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What an Instagram break taught me

Hi!! Alright, let me just jump right in – I recently took a bit of time, ok a quick few minutes and asked myself “What would perfect ideal typical day looked like?”
I went through my ideal typical day and you know what it didn’t have in there? Instagram or social media — or even the blog (sorry, at one point in my life it was the main income).
You should ask yourself this – and include life obligations like a day at the spa and shopping isn’t a realistic typical day if you have kids and a job, work obligations, and things you need to do in order pay the mortgage/rent.
I decided to stop logging into IG for a few weeks, just no need to share every life detail of what I’m doing and guess what?
Here are some of the things I did:
- Cooked a whole chicken from scratch
- Baked some muffins
- Went over to my best friend’s house to hang out and prune her roses
- Ran errands
- Mopped and cleaned my house (mopping was a huge learning curve for me)
- Pruned my roses (and made a reel because I wanted to)
- Lots of house chores
- Dropped off the house vacuum to get repaired
- Photographed a campaign
It didn’t make me “on top” of my life or to do list, but it sure made me do it. I was less tired, less cranky, and I tried so many new things in the kitchen!


Please pardon the iPhone photos and a very personal casual blog post. I’ve been blogging through the casual blogging to suddenly the picture perfect “content is king” pressure to now blogs possibly being dead or unpopular, but here I am somehow still enjoying blogging as a past time and thankful you are here reading!
I popped into Williams-Sonoma who had a lovely Chinese New Year display, and I spent time in Michael’s to use my $20 credit and walked out with a lot of things for $0.23! I just slowed down even with my shopping. Cleaning I didn’t slow down because I hate it so I went super fast because anything I dislike I do it hastily which usually ends up with something broken or not done well… it’s my brain.
Anyway, not to prematurely say I’m gone forever on IG at all, because it still does create a bit of income with brands and I enjoy parts of it, I just don’t think I need to find my own balance that makes sense for my life!
I also worked on some antique frames I found for around $7 each up in Strawberry! I wasn’t sure if I could even get them open to redo them and I did! I will have to post a reel about it (maybe) but I wanted to share the end result with you! I was very happy I didn’t go into buying extra paint or supplies and just used what I had. I’m trying hard to be mindful off overconsumption and to use what I have, wear what I own, and really think twice before I buy it!

Are you making some changes? Whether it’s what you consume online or in store?
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