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Postcards from August 2024

Summer 2024 may be over, but today we're taking a little trip back to reminisce on some highlights from my favourite month.

The (very) late summer highlights recap Summer 2024 may be over, but it doesn’t mean we can’t take a look back at it today, right? This comes quite late, since I have been quite M.I.A. on the blogsphere lately, but I thought I’d come back from my blogging holidays with a little round-up of the highlights of the month on August (aka the Month of Me, as I like to call it). A weekend trip by the…

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Mid year book update: what I've read so far

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A little update on my readings Since we are now officially well into the middle of the year, I thought I’d do an update on the books I’ve read so far and where I’m at with my Goodreads reading challenge. I like reading very much, but I am not in the 100+-books-read-in-6-months gang (yet? Who knows eh). My goal this year is to read 15 books, so 3 more than last year. So far, so good, I have read…

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My favourite podcasts to listen to at my 9 to 5 job

Who said you couldn’t work and listen to a podcast at the same time? Since my working days are for the most part spent sitting at my desk, I tend to gravitate towards podcasts and audiobooks to “spice up” the sound environment of keyboards and mouse clicks. I find that they are less distracting than listening to music. I mean, trying to stay silent while your favourite artist is hitting that…

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Summer sales: what I got to refresh my wardrobe for summer

New blog post! Blog posts left to write: 180!

This year, I was rea-dy for summer sales! Over the years, my fashion purchases have become so sporadic, that I can’t remember the last time I bought new clothes during sales. But this season, I was prepared! I browsed on my favourite online stores, window shopped after work, assessed what my wardrobe was missing; did some calculating, discount searching and even prepared my shopping carts in…

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Finally back to my good old reading ways

New blog post up! Blog posts left to write: 181.

& celebrating by extending my TBR as well *oopsie* All it took was a trip to the library to return a photography book (that I didn’t even read properly, even though I extended the borrowing period) and a very exhausting day at work to get back into my love of reading, read 3 books consecutively and extend my TBR as well! It’s always all or nothing up in here! I started 2024 with a bit of a…

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Making my Pinterest photography board come to life

New blog post up! xoxo Anissa.

Still continuing on the photography journey, here! For the past few months, I’ve been taking online classes with Studio Jiminy, which offers various courses to learn the basics of photography but also to n more specific genres of photography: sports, street, wildlife, portraits and so on. I have learned so much in just a few days! I still have a lot more to learn and there are so many courses I…

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The big blogging project

Objective: 183 blog posts by the end of the year! Tomorrow we’ll officially enter the second half of the year! 183 days to try our best to make our 2024 vision board a reality (while hopefully enjoying ourselves on the journey!) One of my 2024 goals being to publish more blog posts, I thought I’d do this by challenging myself a bit. Well, a lot in fact: I am going to try blogging everyday until…

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My favourite hair accessories to wear this Winter

& all year round! I love wearing hair accessories! Ever since High School I believe, when Gossip Girl was slowly becoming one of my all time favourite TV show, I have been playing with hair ties, headscarves and (of course!) headbands. It is such a fun way to play with your hair, spice up your look and experiment with different hairstyles as well. These days bows are all the rage and if you…

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Building a routine with little weekly traditions

The living alone diaries I have been living in my flat for about a year and a half now (🎉!!), but however long it may seem, until recently I still didn’t felt quite settled in. Then I realised that it might have been because I didn’t really have a routine here. To try and change that, I’ve since then started implementing little traditions in my weeks – other than the usual chores such as…

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Favourite photography inspirations: photography journey #2

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What’s new on my Pinterest boards #3

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Always pinning away! I think I should do these blog posts every month, because I feel like I keep adding new inspirations to my Pinterest boards daily! This time, I’m sharing with you the latest additions to 3 of my board, that will hopefully inspire you in the Style, Photography and Hair departments. Let me know which one are your favourites! Je passe tellement de temps sur Pinterest à ajouter…

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Favourite things of the week #2

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Celebrating the little and bigger things of the week As November comes to an end in a few days and with it the last few weeks of Autumn, I thought I’d dedicate a blog post to celebrate the highlights of this week. Little things that brought newness, joy or just some nice wholesome vibes. I definitely encourage you to do some reflecting as well! Let me know what highlighted Your week in the…

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What I would buy if I had the budget

Welcome to my wishlist: delulu edition! Although sales are afoot and for some countries Black Friday deals have already started, it is also the middle of the month, which means that bills were paid, groceries bought, therefore money is starting to be a little on the low side (at least for me). So instead of being completely irresponsible spending my (lack of) money without thinking, I thought…

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Learning to take better pictures: photography journey #1

Let’s hope for an improvement in my pictures in the near future on this blog! I have always wanted to get better at photography and now more than ever is the time to do so! The books are in libraries to be found, there are YouTube for tutorials, and the interest is very much here so we are finally getting to it. Since I want to take more and more good care of this space of mine on the Internet,…

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The longest TBR ever known to humankind

It might not actually be the longest one ever, but you know, I love me some dramatism. It is time to stop procrastinating and finally face the dreaded TBR! Is a TBR ever fully tackled or is it just wishful thinking on an unachievable life quest? Well, I am going to try and find out. But first I have to lay it all there on my little corner of the Internet! Let’s hope it’s big enough for it…

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Recreating outfits from my Pinterest 'STYLE' board

From Pinterest to reality! We all have these Pinterest boards full of outfit inspirations, trends we’d like to try, style combos and pieces we’d like to add to our closets. However how many times do you really recreate them? I for myself can say that it is not as much as the number of pins that are in my STYLE board. To be honest, less than the fingers on my hands! So today I’m trying to go…

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Starting my New Year's resolutions NOW

While some are already in their Winter holidays mindset, I am mentally in 2024. Last weekend, my friends came over for a long awaited PPT party (finally made it out of the group chat!) and our talks on life &c. inspired me to write today’s blog post. It is important to realise that starting a new routine, a new hobby, or try to change things in your life to become the person you want to be,…