Over the last several months, I’ve been slowing down. I am buying less and learning new skills so I can make things myself. Here are a few things I’ve slowly learned recently. Simplicity in my home, my attitude, my life. Crocheting I learned to crochet when I was in 4th or 5th grade. I didn’t [...]
Category: Mindful Living
The Problem with Fast Fashion | Part 3
So how do we fix the fashion industry? I wish I could give you a short sweet answer and a hopeful anecdote. Fixing the fashion industry is part activism, part protest, and part awareness. When you become aware of where and how your clothes are made only then can you start advocating for legislation, workers [...]
Plastic Free July Tips
A journey into sustainability…begins with imperfection and ends knowing you are doing your best. Plastic Free July is a fun challenge to TRY to avoid as much single-use plastic as possible and get creative with the single-use plastic you encounter. Below are a few tips for going plastic free this month and what to do [...]
Simplicity Mindset
While brainstorming my new branding simplicity came to mind, not just as a visual goal for my brand but as a word used to describe myself, my style, and my goals. Simplicity. Not an anti-tech lifestyle but more like practical simplicity in the rush of everyday living. In some ways, I do feel eco-guilt when [...]
A quick lesson in simplicity
Simplicity is not less. It is the essentials, it is the right amount, it is about balance. After moving out of our 1200 square foot apartment with a one car garage into a 650 square foot upstairs apartment with no garage. You quickly realize the amount if unnecessary stuff we hold on to. Some of [...]
Caring for Creation our Christian Responsibility
God didn't create this Earth & us, people, to watch us destroy Her creation and each other. God didn't call us to 'dominion' over the earth to ruin it, to suck the very life out of it, to cause climate change, or kill the most vulnerable through our greed and selfishness. We are failing this [...]
Self-Love
I’ve talked about self-care and self-talk in the past but self-love is different. It harnesses both self-care and self-talk into a perspective that views oneself as loved and valuable outside the cultural means of success and value. So before we talk about self-love & how to self-love, let’s backtrack to self-care and self-talk and how [...]
Balance in 2022
What does balance look like to you? For me, I am looking to be less of a workaholic in 2022, embrace more white space, say no when I just need to rest, and find room in my day-to-day to take care of me. One way I started finding more room to rest in 2021 was [...]
hello, 2022!
In preparation for writing this post, I literally had to go back and find my 2021 word of the year, I couldn’t remember it and clearly, I had not written it down in my planner. I feel like my 2021 word of the year began to really reveal its self at the end of the [...]
Mindfulness | A Fall Meditation
As we begin the transition from fun and spontaneous summer to cool and mellow fall I wanted to share with you a meditation for the new season. Each season has it’s own energy, rhythms, colors, and celebrations. In nature fall is the season of pruning and preparation. It happens throughout nature as trees and shrubs [...]
Stylishly Shelby 