FAVOURITES | July's Happy 10

As the month of July slowly comes to an end, I wanted to dedicate a blog post to the 10 things that made me happy in the past 30 days or so. Similar to most of my summer days, July has not been super eventful or exciting, but it was still quite relaxing. I think it's important to find happiness in the little things around us, so what we didn't get to travel to New York City or go backpacking around Europe? We can still appreciate the fact that summer is here and the weather is beautiful and we have plenty of fruits to eat. :)

Before I continue to blabber on about everything, here are a few of my favourite things, of July!

REVIEW | Sally's Cereals - Cocoa Sweets

I found a new brand of cereal in the Walmart aisles in yesterday - Sally's Cereals. They were in very large bag packages - instead of boxes like most cereals are, and that immediately caught my attention. Perhaps not for the right reason: I thought they were beautifully packaged dog food...the bags were misleading.

I love eating cereal in the morning, with milk or yogurt, and ever since I started this 'clean-eating' journey I have been on the lookout for healthier options. I've heard about brands like HOLY CRAP but $10 for a <250g bag of cereal is not exactly affordable for a student. As I looked at the bags of cereals on the shelf, theses phrases stood out to me, "gluten-free", "no artificial flavours or colors allowed", "sweetened rice cereal with real cocoa". These all seemed to be good qualities, plus it was only $3.94, leading me to throw it into the cart.

Aspiring Couch Potato: Modern Family

Hey guys! I am so excited to start something new on this blog!
As I failed to mention in my very first post, I am a complete television junkie. Not to sound like a hermit with no social life whatsoever, but one of my favourite activities is probably staying in and binge watch television series... I am not ashamed to say that I finished five seasons of Modern Family under a week. And all of this 'healthy' TV watching has inspired me to test-run a new category on my blog here, focusing on reviewing various television programs - whether it be a drama, a sitcom, a reality show - and perhaps even specific episodes if certain ones really catch my eyes!

I will start with what I have been obsessing over most recently - Modern Family. As I mentioned previously, I did marathon through all five season within a week of time. Do keep in mind though, the episodes run for about 21 minutes each episode, so it's not too too bad on my part. I have heard lots of good things about the show before I started watching; which I remembered when I was at that in-between phase of TV land (you know, when you find yourself asking "now what?"). Yeah, that phase, the in-between, the TV purgatory.

JULY WISHLIST

Hello lovely people!
I decided that starting this month (July), I will be doing a monthly 'wishlist'. I find that a great source for styling inspirations as well as for keeping up with current fashion trends is browsing the catalogs of online stores and boutiques. Whether it is larger corporations like Forever 21, American Apparel, etc., or more online-focused ones like ASOS and Nasty Gal, I always find so many pieces I like - (cue sad record scratching noise) - but cannot afford or unwilling to splurge on. The struggle is so real here (seriously, no. First world problems). I thought I could share with y'all some of the stuff I like and maybe you will find something here you are interested in as well! c:

Since it's the summer time, I've been really on the look out for dresses.

FOOD | Banana Oat Balls

Hi lovers!

Today I am sharing with y'all a healthy snack recipe! I was browsing the web the other day and stumbled upon this recipe for banana oat bars. If you are following my Instagram (http://instagram.com/michelleguuu), you would know that I am a huge foodie and 90% of the people I follow are healthy/vegan/food accounts. XD 
Anyway, I followed this recipe here from The Kitchn - http://www.thekitchn.com/healthy-snack-recipe-5-ingredi-156571 and altered it a bit according to the ingredients I have and I like. These are healthy, simple, and delicious and I really hope you guys try and make them! :)

This was my first time posting a video tutorial on a food, hope y'all find it helpful! Please let me know what I can improve on!