From Chaos to Clarity: My April Fridge Experiment & Food Audit Last week, I learned that I was a climate villain, and decided to take steps to correct this starting with food waste in my kitchen. And what a week to start. This is embarrassing to admit, but this was my fridge a week after the flu struck my house: I’m try to be mindful as I wipe down these…
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The Alchemist’s Redemption: Turning My Carbon Footprint into Hearth Magic
I learned I’m a Climate Villian 🙁 As April is Earth Month, I thought a fun learning activity to do with my daughter would be to calculate our carbon footprint as a family. Admittedly, I knew it wasn’t going to be great. Since having my second baby 18 months ago, I’ve definitely chosen the easier option for a lot of things (like individual snack packs). But I do general recycling,…
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When Your House Feels Heavy: 5 Ways to Shift the Energy (Without Rage-Cleaning)
Sometimes the house is clean, but the atmosphere still feels heavy Have you ever had days where you’ve finished your cleaning to-do list, but something about your home still feels off It could be anything, coping with a long week, kids running riot, just watching the news. Sometimes, you can’t even put your finger on it. When I used to have those days, I rage-cleaned the house. Everyone knew to…
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How Many Cleaning Products Do You Really Need?
You are cleaning the kitchen, and feel overwhelmed. After a root through the cleaning cupboard, you realize you are low on all-purpose cleaner. You take a breath. This is no big deal. You pop to the shops to pick up something and then… WHY ARE THERE SO MANY OPTIONS? I’m just trying to get my house clean, not manage a cleaning inventory. And the more I look, the more overwhelming…
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Why I Quit Googling Better Homemaker Habits
Have you ever been told ‘just Google it’? I have. Quite a lot actually (I ask a lot of questions), so now I have a habit of Googling every problem, including the problem I found myself facing in 2015 when I first became a homemaker. ‘How do I become a better homemaker’? At the time, I was pleasantly surprised. There are people out there teaching exactly what I wanted to…
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The Cozy Magic Manifesto – Owning Your Narrative
Homemaking seems to be a loaded term. Any search I’ve done of it conjures up images of women in cute dresses and not a hair out of place telling me the 20 vintage skills women need to become a better homemaker, or how to be a better wife for my husband. I usually look like this: And my husband still loves me. The internet offers endless templates for how a…
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Where Cozy Magic Home Is Right Now
This space has always reflected my real life more than a fixed plan. Right now, my life looks very domestic. This current season of life is all about homemaking. It takes up most of my energy and attention. So instead of fighting and working around that, I’ve decided to incorporate it into this space. You’ll still see creativity woven through here, but it is going to show up more practically….
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A Chaotic Homemaker Reflects on The Major Arcana
I’ve been reading Tarot on and off for a few years now, and what started off as an activity my friend recommended (she thought I’d be good at it), has now turned into a way of life. It’s my ChatGPT so to speak. I ask Tarot everything. But it has only recently that I decided to use Tarot specifically on my journey to becoming a better homemaker. The Tarot is…
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Can the Minor Arcana Make You a Better Homemaker?
Most Tarot spreads talk about love, careers, or finances. But what about soup pots, laundry piles, and dust bunnies? I think the Tarot is an ideal tool for the homemaker, if not for actual readings, as a means of reflection. Especially the Minor Arcana It’s where it shines. What is the Minor Arcana? The Minor Arcana is a part of Tarot deck, a card based divination system. A Tarot deck…
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A Cozy Magical Reset for September
What does September make you think of? For me, it is the blessing of cooler days, apple picking season, and due to being from the U.K., going back to school. And while I am I’m not going back to any type of formal education, what better time to start a new experiment? To add a bit of intentional coziness and magic to my life, starting this month, I’m setting home…
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