All my little nows

“Forever is composed of nows.” Emily Dickinson Personal blog about single living, feminist homemaking, and a conscientious lifestyle from a 27-year-old homeowner. Making the most of each day, adulting skills, food, art, and cats. ☕️🐈✨📷

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Video that heals your soul around this time of the year  by 해그린달 haegreendal

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Jennifer J. Lee at Château Shatto

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Mini Pumpkin Sheet Cake with Brown Butter Frosting

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let’s watch classic horror films & makeout

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Apple Spice Cake

So easy and tasty and autumnal. 🍂🍎

Ingredients:

3 medium size apples

1 cup of flour

1 teaspoon of baking soda

1 egg

1/4 cup of oil

13 tablespoons of sugar

1 tablespoon of brown sugar

1 teaspoon of cinnamon

1/2 each of any other fall spices you have on hand — nutmeg, ground ginger, ground allspice or ground cloves (optional)

Mix your egg, oil, sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon and other spices together until fully combined.

Peel and slice your apples. Place cut pieces in the spice mixture and cover them as you go.

Mix together baking soda and flour. Stir through spice mixture with a fork until all dry ingredients are absorbed.

Pour mixture into a small greased cake pan (like a 9” circle or 8x8 square).

Bake for 40 minutes at 350 Fahrenheit.

Look at those apple chunks. 🍎😋

Inspired by: 

One Bowl Apple Cake

This is an easy recipe and great way to use extra apples that you have in your kitchen.

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Jordan Nassar at Anat Ebgi

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This reminds me of home.

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How to make microwave breakfasts way less depressing

Because you deserve to eat well even if you don’t have time to, don’t want to, or can’t cook.

You start with something like this:

How very ... beige.

Word to the wise, look in the refrigerated sections of your store first, particularly of you want eggs or egg-subs as part of your meal — the texture is usually better than frozen.

Heat it according to package instructions — you don’t want it to overheat and be left with dried-out starches or styrofoam-esque eggs.

Ok, so once you’ve done that, you’re left with the hot version of what you saw above. Now to make it edible.

Have a starch?

Add a drizzle of olive oil (or melted butter or margarine)

Spice it up! Start with salt and pepper and then add on based on what you have. Suggestions include: garlic or onion powder, paprika, chives, cayenne powder, red pepper flakes, or any flavored salt.

Eggs? You can:

Salt and pepper as normal

Bland? Sprinkle a little cheese on top

Or add a little heat: red pepper flakes or a dash of tobasco sauce

Dry eggs despite your best efforts? Add a tiny amount of mayo (regular or vegan) and stir through hot eggs for added moisture

You can also add in extra veggies, bacon bits, or whatever else sounds good. Just because it wasn’t included doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be good. 🤷‍♀️

And the finished product! Not bad for a three minute breakfast.

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homemaking as a rejection of capitalism

homemaking as a feminist practice

homemaking as self care

homemaking as a protest

homemaking as a connection to my maternal ancestors

homemaking to dismantle the patriarchy from inside out

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Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson.

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thewildspiritwitch on TikTok

part 1 🕸 #samhain #samhainseason #tarotspread #witchtokhelp

Really awesome Samhain tarot spread.

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Billsafi on Insta

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If you’re an adult, do the stuff you couldn’t as a kid.

Like, me and my sister went to a museum, and they had an extra exhibit of butterflies. But it cost £3. So we sighed, walked past, then stopped. We each had £3. We could see the butterflies. And we did it was great. We followed it up with an ice-cream as well because Mum and Dad weren’t there to say no.

I was driving back from a work trip with 2 other people in their early 20s, and we drove past a MacDonalds. One of the others went “Aww man, I’d love a McFlurry.” And the guy driving pulled in to the drive through. It was wild. But it was great.

I went to a park over the weekend and I was thinking “Man, I’d love to hire one of those bikes and cycle round the park.” It took me a few minutes to go “Wait, I can hire one of those bikes!”

I guess what I’m saying is, those impulsive things you wanted to do as a kid - see the dinosaur exhibit, play in the fountains with the other kids, lie in the shade for 2 hours - you can do when you’re an adult. You have to deal with a whole lot of other bull, but at least you can indulge your inner 8 year-old.

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Found this at Aldi...

Looks promising.

And the final product. He isn’t perfect, but who is? On a movie night snack plate with dried apricots, dark chocolate and tortilla chips (that I totally turned into single serve nachos later).

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Samhain Pt. 1

Things to focus on during Samhain include:

- Divination.

- Communicating with lost loved ones.

- New beginnings.

- Ending toxic traits.

- Remembering the dead.

- Receiving clarity.

- Banishing.

- Past lives.

