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The end of 2021 was a dark time in my life. The word was something I needed. My soul felt like it had been dragged through the mud. I was heavy and soaked in despair. The word chose me, I didn't choose the word.  Peace. I sought how to bring peace with my surroundings. I set to work on creating a budget plan and for the rest of 2022 I refined my budget system. I would also start doing more good, charity work, in 2022.  Something that feels selfishly good is when you can help someone else out. Searching for peace lead me on a spiritual path to finding to Christ, who just happens to be, in Isiah 9:6, the Prince of Peace. And in April 2022 I was saved again. This time I really planned to give my heart to Jesus, everyone was telling me that through Christ and God, I would feel restored.  Building routines helped with my inner peace. I also started to discern that if something disturbed my peace, it was because I wasn't setting firm boundaries. A huge factor in peace is bounda...

 

 

  I have found a new word to carry with me into 2023. As I begin setting my goals, I think about my word. True. The root word meaning tree, it means to be authentic.  I want to live a life that is true to me.  I want to feel strong enough to speak my truth.  I know this year there will be some hard truths to swallow. I divide the year like cake, into four pieces. Each quarter contains three months, or 90-days. I'll ask myself what kind of lifestyle do I imagine - how do I want to feel? Less anxious for sure. I want to feel like I can breathe better, more well rested.  Something to think about before setting new goals is looking back at what brought you the most meaning and happiness? Donating to cat fosters for example, brought a lot of purpose to me. Creating cleaning routines helped my mental health. Despite naysayers, I got the job at the school which inspires me to go back to college and showed me what it was like to feel workplace happiness. (Some backgroun...

 This is an in-depth look at all the organization and routines I repeat weekly, monthly, and quarterly. A huge part of this system to reconnect with myself is my journal. I try to journal every day, and I write about whatever I did that day, what my thoughts are, to-do lists. At the end of the month, I like to reread my reflections from the previous month. I indulge in looking back and getting a sense of who i was that month and how that month impacted me. Another part of my journaling process is my Return to Inspiration: Vision Board blog posts. I ask myself the same set of questions as well, and these are questions that I pulled from positive psychologists and people like Brene Brown. I will ask myself if I reached my financial goals, and what are 2 of my financial goals that month?  What are some of the accomplishments you achieved this month? What do you wish you had done in the previous month? The word of the year is peace. How did you find peace this month? What brought ...

  I stopped looking at things and saying ‘I wish that was me’ and started saying ‘Okay I can do that too’

 

 Bold lips and bold eyebrows - 2013 was full of these looks and 2022 it's no different. Although the trend these days is graphic eyeliner, faux freckles, over lined lips, and button noses, or something that looks like a instagram filter, the 2013 Go Bold, Bare Face, No Make Up Make Up looks are quick and flattering for 12-hour work days. My best features are my big lips and freckles, red hair and high cheek bones. Berry lip shades are a good match for me! especially wine. I also love a good lavender lip! More vampy lips to try this fall Sometimes I even want a more laid back approach. Some mornings I'm rushing to my job already late. My next post will be more simplified make up looks as you go boldly into the directions of your dreams! Stay strong!

In the summer of 2022 I made the hard decision to close my bookshop. While packing up hundreds of books I contemplated if I was making the right choice - and did this mean I had failed at my dream of being the owner of a small used bookstore? Sales were not coming in like they used to during the Pandemic. It was a race to the bottom during this reseller boom as more and more resellers caught on to the high profit margins book sales can bring. Shipping media mail rates increased 4 times alone in 2022. Due to the American Rescue Care Act, side hustlers are now taxed like small business owners, and filing 1099k forms for every reseller app felt daunting.  It was time to close the book, for now, on Hyla Brook Books. I needed to increase my income a lot quicker to escape my poor fortune. It felt bitter sweet telling my followers of 3 years that the shop was closing, that I would no longer focus on selling vintage books. But every ending is a new beginning. I knew it was the right thing ...