Several months ago I decided to buy an Instant Pot Pressure Cooker. I texted my best friend immediately to share the news that I was now the proud owner of a Baby Yoda Pressure Cooker to which she replied, “I have a great chicken tortilla soup recipe for you!” You see, the Baby Yoda print went with nothing in my French Countryside kitchen decor (nor in the clean, modern Farmhouse look I have in my upstate home) but the fact that my friend did not question the madness really made me realize that this is why this woman is my bestie.

Did I make use of of the Instant Pot?

Oddly, yes. I throw around oddly because I had a lot of misguided notions about slow cooking. I was thinking that mushy meats and potatoes would be the soup du jour when using it. But it’s actually pretty brilliant for pastas, soups, and a lot of other set it and forget it recipes.

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This morning I woke up to some lovely comments on my “I’m Not Sure You Noticed But Talking About Makeup Is Hard But Still Fun…..!” post and wanted to thank you for them. Your comments, your emails, your dms and tweets I read them all. I know I’m very, very behind replying to comments and many are still pending (that’s why they don’t appear right away because I like to answer each one myself). But I hope you know I read every single one of them.

As we head into the weekend I’ll hope you’ll remember that we’ll get through these dark days just like we do everything else! With love, kindness, and eh…maybe a little makeup too!

“The night taught me never to fear the dark times, by giving way to the dawn of a new day.” I mean, let’s just go all Eric Draven over here and say it as it is, “It can’t rain all the time!”

We’ll be ok. You, you will be ok.

Hang in there.

Thanks for motivating me each and every day to keep this blogging going.

Thanks for spending your very precious time with me.

Be the good humans I know you are and go out there and do good things.

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You may be bracing for Spring 2022 but I yearn for Fall and the news of the Chanel Fall 2022 is all I got right now to make they wait a little easier on my heavy heart. Yesterday, the Grand Palais Éphémère got treated to all tweed all day as Chanel launched their Fall 2022 Ready to Wear Collection. Beautiful earthy browns shot through with pale green and pops of pink brought to mind those cool Fall days I so desperately yearn for at the moment.

I know, I know, some of you may be thinking how uneventful and dare I say, boring, this collection is. But I find I can’t hate on tweed! At least they are sticking to the what’s old is new again mentality and not copying everyone else’s Fall 2022 Collection. Isn’t tweed why we love Chanel? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? It’s a bloody Chanel institution isn’t it?

And as exciting as a beautiful pink tweed jacket is I think my mind and heart just yearn for a bunch of new Les Tissages de Chanel Tweed Blushes in oranges and corals intertwined with gold. I shudder in delight thinking about it.

So hate, hate away on the tweeds my dear friends but remember, tweed means good things for the Chanel Fall 2022 Makeup Collection.

Or so I hope….!

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Hey friends.

Long time no speak. When was the last time we really sat down and chatted? Feels like ages to me. I’ve been a bit uninspired lately. Makeup is a hard, hard thing to tackle when the world feels like it’s falling apart. We’ve had a difficult two years haven’t we? We’ve been through BLM, we’ve had to deal with COVID, now the Russian Ukraine situation, and, and, and…it’s never ending isn’t it?

A friend of mine shared some bad news with me yesterday and I had to take a moment to meditate on it. Thinking about her made working, concentrating on work, and finally, trying to blog about beauty pretty hard. I really had to pull myself up and out of the stump I had fallen in worrying about her and how she was doing and feeling right now.

It made me realize how much I’ve wanted to fix the world in the last two years (and even before all any of the things we’ve experienced went down) and how I actually can’t fix a lot of things. Death, war, making sure those who want for something get it….I try in my own little ways but am I making a difference? Donations, volunteering, making time to speak and care for friends, recycling, returning my cart to the front of the store and not letting it loose in the parking lot, making sure my elderly neighbor has what she needs when the snow comes in, etc…etc…..

I try.

I really do try.

And I have to remind myself each and every single day that I can’t beat myself up over the things I can’t control and even though what I do isn’t making some major difference, some huge change, I’m still out there trying to make that change. And I can hope that everyone else who is doing the same will help my little bit of goodness snowball into a bigger change.

I guess what I’m trying to say is don’t give up. Fight the good fight no matter what. Small changes lead to big ones.

I believe in you.

Keep on keeping my friends. And I hope you’ll do it with me. I know makeup is superficial given what turmoil we are experiencing right now but I hope this is a nice escape for you somehow. And I hope you find the fun in it still…! I know I have to try hard but I remember how much fun makeup is and how much joy it brings me and those are the days I want to spread my love of it far and wide!

Be the good humans I know you are.

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