my stripe collection to death. will never tire of a striped shirt/sweater and a bold lip.
i keep purging the crap out of my closet, and just yesterday went through the basement to donate some of what i had in storage...10 LARGE TRASH BAGS OF CLOTHING LATER... i'm feeling easy and breezy and like our house just lost some weight.
fitting into some of my fave pants again! (the stretchiest of the stretchy ones, but who cares.)
beauty stuff-
still so much lipstick. current fave: Nars audacious lipstick in grace or claudia. they are mega pricy, but sometimes if you look on amazon you can find them for HALF the price. the formula is very comfy and they stay really nicely. beautiful colors, too.
oh! and from the drug store:
these are great.
HOWEVER. got a sample of the nars audacious mascara with my sephora order recently. NO GO. SO CLUMPY. do not enjoy.
used my little rebate sephora gift card for the bobbi brown blush i was excited about and i love it. you need about 1/100th of a swipe to get a pretty berry flush.
cooking-
made this sausage, kale and white bean soup the other night and it was a win. brown sausage, deglaze pan with white wine and chicken stock, add more stock, simmer with kale and white bean, add parsley and lemon at the end, top with some parmesan cheese and serve with toasty bread with smashed roasted garlic. not pretty, but so tasty and warm.
reading-
not much, to be honest. trying to get going on daring greatly by brene brown, and still reading loving to know by esther lightcap meeks, but ive been using reading time to get christmas cards addressed. hand cramps R US.
watching-
nothing but survivor. we keep saying we're "saving up" the other shows we normally would be watching for when we get tired of survivor but we're on season 19 so... idk if we're going to stop any time soon.
making-
bought fabric for a quilt to make for a beautiful friend's wedding. writing this blog post. doing a lot of stickers with my liza girl. Oh! i did make an advent calender. And i'm wrapping a lot of presents.
do those things count as creative? they feel good, so i'm going to say yes.
made the grandparents these instagram friendly photobooks of pictures of the girls for christmas for the second year in a row. really easy to make and so beautiful.
loving advent, longing for jesus to come back. that's about it. maybe one of these days i'll get my thoughts together about advent and how it changes and reinvigorates my faith every year and write them down. here's hoping.
