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Welcome to my cozy corner of TH-cam! I’m a xennial stay-at-home mom navigating the transition from homeschooling to high school with two teens and a tween. Here, we have honest and open chats about life in our 40s, embracing the ups and downs with a good dose of humor and heart. I’m all about finding joy in the everyday-whether it’s through baking something delicious, finding a thrifted treasure, or creating a hygge-inspired space in our very average home. Expect plenty of cozy grandma vibes as we talk about gratitude, simple living, and making our homes feel warm and welcoming. If you’re looking for relatable content, a touch of nostalgia, and a community that celebrates the beauty of the little things, you’re in the right place. Grab a cup of tea and join me on this journey!
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go gently + be wonderful
xo
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go gently + be wonderful
xo
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☀️Berry Delightful Day | Blackberry Picking, Pie Baking, Farm Days & Thrift Finds 🥧
☀️Berry Delightful Day | Blackberry Picking, Pie Baking, Farm Days & Thrift Finds 🥧
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🌞 Summer Road Trip: Winding Country Roads to Lakeside Bliss 📚🍑
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🌞 Summer Road Trip: Winding Country Roads to Lakeside Bliss 📚🍑
🗣️ Let’s Talk: Mental Health, Weight Gain & Antidepressants + A Tumultuous Bedroom Makeover 🛏️✨
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🗣️ Let’s Talk: Mental Health, Weight Gain & Antidepressants A Tumultuous Bedroom Makeover 🛏️✨
Let’s go to the MOVIES - coolest movie theatre, EVER
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Transform Your Space with Dopamine Decor: 🌈 Colorful & Joyful Home Vibes | #DopamineDecor
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VLOGMAS is a lot…making some changes | a very chatty vlog
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Hitting a VLOGMAS wall🙃but showing up anyway - thrifting, errands, and a Peppermint update 🐦❤️
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Hitting a VLOGMAS wall🙃but showing up anyway - thrifting, errands, and a Peppermint update 🐦❤️
VLOGMAS day 5+6 | Let’s make applesauce ornaments | Peppermint the Pigeon Updates
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VLOGMAS day 5 6 | Let’s make applesauce ornaments | Peppermint the Pigeon Updates
VLOGMAS DAYS 3+4 | I rescued a pigeon | we drank tea + and ate toast ❤️
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VLOGMAS DAYS 3 4 | I rescued a pigeon | we drank tea and ate toast ❤️
VLOGMAS | tea + toastmas - daily jam and tea advent calendars, recipes, & other festive shenanigans
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Let’s Get Festive | Foolproof Orange Slice Ornaments | Thrifted Decor | Cute Shops | Car Vlogging
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A Week in My Life - organic seed potato harvest | groceries | a little bit of everything
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Chatty Life Update…but cozy | apple picking | bread baking | cozy recommendations | grief
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Chatty Life Update…but cozy | apple picking | bread baking | cozy recommendations | grief
Hello January | life update | time to reset | my hopes for us all
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Simple Summer Pleasures + Homemade Strawberry Ice Cream
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Simple Summer Pleasures Homemade Strawberry Ice Cream
🛍️ Thrift With Me: Favorite Spots, Tips & Haul + 🍋 Homemade Raspberry Lemonade Recipe
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48 Hours in Ottawa: A Romantic Anniversary Getaway🖼️🚙💕
You and your cup are adorable!
You are so kind! I’ve been enjoying all your videos lately! You and your daughter are total cuties 💗
Weyward is on my tbr too😋we could buddy read it !
I think I’m going to read it a little closer to Halloween,but yes!
Trees of the Emerald Inn
Said in true Sheila form 😉…it’s called Tress of the Emerald Sea 🫶🏻…I think that’s going to be a really good one!
I loved Weyward…the cover of your book is gorgeous!
Isn’t it though?! I mean, I didn’t just buy it for the beautiful cover, but also…maybe I did? I’m glad to hear it’s good too 😉
Omg I love that coat!
