie Kondo method of decluttering, but here are 8 very simple and far more realistic approaches to decluttering your space. I’ve been using them in my effort to get rid of a lot of stuff this year (hoping to put our place on the market by the fall… maybe? we’ll see). Pinterest link is here, and the post is right over here.
Have a gorgeous weekend everyone! xo
