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Minimalism: 10 Things I’m No Longer Buying In 2022

Minimalism: 10 Things I’m No Longer Buying In 2022

Like many before me, I first got acquainted with the term minimalism, and minimalist lifestyle, on Instagram. I stumbled upon a post from Marie Kondo who talked about “discarding things that do not spark joy” and it got me curious. I started researching and found 

Here’s to the next 28 years of self-development, one step at a time!

Here’s to the next 28 years of self-development, one step at a time!

I feel that every now and then I reach a point for a good old update on where I’ve been and why I haven’t posted for a while on my blog. Nothing too surprising here because I have done it a couple of times already 

2022 Life Update (Family, Blogging, Lessons Learned)

2022 Life Update (Family, Blogging, Lessons Learned)

Let me start this blog post by wishing you all a happy new year! I hope that you’ve managed to take some rest during the holiday season, spend quality time with your family and loved ones, and devour as many sweets as possible. I was 

How To Start A Gratitude Journal?

How To Start A Gratitude Journal?

We all know how busy and hard life can get – especially in the past one year, it has been easier and easier to focus only on the negative things as they were the majority of things happening in the world. However, no matter how 

How To Cope With Working-From-Home Burnout

How To Cope With Working-From-Home Burnout

It has been a little over a year now that I have started working from home permanently. If you are curious to find out what my experience has been so far, you can definitely give this article a read. And while for the most part 

How To Stick To Your Morning Routine

How To Stick To Your Morning Routine

I have always known that the best way for me to get all of my tasks done for the day is by sticking to my routines. Not only do routines reduce stress and anxiety, they offer us a little bit of predictability in a world 

5 Lessons I Learned Since March Of 2020

5 Lessons I Learned Since March Of 2020

Last week marked one year since the Covid restrictions were imposed for the first time in Bulgaria. I can still remember 13 March 2020 (Friday) extremely vividly – we had our first Covid case a week earlier and the nervousness around us could be felt 

2021 Blog Update + 2020 Posts Round Up | Chrisy Loves

2021 Blog Update + 2020 Posts Round Up | Chrisy Loves

Welcome back to the blog and happy New Year! I allowed myself the liberty to take the whole month of January off the blog – with all the Christmas frenzy, regular posting in the last three months of 2020, some personal stuff in my life, 

Blogmas: 5 Small Things in December

Blogmas: 5 Small Things in December

Happy 1st day of December! What a year! And somehow we managed to get to the last month of it… It’s beginning to look a lot more festive even in the current situation so I decided to still go with my annual tradition of Blogmas. 

Working From Home – My Experience

Working From Home – My Experience

I have had the chance to work from home a few times before lockdown was introduced in our lives and this work environment became the norm and not the exception. However, it was very rare that I had to spend more than 2 days in 

A September Update and How I Changed My Daily Routine

A September Update and How I Changed My Daily Routine

Well, that was a slightly longer break than I intended to take from my blog. I feel like that at the beginning of lockdown, everything kind of went a bit quiet, didn’t it!? Everyone began working from home and time seemed to be in abundance, 

Isolation Diaries: Morning Pages, Favorite Books, and Mom’s Cake (+ Recipe)

Isolation Diaries: Morning Pages, Favorite Books, and Mom’s Cake (+ Recipe)

Hi lovelies, Happy Sunday! I hope you are enjoying your weekend. As we have just started our eight week practicing social isolation in Bulgaria and the government has announced this morning that they would ease some of the restrictive measures, I thought of what I 

A Shift In Perspective: Covid Pandemic

A Shift In Perspective: Covid Pandemic

The last few weeks were a bit emotional for me. I am sure that I am not the only one who couldn’t help but wonder where we will be in six months, a year, 10 years from now? Now more often than ever I lie 

Error 404: Sleep Not Found

Error 404: Sleep Not Found

Image by Pinterest; Edit by me. I used to have a regular sleeping pattern before starting university. I slept only during the night and did not need any naps throughout the day to keep me going – actually, I wasn’t even able to fall asleep 

Cozy winter evenings at home

Cozy winter evenings at home

Background photo by Pinterest; Edit by me. After a very hectic day in which you have tried to juggle all of your work, personal, and home commitments, it can be very easy to feel tired and overwhelmed. Most of us just fall into bed at 

What I love to do on Sundays?