Right?! It’s the most comfy-cozy iconic thing ever!
I’m so jealous your fall is near! I’m patiently waiting on mine 😊bet here! Love love them all!
@@Lifeinthewyldewest we’ve had such a humid summer and I am NOT a summer girly, but today is actually quite chilly and it brings me back to life 😏
@@the.ellemars I love the feeling of fall.
That ramen had no reason being so GOOD
It was pretty good! Way more intense flavour and good texture 👌🏼👌🏼
Love this song reminds of my dad he loved her he passed away still this song is a great memory
Awe! I’m so sorry for the loss of him. I found this tape digging through my dad’s old tape collection as well ❤️hugs
This is the good stuff!
Sooo good!
What a handsome little fella
Right?! I love him.
Shell Seekers is one of my faves!
@@corazenia I’ve never read any of her books, but they seem cozy and I hear good things! Glad to hear that ☺️
Nice haul. Great store, lots of stuff.
Thanks! It wasn’t my best haul, but it is always fun to pop in. It’s such a great thrift shop!
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Thanks Pookie 🚙🌻🫶🏻
Oh I've just seen that Close Knit is set in Scotland, so I choose that one and will now download it onto my kindle. Love getting reading inspo from you xx
@@marniearmstrong4881 right?! I started it last night and it feels like it’s going to be so cozy! Let me know how you like it as well 🌻☺️
@@the.ellemars I liked Close Knit, an easy sweet read xx
This Summer will be different FOR SURE!!!
@@johannarosolen1524 I decided on Close Knit, but it was a tough call! The urge to jump into fall coziness is real 😬😉🍁🍂
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Nice, Pookie 🫶🏻🌻
Looks so good! Any chance you can print the recipe in the Comments? I’m having a hard time getting it all down as it goes by quickly 😂
@@tassywhitt oh shoot! I meant to do that when I I posted! I will add it today 🙃
@@the.ellemars Fantastic!!!! Thank you so much 🙏
@@tassywhitt my pleasure! I hope you love it
I read the spell shop and it was so cozy and magical ❤
That’s exactly what I was hoping for! Do you think I should save it for the cool autumn days though?
@@the.ellemars The book doesn't fit a time of the year particularly, I imagine it would be a great book for a winter atmosphere too. But in autumn it really would be a fitting moody vibe.
@@you.have.never.seen.anything good to know! Thank you so much for your help ☺️🌻
My vote is for Close Knit ❤
Nice choice 😉🫶🏻
Hello there my YT friend. I like how you made this one horizontal since I watch on my ipad. I just saw this pop up. I’ll be back. Going to the cemetery today to visit some fam. I’ll be back later❤❤❤
Hello! Haha! Yes I was being stubborn making them like that! I hate that shorts and reels are different than long videos 😒 Hugs 🫶🏻
@@the.ellemarsI hate that they are different too.
Made it back and I just want to say, I love how your videos have a cinematic film quaility and you love to share the magical bits of nature. My films lately have been a lot of talking heads just to get stuff out there and next week I want to go back to being mindful and present in what I film. I loved seeing your hauls and the jean jacket looks perfect for your guy. I’m glad you have dialed in your meds and are feeling better. ❤ keep going The pies looked so yummy.
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Fun video. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching 😉❤️
Not sure if you’ll love the genre (romance) but I highly recommend that you read “This Summer Will Be Different” by Carley Fortune. It takes place in PEI (and Toronto). Lots of great Canadian and Anne references. I think you’ll like it.
