The Minute (Wedding) Guest List!

Weddings are exciting.  But deciding who gets to come?  Less so.  How can you possibly decide between both of your families and friends?  How do you choose who deserves an invite?  Well, I've made a handy infographic that will allow you to draft your guest list in 60 seconds, flat! 

Easy peezy, lemon squeezy! 

Until next time,

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Hello, October! 💀🍁 What are you most looking forward to in the month ahead? I’ll leave my answer in the comments! 🍂

What would you want fo sip from this mug? ☕️ Hot apple cider? Chai tea? Pumpkin spice latte? 🍂

Continuing on with my fall-loving basic-b self... here’s a fall gratitude spread in my @archerandolive morning sun square notebook! 🍂 What’s your favourite thing about the fall time? 🎃🍁🕯 Swipe up in my stories to see the blog post where I walk you through the steps to make this spread 🍂 and use my affiliate code PBB10 for 10% off your @archerandolive purchase!

If being a basic fall-loving candle-obsessed white girl is wrong I don’t wanna be right 🍂🕯

The rolling weekly... where all the nitty gritty planning goes on in my bullet journal ✍🏻 The left side is for day-specific events and tasks, and the right side is for a weekly task list. I have a dedicated video explaining the method on my YouTube channel if you want a deep dive! Tap the link in my bio and scroll down for the direct link to the video. What kind of weekly layout do you prefer in your bullet journal? Or are you more of a daily person? Or are you like my husband, using your monthly spread exclusively? I’m always so fascinated to see how different our bujos are to suit our individual needs! ✨ Notebook: @notebook_therapy gentle giant B5 - affiliate code PBB10 for 10% off! Paints: @winsorandnewton designer’s gouache Nail polish: @lightslacquer citrine

Get you someone who looks at you like Yoda and I look at each other 👁👄👁

A little teaser for you 👀 My October Plan With Me is up on my YouTube channel now! Swipe up in my stories to watch 💀

Rocking my newest @analuisany pieces ✨ what’s your go-to daily jewelry? My necklace is the Ciel Locket (soon to contain tiny portraits of my cats), my earrings are the Rox Small Hoops, Mini Twisted Hoops, and Milo Huggies, and the jewelry case is their new green velvet Travel Jewelry Case 💫 Get 10% off your purchase with my code “ElizabethT10” and curate your own unique look with fairly priced sustainable pieces from @analuisany ✨ tap the link in my bio or swipe up in my stories to shop! #analuisapartner #gifted

The inner cover of my new BuJo, a constant reminder that we can always start again ✨ 2020 has made so many of us feel like our lives are on hold, but even with everything being thrown at us we can find a way to persevere. It certainly won’t be easy, but the older I get the more I find that life is largely made up of these moments where we must choose the path we wish to take to overcome the obstacles in our way. Don’t wait for 2021 to get back to living. Choose to leap into your new beginning on your own terms. 2020 won’t defeat us. Even if you can’t find a way to take that step for yourself right now, take it for the good of someone else. I’m setting up a recurring donation to @rainbowrailroad - a Canadian organization saving the lives of LGBTQIA people around the world (discovered thanks to @canadasdragrace 🇨🇦). @blklivesmatter also deserves your donation if you have a few dollars to spare. Let me know how you’re taking a step for yourself or someone else to tip the scales of 2020 towards a net positive impact in the comments below. With kindness and action we can be the change and make the world a better place for all of us❤️

Enjoying the afternoon sun ☀️ how’s your Monday going?

Spent yesterday celebrating 6 years with my favourite weirdo ❤️ Here’s to 60 more, @jcabanaw ✨ Swipe up in my stories to see the step by step process of this spread in my blog post for @archerandolive ☺️ Would you ever use a square notebook for your BuJo? You can use my affiliate code PBB10 for 10% off this gorgeous square @archerandolive morning sun dot grid notebook and everything else on their site, too!

