The Roundup: “baby face” skin treatments, packing cubes & drool worthy

We’re doing another “roundup” of all things we’re trying, loving, cooking, and reading lately. Read on to find our favorite books, download an addicting buffalo chickpea wrap, and hear about what it’s like to do a No Buy Month or a Wardrobe Color Analysis.

Loving

Baggu packing cubes – gave these out for Christmas gifts! So cute, made from recycled materials, and super handy. I totally want the “Archived Fruit” set.

Butternut squash, pasta, kale, turkey dish, love my one pot meals and this one is just so good. See recipe

Before We Died. It’s about the rubber boom in the Amazon rainforest and the beautiful ways of people who lived there. It’s a tragedy about the toll this export took, but it’s full of incredible imagery and captivating stories.

Wayre pants. I’m living in these. They’re perfect for travel because they’re cropped, good pockets, fitted but somehow loose and comfortable. What’s weird is I can travel all day in them and I don’t get that overwhelming desire to change into sweatpants.

Rajiv Surendra, you know, Kevin G from “Mean Girls” … He is a renaissance man. I really appreciate his attention to the details and understanding of where his things came from. Chef’s kiss – this man can make anything! He also just came out with a show on Discovery+ called “Homeboy.” 

I recently did a color analyst with a friend and it was LIFE CHANGING! It’s where you get a ton of cloth handkerchiefs draped on you to figure out if you’re a Spring, Summer, Autumn, or Winter. Knowing what season you are is tremendous when you’re shopping. Now you know the exact colors that make you shine. It makes thrift shopping easier and you’ll have clothes in your closet you actually want to wear. PS – Go see Nicole if you live in Seattle/Ballard and tell her I sent you 🙂 

Grocery store flowering arrangements. I’m not a painter, or ceramicist, or the biggest creative person, and I don’t like a ton of creative supplies. But I do want to exercise my creative side and picking up flowers at the grocery store and arranging them makes me happy and then I get to compost them when they have reached their end of life!

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid – I listened to this on audio books in like a day, so.much.tea!
Buffalo chickpea wraps – These are so cheap, easy to make, and healthy!! (Okay maybe not that healthy because I drench mine in ranch.)
This sleeping mask from Youth To The People is amazing, I wake up with a baby face and loveee it

I have a few of these mushroom tinctures that I got at a craft fair in Seattle, the flow one is great for anxiety and helps me sleep like a baby.

I recently got a sewing machine and I’ve been tailoring clothes that don’t fit quite right and it feels like I have a whole new closet! Great way to cut down on spending and it’s way more eco-friendly than fast fashion.