I actually have thrifted all her books, but haven’t read them yet! Her first one is based in Barry’s Bay which is where we had a cottage growing up so that’s fun too. I definitely want to read them ❤️
i wanna be you when i grow up!!! i feel like i just saw a peek into my future :’) 🫶🏻
Haha! Thats so sweet. Did we just become best friends?! 😉🫶🏻
@@the.ellemars yes! 😋
I truly always enjoy any of your videos. I always get a huge smile on my face when I see you pop up on my sub feed. Your kitty looks so much like our little Ezekiel and I loved to hear his purr. Oh goodness do I also HATE being overweight. Yet I LOVE food so much and it feels overwhelming to change my lifestyle. Today I quit IG cold turkey and I’m hoping it will help my mental health and perhaps free up time to live more intentionally…which may trickle down to making better choices for myself. I’m still going to keep my YT because it’s my creative outlet and moving journal to life. I see your channel in a similar way, years from now you will be so glad you did this! In the company of witches. It’s nice and small and it sounds interesting. Thanks for sharing your beach day. I also always love to take in your scenery, it’s greatly different from mine.
You’re so kind! Facebook and instagram are nothing but stress for me anymore…instagram feels so impersonal now and Facebook is ridiculous. Short form content is fun and addictive but leaves me feeling used. I still adore TH-cam though and refuse to give it up. I’m with you. Our kitty is getting old, sadly. He’s 13 now, but so so special. That’s funny, I often think our landscape is boring, but forget that it’s unique too. Thanks for the reminder. I went with The Honey Witch and, so far it’s reminding me of Anne Shirley meets Bridgerton meets practical magic 👌
@@the.ellemars doesn’t surprise me we feel the same about social media. I’m going to be able to focus more on creating my channel and making art! It will feel so liberating! I’m glad you love YT and will be creating here! Your lifestyle is right up my alley and for sure one of my tops to watch. You have such a similar thought process as I do.
@@Lifeinthewyldewest it definitely feels more doable when there’s only one platform to focus on. It’s liberating to let the other stuff go. I’m glad we found each other ❤️
I understand the issue with weight! it seems like the day I turned 45 any weight I put on I can’t get rid of! ❤ Now at 49 it’s glued there it seems!
Ugh. It’s bananas! I have to do more and more just to maintain, never mind losing the 40-50lbs I need to lose 😭
Yup! Oh and a suggestion- I use Lilac street lashes they are amazing and fairly cheap! The “ originals” 12mm box
@BuckRidgeHomestead oh thank you for the suggestion! I’ve never heard of those, but will look into them 👌
I came across your TH-cam and Instagram, subscribed to both! Really enjoy listening to you and you have such great style, what a beautiful home!!
Awe! I’m so glad you’re here and thank you for the kind words ❤️
I sure love the shadows and light your lamp shade makes! And you are just such a stunning human❤ love the bangs. The sewing machine you carried home! I love the fact it was the starting point of change. Always love your vlogs, it feels like a privilege to see how you view our world and I love the new color and change. I totally wouldn’t fill the hole and would instead hand something over it😂 and then…The final color change! You crack me up and I also can so relate with all of this! The olive green suits you. I thank you for sharing your authentic struggles with your mental health. Same….i went on a youtube meet up with a gal who does have ADHD and as we spoke she would say after I would tell her a way I think or do things she would then say…”that’s an ADHD trait” she told me that multiple times during our visit and also recommended some podcasts that may help. I said the same thing, it also it feels like a “trend” which sounds so silly to say because at the same time it really resonated with and made me feel better about how I think and also the depression I deal with. Some of my favorite moments in your video are when you share light and shadows and lovely things with music in the background. I know my comments are always so long. I can’t seem to help myself😳 thanks for understanding.
Your comments always mean so much, friend. I wish we lived closer ❤️
PS: The end result is so much better...green for the win! I'm surprised at how much the wallpaper switch made a difference. I like that too. Hang in there and be nice to yourself.
