August is OVER. Summer is OVER. Bring on fall!! I'm so happy to say hello to my favorite time of the year and feel like myself again. Yet, the summer was good for me. I had so much fun with my friends, relaxed, worked on my mental health, and feel like I'm in a great place.   I'm ready to welcome the fall …

As I mentioned in the past two Manicure Monday posts, I'm working my way through trying some Olive & June polishes for the first time and that includes the newish Stoney Clover Lane collaboration with the nail polish brand. This year, I tried the shade " KAG " named after one of the Stoney Clover fou…

Friday is here once again! This week went super fast for a few reasons: work was manageable, fall drinks were back at Starbucks and I worked in my dining room all week. I've been working in my room every single day since January and it was really time for me to change my scenery. Changing up the routine and leavin…

I have always been fascinated by millennials. I mean, I am a millennial but for my entire life, I've heard criticisms of my generation. We're lazy, entitled, anxious, depressed, etc. We are a generation that has inherited a lot of turmoil and has been surrounded by it our entire lives. We are the first generat…

Three years ago I wrote about how I manage my finances and how I use Google Docs to do so, and that system still works for me.  However, somewhere along the way, I knew I needed some automatic tracking to see where my everyday spending money was going. I've tried a few different apps, including Mint, but when I …

As mentioned last week , I've been all-in on Olive & June lately! I was going to use this week to paint my nails with another Stoney Clover collab color but I had some other Olive & June shades calling my name, Back in July, I was shopping at Target when I saw a bunch of Olive & June on clearance. I …

Happy Friday! I was really sick this week (the Covid test was negative thank goodness) but it knocked me out so badly. I worked from bed on Tuesday & Wednesday because I could not get dressed and sit at my desk. Then, Thursday I thought I was better but an hour into work and I had to call out sick. Today, I had a…

I don't know where I discovered this book but I am so happy I did. There was something about the cover, the Romeo & Juliet type of love affair that came across in the description, that drew me in completely. "A Pho Love Story" by Loan Le is a beautiful story about love, life, family, and culture... …

When I started Royally Pink in 2012, Kate Spade was my everything. That lasted up until a few years ago when I started to not like what the brand was putting out. It made me sad because Kate Spade spoke to me on such a deep level. Everything they were releasing was kitschy and cute, it was basically my personality at …

If you know me IRL or follow me on social media, my love of Stoney Clover Lane knows no bounds. It's a bit of an obsession, sometimes unhealthy but I've always had that kind of personality. I love the things I love, and I love them hard. I cannot help it!  When I found out that Stoney Clover was doing a collab…

Another roundup, another tiring week behind me. I simply don't know how I got through this week because the sheer amount of work I had to do was outrageous. I'm hoping things slow down soon because my days are just jam-packed. However, I have been implementing some habits that have been keeping me sane and in …

Earlier this year I read "The Family Plot" by Megan Collins, a thriller novel that is set for release next week and I was obsessed. It's probably the best book I've read this year and somewhere along the way, I realized I had her other book " Behind the Red Door " on my Kindle from Netgalle…

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about the newsletters that I love to read. Everyone responded really well to that so I figured I'd do a part two, in a way, with my favorite and most visited websites. If you didn't know, I am a very big reader not only of books but articles and blogs as well. I love staying inf…

Back-to-school shopping was always my favorite time of the year. I loved roaming the aisles of Staples, choosing my new pens, pencils, and notebooks, and making a fresh start for the new year. I've always been someone who loved writing, being organized, planning and having options when it comes to notebooks.  I al…

Does anyone else go out, not drink a lot/not get drunk and still feel like they are hungover? That's how I feel right now so I'm in bed, reading & watching Grey's Anatomy, trying to feel better. It was well worth it though because I celebrated two of my best friends getting married, with a lot of my c…

I'm a big fan of Ruth Ware and love almost everything I've read by her (with the exception of The Death of Mrs. Westaway). I've been falling behind in reading her latest releases so I'm definitely late to the game with "The Turn of the Key" but I had to review it anyway. It's been on my…

I have spent most of my adult life looking for the perfect pair of jeans. I don't wear jeans often mostly because I spend my days in leggings and because I have never found jeans that fit me just right. For a while, I thought that American Eagle jeans were perfect for me because they fit right, were decently price…