Friday Favorites | Current Lifestyle Favorites

Happy Friday! Who else is happy that Spring is here?! I definitely am, even though I don't exactly trust that it isn't done snowing yet. We did have a nice day earlier this week where it was in the 50s, but that quickly turned back into the 20s. None the less, I know warmer weather is on its way, and that definitely has me excited.

I thought I would do a Friday Favorites today and share some lifestyle things that I've been enjoying.

First though, I wanted to say a HUGE thank you to all of you who left me such sweet and encouraging comments on post earlier this week on cruelty free makeup. All of the great feedback really meant a lot to me because it was a post that I was honestly nervous out of my mind to post. I love you all for the encouragement you showed me!

Back to my lifestyle favorites. Honestly, not much has been going on in my life lately. I feel rather boring as these might not be the most exciting things that I've posted before, but hopefully some of you will get some enjoyment out of it! Even though nothing too exciting has been going on, I have been working on some projects that I'm crazy excited about. These things have been taking up a lot of my time and thoughts but other than that, here are the things that I've been into!

Favorite Recipe || One of my go to dinners is tacos. I've been making these like crazy. All it has in it is black beans, corn, rice, and salsa. I cook my beans and corn while my rice is in my rice steamer. Once they are all done, I mix everything together with salsa and taco sauce. I add guacamole to a tortilla and add in the mixture. It's so soo good and simple. Also, a lot of you asked in my last 'what I eat in a day post' if my husband eats meat or plant based with me. He does eat meat, but also eats most of the plant based meals that I make. So sometimes when I make this, he adds in taco meat as well. If you want to make this recipe and want meat also, just cook your taco meat and add it on top of the mixture, also add cheese, sour cream, lettuce, etc. as you wish! However, this is amazing as it is, and I hope you all try it out this way too!

Favorite Workout || Hubby and I have been doing P90X. We're trying to change our lifestyle and workout and eat healthy. This workout program is definitely not easy, but I'm excited to have a program to follow! I'm sore as hell as we speak (as I'm typing?) but I'm also excited to get in shape and do good for my body.

Favorite on TV || Is anyone else a Survivor fan?? I've seriously been watching this show since I was like 10 when the first season came out. I got my husband into it as well, and this new season came on tv 3 weeks ago and its sooo good!

Favorite Game || I don't think a lot of you are into games but I'm definitely a nerd at heart. We bought the new Nintendo Switch and I'm completely obsessed with the new Legend of Zelda game. It's so good and we've been anticipating this game for what feels like years! Honestly, this has been taking up a majority of my free time, I'm not going to lie.

Favorite Quote || And lastly, I'm ending this with my favorite quote. I read this the other day and it really hit home. It's something that I needed to read and keep in my mind. I don't think that I've had the best focus lately, and that has been something that has gotten me down mentally reading this quote has definitely help get my mindset right!

I hope you all enjoyed my current lifestyle favorites!

And now I have a question for YOU! For those of my blogger friends who make videos, what video editor do you use? I had some issues with iMovie the last time I tried to use it, and I will try it again, but I'm looking for some other options. I'm seriously the least tech savvy person in the world, and I get super discouraged when I try to figure out things like movie editors and can't figure them out. My husband has a nice one on his computer but it seems really complicated. I would like something easy to use. And I really need to stop using the 'I can't figure out my movie editor' excuse as to why I'm not making videos!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend! Do you have any fun plans? Let's chat in the comments!

Friday Favorites | End of October

I can't believe October is over in a few days! Is anyone excited for Halloween? This is the first year we don't have any Halloween plans to dress up and go to parties, but we will pass out candy since we get a ton of trick or treaters in our neighborhood. I'll be sad to see October go, but I'm always excited for November because of Thanksgiving and the Holiday season that follows!

Today I'm sharing some Friday lifestyle favorites again this week, and I'm linking up with Amanda from Meet @ the Barre and Lauren from Style Elixir

Favorite on Netflix || I've been into re watching some of my favorite shows lately. I just finished 90210 for the second time, and now I'm re watching The Vampire Diaries. I haven't watched season 7, or the last half of season 6 yet. I figured I would start over from season 1 since its been a while and I didn't remember enough of what happened. I'm completely obsessed again, and its also a good show to watch this time of the year for fall/halloween!

