It’s now the last week of July, which is when many avid readers talk online about their mid year reading goals. Since I decided to make a reading goal for myself in January, and I… More
My Search for Camping Gear for Summer 2026- How the Search is Going and Changes in Plans
Earlier this year, I wrote two posts about my search for and desire to buy camping gear, specifically camping chairs and a tent or canopy. Since I wrote those posts, the time I consider the peak summer time period (Late May through mid July) has passed. Because time has passed since I wrote those posts, I want to write an update post about my search for camping gear.
A Little Update on What I’ve Been Doing on My Blogging Break & Why I Don’t Want to Post About It
For the past few weeks, during my blogging break, I’ve been working on cleaning out my house. It was not the only thing I did during my break, but it is the activity that took up most of my free time. I have a lot of things in my house and it’s time to let a lot of them go. I wanted to do this major clean out of my house for many years, and I have been going through my things for years and getting rid of them, but that wasn’t enough. So, I’m committed to focus on cleaning out my house as much as possible whenever I have the time to do it.
Since this takes time, I haven’t been able to think of a lot of a lot of blog post ideas. Even if I have ideas, I don’t have the time and/or energy to work on them. Still, I’m thinking about things and wondering what direction I want to take my blog and posts towards.
During my clean out, I found many things I want to get rid of, but don’t want to talk about online. I just want to search through things, decide what to do with them, and actually do what I decide to do with them. I don’t want the added stress of explaining my reasons for my decisions online!
An Early Happy 4th of July and A Late June 2026 Life Update
Hi there everyone! It’s been a few weeks since I published a post on my blogs. (This one and Essie of Who) Since it has been so long since I published posts on here or posted much online, I wanted to sit down and talk about why I’m taking a break from blogging.
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Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah Book Review
Years ago, I read Where the Forest Meets the Stars for the first time. It is the debut novel of Glendy Vanderah. Since reading it for the first time, I have read many other books and forgot most of the book sans the main plot. I did remember it was a sad book that ended on a happy note.
Earlier this year, I found my copy of Where the Forest Meets the Stars and decided to reread it. I was hoping to remember what made me think it is a sad book and the parts of the plot I forgot. Once I finished reading it, I wanted to write a book review about it. Lately I have been reading and writing a lot of book reviews about young adult novels that are either for future post or the posts have already published. This book is very different than the young adult novels, so it is a nice break from all the teenager themed novels I’ve been reading!
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Gradchanted by Morgan Matson Book Review
Around this time last year, Gradchanted was published. It is the second book in the book collaboration between young adult author Morgan Matson and Disney.
When it was published, I debated if I should purchase it. Although I have some praiseworthy things to say about the first book in the collaboration between Morgan and Disney, I didn’t like it a lot. After thinking about it for a while, I decided to purchase it to see how I’d like it. Since that time, I have read and reread the book a few times and decided to share some of my opinions in this review. I already reviewed Promchanted, the first book in the collaboration. You can read the review here.
4 Book Releases I’m Excited for in 2026
This year has been an interesting year for books and I. I have been reading through my home library of books and discovered I own quite a few books I don’t like. Since I’m struggling to find a book I like to read in my home library, I don’t want to purchase any books right now. That way I won’t be adding new books to my library while I read what I already own.
Even though I don’t want to purchase any new books, I have been purchasing books second hand that I want to reread to see if I want to keep them. Also, I have been looking at the new releases. For the most part, I’m not interested in the new releases. There are reasons why, but the main one is because I’m now particular about the books I purchase and read.
Despite this, there are four new book releases I’m really excited about. I am so excited about the books that I preordered them! I am really looking forward to reading them when they are finally released!
Gain x Wicked: For Good Fantabulous Floral Flings Laundry Detergent Review
In 2025, the laundry detergent brand Gain, as well as many other brands, released collaboration collections to promote the movie, Wicked: For Good. The collection Gain released included a detergent and two in-wash scent boosters.
During a shopping trip to my favorite Walmart, I found the Gain collection for sale. It had the detergent and one of the two scent boosters. I debated if I wanted to buy them, but after shopping around the store some more, I decided to buy the detergent and scent boosters.
I originally planed on using the detergent and scent boosters and then write a review on this blog before the end of 2025. Unfortunately, things got in my way, causing me to delay using both the detergent and scent booster for my wash. Even though it is 2026, I wanted to talk about my experience using them in posts. As of the publishing of this post, the only product I was able to finish using is the detergent. Because of this, I want to talk about the detergent first.
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Fragrances I Want to Try at Sephora- April 2026
Earlier this week, I published a post about the new fragrances I want to try at Ulta Beauty. After searching for fragrances at other stores, I found some that I would like to try as well. The ones that stood out the most to me are from Sephora.
Sephora has a lot of fragrances I want to try, but I narrowed my list down to seven fragrances for this post. Some of the fragrances are available to purchase at Ulta Beauty and other stores that sell fine fragrances, but there are others that are exclusive to Sephora. Please check Sephora’s website to see if each of the fragrances are exclusive to Sephora and/or are available only on Sephora’s website.
All the photographs of the fragrances used in this post are from the listings on Sephora’s website. They are edited by me for use in this post.
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Favorite Pieces from The Devil Wears Prada 2 x Scoop Collection at Walmart
The world premiere of the movie, The Devil Wears Prada 2, was on Monday, April 20, 2026. Due to the popularity of the first movie and the amount of time it took for the sequel to come to fruition, it looks like The Devil Wears Prada 2 will be a popular movie. Also, it looks like there will be merchandise inspired by the movie for fans to buy.
One of the tie-in collections and merchandise with The Devil Wears Prada 2 movie is with Walmart’s in-house clothing brand, Scoop. The collection includes clothing, shoes, jewelry, and accessories. The clothing has a business casual style and would be great for the office and going out after work.
After looking through the collection, I decided to pick my favorite pieces from the collection and show them in a post. As of the publishing of this post, some of the sizes and colors of the clothing are sold out. Keep this in mind before shopping for the pieces in this collection!
All product photographs used in this post are from the product listings on Walmart’s website. The photographs have been edited by me for this post. This post is not sponsored and all opinions are my own.
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Fragrances I Want to Try at Ulta Beauty- April 2026
Every year, new fragrances are released. Sometimes I like them, sometimes I don’t. This year, I really like several fragrances that have been released.
Whenever I found new fragrances I liked, I would write a post about my favorites. I haven’t done this in quite a while due to my dislike to most of the new fragrances that were released. Now that there are new fragrances I like, I decided to bring this back.
I wanted to share my favorite fragrances from specific stores. Some fragrances are available to purchase at those stores, so I wanted to dedicate favorite fragrance posts to the stores I normally shop at. For the first store, I will talk about the new fragrances I like from Ulta Beauty.
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