We're doing another "roundup" of all things we're trying, loving, cooking, and reading lately. Read on to find our favorite books, download an addicting buffalo chickpea wrap, and hear about what it's like to do a No Buy Month or a Wardrobe Color Analysis.

Gen's picks:

Loving

Baggu packing cubes - gave these out for Christmas gifts! So cute, made from recycled materials, and super handy. I totally want the "Archived Fruit" set.

Cooking

Butternut squash, pasta, kale, turkey dish, love my one pot meals and this one is just so good. See recipe

Skincare

The Tatcha lip mask peach jelly has been my ride or die in the drier mountain climate. 

Reading

Before We Died. It's about the rubber boom in the Amazon rainforest and the beautiful ways of people who lived there. It's a tragedy about the toll this export took, but it's full of incredible imagery and captivating stories. 

Wearing

Wayre pants. I’m living in these. They’re perfect for travel because they’re cropped, good pockets, fitted but somehow loose and comfortable. What's weird is I can travel all day in them and I don’t get that overwhelming desire to change into sweatpants. 

Marimar's picks:

Watching

Rajiv Surendra, you know, Kevin G from “Mean Girls” ... He is a renaissance man. I really appreciate his attention to the details and understanding of where his things came from. Chef's kiss - this man can make anything! He also just came out with a show on Discovery+ called “Homeboy.”

Trying

I recently did a color analyst with a friend and it was LIFE CHANGING! It's where you get a ton of cloth handkerchiefs draped on you to figure out if you’re a Spring, Summer, Autumn, or Winter. Knowing what season you are is tremendous when you’re shopping. Now you know the exact colors that make you shine. It makes thrift shopping easier and you’ll have clothes in your closet you actually want to wear. PS - Go see Nicole if you live in Seattle/Ballard and tell her I sent you :)

Loving

Grocery store flowering arrangements. I'm not a painter, or ceramicist, or the biggest creative person, and I don't like a ton of creative supplies. But I do want to exercise my creative side and picking up flowers at the grocery store and arranging them makes me happy and then I get to compost them when they have reached their end of life!

Adrienne's picks:

"Lately I've tried not buying anything. I hated it, but I love my improved bank balance! I keep an extensive shopping list on my notes app that I'm constantly editing any time something comes to mind BUT I only give myself the green light to make a purchase when a specific item (and my lack thereof) comes up in my day to day. I add a little lightning emoji next to it so at a glance I know that it's something I actually need and I don't get so distracted when shopping online or irl."