Haha! Thank you ☺️
You will have to empty the walls to be able to see your vision
Ha! You’re not wrong…my process is total chaos, but we got there in the end 😉
We were married at The Beverly Hills Hotel in 2002! Love seeing that. Also, I have had high numbers too. The Cholesterol Myth by Dr. Sinatra was recommended to me by a natural doctor. After reading that I had more tests they recommend and have started some new supplements. It's absolutely worth a read. You are totally me in so many ways. That blue is my favorite color. ADHD has it's gifts/superpowers - good luck figuring that out and great seeing you post.
Oh that’s so fun! It’s such a nice little mug. I love the blue so much, but it just wasn’t working in this room for whatever reason 🙃 I’m not sure about the myth part as I’ve don’t a lot of reading and learning over the years, but I’m definitely trying to lower it with fiber, omega 3, a Mediterranean diet, exercise and weight loss…we shall see 🫠
Great finds! And happy anniversary. Would love to see that robin’s egg sewing machine but maybe that’s in the future when you make your work space. ❤❤
It may take me a while to find what I need, but I will definitely share it! It weighs 30lbs at least, but when I saw it at the thrift shop for $6, I knew I had to take it home…it was a very long walk home 😭😂😬…no regrets
@@the.ellemars cracking up that you walked home with it🤣
@@Lifeinthewyldewest it was so ridiculous 😂🫠
PESTO GREEN! Loving this and you following the dopamine and bringing in all the colours! Love it! You're an inspiration, xo
Your eye/opinion is appreciated! I definitely need a blue/green…am very drawn to mossy bench, but it could just be the name 😂
@@the.ellemars Indeed - I SO get this, I sometimes have to cover over the name because I'm too influenced by it! lol
You see life and share life in such a deep, meaningful intentional way! I got so excited to open my subscription page and see a video from YOU! You are seriously inspiring me. I’ve been wanting to wallpaper a wall. All the paper I find is so expensive, so I have not pulled the trigger. I’m only looking on spoonflower. Where do you get yours? I’m loving all the new colors! I paint so many things black 😂 my bathrooms black, my house is black and I want to paint my stair rails black and people crack up because they see me as a person as a rainbow. Anyways, your color choices are so rad. Also I say go with the dopamine because I get that too, I’m either doing EVERYTHING or NOTHING. YT is so hard my friend. I love your attitude. I need to adopt your attitude because I keep getting frustrated with all the comparing I have done and feeling like I’m not succeeding here. I do keep going, that’s one thing and goodness knows how I’ve done that. I can only think it’s because I truly love sharing and creating. Anyways, I’m wordy as usual. Love that 50 cent mirror piece! Love this micro vlog! Mostly happy to see you back.
You are always so so kind. I love your vlogs and it’s important to remember that if your feel called to do it, you should do it…even if it doesn’t make sense! You might like the book called The Practice by Seth Godin. It’s all about the importance of making your art and putting it into the world…over and over again. I got the peel and stick wallpaper on Amazon…turns out I’ll need three rolls to do this archway, but I do love it. Black has been my go-to colour for years now and I love it, but it can be limiting somehow…also I’ve been pinning and craving colour…and oddly enough, the green in the kitchen allowed me so much more freedom in the thrifted pieces I could bring into the space! Keep going!
@@the.ellemars I’ll have to check out that book, thank you.
Love the micro vlog! Especially when i should be doing other things but need a break, but dont have 30-40 min to sit lol
That’s an excellent point! Thanks for always supporting me, friend ❤️
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I really enjoyed the video. Thank you for sharing your tips! I've thrifted for years and never even thought to keep a running list of things we need on my phone... That's super helpful for my easily distracted ADHD brain. I think you asked abt what our best thrift store find was? I'd always wanted black windsor chairs but was making do with our ten year old Ikea whatevers since we're a one income family, too. One day, I walked into our Goodwill and saw a set of eight Ethan Allen black Gilbert Windsor chairs, including the two end ones with the arms. Fifteen dollars a piece. I kid you not. I never purchased anything so quickly in my life! The arm chairs cost over $500 new, on sale....It was the greatest find of my life.