A little reminder for you today ❤️ You are deserving of love. Yes, even if you don’t always love yourself. Or don’t love all of yourself. Or don’t feel loveable. Of course, finding a way to truly love ourselves is an important journey to take, but it is still a journey. It takes time. And it isn’t always linear. If you love yourself on Monday, but struggle to love yourself on Tuesday, should your family and friends and partner stop loving you starting Tuesday until you find that love for yourself again? Of course not. But we are constantly fed messages of “No one will love you until you love yourself.” Or “People will only love you as much as you love yourself.” These messages are harmful and untrue. We ALL deserve to be loved. Humans require love and connection to survive. And sometimes the only way to learn to love yourself is by looking through the eyes of someone who loved you when you didn’t even know how to begin. So today I want to remind you: You deserve to be loved. Just as you are, right now, today. And don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Keep looking where the light pours in 🌤 quote page in my September set up in my @notebook_therapy B5 gentle giant notebook. Use code ‘PBB10’ for 10% off and to support me and my content! ✨ Tap the link in my bio to watch my entire September plan with me including the process of this painting 🎨

One of my favourite reads of the month was The House of Styx by Derek Künsken ✨ La colonie has built a life in the inhospitable clouds hovering above the hellscape that is the surface of Venus. They live their lives in man-made habitats or native floating plant-like trawlers, surviving in any way they can despite the roiling storms, extreme temperatures, and acid rain. One family, les D’Aquillons, has sunk to the dangerous depths, cut off from the government’s aid and grieving their losses. Until one day a trip to the surface leads to a discovery that could change everything. The House of Styx is one of the most fully realized hard sci-fi novels I’ve ever read. La colonie has history. They have developed their own culture and hierarchy. They struggle to find meaning in the formless clouds above a planet that will do anything to end their lives. This novel explores grief and loss, gender identity and queerness, addiction and self-harm, and so much more. The characters are incredibly well developed and deeply flawed, and I found myself quickly getting attached. I was also pleasantly surprised that les colonistes originally hailed from Québec, as a bilingual Canadian myself. There is a dangerous beauty to the setting of this tale, and Künsken’s imagery captured my imagination from the start. I honestly can’t think of anything I could want from this story that I didn’t get, and I can’t wait to read the next instalment! Thank you to NetGalley and Solaris for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Swipe up in my stories to watch my August reading recap and September TBR ✨ #netgalley #thehouseofstyx

Busy month ahead 🌲 What’s your focus for September? Mine is rest. I had a very hectic August and September will be packed, too, so I need to remember to take time to myself to rest and recover ✨

“Émile was no ancient priest or shaman, but here he was, a supplicant offering in Venus’s name, giving away one of their homes like a fatted bull, festooned in the fetishes of the goddess whose favor they sought. He was returning to the underworld he’d escaped in an effort to lift his family to the stars.” The House of Styx by Derek Künsken 🕊 And so my candle addiction intensifies... don’t mind me adoring this venus bust scented candle (and the sandalwood candle in the back, too) by @interlude_candles 🕯 #gifted I burned these while reading the last few chapters of The House of Styx, a hard sci-fi that takes place in the roiling clouds above Venus. Trust me when I tell you to run, not walk, to get a copy of Derek Künsken’s genius first instalment of the Venus ascendant series. Swipe up in my stories to read my full review on @goodreads ✨ Thank you to @netgalley and Solaris for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review! #TheHouseOfStyx #NetGalley

Hello September 👋 I’m fully prepared for fall vibes and I am not ashamed. Have you set up your September spreads yet? Notebook: @notebook_therapy Gentle Giant B5 (get 10% off with code PBB10) Tap the link in my bio to watch this set up! 🌲

A heart of gold and a stardust soul ✨ what’s your favourite thing about yourself?

If I were a painting 🖼 inspired by @shirinatra ‘s #PaintingMeetsPhotoChallenge from last week. Check out my stories to see the stages of editing to get to this final result! What would you want a painting of you to be like? 🎨

I can’t believe August is almost over! ✨ What was the best moment of August for you? Mine was my 28th birthday and being made to feel so loved and special ❤️ I was thinking about where 18 year old me would have wanted to be at 28, and I feel like she never would have dared to dream to be as happy as I am. I am so lucky and feel incredibly grateful 🥰 thank you to all of you for being a big part of that! *I totally forgot while filming this set up to add the last few days at the bottom! I did little diagonal half days when I realized 😅