What I love to do on Sundays?

Hello lovelies, I hope you all had a wonderful start to the year 🙂 I had to go to the office on Thursday and Friday, unfortunately, to get some work done – it is indeed a very weird time period of the year as clients 

How To Set Goals And Actually Achieve Them?

How To Set Goals And Actually Achieve Them?

Happy New Year, lovelies! I wish you from the bottom of my heart all the best in the new decade. Let’s work towards making it the most memorable one. I am starting my 2020 with a very exciting project (that has been in the works 

Action For Happiness – January 2020

Action For Happiness – January 2020

Hello lovelies! It has been a while since I last spoke to you on my blog. I have to admit that 2019 was a whirlwind of events and emotions that took higher priority in my to-do list than writing regularly on my blog. I finished 

Posts that I loved this year: 2018 Round up

Posts that I loved this year: 2018 Round up

Merry Christmas everybody! I hope that you had a joyful Christmas and had the chance to spend quality time with your loved ones. My favourite days in the whole year are the ones between Christmas and New Year. I am extremely grateful that I had 

5 Christmas Budgeting Tips

5 Christmas Budgeting Tips

This year I made a huge step forward when it comes to organizing my finances. One of my year resolutions was to get better at distributing my monthly budget and spending my money more wisely (especially when it comes to fashion and beauty items). I 

Our Christmas Tree

Our Christmas Tree

Every year I choose the first weekend of December to decorate our Christmas tree. Of course, in the run up to the beginning of December I start putting some Christmas bits and bops around the house in order to get me in the mood for 

Stress is not welcomed here.

Stress is not welcomed here.

With the Christmas holidays just around the corner, the year-end is one of the busiest period of the year. You try to finish as many projects as possible at work. You want to spend as much time as possible with your family/friends but this is 

Home Is Where Your Heart Is

Home Is Where Your Heart Is

There are never two exactly the same days out of the 365/366 days in a year. Some days are really exciting and make you extremely happy; some are productive and you feel content at the end; some are tiresome and you cannot find the motivation 

My five key takeaways from my Bachelor’s degree

My five key takeaways from my Bachelor’s degree

Two months ago I attended my University Graduation ceremony – a moment that I have been expecting eagerly for the past five years. And even though I officially ended my Bachelor’s studies a year ago with successfully taking my state exam in July 2017, I 

For the lightbulb moments in our lives

For the lightbulb moments in our lives

I have always thought that the lightbulb moments in our lives come unexpectedly and that nobody warns you in advance. For the past few months, I realized that this is definitely not the case. In order to reach the lightbulb moment when everything comes perfectly 

How to survive Christmas shopping?

How to survive Christmas shopping?

December doesn’t have to mean a manic last-minute Christmas shopping dread but I am sure that I am not alone with the massive to-do list. Even though I do not have a very large family or a lot of friends that I must buy gifts for, I still 

Christmas Inspiration

Christmas Inspiration

Hey, you! Are you excited for Christmas? Because I am. And, honestly, Pinterest has not made it easier for me. I have found myself browsing for hours in Pinterest finding some cute inspo that gets me in the Christmas mood even more. All those decorations, 

Getting organized this Xmas

Getting organized this Xmas

Christmas time is probably the busiest and the craziest period of the year. There are so many events that you wish to attend – Christmas markets, corporate parties, family gatherings, etc. At the same time you have to prepare your own home for the holidays 

Restarting your career after time off

Restarting your career after time off

Two months ago I had to make an abrupt transition from easy-going long mornings at home to a hectic beginning of my day at the office. I had to replace the freedom to choose what my day would look like to the mandatory meetings with 

Making the most of every moment

Making the most of every moment

I think that September has been one of the most inspiring months of 2017 so far. And I don’t mean inspiring in terms of work/university accomplishments but more in terms of realizing how self-care is a vital need that I need to nourish as much