Monthly Archives: February 2015

(Sweater: thrifted  Dress: clothing exchange  Necklace: instagram shop  Shoes: Hand Me Down)

My friend mentioned to me that she had been washing her face with coconut oil. At first I thought this was crazy talk. I mean, who has ever heard of washing your face with oil?! But I was desperate because my acne was getting out of control. So I started washing my face every night and it works! It’s totally evened out my complexion and even minimized my pores (although I should point out that I NEVER really wash my face, so just doing that might also be the reason my pimples are disappearing). All you do is rub a tiny bit of coconut oil on your dry face in circles for a minute or so and then run a washcloth under hot water and place it on your face to open your pores. I do this twice. Then you just wipe off the excess oil. I’ve been following it up by spot treating my blemishes with tea tree oil, cedarwood oil or lavender oil. Try it and let me know how it works for you!

(Blouse, Belt & Shoes: thrifted  Dress & Bracelet: clothing exchange)

If I were to come across a magic lamp, rubbed it and a genie came out, I’m pretty sure one of my wishes would be for this dang cough to go away and never return. My poor children have had a hacky cough off and on now for the past three months and I am ready for it to be gone. I, by some miracle, have not gotten it, although with all the drastic weather changes we’ve been having here in Southern California, it wouldn’t surprise me if my kids have allergies and this cough is just an annoying byproduct. Blerg.

(Necklace: Target  Dress: clothing exchange  Jacket: veryjane.com  Boots: Frye’s)

I recently read The Fringe Hours: Making Time for You by Jessica Turner and it made me realize some things:

-I already do a pretty great job of using my “fringe hours” (those extra minutes here and there throughout your day, such as while you wait for kids at a doctor’s appointment) to do things for myself. That’s the only way I would ever get all my magazine subscriptions read.

-She had you write down a list of your hobbies to help you identify what you could be doing with that time. In that I discovered that “memory keeping” is a huge hobby of mine. I never realized that THAT particular thing was an actual hobby. I would have identified it as photography, but since I do it mainly of my children and then make family yearbooks for them, this can constitute as a hobby.

-I need to use my hours in the morning for myself, since I’m a morning person instead of laying in bed looking at my iPhone.

What are your hobbies? What time could you best utilize to spend time on you?