She saw the world not always as it was, but as perhaps it could be.
— Cinderella
Sew with Me ✂👖 // A Cozy Evening Sewing My First Pair of Shorts
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Sew with Me ✂👖 // A Cozy Evening Sewing My First Pair of Shorts

Hello Folk of the Hollow!

So around this time last summer I made the decision that I wanted to learn to sew my own clothes. I had this romanticized idea of living in my little cottage in the woods, hunched over my sewing machine, and cobbling together an outfit that was one hundred percent unique to me. I have always loved the idea of being able to customize every little thing in my life (which is probably why I love playing the Sims lol) and ever since I was a kid I wanted to learn how to do that very thing with my wardrobe.

Well, that ended up not happening last year after all.

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How I Romanticize My Mornings || Living Life In My Own Fairytale 🌷
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How I Romanticize My Mornings || Living Life In My Own Fairytale 🌷

Good Morning, Folk of the Hollow ~ 💚

For the last several months now I have been working on trying to cultivate my own fairytale life. You might have remembered me talking in my 5 Below Jammies Haul about how I have been working on becoming the protagonist of my own life—and that looked, to me, like a fairytale.

So, in order to make that dream into a reality, I have been trying to put more of an effort into romanticizing the little moments in my life. To find the beauty, the whimsy, and the softness in the everyday.

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Starsand Island Has Me Held Captive and I Don’t Want to Be Rescued // An Early Access Cozy Game Review
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Starsand Island Has Me Held Captive and I Don’t Want to Be Rescued // An Early Access Cozy Game Review

Guys, Starsand Island really has me in a vice grip.

I like to consider myself a connoisseur of cozy games. Maybe it’s an appreciation way the creators are given a premise of “make a cozy game” and so many different games can come from that prompt, maybe it’s a sense of nostalgia since my first favorite games were the Harvest Moon franchise, maybe its the natural crippling anxiety that haunts me from day to day that these games soothe . . . there’s no way to really know, but boy do I love cozy games.

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I Got Some New Books! 📚 A Video Game Book-alike Haul
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I Got Some New Books! 📚 A Video Game Book-alike Haul

It’s warm in the library today. I opened the windows to let the unseasonably February warmth in (it’s 72 degrees right now, with a nice cool breeze that occasionally comes in through the window) and I made myself a nice cup of chai tea. I’m really happy to have you here with me among the piles of books! You won’t be-leave the new ebooks I got!

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🌷📖 It’s Finally Warm! 🌷📖 A Reading and Gaming Day
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🌷📖 It’s Finally Warm! 🌷📖 A Reading and Gaming Day

Hi there, Folk of the Hollow!

It’s finally warm! Normally I’m not a fan of the heat, but it’s the kind of warmth that isn’t too hot, but warm enough that I can open the windows and feel the fresh air after a couple of months of it being too cold (though thanks to climate change, that’s about it in terms of being cold, and it wasn’t even really all that cold).

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A Surprise Sick Day
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A Surprise Sick Day

Happy Saturday, Folk of the Hollow!

I had big plans for the day—I was going to sit down at my desk and write some more in Project Flowers. I made myself a coffee, did a little reading, and opened all the windows in the library.

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5 Below Jammies Haul! 👚 💤 My New Favorite Pajamas!
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5 Below Jammies Haul! 👚 💤 My New Favorite Pajamas!

Hello Folk of the Hollow!

So let me bring it back a second before we really get into this post.

Over the weekend, Danny and I were watching BARRY (Which, by the way, I absolutely recommend. It’s a fantastic masterpiece of a show) and I made a joke about a background character (invented in my own head, not in the show) passing by a serious scene and doing something funny. Danny looked at me and offhandedly made the joke “How often do you see yourself as the background character?

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