BelleResells

 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’

 I know your dark secret. Admit it, it's hidden in storage and closets, it's your greed at a time where everything you saw were dollar signs. The sales were so good you got more than you bargained for! Death pile is a term resellers use for their unsold inventory. It's time to dig up the graveyard and give those items a new life. 💀 Be honest with yourself. Are you going to resell it? Keep it? Donate it?  The first step for me was to package all my books into boxes. I dedicated shelf space for my personal collection, books for sale and books I wanted to list. It gave me space to reimagine my shop and I started getting day dreamy about  reopening my secondhand bookshop, Hyla Brook Books.  A few months ago when I announced closing my shop I was so sad, like something died. Not like a pet but something in me felt defeated. Except now I'm starting to see what's beyond the beyond!  👻 Something else to consider is that I banned myself from buying more books. I c...

  It's been months since I've bought books! MONTHS!!   I closed my shop earlier this year and packed up hundreds and hundreds of books but you know what? I miss my bookshop. I love shopping for books and I have a talent for finding valuable vintage books. I also can't help but buy my favorite books even if I have copies at home, I can't resist fonts and cute covers and that perfectly sized paperback.   I also want to promote books to raise money for my animals, and then continue doing the work for other fosters. Moo Books was that title I gave, but I see it's more like a slang term. Hyla Brook Books is my official store name, #moobooks are the books that sell for fosters. 12 books. 12 seemlingly random books. Was I planning on reselling any? Any for me?  From the top left to right:  Charlotes Web, The Time Traverler's Wife, 1998 Scooby-Doo and the Haunted Castle Middle left to right: Flinston's Blast from the Past, The Glass Castle, The Personality of the Do...

 

 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 ...