Favorite Natural Product || My body has finally gotten use to wearing natural deodorant. It took quite a few times of trying and I'm happy that I can wear it now. I was having an issue of getting irritation from it, and I couldn't figure out if I was allergic to the deodorant or if it was part of the detoxing stage when you cut out all of the bad chemicals that are in regular deodorant. I had a lot of bumps, irritation, and rash under my arms and it was super painful. This took me 3-4 times of trying it, getting irritation at the irritation and switching back to my normal deodorant, and then back to the natural to get use to it. The kind I'm using is from the brand called Schmidt's and I have the Lavender Sage scent. It smells freaking amazing. I definitely want to try out more brands when I finish this one up. Anyone have any recommendations?

Favorite Recipe || I've been obsessed with making veggie lasagna. Its been a staple in our dinner routine for the past 3 weeks. Its so simple and easy to make too- boil your noodles, and while those are boiling cut up  your veggies, add them into a skillet with your pasta sauce and let it cook for a few minutes. I use zucchini, spinach, and mushrooms. When everything is done, add a little bit of sauce on the bottom of your baking dish, add the noodles, cottage cheese, the veggie and sauce mix, mozzarella cheese, more noodles and repeat. If you prefer meat in your lasagna, then you can replace the veggies for meat, or mix in the meat with the veggies. I can do a more detailed post on my recipe if you guys want to see it!

Favorite Project || We are currently redoing one of our bathrooms! When we moved into our house almost 5 years ago, we re modeled the whole thing, except for the bathrooms. Since we are building a house soon, its time to get the bathrooms done so they are more appealing for when we sell our house. We picked out paint and tile for the floor, and here is a sneak peak, but I will definitely share some before and after pictures when its all done!

Favorite Moment || We've been wanting to go to the apple orchard all this season, and we ended up going to a smaller one near our house last Saturday. We didn't pick apples or anything fancy, just bought some cider, donuts, goodies from their store. I wanted to do a full post on something like this, but since the one we went to was small and didn't have a crazy amount of stuff, I thought I'd just share on here. We bought some caramel apples, raw honey, and apple butter too.

Do you have any lifestyle favorites that you want to share? Let's chat about them in the comments!

Friday Favorites | Lifestyle

Hi! How was your week? Anything exciting happen? Tell me about it!

I'm sharing some Friday Favorites again this week, and I was trying to do these every other week or just once a month but I've been a bit stumped on my blog lately. I can't seem to be creative and think of anything good to post. If you guys have any suggestions or particular things you want to see (beauty or lifestyle!) let me know in the comments!

Today I'm linking up with Heather from Life in Leggings and Lauren from Style Elixir

Favorite on Youtube || I started watching Alyse from the Raw Alignment  on Youtube and I'm completely obsessed. Anyone who is interested in a natural lifestyle then definitely check her out. She lives a very minimal lifestyle in Hawaii. She posts about fitness, natural products, minimalistic living, healthy food videos, etc. She also made a Facebook group called Raw Alignment Community which is totally awesome, and a place where people can chat about all the kind of stuff that I just listed. I know not everyone is into this kind of stuff, but her videos are really amazing and really informative and she has a great mindset and point of view on things!

Favorite Creation || Last weekend I made some smudge sticks with my best friend out of sage and it was super fun. It was our first time making them, and she got some fresh garden sage from someone local who grows it. They were easy to make, but I think I might have use too much string to wrap mine LOL. Now I have mine hanging out and drying out so I can burn them. 

Favorite Gift || I have been wanting some crystals for so long. I have some tiny ones (pictured above with the sage) but I was really wanting more chunks of crystals. My dad has always collected rocks and crystals so he gave me a few small ones that he had. I got two chunks of Amethyst, and another one that I believe is Citrine, but I'm not 100% sure.

Favorite Inspiration || I've been watching a ton of Halloween Makeup tutorials on Youtube and looking on Pinterest at them too. I kind of want to film some tutorials, would you guys be interested in seeing some? No promises, as I've been really lazy with filming lately, but it's definitely something I'm considering doing!