- Protection.

Things you can use to decorate include:

- Pumpkins

- Autumn leaves

- Apples

- Cauldron

- Broom sticks

- Witches hat

- Skeletons

- Pomegranate

- Crescent moon

- Bones

Symbols:

- A full moon (Happy Full Moon! 0ct. 31].

- Jack o lantern

- Black cat

- Skulls

- Ghost

- Waning moon

- Scarecrow

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Happy October Everyone ✨🎃🍂🕯👻

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Here is a list of some YouTube ASMR ambiences/soundscapes (they’re all hyperlinked, so click away!) Unlike traditional ASMR, these videos do not feature any people. Talented YouTubers have used software to create rendered environments with layered sounds, with many of these ambiences inspired from fantasy to others based in reality. I find music with lyrics to be distracting sometimes, but these are great background noises for focusing, studying, doing homework, and even for relaxing. Enjoy and good luck ♡

LIBRARY SOUNDSCAPES

1. Royal Library | Rain and Thunderstorm Sounds on Study Ambience with Crackling Fireplace 

By New Bliss 

2. LIBRARY AMBIENCE: Writing Sounds, Whispering, Pages Turning, Rain, Fireplace 

by Autumn Cozy 

3. Ambience/ASMR: Writer’s Library from the 1930s, 4 Hours

by Ambience of Yesteryear

4. Study Ambience / Library Sounds / 3 Hours #241

By Winter Whale ASMR

5. Harry Potter inspired ASMR - Hogwarts Library REMAKE - Animated ambient soundscape cinemagraph

By ASMR rooms 

CAFE SOUNDSCAPES

1. Rainy Day at Coffee Shop & Jazz Music | ASMR Ambience 4K

By Cozy Corner 

2. [ASMR/Ambience]cafe after closing on a rainy urban night

By Sound Forest 

3. Coffeehouse ASMR Ambience

By Miracle Forest 

4. 1 Hour of Tea Shop Ambience | Background Noise | Cafe Ambient Sounds

By Nocturnal House 

5. ASMR Increase Concentration Tokyo Cafe Study Ambience for Homework & School

By asmr soupe 

COZY SOUNDSCAPES

1. 🎧 Cozy Ambience Bedroom - Rain on the Windows of the Rainy Night View of the City 10 Hours | Sleep

By The Relaxing Town 

2. Cozy Cabin Ambience - Writer’s Room with 8 Hours of Rain, Thunder and Fire Sounds

By Calmed by Nature 

3. Bed Breakfast ☕ Snowy Morning [ASMR] Cozy Cabin Ambience ❄️️ Winter Day with Little Bunny friend 🐰

By ASMR Weekly 

4. Rain sounds | cozy cabin | Sleep, Study, Meditation 10 hours

By White Noise Tranquility 

5. Cozy Winter Cottage | Snowstorm and Fireplace Sounds | blizzard | 10hours

By dreamy sound 

INSPIRED BY SOUNDSCAPES

1. ASMR Mystical and Noble Atmosphere of Slytherin Common Room●Harry Potter 3D Ambient Sound

By asmr soupe 

2. Lord of the Rings Inspired ASMR - the Green Dragon Inn - Medieval Tavern Ambience and Animations

By ASMR rooms 

3. ⛩ Spirited Away’s Dormitory - 1 Hour - Ghibli ASMR Soundscape

By Vibrating Art 

4. Twin Peaks Double R Diner Ambience - 8 Hours of Smooth Jazz Music, Rain Sounds, & Cozy Cafe Ambience

By Calmed by Nature 

5. A Moving Castle Type ASMR Ambience

By Miracle Forest 

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This is so great for working from home, especially if you don’t like silence. Or if you’re self-employed and usually work in coffee shops but can’t because of the big you-know-what.

Also, adding my favorite background track:

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Cheese biscuits

These are a reworking of an old family recipe by my great-aunt Evelyn, who was pretty awesome by all accounts. She’d make huge batches of these to give out as Christmas presents. Tasty, cheesy, and spicy, they’re great as party food (would be good on a snack board with apples) or just for snacking.

Ingredients:

1 cup flour

1 stick melted butter or margarine

2 cups of grated, extra sharp cheddar cheese

1/2 teaspoon of salt

1/2 teaspoon of red pepper flakes (can substitute cayenne pepper if you really like things spicy)

Mix ingredients together and form a ball of dough. Roll the dough out to pinky finger thickness, cut out with an inch wide cookie cutter.

Can’t be bothered with all that? Just pinch bits of the mix off of the ball and roll into gumball-size balls. Place on a greased baking sheet and flatten with a fork.

Bake at 350 Fahrenheit for 10 minutes.