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 Joyful Body 🌷 16: Secret to youthfulness (part 1) Joyful Body 🌷 Home °　˖　✧　✧　˖　°　°　˖　✧　✧　˖　° Blog Home 🌷 Wardrobe ✧ Homemaking ✧ Body What practices do you do to retain youthfulness? In this convenient modern society, we have plenty of choices in making this happen, including applying makeup / skincare, dressing up, working out, cosmetic surgeries, or taking supplements.  For the 30+ years of my life, those are the some of the only methods I thought to have existed. After giving birth to my last baby in 2019, I was curious about what I can do with my body, now that I've reclaimed it. I used to take gymnastic classes when I was little, doing moves like splits, bow postures, and cartwheels. Just became I became a mom didn't I should let my body retire, in fact, I thought this was a grand opportunity to take on a whole new adventure, to building a youthful body! In order to achieve a youthful body at age 60 or 70, which is 3 - 4 decades from now, I had to start now, so havin...

 Homemaking Tips 🌷 16: Room make over (part 2) Homemaking Tips 🌷 Home °　˖　✧　✧　˖　°　°　˖　✧　✧　˖　° Blog Home 🌷 Wardrobe ✧ Homemaking ✧ Body Welcome to another post of room make over session! In part 1 Homemaking 🌷 7: Room makeover (part 1) , I shared the before & after of the same room taken from another angle. Today, I'm sharing the before & after from the other end of the room. Have you ever tried doing a room make over before, and what was your reason? My reason was (mentioned from time to time in this blog), because I had my last baby in 2019 and during my maternity leave, I came across the Life-changing magic of tidying up by Marie Kondo and minimalism (KonMari isn't exactly minimalism, but her methods provide great help for those who want to achieve simple living). These ideas struck me and I felt a sudden englightment, that I decided to use my maternity leave to switch up my room, filled with clutter and visual distractions, to a calm and peaceful place. We'r...

   Homemaking Tips 🌷 15: Home office & Homeschool setups Homemaking Tips 🌷 Home °　˖　✧　✧　˖　°　°　˖　✧　✧　˖　° Blog Home 🌷 Wardrobe ✧ Homemaking ✧ Body In 2020, the pandemic hit. It was unexpected, unpredictable, and unimaginable.  Suddenly, for those of us who worked and attended school outside of our homes, had to now do everything from home. Were our homes ready for this? Even with the help of the internet, maybe over 99% of the time, we weren't ready.  Our homes were probably very already congested, and where were we going to place our laptops, equipment, books, and all other work/school supplies? It was a tough year for the mankind. However, this transition could really have done us either extreme bad or good, depending on how we decided to manage it all. There might not have been anything we could've done in terms of health conditions, but for those who were and are still healthy from then til now, we have a choice to take this as an advantage to make it work....

 Capsule Wardrobe 🌷 16: Black & White Wardrobe (part 1) Capsule Wardrobe 🌷 Home °　˖　✧　✧　˖　°　°　˖　✧　✧　˖　° Blog Home 🌷 Wardrobe ✧ Homemaking ✧ Body  In part 1, I shared my very first version of office work capsule wardrobe which I created around 2019.  Wardrobe 🌷 1: The Introduction As time went by and my body shape changed from doing intermittent fasting and workouts, I needed to update my work clothes as well. For this wardrobe update, I also changed the style from a set that was subtly colorful to B&W (black and white). There were 2 main reasons I decided to go for a new B&W selection: 1. A coworker in my office always wore black clothes, and that, I felt, always have her a definition, she appeared very confident all the time.  One time I told her I loved her simplicity, she said yes, it just makes decision making easier and she can simply focus on her work (which explains her confidence). 2. It was also around this time, that I discovered Marie Kond...

 Joyful Body 🌷 15: My paleo meals (part 2) Joyful Body 🌷 Home °　˖　✧　✧　˖　°　°　˖　✧　✧　˖　° Blog Home 🌷 Wardrobe ✧ Homemaking ✧ Body Read part 1 here:  My Paleo meals (part 1) Paleo diet is also known as the caveman or stone-age diet, is the kind of food what our ancestors hunted and gathered hundreds of thousands of years ago.  Our bodies, in reality, have not changed so much compared to those times, therefore the closer food choices we have as our ancestors, the happier our gut. Read this post for why gut health is important:  Body 🌷 6: The origin of "good health" Since I've adopted 16/8 intermittent fasting (fast 16 hrs and eat during 8hr window), which provides merits such as preventing the overuse of my digestive systems, generate autophagy (something that rejuvenates our bodies), I thought I'd do more good for my body and skin by eating Paleo food too.  Choosing this option is also super time saving, because I'm a working from home mom of 2 little boys, and...

 Capsule Wardrobe 🌷 15: Crash course Capsule Wardrobe 🌷 Home °　˖　✧　✧　˖　°　°　˖　✧　✧　˖　° Blog Home 🌷 Wardrobe ✧ Homemaking ✧ Body Have hundreds of clothes in your wardrobe? Need to downsize? Want to do this with the speed of light? Today, I welcome you to a boot camp course of wardrobe elimination. For this post, I'm using my husband's clothes, because I've already built my capsule wardrobe. Reasons I'm eliminating his clothes: ✓ He always wears the same things, even though he has other ones with the same purpose. ✓ There are unopened / untouched items he received as gifts or bought as souvenirs ✓ He's not an outgoing person ✓ The unworn clothes are taking up more space than the ones he wears (80/20 rule) ✓ He has no attachment to clothes I think these criteria apply to a lot of us. For anyone, regardless of gender, occupation, or age, there will be a point where they'll realize that the wardrobe is now full, and they need a good speedy demolishing session, so h...