Favorite Quote || I'm finishing up with my favorite quote for this week. I really loved this one and found it super inspiring and beautiful!

What are your lifestyle favorites this week? Let me know in the comments! Have a great weekend!

Fall Reading List

Hello! I was so excited yesterday was the first day of Fall! I hope you all aren't sick of all the Fall related posts I've been doing! I have more coming next week still! ;). Today I'm sharing my Fall reading list of books I'm hoping to read this season.

I haven't done anything book related in a while, so I thought this would be good for my Lifestyle Friday posts. I made a huge summer reading list a few months ago. To be frank, I didn't even read any of those books. I thought when I quit my job, I'd have lots of time to read. Sadly, I just didn't read anything except for The Cursed Child over the summer, which was a definitely must read for me because JK Rowling. Anyways- I've made this Fall reading list a lot smaller and less intimidating. 

I picked out 5 books, most of them are ones I've wanted to read for a while, with the exception of one that I've already read. Some of these were in my summer reading list too. 

-At the top of the stack is The Outsiders. This is one my all time favorite books ever. I've seriously read this probably 5 or 6 times since I was 13. I just had the urge to read it again so I put it on my list.

-Next is Serena by Ron Rash. I randomly picked this up a few months ago not really knowing what it was about. It sounds like a good historical fiction book, and it's been made into a movie!

-The next one down is Room by Emma Donoghue, which has been on my to read list for forever. It's also a movie, has anyone read or seen this? 

-Next is Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Another one that's been on my to read list for a long time. I've been wanting to read a good fantasy lately. 

-And last is Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare. This is the first book in her new Dark Artifices series. I'm a huge fan of her Mortal Instruments and Inferal Divices series so I have really high hopes for this. It's huge and a bit intimidating but I've had it since it came out a few months ago.

I'm also planning on picking up the new Nicholas Sparks book, Two by Two that comes out on October 4th. I'm a huge Nicholas Sparks fan so I can't wait for that one!

What's on your reading list right now? Have you read any of these books? 

I hope you all have a great weekend!  

Friday Favorites | Hello July

Happy weekend everyone! I skipped last weeks Friday Favorites post to do my June lifestyle post. It was a nice change, but I'm excited to share some weekly lifestyle favorite today. 

Favorite YouTube Video || I really enjoyed SarahBethYoga's video that she filmed on 5 Tips For Mindful Mornings. I am not a morning person. At all. And ever since I've been staying home, my night owl habits have gotten worse. I've been staying up ridiculously late, and sleeping in too much. It also doesn't help that hubby is on second shift (5pm to 330am), so I'm usually still up when he comes home around 4am and we've both been sleeping in. Back to the point- I really need to not sleep in so much and get up in the morning and utilize the day. This video had some great tips, and I can't wait to try them out. 

Favorite Essential Oils || I know I've been sharing a lot of oil favorites lately, but I can't help it- I'm obsessed! One of my good friends got me a Young Living oil kit for my birthday last week. It came with a diffuser too so I've been playing around with a ton of oils. My three favorites have been Purification, Stress Away, and Lemon. Purification and Stress Away have been my favorite ones to diffuse, and I like to add a few drops of lemon to each of them! Do you guys want me to do a post on my favorite oils and how I use them? Let me know!

Favorite Purchase || I shared this Lorac Light Source Illuminating Highlighter in Moonlight in a recent haul post. I am obsessed. It's so pretty, and I want all of the Lorac highlighters! This one is a bit softer than the ABH Glow Kit I've been raving about, and I'll have a review up in a few weeks! 

Favorite from Starbucks || Has anyone tried the new Granitas at Starbucks? They only sell them after 3pm (boo!!), and I loveee the Youthberry White Tea one! Youthberry is my all time favorite tea from Teavanna and this is is made with lemonade flavored shaved ice. It's so so good, and even if you aren't a tea drinker, give it a try because it doesn't really taste like tea. The Carmel espresso one is great too! 

