Saturday Suggestions: Ideas for Your Weekend

 

ONE. 

Monday I wrote about my revamped thoughts on the capsule wardrobe idea, and one of the things I’ve been learning more about is how to understand which clothes work on me and which ones do not. I have always been oddly proportioned, and things that easily look great on others look terrible on me. It can be really frustrating, because depending ono the trend, it can be hard to find anything (easily) that works. I love this post by Audrey at Putting Me Together that gives ideas of why some clothing shapes might not work for you and tips for learning what DOES work. Even though I’m not throwing away everything I have and starting over, I am trying to be very mindful of this sort of thing anytime I do buy something new. What works best on and for me? That’s where I should invest. BONUS: This is another helpful post from the same blog that talks about learning what colors work best for you. It’s an old post, but the principles still apply, and I learned a TON from it last year when I worked through it.

TWO. 

In between Christmas and New Year’s, my sister mentioned in passing that she’d gone down a rabbit hole of watching thrifters shop on YouTube. I didn’t even know that was a thing, but I found some of the videos to watch too, and it was fascinating. The ones I watched were people who have a side (or was it the main?) hustle of upcycling and selling for a profit, so they were quite intentional in their shopping. I also have a friend in real life who thrifts clothes and sells them on some online app and does really well with it. So while there may be a whole career version of this, that’s not where I am in life, and that’s okay. But watching those videos helped me realize that when I thrift, I need to have re-vision eyes for the potential, not necessarily just what I see on the shelf in front of me. Here are some ideas of items that have been given a Pottery Barn-style makeover – right from the thrift store! Fun fact: I shopped at Goodwill this week and hit some GREAT deals. (And left a whole bunch more behind for others.) BONUS: Here are some ideas of kitchen items to look for when thrifting. It’s true! I found many of these very things when thrifting this week. Although I didn’t buy any of them, they had some items in great shape. If I had to outfit a house from scratch, I could probably do the whole kitchen from a set of thrift stores.

THREE. 

Pretty much every tradition we have for our anniversary just happened during our first anniversary weekend. I put far less thought into those sorts of things back then than I do now. I am grateful we were able to establish some good traditions on the fly and have kept them for eleven years now. But if you’re just starting out (or marriage is still out there in the future), here are some fun ideas to start as traditions when the time comes. And even if you’ve been married for a while, you can find some good date ideas in there. They don’t all have to be anniversary traditions! BONUS: Minus the wine, we do all three of these things each year! Look at us being accidentally with it! And if I had it all to do over, I would TOTALLY DO THIS ONE. Is it too late to start?

FOUR. 

If storage cubes aren’t really your thing, but you are all about the wooden shelf they fit inside, check out all these really cool ideas of how to dress up the cabinet itself! I can’t decide which creative version I like best: the rabbit run or the dollhouse! Because of the beach feel, our white one works really well in our space, but goodness, there sure are some cute ones in here!

FIVE. 

You know, teenage bedroom décor has come a long way from the 90s when I fell in love with pink floral, dusty rose carpet, and frosted brass ‘n glass light fixtures. I found a couple of inspiration posts for teen girl bedrooms, and I confess I like some of the ideas for OUR room. Movie posters are out and really cool rooms are in! If you need some inspiration – for your teen or for you, check out the pretty rooms here and here!

SIX. 

We have company this weekend, which I’ll tell you more about later, but I made a couple of recipes that got all the thumbs up from the company and from Ryan. I thought I would pass them along in case you want to try them too! I made a blueberry coffeecake that was super simple to assemble. I like things that are fast to put together and don’t create dozens of dirty dishes. This recipe accomplishes that, and they loved it. (One said it was her favorite thing from all the options!) One quick note on that one: I did leave out the walnuts in the topping. I know not everyone loves them, so I just skipped them and did everything else as written. I also made these cinnamon cookie bars with cream cheese frosting. Another quick recipe (leave time for the bars to cool before frosting).

CAPSULE RECAP: I’ve had another great week mixing and matching pieces from my capsule wardrobe for winter. Here are my outfits from last Saturday until yesterday. I’m working on a post for later this week to show more about where I came up with my pieces!

Saturday, January 13, 2024:

Sunday, January 14, 2024:

Monday, January 15, 2024:

Tuesday, January 16, 2024:

Wednesday, January 17, 2024:

Thursday, January 18, 2024:

Friday, January 19, 2024: