A Carefully Curated Life

Loving the Ordinary

How to be a Hometown Tourist

Create a list, Make a plan, Visit, and Enjoy being a Hometown Tourist Every town is abundant in unique places. Have you visited the ones in your town? Do you know what they are? After all, life doesn’t have to be about visiting far-off places to find beautiful, engaging sites. Be a hometown tourist and enjoy all the places that make your area unique. Here’s how to create a hometown tourist ... View Post

Autumn’s Essence of Lovely Change

September has always carried the whisper of new beginnings. School starts, routines shift, and evenings begin to cool. It’s the month when the colors soften into golds and crimsons, when the harvest overflows, and when we are gently invited to turn inward. There’s something about autumn’s change that feels vibrant — as though nature itself is reminding us that we, too, can shed, shift, and turn ... View Post

To Curate a Life

Curating Life to Make It Extraordinary  Why Curate Life? I founded A Carefully Curated Life, CCL because I want to share a life philosophy with living every day in the ordinary, extra-ordinary way. That is to say, by curating (dreaming, exploring, planning, and intentionally selecting) your home and life as you wish to live your life, our lives become extraordinary.  But how ... View Post

Curating Life with Loving the Ordinary Lists

How did these Loving the Ordinary lists come about for Curating Life? The idea came about as a way to build a life to cherish who and what we hold dear. Where our values and goals are met daily in enjoyable, simple ways, these lists, eBooks, and now Membership is how I came to curate my life. Curating is a big, fancy word, maybe not used very often, but it's the word I searched for when trying ... View Post

An Introduction: Fragrance in an Herbal Bedroom

Infusing fragrance into your bedroom can help you sleep, install calm, and create an experience. I want to introduce you to using herbs, their fragrance, and folklore to start an herbal bedroom. There are specific herbs and essential oils that aroma aid in relaxation, bringing a feeling of calm and help in sleep. Plus, they convey a sweet scent to any bedroom, thus creating an experience. Think ... View Post

Hygge Design? What is it? How do you say it?

Hygge Design & Book Reviews Hygge Style Idea, Our Book Club & CCL Living Let’s explore Hygge design through what it is and how to explore the style idea. Our CCL Book Club read two books about Hygge, and we discussed how we could integrate them into our lives. Indeed, many sites are telling how to achieve the Hygge aesthetic. Yet this blog introduces the idea so you can go after more ... View Post