March Favourites
Some things I liked in March..
This is such a great coffee table book, one for flicking through with a cup of tea. It consists mostly of street style shots, punctuated by short interviews with women who work in the world of fashion. It's a ridiculously inspiring book in terms of accessibility in fashion, because it doesn't come across as preachy or unachievable. All of these women look gorgeously unique and they manage to do this even if they're holding their screwed up headphones while they run for the bus, which is obviously encouraging if you feel (like I do) very unpretty when you're running for a bus, carrying your shopping or just generally doing life.
I bought this a while ago on a whim to get my over the free delivery spending limit, and had only used it once or twice. Recently though I've used it more frequently, even trying it out for daytime wear *jaws drop at my daring use of shimmer in broad daylight*. For a relatively affordable palette it blends well, consists of what I consider wearable colours and the staying power is incredible. Most of my eye make up smudges at some point during the day, sometimes within the hour, I just have that kind of skin. However, I wore this on a night out, went to sleep without taking it off (I can feel the death stares from the beauty bloggers), woke up and was amazed! It hadn't moved at all! I was actually running a bit late that morning so just cleaned my face, slapped on some concealer and then looked like I had my life together enough that I'd applied eye shadow before noon. Oh the lies we tell.
Soup
Yeah that's right. Soup. I forgot how easy and quick and secretly healthy soup is! I eat a lot of Papa John's pizza and unhealthy food at work so making soup is my attempt to fix my garlic dip filled insides. The one pictured here is one of the easiest I've ever made, from Deliciously Ella's first book. It's the pea and mint soup with a cannelini bean base but I chucked some spinach in there because I had it left over and it was pure spring comfort food. Incidentally this book is generally great anyway but I've had it and loved it for a few months now so it doesn't qualify as a March favourite.
I actually purchased this a year ago off a recommendation from Ruth of the A Model Recommends YouTube channel and blog. It's a journal that has one short question a day followed by a few lines to write your answer in each year. Obviously each date has the same question so you're answering the same question you did exactly a year ago. This is a March favourite because I've gotten to the one year mark so I'm now writing my daily answers and starting to see my answers from a year ago above it. Some of them make me laugh, some of them make me a little bit sad, but mostly they just make me feel like I am moving somewhere, and that's a really nice thing to feel before you go to sleep every night.
I watched this casually when it was airing, was absolutely outraged by the finale and swore off watching it for life. But now the whole series is on Netflix and older and wiser me needed something easy to watch before bed and remembered it as being pretty funny despite the ending. Maybe I have actually grown up a bit in the 2 years since this first aired because it made so much sense this time around. Sometimes life is complicated, there isn't a 'the one', you've loved more than one person and relationships are more to do with timing than we'd like to admit. Sometimes you are in the 'wrong' place with the 'wrong' person because the 'right' person just isn't ready for you yet. Yes, Ted is annoying but that's how annoyed we all feel when we watch a friend just keeps going after the wrong people and hurt themselves. I still hate the ending but I can live with it because the rest of the show just teaches me so damn much. Maybe I need another post dedicated to just HIMYM because I have a lot more to say.
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