Jan/Feb 2019 Favorites

Beauty: After all the glitter of the holiday season, I was ready to wear some spring shades. All of January, I found myself reaching for the Too Faced Peach palette. I especially was loving Georgia, candied peach, bellini, and peach pit. I also continue to remain enchanted with my ABH Sultry palette. However, the game…

Keto Menu Start Over

Anna, what happened? Why haven't you been posting anything? Are you still doing Keto? Ya'll, life got real and I ate my feelings away. I don't know where my weight is but it isn't good. I feel like garbage and the whole incident highlighted to me the aspects of my personality I am least comfortable…

Keto Menu Week 6

It has been struggle city around here, folks. I am having the hardest time dealing with my cravings and wanting to eat all the carbs and comfort food. You will notice in this week's menu that there are two casseroles on the menu. Keto twists on traditional comfort food that I am hoping will help…

India Blog (#5) – Travel and Orchha

Apologies in advance. This post is mainly a travel post. It was an incredibly long day, with getting up at 5 am, a train trip, a bus trip, rerouting, traffic, and just a lot of hassle.  Having said that, I think experiencing traffic and trains and madness/frustration is part of experiencing India.  The morning we…

Pursuing the Healthy Me pt. 1

GUYS!!! I am beyond pleased to introduce a new/guest writer to the blog. It is my fabulous sister, Sarah, who will be doing frequent posts now on my site! She is a teacher, side hustle queen, wife, and doggy mom. I know you'll love her! “You know, I always try to out on my moisturizer…

Valentine’s Day Outfit Ideas

I won't give my usual disclaimer about how I love this holiday because we all know that I do. What I will say is that if you want to find something new and cute, you have to get on it! The holiday is almost here, gurl.... I wanted to give you guys a variety of…

Keto Week 5 Menu

Confession time: I was basically off plan all week. The least of my crimes was wiping out an entire mango.The worst of my crimes was eating pizza twice AND Chinese food AND Mexican food. If you noticed me not posting this week, it was because I was so, so, so very off plan. I allowed…

India Blog (#4) 2018 – Agra

This is the day that most of us envision when we think about going to Agra. We spent two nights in this city at the incredible jp Palace. I have literally never stayed in such a stunning hotel. I felt bougie as all get out. Agra is best known as the home of the astonishing…

Project Pan 2019

Tidying has swept the internet and our homes as we all (re)discovered Marie Kondo thanks to netflix. But in the beauty world, another trend is becoming more and more prominent. It is the project pan movement. Although this movement has been around a long time, the current focus on decluttering and minimizing has brought new…

Keto Meal Plan 4

So, we are on to week 4, which means we have been on this Keto journey for almost a month. I am so excited to do a monthly check-in. This week, I finally started adding in some exercise. Not a ton, but I added in a Spin class and a yoga class. It feels good…