by Simply Olivia Grace | May 21, 2018 | travel
I’ve always been fascinated with minimalist packing — the idea of bringing only what you really need and using every single thing in your suitcase. The past three years have given me so many opportunities to travel, and every time, I’ve found that I can do with less...
by Simply Olivia Grace | May 14, 2018 | life design
After a morning working at farmer’s market, I have no plans ahead except writing up this blog post and hopefully getting some work done on my story. A warm summer breeze is breathing through the open window, making my coffee steam rise up in spirals — and all this to...
by Simply Olivia Grace | May 7, 2018 | journaling
Since coming home after the end of the semester, I’ve been inspired to pull out the highlighted planner and freshen up my living space and figure out how to organize the small mountain of graded essays that I brought back from college. After all, what better way to...
by Simply Olivia Grace | Apr 30, 2018 | academia
Among the array of skills that I learned from my 8:00am class this semester – such as fixing a coffee in thirty seconds flat and speed-walking from the cafe to my classroom – was the art of mastering the five-minute minimal makeup routine. This is an...
by Simply Olivia Grace | Apr 23, 2018 | academia
Final’s Week is almost upon us, and for a lot of us this is equivalent to overwhelming study sessions, caffeine overdose, all-nighters in the library, messy bedrooms, and the added stress of packing all your worldly belongings before your dorm’s check-out time. The...
by Simply Olivia Grace | Apr 16, 2018 | books
Good children’s stories are the jewels of a book collection. You know the ones — the worn-out volumes that are tucked in your attic, the ones your mom would read aloud over lunch while your seven-year-old self ate cookies and milk, the treasured books you would read...