Sunny Side Up!

We are starting new renovations next week on our Master Bedroom and our second bedroom which we use as a home office. Our bedroom plans are to change the current paint colour to a calming deep teal green. We also plan to update our baseboards to a fancier style and to add crown moulding. We want to style our bedroom to feel like a Boutique Hotel in Banff, AB. We are getting our closets redone. We are getting built-ins installed by California Closets. I have included a CAD mock-up of the plans for both mine and my husband's closets. Bedroom before: The CAD mock-up for my new closet: Our plans for our office are to also be repainted. The colour will be a couple of shades lighter than the bedroom colour.  We are also changing the baseboards to match the ones in the bedroom, but we are not getting crown moulding due to the bulkhead.  My husband will have a smaller desk and the TV will be wall mounted. We will add a darker wood cabinet within which we can store books and craft materials

I came across this book by Lisa Bennett on the Internet, and I am enjoying the easy and tasty recipes inside. Now, I do make some of my own modifications to the recipes if I do not like one or more of the ingredients, like avocados for instance. I like Guacamole, but not plain avocado. The recipe I am sharing today is actually listed under Breakfasts, but it can be made for lunch as well. Egg Salad Ingredients: 8 eggs, hard boiled, peeled and cut into wedges 1/4 cup onion, chopped 3 cups cherry tomatoes, cut in half 1/2 package of strip bacon, crisply cooked Juice of 2 lemons 1/4 cup fresh parsley, chopped Pinch of salt and black pepper Directions: In a salad bowl, mix the bacon with the eggs, onion, tomatoes, salt, pepper, parsley, and lemon juice. toss well and serve for breakfast Stay tuned to my blog for more easy recipes coming soon!

Today I am sharing the items I am adding to my year-round basic wardrobe for the month of March.  I am working through my clothing to see which items will stay and be added to my four seasonal boxes, of which I will "shop" from every time I want to change things up in my wardrobe. For the next while I will be creating monthly capsule wardrobes that include my year-round basics and different additions each month. I am starting this project a bit late but it will go on until I have fully curated a wardrobe that represents my colour palette  and also my three style words: Mellow, Fine and Gaiety. These style words represent how I want to feel when I get dressed...comfortable, polished and fun!! Now, let's see what I am adding for my March Capsule: The Clothing items include:  Camouflage Dress Olive Leggings Chambray Button-down Shirt Kelly Green Button-down Shirt Striped Tank-top Floral Top Green Patterned T-shirt Navy and Grey Baseball T-shirt For Shoes I have: Black Wedge-

Today I am sharing my guide to  "Lazy Girls Glam Makeup". I use just one to two eyeshadows and a glitter topper (the glam part). This was my Valentine's Day makeup look: After applying my morning skin care products, I prime my face with my Too Faced Primed & Peachy Cooling Matte Skin Perfecting Primer (discontinued). Then I prime my eyelids and inner corner with my Physician's Formula Matte Eye Primer (discontinued).  My foundation is The Ordinary Colours Coverage Foundation in 2.0N mixed with AOA Studio PawPaw Liquid Illuminator in After Glow, spread with my AOA Studio Beauty Sponge . Then I apply my AOA Studio PawPaw Liquid Concealer in Light Ivory to the centre of my forehead, tip of my nose, inner corners of my eyes, cupids bow and tip of my chin with the AOA Studio E122 brush . Then I blend into the foundation with the same sponge. To cover blemishes and discolouration on my cheeks, I apply my same concealer product, but in Sand applied with the same brush.

Today I am sharing my empty of the Dead Sea Collection Collagen Anti-Aging Day Cream that I purchased at Dollarama to mix with my original Urban Decay Naked Foundation (why it has a tint to it). This was an awesome moisturizing cream on its own accord, but it absolutely saved the Urban Decay foundation (mentioned above) from being decluttered because it looked so dry and crappy on my skin. When my foundation no longer pumped out of the bottle, I added it to the cream in the tub and mixed them together, as I had been doing on my metal palette. I knew because I was planning to mix a cream with my foundation, I did not want to spend a lot of money. However, I did not expect that for $4, it would be so nice!! Unfortunately, I have not been able to find it at a few of the Dollarama stores I frequent here in my city.  They only get so much skin care items as it is, and most of them are masks or cleansers. I do not know of any retailers that normally carry Dead Sea Collection products off han

 In 2022 I decided to go on a No-Buy for all of 2023 for makeup, clothes, jewelry and skincare. For clothing and skincare, it is a replacements only no-buy (RONB) and for makeup and jewelry, it is an absolute no-buy. As we have been planning to get our closets redesigned by California Closets this year, it became clear to me that I have wayyyyyy too many garments of clothing and pieces of jewelry. I already knew I had way too much makeup, but because it took up less space it didn't occur to me to worry about it...until now.  In past declutters, I rashly gave away a lot of clothes and makeup which triggered me to accumulate even more...so this time when I declutter, I will do it slowly and make sure I will not miss what I am decluttering. And at the same time, I decided to not purchase any makeup or jewelry this year and only buy replacements for clothing (because white things...and underwear) and skincare. So far I have done well in January. I have not purchased anything that is of