OMG! I love that so much! I bet they’re beautiful and bring you so much joy when you look at them and think of that thrilling moment! It feels so good to thrift quality items ❤️👌
Always here to see what you come up with! I watch while I knit and enjoy seeing you. Recommending this book, "Amy Snow" www.google.com/search?q=amy+snow&oq=amy+snow&aqs=chrome.0.0i355i512j46i512l2j0i512l7.5647j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=kmM0Pn73dL6tFM&imgdii=TJca6weRujvq1M
Ok, so my stick on nails like yours were just put in the donate pile last week because I have had them for two years and not used them. I'll wait to see what you say and may just (finally) give them a try.
Haha! They ended up lasting well over two weeks and I removed them more because I wanted a change and my nails had grown out so much! I’m so impressed with them. I had good intentions to keep up with vlogging, but here I am, behind again 😭😏
Beautiful setting with your pigeon.
It was “accidentally beautiful” for sure!
I'm revisiting xmas because it was over too soon. Enjoying you both so much. Stay cosy. xo
Awe! It all came up on us so quickly! This was the first year I felt relief afterwards and I don’t really know why…I’m looking forward to a cozy winter though and hope you are too ❤️
Truly does look like magic and straight out of a movie❤
It was so beautiful out there this morning! I just hope it stays. Last year, we were buried in snow by Christmas Eve
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Beautiful! I love how Poppy was first!
😮very pertty ✨
Thank you 😉❤️
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I’m an INFP, so crazy. I mean not a J but so close. No wonder I LOVE what you see and what you create! The music choices etc. it’s like you’re me but a decade younger. Hope you don’t think I’m a weirdo cause I have to comment on every picken thing! 22 is my fav number and my birthday is in May, we married on May 22 and it’s also Mother’s Day month😳 so I mean?!
Ha! I seem to attract a lot of fellow fours and INFP/J…it depends on the test and day because I waffle between F and J myself! May is a great birth month and I don’t think you’re a weirdo ❤️
How is it your first vlog is so dang good? One day I’ll have a Tim Hortons:) your guy was cracking me up pumping gas, that would be so something my guy would do😂 you have not aged in 15 years. Where do you find your music? Thank you for the bloopers😂😂
Haha! You went alllll the way back! Honestly, I’d trade Tim’s for Target or Trader Joes ANY day 😏! This was such a fun trip. I use Epidemic Sound for my music and bloopers are my fave 😆
@@the.ellemars I use the same just checking to see if there were more possibilities. My first few I used what I thought was royalty free that came with the editing app I use and learned the hard way.
Amazing short noice 👌
Thanks! I had a great helper 😉❤️
Beautiful short! I’ve always been a little afraid to try. Today I’m making batches of fudge for our neighbors. ❤
Clementine and I did the stop motion together! I was intimidated by baklava too, but I’m so glad I tried it. Tedious, but so worth it and simple, really. I’d like to make more fudge.
I had never heard of Blue Castle so that is definitely one I will grab for my (summer) holiday read. I too have not really read much Austen, but I absolutely adore her! I've seen all the movies and TV adaptations and listened to Jennifer Ehle's reading of Pride and Prejudice during covid. If you did start reading them, I would love to read along with you....an online book club! Because seriously, I feel very uncultured having only watched the films.... eeekkk. I love looking forward to your vlogs but completely understand not wanting to keep up that schedule. I would be exactly the same xx
It definitely goes throughout the seasons/a full year so you could read it whenever you like. I hope you enjoy it! Yeah, that would be fun to attempt a book club or read along…I’d have to figure out how to make that work. Thank you for being here and for understanding. I think, going forward it will be weekly vlogs ❤️
@@the.ellemars I finished Blue Castle, thanks so much for the recommendation, it was a wonderful read xx
@@marniearmstrong4881 oh yay! I’m So glad you enjoyed it! It was beautiful and satisfying 👌😊