Favorite Quote || I feel like I'm finding a quote for everything these days, but I love sharing them with you guys in these favorites posts.

What are some of your lifestyle favorites this week? Let me know in the comments! 

I'm linking up with 

Lauren from Style Elixir

Amanda from Meet @ the Barre

Friday Favorites | Lifestyle

Happy weekend everyone, and happy last Friday in June. Where the heck has this month gone? I'm going to keep this intro short and let's just get into my lifestyle favorites for this week.

Favorite TV shows || Both Pretty Little Liars and The Fosters came back on tv this week! Both of them were starting a new season, and both of them left us seriously hanging in last season's finale episode. I'm sure everyone has heard of PLL but I've never heard of The Fosters until I started watching it on Netflix maybe last Fall? I'm not sure when. Anyways, if you haven't watched it then I definitely recommend checking it out, it's such a good show! 

Favorite Purchase || I bought a book that Marissa Lace was talking about in one of her YouTube videos called The Soul Searchers Handbook. I got it in the mail on Tuesday and have just started reading it. This book has everything from yoga and meditation to healing crystals, aromatherapy, dreamology, astrology, holistic living, etc. If you are into these sort of things, definitely check it out. 

Favorite Inspiration || Speaking of mediation, I've been on Pinterest looking up how to create a mediation space. Some of you may know that I'm into yoga, but I've never tried meditation other than a quick Savasana to relax  after yoga. I've been curious about trying meditation, or maybe I just want a cute little space in my house that looks relaxing? ;)

Favorite Essential Oils || I've recently purchased Lavender and the R.C oil blend from Young Living. These are doing wonders for my allergies and sinus issues. And I love using the legend we in my diffuser! It not only smells amazing, but it's very calming and relaxing.  

Favorite Quote || I like to share my favorite quotes with you guys. I was looking on Pinterest for quote about the moon, because let's face it. I'm a little obessed with the moon, and all things sun/moon related. 

What were some of your lifestyle favorites this week? Let me know in the comments!

I'm linking up with  Im linking up with
 Amanda from Meet @ the Barre 
Lauren from Style Elixir
Heather from Life in Leggings

Friday Favorites

Hello! This week went by so fast, and I can't believe there's only two more weeks of June. Seriously where has the time gone? I cannot wait to do my monthly June lifestyle post this month, I have so much to share!

I've been super excited because I finally have a good blog posting schedule down. I've been posting Monday-Friday, with 1-2 videos a week. I'm going to shoot for two videos every week, this week I only had one video so I need to get my butt in front of the camera and film, film, film. Give me some video requests! What do you guys want to see?

This week I'm going to share Lifestyle Favorites, but first I wanted to thank you all for your sweet comments last week in my 3rd Blogiversary post on Friday where I shared my favorite things about blogging!l

Favorite Purchase || I've been eyeing shirts from Ivory Ella for months now. They recently came out with tanks and I knew I needed one. They are super cute for summer, I'm obsessed with elephants, and a profit of their sales goes to Save the Elephants and other causes. 

This is the one I picked out. I liked the detailing on the back the best out of the ones they had. I got it in the mail yesterday and I'm super impressed. It fits really well! 

Favorite Creation || I've had this plain canvas tote for so long and I've been wanting to decorate it. I got some fabric paint and painted a sun and moon design on it that I found on Pinterest. I was really pleased on how it came out. It's not 100% perfect, but hey- it was my first time doing something like this! This may or may not be a sneak peak of something else that I'll be talking about in a later post ;) 

Favorite Moment || If you don't know how big of a nerd I am by now, then I don't know where you've been! The new Warcraft movie released last Friday, but the theater near my house had some early Thursday showings that we were able to go to. Me and hubby have been waiting for this for so long! And it was super good in my opinion, and then I had to renew my World of Warcraft game subscription, and was slightly tempted to make an Orc character. 

And there's me being nerdy in my For the Horde shirt. I have a ridiculous amount ld game, anime, and fandom tshirts. If you ever come to my house, chances are its all you'll see me wear. 

