styled living simply achieved by Jacqueline deMontravel
If my bed were reincarnated it would be as a runway model, changing looks within a pivot backstage. COVID-19 has its plus sides, like more time spent in the bedroom, innocently speaking, my parents read this. Creating looks in the same manner as fashion whims keeps the home updated and is an easy, affordable way to test new looks and find the design you love.
Choosing one strong accent color with a geometric pattern can set a bed’s theme.
There’s the dad who threw their kids in the deep end of the pool to teach them how to swim to those who did a background check on any guy you dated. They embarrass, enlighten, support and demand what seems unachievable because they know you can do it.
Father’s Day ideas in the year of being at home more with family.
In the year of COVID-19, Father’s Day gifts that relate to the quarantine experience is this year’s theme. There has been a rise in purchases for sporting goods, men’s skincare and niche cooking accessories. The kind of gifts that make them feel good, look better and elevate simple experiences–sort of like what our dads do for us.
“2020” could be the title of an Italian opera. One of the darker ones with unrequited love, pounding arias and tragic loss. Instead of falling into the drama, we’ve found ways to pivot from the challenge, the proverbial when life gives you lemons. It begins with the feet or, more specifically, toes. As salons begin to open, at-home treatments offer a safer option and it’s a lot easier to relax without gasping through a mask.
When the pandemic hit the U.S. crocuses began to break through the soil, precursors of the bright season ahead. After a bleak experience of lives lost, quarantine and financial instability, there were signs of reopening–all shattered from the senseless loss of George Floyd. Protests ensued, emphasizing the message that Black Lives Matter. Next came rioting but in the same realm of Lloyd’s unnecessary death, where his family spoke that this was against his peaceful nature, what was the point? Rioters profited at the expense of a man’s death, destroying the businesses of people who have been trying to recoup from COVID-19 that killed so many and kept us sheltered–away from families, community and regular human interaction. Perhaps such upheaval from normalcy altered many, becoming the switch that turned on bad behavior. Emotions are raw. We were trying to contain a virus, an unseen mysterious enemy that I hoped united us. The virus does not discriminate on gender, sex or race. It should bind humans. Floyd’s murder pivoted the collective energy from #WeAreInThistogether to #BlackLivesMatter.
Peonies begin to mark their glory with impeccable timing.
