This Latvian is about to completely mess up and rearrange the way you see disability. Her name is Viktoria Modesta and she, at 20 years old, had an elective lower leg amputation due to an neglectful doctor’s accident at her birth. But ...
Remember Naja Lingerie? The lingerie company that educates and employs women while creating affordable lingerie made from luxury fabrics? I wrote about Naja at length a few months ago, detailing their beautiful bras and amazing patterns and getting lost in the ...
It’s so tempting to call this “crap stock” because I’m bratty, but we’ll stick with Vegetable Scrap Stock. This is one of the best, most economical tricks I’ve learned in my decade of experience as a semi-professional broke person. Vegetable ...
I was introduced to Elle King through a friend’s Facebook post, in which she was criticizing all of us – the people on her friends list – for forcing her into the uncomfortable position of having to listen to the ...
Naja successfully demonstrates that sustainability doesn't have to err on the side of utility. Their gorgeous designs are responsibly produced and utterly gorgeous. ...
Come with me on a journey through ThredUp's Clean Out Bag experience, from packing the clothes up and sending them off to seeing exactly how much ThredUp thinks they're worth and getting paid. ...
Two best friends and ex-lovers come together to create the dual-voiced band, The Echo Friendly. Their release, Love Panic, has quickly found it way into my regular rotation due to its ability to wrap a warm blanket of comfort around ...
My boyfriend found Tuft & Needle by Googling the phrase "Warby Parker for mattresses." I'm not sure what led him to do this, but when you see their website it totally makes sense. Clean and beautiful web design, low prices--and, ...
If I were okay with naming playlists with obvious names, this would be called The “Justify Spending Your Day Off in Bed With A Sweater and a Cup of Coffee When It’s Raining or Snowing Outside” Playlist. It’s an important ...
Today, I asked my good friend and star of my sidebar Dana from the amazing food blog, Killing Thyme, to wax poetic about her favorite broke food: grilled cheese. Two pieces of bread, X amount of cheese, and a little butter – you’ve ...
Leggings have no season. They are pretty much appropriate 100% of the time, and thank goodness for that because I live in them. Several years ago, I was a “leggings aren’t pants” person, and felt as strongly about it as I ...
When fashion combines with efficiency - with a dash of peer pressure from minimalism - you get capsule wardrobes. Here's the scoop on where the idea came from, and how you can work it into your lifestyle. ...
You know the feeling you get when you stumble across a musician you’ve never heard before, and upon listening to their records you realize… you’ve heard their music before? Not only that, but you really like the music and had ...
Alliteration, extreme! I had to make an impressive title for an impressive brownie. After weeks spent scouring the internet for a specifically black bottom black bean brownie, I decided that I should put my blogging where my mouth is and ...
Every day, I’m thankful to the Universe for finally providing some high-quality, easily accessible second hand shopping online. eBay only takes you so far before you lose all of your time and mind in the endless pages of listings. thredUP gets rid of all of that ...
Wood is an underused material in fashion, if you ask me. Before a few years ago, wood didn't have much more than a cameo as a purse handle or, bless, toggles on a terrible winter coat. Recently, though, a shift ...
As far as summer usually goes, it can be a mixed bag in the Pacific Northwest. Sometimes, our summer is only a week long, and is more of a hot springtime than a hot summer. Other times, it’s a raging, ...
The way that I eat is not really that different from the way I dress, if that makes sense. No, of course it doesn’t. I mean the way that I shop for food is not that different from the way ...
Laura Gibson, hailing from Portland, OR, retains the signature quirkiness of Pacific Northwestern folk artists like Mirah and Kimya Dawson, but her fourth studio album, La Grande, envelopes classic folk music in a cloak of dreamy mystery that pulls you ...
Lana Del Rey's last album was sweet. Sickly sweet. It was syrupy and viscous and while it was rich with luscious depth, it didn't have much in the way of variety, or emotional variance. Her latest release, Ultraviolence, is still ...