Comments on: Friday Loves – Etsy

By: Hygge House » Blog Archive » Etsy Love

Hygge House » Blog Archive » Etsy Love — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:55:38 +0000

[...] written here before on my Etsy Finds and also on Pet the Pretty Things (where I actually highlight some of the things I’ve bought). [...]

By: Megan

Megan — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:57:19 +0000

I’m so excited to see my wren notecards are on your favorites list! Thanks so much for featuring my little cards. Following your bliss is hard work and takes a lot of bravery. I learn that lesson every day. Thanks again!

By: james

james — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:14:42 +0000

I am thrilled to be featured in your favorites … thank you Alex! I love your various blogs and sites and have been a reader for a little while now. How lovely to see my work here. Cheers!

By: Greta Williams

Greta Williams — Sat, 24 May 2008 15:07:48 +0000

I stumbled upon your site a few weeks ago and have been emailing its link en masse to my friends. You speak from the heart of so many overworked and overconsumerized persons living today. In our attempts to make our lives ‘convenienced’, we have complicated it with fast food high blood pressure and stylized Gap t-shirts.

Thank you for reminding our souls that simplicity is what it truly craves. I have tried to incorporate the simplicity theme into my life these past few years. Yet I continue to find it very difficult to embrace “white space” in my life. If there is available time, then it must be filled with productivity. so.not.true! Sitting back and seeing the refreshing plainness of empty time is a new habit that can be difficult to form; but rewardingly appreciated.

Thank you for a new term in my life: hygge. My friends remind me when I’m getting too overburdened, “Are you living the hygge principle?”

And daily, I am doing better. Giving things away. Reusing and repurposing what I have. Delighting in small symbols of joy and happiness that occur in my life daily. And saying no – to myself and to The Joneses – to the things I don’t need. Because in the end, there is so very LITTLE that we actually ‘need’.

I can’t think of anything that will free us from the world’s pressures of busyness and solidly tie us to our true inner core than that: little is needed; much is to be enjoyed.