“She saw the world not always as it was, but as perhaps it could be.”
✨ My Favorite Analog Hobbies (That Are Also Whimsical) ✨
🎀My Whimsical Weekend Morning Routine🎀
I try to romanticize my mornings on the weekends as much as possible to make up for it. I’m more able to just take my time and wake up when I’m good and ready, so a lot of my romanticizing happens on the weekends. I try to start my mornings slow and easy, and I try not to pick up my phone first thing. I’ve found that if I pick up my phone and scroll too early in the day, I’m more tired and in more of a sour mood from then on. I start worrying about just . . . well . . . everything. The world has a chance to creep in, and I stop feeling like the main character in a fairytale almost immediately.
In the spirit of that, here are the whimsical ways I try to romanticize my morning to maximize the feeling of living and breathing in my own little fairytale ~ 💗
📖 3 Books That Changed My Brain Chemistry Forever 📚 Book Recommendations
I’ve had a lot of books come into my life and fully change it—so this is hardly a comprehensive list. If I made a full list of books that altered my brain chemistry forever, this would be less of a blog post and more of a novel in-of itself. So for the sake of brevity, I’m only going to talk about 3 of the many books that have changed my brain chemistry forever. There is a higher-than-average chance that I might do more lists following this one that will include the others, but for now here are the three that have been on my mind lately.
Chapter 1.0 ~ Returning Home // A Harvest Moon: Back to Nature Lets Play!
I’m very excited to share one of my all-time favorite games with you guys! I have been playing Harvest Moon: Back to Nature for a long time, ever since I was a little kid with my PS1, and have been a live-or-die harvest moon fan all of my life. I’ve been playing this game a lot on my own lately, and decided that it would be a lot of fun to share it with you guys!
☂️Rainy Mornings💧
It was dark when I woke up this morning, and outside the windows of the cottage I could hear the low rumbling of thunder in the distance ☂️.
🦄 Unicorn Frappuccino ~ A Whimsical Drink Review! 🦄
Hello Folk of the Hollow!
Does anyone else remember the Unicorn Frappuccino drink from Starbucks way back in . . . I want to say 2017? Back then I remembered hearing about it—mostly mixed reviews, some people saying they loved it and others saying they absolutely hated it—and I’ll be the first to stand up and admit that I jumped on the hype train a little bit. I wanted to know what was so special about it that everyone was talking about it so much. Besides, what’s more fun than a drink named after a unicorn?
☔ Rainy Day Gaming // Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker and the Dream of an Analog Life ☔
🌞 A Rather Unproductive Day 🌞
A Cozy, Relaxing Day 🌼 Fields of Mistria, House of the Dragon, Ramen, and Spooky Cutie Coffee!
A Long Time Coming Little Ivywood Writing Update! 📖
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.
🌹 A Rose for the Garden 🌹
🌷 Final Fantasy 7 and Cross-Stitch 🌷
🌼 A Dollar Tree Gardening Haul! 🌱 Gardening on a Budget
Of Ribbons and Bows 🎀 // A Kamikaze Girls Movie Review
Hello Folk of the Hollow!
This is a post I’m really excited to share with you! This is a review of my favorite movie of all time, Kamikaze Girls! Or, in Japanese, Shimotsuma Monogatari.
🌊Beach Festival on Starsand Island!🌊
Comfortable at Home 💗
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.
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!
🌷📖 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).