Category: joanna irl
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Recipe: Vegan Pumpkin Spice Latte (PSL)
I decided to figure out my own version of a pumpkin spice latte using oatmilk. After a couple of months of tweaking, I think I’ve nailed it, so I’m sharing in case you also want to DIY PSL at home!
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my daily life as experienced over a 5 minute period
If much of my life could be summed up into a single incident, I suspect it would be the one that just happened while I was home alone with my cats* on a Friday night.
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2020 is a lot but at least there’s apple picking
But a couple of Mondays ago I happened to see a post from a newly-opened-for-the-season apple orchard in Julian that was open on Mondays. The air quality happened to be okay that day. And J was home on a random day off. So! Off to Julian we went on a last minute day trip to…
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Lessons from No-Buy 2019
I want to share what I learned from spending last year NOT spending money. There was a lot!
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Travelogue: India 2019
This past July I spent 10 days in India. It was beautiful and wet and green and challenging and I’m still not sure what all I learned because I think I was at max capacity every day and that a lot of things are still filtering through my brain. Here are some thoughts.
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Carlsbad Flower Fields: for your flower photo fix!
There’s something really cool about standing in the middle of acres and acres of flowers, the color spreading around you in the springtime air, and the scent of them floating on the breeze. Confession: I was really excited to go see the hillsides covered in poppies this year with the superbloom. The traffic backlog was…
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No-Buy 2019: Spray Paint EVERYTHING!
Just in the last month, I’ve had four different projects involving spray paint refreshing, and it’s been like getting four new THINGS without doing any shopping! Check out these spray-paint DIYs that can freshen up all parts of your home!
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No Buy 2019: Repairing the Coat Tree
The last thing I wanted was to have to find a new coat tree, especially when we had all of the pieces! So in the spirit of repairing-to-not-purchase, Jared and I set about DOING CARPENTRY.
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Indiana Dunes National Park!
It’s official! One of my favorite places to visit while we lived in Chicago, Indiana Dunes, is now the US’s newest National Park!!
Joanna Volavka 