january

• my mum's banana cake
• songs: sunset by lonnie liston smith, summer storm by fox + sui, the cleric by electric hush for some light stretching
• my birthday flowers and chocolate cream pie from johnny, cooking din for myself and celebrating with my best friend with a virtual date, starting my 30s feeling special
• my pleasures yin yang shirt
• physical: 100!!!
• the witch by rosetta stone is my wednesday addams dance scene song
• rewatching the entire veronica mars was super cry myself to sleep nostalgic

february

• my sister inky coming home
• spinach and feta pizza from argos poblacion before getting drunk at a library, the calm before the storm
• inky meeting bisou
• a beautiful shade of pink picnic with my family
• la roche posay cicaplast baume inky got me
• the viktor & rolf midnight flower bomb perfume inky got me filling the room
• johnny got me a really cute pair of leather sandals from annie & lori
• physical 100 binge with the sisters
• a change of appetite by diana henry
• a date with inky thrift shopping, getting skincare products, eating italian, finally trying hot cat and playing with the golden hour
• matcha latte at hot cat
• in love with starbucks' donuts again, hard to admit
• my new pair of burgundy italian leather boots with the good fade
• my husband getting me cup noodles for valentine's day
• songs: moment in time by the pharcyde, nicest thing by maxine funke, total interferencia by charly garcia, slow hot wind by penny goodwin, rediscovering secret garden by bruce springsteen
• the makanai: cooking for the maiko house on netflix
• cookbook market
• bomb vinos wine shop
• scoring a pair of taupe boston birks for 10% of the price

march

• watching the menu with johnny
• pickling beets
• new white french linen
• songs: mulberry mouse by alan gogoll, today by fruit bats playing at a starbucks
• meeting my sister's friend from nepal, ayushma

april

• water
• songs: heath by pearly drops, i awake by ikigai
• indigo shibori tie dye
• bbc's gardeners' world
• omnivore's dilemma by michael pollan
• preserved lemons
• ceramics again and again, an endless cycle
• watching nigella lawson episodes on youtube
• hikari mori inspiring me to add more colour
• adding cardamom and jujubes to my bitter cacao recipe for good sleep!
• harvesting my thyme
• little forest japan
• honeyed eggs

may

• malunggay puto
• walnut rice
• our little sister :'(
• songs: 1517 by joseph shabason reminds me of hey! arnold, train in the distance by paul simon
• juliette of the herbs
• tibetan philosophy
• the tale of chinese medicine
• botanical shops/ curations/ provisions that are making me want to create: mushroom people magazine, broccoli magazine, blumenhaus, serpentine, the flower pot, drogerie meer, plant playground, double blind magazine, emergence magazine, etc.
• owning my dream herb carafe
• nighttime nigella lawson
• rainy mornings with the flowers at the orchidarium
• maude, our beautiful wandering jew
• sea bones
• johnny bought me lab girl by hope jahren and it was on sale! only $4
• making lemon preserves and pickling raisins
• uploading johnny's silly pic on a plant id app and him being identified as cocos nucifera was a fun laugh
• gardening australia
• monty don's gardens
• miriam and alan: lost in scotland
• roses are in bloom
• seeing morning glory bouncing on trees
• hiroshi yoshimura's quiet forest album
• birdsongs

june

• organic vegetables and local goods at the green expo at malcolm square
• raspberry olive oil loaf
• lemon chocolates
• impatiens chips on my salad
• katja and ryn from commonwealth holistic herbalism helping us get good sleep (and helping me become a clinical herbalist!)
• chocolate almond fudge ice cream
• signing up for kitchen herbcraft with sarah corbett again
• mrs. m. grieve's entire materia medica for free
• supporting my period this week with raspberry leaf, chamomile, hawthorn, nettle and cinnamon as my herbal allies
• the rise of brotato
• songs: sereia sentimental by sessa
• jiaogulan

september

• being with family, belonging to a family
• making family happy
• back to alternative music
• clingy cat
• city heat with my husby
• apple juice
• sleep recovery pajamas
• missing the province
• my uncle buying bitter honey: a sardinian cookbook for me, i'll forever cherish
• drag race philippines s2
• sergeant ken
• alone in a fancy hotel room one night pigging out on xiao long bao and beef noodles
• asian food network makes us wanna buy tv
• the herbal coffee i make with roasted dandelion root

october

• e.wedel polish sorbets! we especially love salted caramel but lavender has a special bitter place in my heart
• songs: curry rice by kenji endo, every single time i dream by greenflow
• minimal christmas decor
• knitting and crocheting
• artists: kissi ussuki, andrew mcgranahan and river cousin
• pickled raisins
• beautiful palestine
• cooking with mushrooms by andrea gentl
• surprise visit from my husby's besties
• shrek
• watching kate glavan's vlogs

november

• miso porridge with honeyed crunch
• my orange hot chocolate
• songs: ouda by hamid al shaeri, sweet jane by cowboy junkies