For those of you who love my dog Teddy, he has his own Instagram account! You can follow him at @bichonteddy.
Here are some more funny Simpsons books from my Tumblr!
It’s holiday season. That means tons of social events with work, family and friends. My life has a lot of that stuff in general but around the holidays, a lot of it can be condensed into a short period of time.
What a lot of people don’t seem to know – and I have definitely improved on – is my social anxiety.
I often feel like my mind has left my body and am watching myself feeling like a tomato in a room full of potatoes.
That was probably a bizarre comparison but I often feel like everyone is so confident with small talk (or talking in general) that I don’t know what to say. Or worse it comes out as verbal diarrhea.
The thing I realized is: I’m not alone.
I had a meet up the other day and an artist that I was hanging out with, who is a totally badass performer live had the same shyness and anxieties in the room that I did. We talked to each other about being afraid to chat with people but then proceeded to think of opening lines. It was kind of fun to know that someone else was having similar reservations, especially someone who is super confident on stage.
We met and bonded with some new people. It’s totally okay to be a ball of nervous energy.
My friend Jimena recently Kickstarted the first in a series of books for girls. Queens Girls are stories of real women turned into fairy tales in hopes of inspiring girls to follow their dreams. They want to break the stereotypical roles girls are usually put into in stories: the caretaker or the love interest.
With each book purchase, they’ll also donate it to a child struggling to dream. I love this idea!
The first one will be of Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman in the world to get a pilot’s license.
The illustrations are beautiful and I can’t wait to see what else they will release.
Check out their Kickstarter for more info!
I’ve always wanted to try a dark coloured lip stick so I picked Shany’s Persian Blue on Amazon. It looked super dark in the tube.
I think my lips are dark and probably require some concealer before bright colours because it turned out more purple. I think I still look beauty goth though!
Self-care may seem like a millennial buzzword that has come up a lot lately but personally, I think it’s important.
I took the idea of self-care Sundays from Estée Lalonde’s book Bloom and created my own version. Essentially, it’s taking some time weekly to perform a routine you personally find relaxing. I like Sundays because it gets you into the right state of mind before starting a new week.
Here is what my Self-care Sunday looks like:
You can literally do anything you want as your set of tasks as long as it’s relaxing whether it’s make a cup of tea, watch the sunset, whatever. I like my routine because I have so many beauty products, it is fun to have a night to dedicate to actually using them. These are things I often don’t think I have time to do but there’s always time if you allow it to happen. Also, Nash knows to let me have this time to myself!
Do you have a self-care day? What do you do?
I did the 2016 Best 9 thing for Instagram and all my most liked photos seem to be rather solitary activities like listening to vinyl, the dog, landscape and of course selfies. Only 2/9 are concert related photos which was super surprising!
I’ve had an eventful 2016 and I hope 2017 will be even better!
Holiday potlucks are where I bring my Pinterest boards to life. I found an easy recipe for some Pizza Muffins from The Recipe Rebel and tested it out!
This recipe doesn’t require too many ingredients. I picked up a fancy jar of salsa, pepperoni, mozzarella, peppers and wonton wrappers. You can substitute the cheese, meat and vegetables for anything you want. Wonton wrappers are easy to find in the frozen section of an Asian grocery store and some Loblaws.
The sauce, vegetables and meat are mixed together in a bowl. Everything needs to be cut up into tiny pieces or there will be some chunky bites and be hard to fill.
In an oiled muffin pan, one wonton wrapper is laid at the bottom of each hole. Then a layer of sauce. Then another wonton wrapper in a different angle. And then another layer of sauce. It is then topped off with cheese and then baked in the oven at 350 degrees Farenheit.
The recipe I used said 15 minutes was enough but I found my wontons weren’t crunchy when I took it out, so I left them in for 20 minutes.
They are best served fresh out of the oven but do reheat ok the next day. It just won’t be as crunchy!
These are so easy it makes the best pizza snack because who doesn’t like pizza!
I also got this adorable Stranger Things tee from Teefury. It features all the kid stars!
Eleven even has an Eggo in her hand!
I found the cutest Sailor Moon Christmas Sweater on Tee Fury! I don’t think I will ever be too old for my favourite female super heroes.
Tiana Feng 