Year: 2020

Blogging routine that works for me

Published by Ereen @ Everyday Ereen

I went onto my blog and typed in ‘blogging routine’ into the search bar and I was surprised to see that I have never published any type of blogging routine whatsoever on my blog. I wanted to see how my routine has changed throughout the years but I’m pretty sure I didn’t have a solid routine before hence the absence of the post. All thanks to the Notion app, I now have a solid blogging routine that works for me. I am more inspired to write because I always have post ideas listed so whenever I feel like working on my blog, I can always look at the list and start writing. MY ROUTINE Step #1 First step is to open my Notion app and look at the Content Calendar page where I have listed pending post ideas that I want to publish on my blog. I either, 1. write the post in the app itself, or 2. go into WordPress and straightaway right my post there. Step #2 To help with writing, I usually …

Ana Tomy Customised Planner in Melon

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I totally broke my promise in this post and got myself a new planner. Oops. I didn’t mean to. I’ve been drooling over customised planner from Ana Tomy since last year but never gotten around to getting it because I can’t see myself using an expensive planner and getting my money’s worth out of it. LOL. This girl has never finished a planner nor completed 12-month of bullet journaling. After some time I got really bored, forgot to plan for the whole year, and start again with a new planner or bullet journal at the start of a new year. This time around, I caved in and made an order on their website. Ana Tomy is a local paper stationery company here in Malaysia that offers planners, notebooks, and sketchbooks that you can customise. I like the fact that it’s undated so I can use it whenever I want. What could be a one year planner could be stretched into a two year one if I want to. Therefore, I can avoid wasting papers. You …

New Mom Skincare Routine

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I love being a mom. But with that huge responsibility, there are things that I have to sacrifice such as cutting down my 10 step Korean skincare routine to just a barely-two-step routine that won’t take up much of my time. I need to be quick – STAT – so bye-bye, redundant products, maybe we’ll meet again when my infant grows up a little. Heh. Cleansing I’m a true believer of Kayman Beauty Coalface Soap and I will always going to be repurchasing it. It’s great if you have breakouts and it keeps my skin at bay. I’ve used it for almost two years now and so far my skin hasn’t been ‘immune’ to it yet. When I need to remove my makeup (which is a rare occurrence in this pandemic LOL), I use the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm. A little goes a long way and it doesn’t dry up my skin like other cleansing balms I’ve used before. Essence + Moisturiser When I need to be quick, I always use these …

My guilty pleasure wish list

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Hello, welcome to Erin’s Ridiculous List of guilty pleasures she shouldn’t be lusting, but she does, anyway. Based on Google, guilty pleasure is something, such as a film, a television program or a piece of music, that one enjoys despite understanding that it is not generally held in high regard, or is seen as unusual or weird but in this post, it is a list of things that I am lusting after; guilty pleasures that I shouldn’t be lusting because I don’t need it, they’re expensive, although it would make my life somewhat a better experience… Lust #1 – The AirPods Pro I don’t want the normal AirPods, I want the Pro one! *cries a bucket* I have tried the normal AirPods and they sound similar to my 80 ringgit Xiaomi AirDots. The AirPods Pro, however, has noise cancellation and they just look better than the normal AirPods. If I bought them, I would reek of guiltiness and that ain’t a smell I wanna be associated with. Lust #2 – The iPad Pro with Magic …

My postpartum experience

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My son turned 3 months old today so I thought it’s time to share my postpartum experience on the blog. I’ve had a smooth post-childbirth recovery, Alhamdulillah, all thanks to my husband who did the chores whilst I only needed to take care of the baby to the point where I dreaded not doing anything at all and started doing chores again. I love my routine and I miss doing it. I did traditional confinement, much to my dismay because there were a lot of food and drinks that I can’t have until I finish the 44 days confinement. I had all sorts of fish and my favourite would be salmon and dory. My husband cooked my breakfast, lunch, and dinner all throughout my confinement. I had rice porridge with pieces of fried dory on top at the hospital so I made my husband recreate it. It’s so good! Since I had a C-section, I can only get traditional massage 2 weeks postpartum so on the 14th day, I had a massage, ‘bertungku‘, and ‘bengkung‘ …

If you had RM100 to spend on your blog..

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I know not everyone is willing to fork out money for their blog especially if they are only treating it as a hobby, but if you do have a hundred ringgit laying around somewhere and you thought “I wanna buy a little something-something for my blog!” as a treat, then this post is for you! Blog photography props I recently bought a rose gold tray basket for my perfumes from dilashome on Shopee. They have tons of cute marble/rose gold stuff that you can use to beautify your room and also as blog props as well. One more thing that you can buy as props is contact paper! Contact papers have adhesive back so you can paste them on a thick manila card or cardboard and use it as photo background. Domain name Tired of having .blogspot.com on your blog url? It’s time to take the plunge and get yourself a domain name! I’m a long time user of netkl.com so I can vouch for that company for their domain and hosting. Getting a domain …