BOHEMIAN MINIMALISM
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What I Learned about My Body after Pregnancy
Postpartum I expected to learn a lot about myself, as a mom of two, and my tiny best friends in our new family dynamic. What has really surprised me is how much I learned about the world around me, courtesy of my body after pregnancy, and how it relates to the world. I’ll say now, as I’ve said for the millionth time this year “I’ve been the same height and weight (give or take twenty pounds) since i was about 13”. I only find myself waxing poetic about this when I’m pregnant because the sudden weight gain always throws me for a loop. I literally can’t remember a time where…
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Low Waste Living | Trying to raise a Zero Waste Baby
Whenever I think about the glitzy glam that is today’s Zero waste movement I’m moved to tears at just how much this way of living is just ingrained into the lives of immigrant families. There is a picture of my mom in a garden stooping down between a group of children, one of them is my little sister, three others I’ve long since lost contact with, they’re all wearing too-big-for-them-dresses that I have fond memories of playing in myself. Sustainability is now a flashy buzz word but the notion of being zero waste with my baby now just takes a bit of digging low down into my own memory banks.…
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How to be sustainable at home | Eco-friendly bedding
In these interesting new times, we’re spending more time and home and hopefully, more time cuddled up in bed burrowing into the bedding. After what feels like decades of co-sleeping we finally decided to spring for not only a big girl bed but an upgrade to our own situation. It’s been nearly a decade since either of us purchased bedding but it seems only right that its components should be in line with all our other sustainable home goods. So I set out in search of the most eco-friendly bedding. Eco-friendly mattress You spend so much of your time sleeping on your mattress. If you’re like me so much time…
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Homeschooling Kindergarten | Travel Schooling supplies
What is Travel Schooling I’ve long been an advocate for using the world as a classroom and using travel to supplement a child’s schooling. The concept of travel schooling was first introduced to me on one of my favorite shows growing up, The Wild Thornerry’s. Ive been obsessed with the idea of living in a tiny home on wheels and traveling the world with my kin ever since. My child has the luxury of having a mother who is in love with reading and a father who is married to math. So to be totally honest our method of tavel schooling is more akin to unschooling on the road. At…
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Sustainable Luxury | How to make conscious choices when shopping for clothing
The goal of the conscious clothing movement is to create a system that can be supported indefinitely in terms of human impact on the environment and social responsibility. It’s most often seen as an alternative trend against fast fashion, and in the perfect world, it would be. Sustainable fashion brands prioritize the sustainability of not only the planet but the people, as much as their bottom line. No one is inherently against these principles, The issue, for most people is that the entrance into the ethical fashion scene comes at a high price point, and rightfully so. Clothing costs more when people are conscious of the people who make it and the effect a…
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Making Zero Waste Handmade Christmas Gifts with Kids
After having so much fun making handmade Christmas decorations I decided to try my hand at making handmade Christmas gifts too. I scoured the internet to find handmade Christmas gift projects that would be fun to make for both adults and kids, and I’m so glad I did. Give these I want my daughter to feel the pride that comes from making something with your own hands. I want her to experience the joy that results from working to bring a smile to the face of others. But honesty Christmas coincides with winter break, which means plenty of free time to fill up with fun things like making handmade Christmas gifts…
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Zero Waste Christmas, Gifts and Decor
During Christmas it’s easy to get caught up in all the “things,” the best way to keep your sanity is to adopt low waste measures for zero headaches. Last year I bought all the ornaments I plan on ever owning. Storing them is a pain in the neck and a waste of precious limited space in a New York City apartment. So this year we tried something new, making our own ornaments and decorations. It turned out to be the perfect indoor activity to do and got everyone in the mood for the holiday season⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Zero Waste Christmas Decor So this year we dehydrated some citrus slices and added them…
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A Color Story | Curating Capsule Clothing
I’ve always liked the idea of capsule collections yet couldn’t get on board with them due to their commitment to being Normcore Porn. Every single example told me I needed the perfect T-shirt and black denim skinny jeans. In an effort to combat the need to join the buying frenzies that the holiday season kicks off I decided to compile a list of my core outfit staples. Low and behold my clothing chart began to form a capsule collection of sorts. I am a maximalist’s dream of minimalism. I want to live in a yurt by a ravine, with a trapdoor that leads to my high tech storage vault of…
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BOHEMIAN MINIMALISM | SOUVENIRS
My mother had this bag in the 70’s, as a child I played with it and filled it with my treasures. Three decades later my daughter has one too. I scoured the entire village if Hoi An to find a matching ark bag tiny enough for my little Noon’s toddler hands. Only one store in the whole town carried it (for the highest price) but that memory will never leave me. It was a hard-won victory forever woven into the very bamboo fibers of this ark bag. Every time she picks it up I’m instantly transported back to the narrow alleyways, marigold-hued buildings of Hoi An, and our first solo mother-daughter trip to Vietnam. Children accumulate…
