Bungalow Musings
(Stories & reflections from The Bohemian Bungalow)
Brown Butter Apple Cake for Slow Autumn Afternoons
A simple brown butter apple cake made with tart and sweet apples, warm spice, and a little extra time. This is a recipe for slowing down, savoring the process, and turning an ordinary afternoon into something that feels quietly luxurious.
The New Bohemian Is Tailored: 5 Fall 2026 Fashion Trends
Bohemian style has been put into a very small box. These five Fall 2026 looks open it back up through romantic blouses, severe tailoring, dark florals, and pieces collected over time.
Brown Butter Peach Cobbler and The Last Sweet Days of Summer
Made with ripe summer peaches, warm spices, and nutty browned butter, this peach cobbler is comfort food at its best. It’s also a recipe about finding small pockets of beauty when life feels anything but certain.
How to Dress Like Your Dream Self: 9 Ways to Find Your Personal Style
On dressing like your dream self before your life looks like hers. And why that’s the whole point.
How to Get Your Creative Spark Back (An Artist Diary)
Your creative spark isn’t gone—you’ve just been away from it. Here’s how I came back.
What Is the Bohemian Lifestyle? A Guide to Living Authentically
The bohemian mindset is a way of seeing the world. Creativity as a daily ritual, dressing like art, and choosing a path fueled by passion, not perfection.
Inside My Bohemian Apartment: 7 Tips on Decorating on a Budget
A bohemian apartment isn’t bought—it’s built, piece by piece. This is how I created mine on a budget, guided by instinct, not rules.
Slow Sunday Rituals: An Imperfect Afternoon and Butternut Squash Soup
A slow Sunday reflection on finding rhythm in routines, perfectionism and a comforting bowl of homemade butternut squash soup.
Being Single on Valentine’s Day and Trying to Believe in Love, Again
An honest Valentine’s Day essay about being single, longing for love, and navigating modern dating without hardening your heart.
Art Girl Winter: The Art Girl Aesthetic, Lived In
Winter in New York sharpens solitude and ambition alike. This is an art girl winter diary on thrifted fashion, private glamour, and using style as a creative ritual as an emerging artist in New York.
When Emotions Have Nowhere to Go, I Paint: Painting As Therapy for Mental Health
When emotions have nowhere to go, they live in the body. This essay explores painting as therapy. This is where color, movement, and mess become a way to release what words can’t hold.
5 Little Luxuries That Make Life Feel More Beautiful (Even When It’s Hard)
Life doesn’t always feel beautiful, but beauty doesn’t need perfect circumstances to exist. These are the little luxuries, through small rituals and everyday moments, I return to when life feels heavy.
New York Winter Wardrobe Essentials
A lookbook of New York winter wardrobe essentials from inside the closet of a Hudson Valley artist.
Skincare After Depression: A Softer Way Back to Myself
A personal reflection on skincare after depression—how patience, simplicity, and daily ritual replaced perfection, helping me rebuild trust with my skin and myself.
My Morning Skincare Routine: Sheet Masks, Coffee, and a Soft Start to the Day
A slow, intentional morning skincare routine that grounds me in winter—hydration, sheet masks, soft makeup, and small rituals that help me return to myself before the day begins.
Winter Studio Notes: Healing Through Art and A New Art Series
A December journal from my studio—on grief, winter light, creative rituals, and the quiet healing that happens through art when I return to the canvas again.