Today we’re shining a spotlight on the Wish Quartet series by Elise Kova and Lynn Larsh. The series includes Society of Wishes (Book One) and Circle of Ashes (Book Two).
Read more about the books, check out the buy links and enter the giveaway!
Leah@WSP
Cover Reveal: Circle of Ashes (Wish Quartet #2) by Elise Kova and Lynn Larsh
Here I am again with a post about the latest book by authors Elise Kova and Lynn Larsh! I’m participating in the cover reveal of Circle of Ashes, book two in the Wish Quartet series. Yayyy. I posted about the first book, Society of Wishes a while back and I’m just as happy to help spread the word about book two!
Read more about the book, see the pre-order links and check out the read-along deets for book one! Check it out, baes! ;)
Spotlight and Giveaway: Mercury Rises by Scarlett Kol
I’m participating in a blog tour! Yay! Today we’re featuring Mercury Rises by author Scarlett Kol. Check out the cover. I think it looks cool. The story sounds pretty interesting, too.
Read more about the book, enjoy an excerpt and check out the blog tour giveaway. Woot!
Of getting back on the mat and a guide to yoga
Look at the Feb cover page of my fitness journal! It’s not as pretty as the BuJo covers I see on Instagram, but it’s all I can come up with. Haha. Anyhoo, who cares, yeah? I’m happy to say my fitness journal is getting a little action these days because I’ve been regularly practicing yoga again! Yay. I’m back to attending classes at my home studio and I’m over the moon about that.
My favorite free WordPress themes
I am obsessed with my blog. And by that I mean I’m obsessed with its design and layout and I change and tweak my themes all the time. Even when I was still blogging on Blogger, I loved to tweak my blog template. So much that I started a blog about modifying Blogger templates. I haven’t updated that blog in a long time, but I’m still messing around with blog themes.
I only use free themes though because, one, I can’t afford the premium ones, and, two, my preferences change so often that it’s impractical for me to spend on just one theme. I bought a premium theme only once in my entire life – after a whole lot of deliberation, mind you – and I regretted it because I just couldn’t get it to look right. Since then, I’ve stuck to free themes that I modify just a bit.
Out of all the WordPress themes I’ve tried, I found a very select few that I really liked and used for longer than most. I thought I should share them with you!
My top 3 favorite WordPress themes
Make by The Theme Foundry. I’ve tried using this theme a year or so ago, but couldn’t get it to look the way I wanted at that time. Then a few weeks ago, I felt the itch to redesign my blog again and, this time, Make seemed to fit my current taste. I like this theme because it’s so easy to customize and comes with pretty good documentation. The Simple Start Handbook is detailed enough to help you customize your website. I especially love that Google Fonts is already integrated in the Customizer so you don’t have to edit anything in your theme files if you want to use Google Fonts. Anyway, I like this theme a lot now.
Twenty Seventeen by WordPress. I really love this theme. It’s what I was using before I switched to Make and I used it for almost the entire year. It’s easy to customize and has a cool homepage feature that makes your website look clean and professional. It really is one of my favorites and I would use this again if my taste and feelings about my blog go back to this sort of look and feel.
Hemingway by Anders Noren. This is another one of my faves. I think I used this one longer than I used Twenty Seventeen. It’s clean, easy on the eyes and customizable, too. Modifying it to look exactly the way you want may take a little bit of basic css knowledge, but it already looks pretty good by itself. Its creator, Anders Noren, is one of my favorite designers because his themes are so clean and uses gorgeous typography. I’ve used some of his other themes before (Garfunkel and Lingonberry) and I liked them all.
So, those are my top 3 favorites based on how long I’ve used them and how easy they are to customize. I thought I should also share the runner-ups in case you’re thinking about changing your current theme. I’m really into minimalist designs (you know, a lot of white space and beautiful typography), so you’ll see a lot of that here:
(left-right, clockwise) Azalea by Just Good Themes, Hamilton by Anders Noren, Garfunkel by Anders Noren, Maker by Theme Patio
If you like minimalist designs, check out my top favorite minimalist design blogs for inspiration!
What’s your favorite WordPress theme right now? I would love some recommendations! :)
Of synchronicity and reading goals
Do you believe in synchronicity?
Last Friday I went to the bookstore to see if they had anything by Sylvia Plath because I thought it was time for me to get acquainted with her work. Yeah, I’ve never read Plath, can you believe it??
So I went inside and immediately saw the sale tables. Of course, I headed there because, you know, BOOKS ON SALE, and I browsed for a few minutes. Then at the last table, I absentmindedly grabbed a thick book that was lying on its cover and it turned out to be a sale copy of Sylvia Plath’s The Collected Poems! How awesome, right? That was a really nice surprise from the universe, I swear. Anyway, I’ve decided that this book is going to be my first for the year.
Happy New Year! Here we go again!
The start of a new year always makes me feel hopeful. Hopeful that I’ll have better success with my goals for the year. I’ve long given up on “new year’s resolutions” or, rather, I’ve stopped referring to such things as “resolutions” and just think of them as things I want to do or focus on for the year. I guess it helps take the pressure and stress of it all. Hah.
I basically have the same things on my lists every year because, you know, these are some things I want to keep doing. That’s also one of the reasons why I don’t call them resolutions. They’re really nothing new or revolutionary. The ones that are new or different are more like small personal projects for my mind and spirit and sanity. LOL.
Midwinter’s Eve Giveaway Hop – Win a $10 Amazon GC! Yayyy!
Happy Holidays, friends! It’s that time of the year again. I just wanted to thank anyone and everyone who’s been to this blog for whatever reason. I really appreciate it, especially since this blog hasn’t been much of a blog for the past few months. Hopefully, I’ll do better next year!
Anyway, let’s celebrate the holidays with a little giveaway. Enter below to win a $10 Amazon gift card! Yayyy.