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FROM WHAT IT ONCE WAS

From What It Once Was

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My Easy DIY Gift Wrapping For Christmas 2023

Every year, I decide on a new style of wrapping for all my Christmas gifts. I find it really fun coming up with new creative designs, combinations, techniques, and decorations to wrap up the gifts I give to people. It also happens to be a pretty cool way of distinguishing which gifts under the tree…

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Space-Saving Products You Need To Organize Your Small Apartment

Small-space living can feel claustrophobic and overwhelming without the proper organizational systems in place. I can just feel my own frustration brewing as I write this. Thinking about all the times I’ve knocked over all my skin care, trying to reach something in the back of the cabinet. Or all the times I’ve had to…

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How To Embrace Coziness In Your Tiny, Dark Room

The best way to embrace a small, dark room is to lean into that darkness. This little living room has one narrow window that faces a brick wall and no overhead lighting. And I don’t know about you, but I am tired of hearing people advise to “brighten up dark rooms to make them feel…

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Preparing Your Home For Last Minute Guests

I may write about “home” stuff — but hospitality is not one of my natural strong suits. It is certainly not my intention to come across as being rude or unwelcoming. I just really struggle with hosting – especially when it’s a last minute visit. (Truth be told though, you could tell me you’re going…

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Sierra, here. ✌

An introverted, detail-oriented, and meticulous creative: documenting the slow, intentional, and realistic process of DIY-ing an apartment into a home — within the limitations of a rental.

If you dig home styling, thrift flips, DIYs, vintage finds, handmade goods, coffee, vegetarian food, knit grandpa sweaters, dark academia aesthetic, shopping local, Boy Meets World, Dr. Martens, 90s grunge and mid-2000s emo punk music — or the fact that writing this biographical blurb is clearly making me uncomfortable so my solution is to endlessly list increasingly obscure things: then I’m positive you’ll find something here that resonates with you. Stay a while and make yourself at home!

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