Favorite YouTuber || Do you guys watch Marissa Lace on YouTube? If not, you totally should! She's super inspiring and I just love her. She talks so much about how important self love and happiness is. She did a 30 day vegan challenge that was super fun to watch, shes into yoga and meditation, and I've been super inspired by her! 

Favorite Quote || I've said this before but I love finding quotes that really make me feel something, touch my heart, and speak to me because sometimes they are exactly how I feel but don't know how to express into words. I found this one on Pinterest, and I fell in love. 

What are some of your favorites this week? Let me know in the comments! I hope you all have an amazing weekend!

I'm linking up with 

Lauren from Style Elixir

Amanda from Meet @ the Barre

Heather from Life in Leggings

Friday Favorites

Hello! Today I'm doing a blog link up post and sharing my Friday Favorites! I first heard about this link up from Lily and she's been doing these for a few months now. I always loved reading her Friday Favorites so I decided to join in on the fun! I'll be sharing some lifestyle favorites this week!

Favorite Show | Has anyone else watched New Girl before? I think I'm a little late to the game on this show, but I've been binge watching it on Netflix like CRAZY. I'm almost done with season two, and since the episodes are only 25 minutes long, it's super easy to watch. If you haven't watch this show, you need to! It is so freaking hilarious. Hubby hears me laughing out loud in the middle of the night while he's sleeping and I'm watching, oops! 

Favorite Purchase | Last week I purchased one of the Anastasia Glow kits. And oh my highlighters. They are so stunning and I can't get enough of it. I fell in love the first time I used it. I will do a review for it soon with swatches!

Favorite Meal | On my days off my go to lunch has been avocado toast. I've shared this before a few times! I love to use ciabatta bread or rolls and just put avocado and some hummus on it. I always eat it with a side of fruit too! 

Favorite Candle | I've been burning Bath and Body Works candle in Sunkissed Days a lot lately! It's a great summery scent. 

Favorite Natural Product | I've been loving my peppermint and tea tree oils. These are both from young living and work amazing. I especially like the peppermint oil for my headaches, it's very soothing. It's been great for my sinuses too, I diffuse it at home and usually at work we have a diffuse with it on there too! I'm testing out the tea tree oil mixed with coconut oil on my face at night time. I always use coconut oil on my face at night, so I'm mixing a drop of tea tree in there too since I've been having some bad breakouts. 

This is all for my Friday Favorites! I had tons of fun doing this post and I'm already looking forward to next week. This is my first time doing a link up post, so I hope I'm doing everything correctly!

I'm linking up with Lauren from Style Elixir and Amanda from Meet @ the Barre

Have a great weekend!! 

5 on Friday | Top Favorite Lipliners

Hello!! This post was suppose to go up earlier today but I've been busy busy busy at work! At least it's still early (ish) in the day and it's not going up at night time!

Today I'm sharing my top 5 favorite lipliners. Lip liners are still new to me, and I just started using them a few months ago. Now I can't go without them! Most of these im showing are nudes, because that's all I wear on my lips lol! I would also love to know some of your favorites, or ones you could recommend to me!

The first one is Absolutely It by Mac. I bought this when I still had a fear of lipliners. It looks excellent paired with Mac Twig lipstick, which is why I purchased it!

Next is Nyx Narural. This is a good brown nude and I like to pair it with Mac Hug me, and Maybelline Nude Lust. 

Next is Nyx Nude. This one is more pink toned than Natural, and I perfer this one over Natural. It looks awesome with Maybelline Nude Lust (fav lip combo!), and also with Mac Viva Glam 2 and Faux. These lipliners are the retractable ones, and they are nice but I find them to be very soft and break off on me easily. 

This next one is a sharpable pencil that is Nyx Pale Pink. I like to pair this one with Mac Creme Cup, Snob, and Pure Zen. 

Last one is Urban Decay Naked. I actually got the delux size of this free with a purchase on their website. I didn't use it for so long until I got into lipliners and now I can't believe I didn't use it. This one is a good darker nude, but not as dark as Absolutely It. I love this one paired with Mac Hug Me. 

So this is my top favorite lip liners!! Now tell me in the comments what your favorite ones are! I need some more in my life!!

And next week I will be sharing my top 5 Bronzers!!