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Tips & Tricks

Tips and tricks for traveling, living, and making mountains out of molehills.

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    Hello From Bucharest, Romania

    October 29, 2017
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  • What I Packed and What I Wore

    My Carryon “Personal Item” Never Has Enough Room For Yarn

    September 27, 2017

    Now that I’ve written the war & peace of rolling carryon suitcases, what about that vaguely named “one personal item” we’re allowed to carry on in the cabin? There’s Your Carry On Bag, and Then There’s Your Carry-Arround Bag If you don’t care to read all about wheelie bag suitcases…

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  • Sewing

    Our Halloween Pajama Pants Have French Seams, So There’s That

    September 25, 2017

    These monster-eyed Halloween pajama pants are the first sewing project I’ve done in years! Getting my guest room finally sorted gave me space to set up my machine and make pajama magic. Yesterday I wrote all about my sewing machine situation. Today it’s all about the pants. Supplies & Stuff…

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  • TravelWhat I Packed and What I Wore

    How To Buy A Great Rolling Carry-On Suitcase For (Way) Under $100

    September 15, 2017
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  • NavelgazingTravel

    Thursday Q&A: My Desk, Travel Hair Towels, Language Barrier When Crazy Touristing, and all the rest

    September 14, 2017

    Good morning! That picture above is from a past trip to Paris. I remember the exact day I took the photo, it was in 2015 just a few days after Christmas. I had gotten a little lost in an unfamiliar part of the city and as I was walking back…

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  • InternationalTravel

    Where Am I Finding All These Amazing Flight Deals? Meet Google Flights, My New Best Friend

    September 7, 2017

    Everyone loves a trip. But if you aren’t obsessively watching flights and all you remember is that one time you tried to go to London back in 2004 and a coach ticket was $1800 roundtrip, you may think international travel is a money pit. So how I am able to…

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  • TravelWhat I Packed and What I Wore

    Skirted Leggings Are My Lifeline, Floral Nikes All Day Long, + Other Questions & Answers

    September 5, 2017
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  • Navelgazing

    Friday is Travel Day (I Hope)

    August 18, 2017

    It is 9:14 a.m. and I am eating microwave macaroni and cheese and drinking coffee, so yay for Travel Day. Well, at least I hope it is travel day. Online check in did not go well last night, oddly a repeat of my June experience with British Airways and Finnair.…

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  • InternationalTravel

    Working Them Angles in Helsinki Using My New FishEye iPhone Lens

    June 23, 2017

    Today I got to try something new in my obsessive picture taking. One of my loverly birthday presents from the Captain was a super cool clip-on fisheye camera lens for my iPhone. A fisheye lens is a type of wide-angle lens that lets more visual information into the view. It…

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  • InternationalTravel

    I Can Haz Boarding Pass Please?

    June 20, 2017
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"Where are we going and why are we in this handbasket?"

Right now I am …

Starting to take some of the improvements from the guest room and add them to my bedroom, like this cool power outlet for the bedside table. I’m hoping it helps with the constant problem of needing to charge all devices simultaneously.


Still obsessing over Sew Over It and Lisa Comfort, the lady boss behind it all. Here is her site, YouTube vlog, and Insta. I bought pretty much every pattern they have during the recent 30% off sale.


Currently reading The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss. I need this book to help me but I don’t have enough time to read this book because I’m working nonstop, so…


Interested in these silica gel packets for my yarn stash. Does anyone out there add these to ziplock baggies of yarn?


Listening to lovely Carla Bruni singing “Quelqu’un m’a dit.”


 Trying some cedar oil in my oil diffuser to ward off summer pests



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The barn cats came out to investigate the snow with us at 5 am!
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