Currently ( a series of my current favs ) | September
September has been full of magical energy tapping into all the senses and
I'm so grateful for the start of the 'Ber Months! Here's all what currently grabbed my attention!
Perfume Hunting|
When it comes to perfumes, I don't pick mine based on popularity but based on what I like. I also think regardless of how expensive perfumes are, you shouldn't feel guilty for wearing your signature scent. It's a quiet luxury in life that I approve of. I'm a vanilla based girl through and through, but there are a handful of perfumes that don't have any vanilla that I have for certain seasons or solely for evenings...because I love all things witchy, I kept getting targeted by Heretic Parfum. I had seen all types of witchy influencers talking about these perfumes. At first site I was a little worried this was a Hot Topic circa early 2000s vibes, but after a little help from ChatGPT, I was able to pick out some scent to try. What's amazing about this brand are the discovery sets you can try. Naturally i gravitated toward the "Season's of the Witch" box and then customized a discovery set of five. I highly recommend having a go with inputting into ChatGPT your favorite perfumes (more fun if you give it a variety) and then come up with a top five list of Heretic samples. I ended up getting full bottles of "Midnight Toker" and "Haxan". The other sample set of perfumes worth trying is Memo Paris. I absolutely fell in love with "Marfa" & "Odeon." See all my favorite Perfumes HERE.
Local Event Coral Market Vintage | As the year progressed with our CRAFT CLUB MEET-UPS, we realized we are all blessed with full schedules and decided once a quarter is ideal. Making 10 DIY gifts every month was an awesome idea, but realistically was a bit hard to juggle some months. Luckily everyone felt the same way and decided that we'd do our meet-ups once a quarter and that way each craft gifts gets a chance to theme to season. On top of that, we also have learned we all enjoy vintage and the thrill of the hunt and combined one of our meetups for fall to be at the Coral Market Vintage which happens four times a year and is full of all types of vintage finds. Clothing, home, accessories and more. These events happen during the dryer season so naturally we find ourselves possibly going to each one. Which in turn, does mean more face time with each other as well, but not every meet-up will have crafting, just yapping and thrifting! The 2026–2027 Coral Vintage Market season has also been announced, with three dates still ahead: September 25th, November 14th, January 9th, March 13th You can get an idea of what to expect by watching my reel HERE.
Fall at our Little Free Library | Fall season is back and thriving in our little free library and it truly is a joy to leave not just books, but little gifts in between. It scratches the itch since we've put our seasonal baskets and gifts on pause. Mat leave and pausing the fall & winter season shoots has been bittersweet. I miss my clients, but I'm loving having more time to create memories with my boys and hubby. Not to mention being available again in the weekends for events my family and friends host. I can't tell you how hard it was to pick and choose which I would go to in the last 10 years... back to our Sugar Cottage LFL, this season I'm dropping in more seasonal stickers, pencils, candles, oracle and tarot cards, seeds and so much more. The report from the community has swelled my heart and it make it all worth it! If your looking to spread magic in your neighborhood, consider becoming a steward for a Little Free Library, read THIS BLOGPOST to learn more.
DIY Fall Photo Bucket List | I have seen many ways one could make a bucket list for upcoming seasons, and I wanted to use my Insta-max printer to showcase the memories and in turn make a little album pers season going forward! You don't need much imagination here too. Just grab craft paper, acrylic paint markers, a photo printer of your choice and begin making your list. I first wrote the title " Autumn Bucket List" and then I actually measured out the size of the mini polaroid's with a thick piece of cardstock and went ham drawing outlines of it till I filled up the remaining space of the paper. Then on a piece of paper I wrote out a list of memories or moments worth documenting and then wrote them on the bottom of each rectangle traced space. Now I've slowly been filling it out with photos as we check of each moment.
Vinted (app) Thrifting|
Ofcourse the phone is listening and target me yet again with a new, well new to me, app called Vinted. Think of it similar to Poshmark app but more home filled items. Which is honestly my jam right now. Here's what I can tell you. Shipping is BEYOND cheap! I haven't looked into wehat it means to be a seller and how to actually make money on the app, but right now I'm enjoying finding some precious accent pieces for me home versus waitng for certain live shows on What Not. I'm impressed with the coffee books I've been finding, some cozy cottage core pieces and on. All for a fraction of the original cost. Right now I have the cutest little vintage simmer pot and tea pot warmer that can be placed anywhere in the house and that makes me happy, cause it doesnt take away space from my stove top when I'm using it. another gem was the Martha Stewart " Great American Wreaths" that has this beautiful handmade sugar maple wreath on the cover and beautifully resting on my coffee table, and it was only $5.60, that's including shipping, and I DID NOT BARGAIN that price! People list items for crazy cheap but it's kinda like a digital garage sale when i think about the over all pricing accross that app. Worth perusing!
Mind Body Soul PROJECT PLANNER| This past August & September concluding our Living Room upgrade with New Furniture, wood trim, paint and curated finds. Naturally I filled my quarterly journal with the process with images, checklists and inspo. So as I was marveling at it, I got a bit sad knowing I'm about to start the next quarterly planner and not get to see a project that brought me much joy, and much distraction during postpartum. So I decided to create a Project Planner, where i can keep all my projects, and projects to be in one place. It's not a super technical planner, but still very detailed for the big projects and also leaves you pages for dreaming and the smaller end DIYs. So THE PROJECT PLANNER was born! Enjoy!
To learn more about these planners and journals, READ THIS NEW YEAR POST HERE, if you're ready to have it shipped to your doorstep, BUY HERE,
I hope you enjoyed this new "CURRENTLY" post and look forward to sharing all the finds in the season ahead.
Have a great last week of January!
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