2025.07.14
Slept horribly last night—super hot! definitely overdue for our summer bedding makeover*—but despite feeling scratchy this morning, I’m in a calm and happy mood. I love the “fresh start” vibes that come with Monday morning, especially when I have a long stretch of days coming up with nothing on the calendar.
I also feel increasingly clear on what I’m doing with this website and my “personal brand,” which is essentially, whatever the F I want.
Watermelon. Seedy toast with butter. String cheese.
Pork chop + few crumbles of buttermilk biscuit for the dog, who loved the latter.
After a few weeks of feeling ashamed of my astrology practice, I’m back at it, and it feels so good and so right.
I even posted horoscopes.
Sliced orange & grapefruit with a bit of oil, Maldon sea salt & toasted almonds.
Laundry, towels. My favorite laundry, everything folds into tidy squares.
* I love linen bedding, especially for summer summer; the weight, the breathability … but they get so stretched out so easily, and as much as I love the texture, sometimes I also just want smooth sheets. So we’ve been using these Tencel sheets from Casper. They too are great for hot sleepers, but they’re extremely thin, and the flat sheet is stubby on our king bed. Basically, I’m a bedding Goldilocks and told myself to just deal with the tradeoffs. Then, low behold, Parachute recently released a combination! Linen and Tencel! Which basically feels like they’re made for me, but they’re so expensive. So I’ve been waiting/hoping for them to go on clearance. I thought today was the day, but alas … only one color was on sale (I’m pretty loyal to white bedding) and the king-size was out of stock. Here’s to continuing to manifest a sale on this set in white with side-open envelope, pillows on sale.
A few weeks ago, I got it in my head that if “Lauren LeDonne” wasn’t going to be all about one single topic/value offering, then it at least needed to be all one aesthetic. Minimal, typography focused, neutral. And while a lot of negative space will probably forever be my design preference, I took it too far. I went through and deleted all of my Pinterest boards which didn’t fit into this, neutral, type-focused category. Which was pretty much all of them.
Then I tried to spin up a new “secret” sort of account for the types of stuff I deleted… aesthetic pantries, flower gardens, house plants, even all things Paris. To which, I woke up yesterday and thought, “What the hell are you doing? If you want share things you love with the world, share things the love with the world, regardless of whether they’re “on brand.” So I just spent a good hour or so building up my Pinterest account a bit. I still have ages to go until I get it back to where it was, but it feels right to be treating it as a collection of pretty things, rather than a sparse “only neutrals allowed” kind of space.
