About


Hello everyone! My name is Imelda (ee-MEL-dah). Not a name you hear very often, feel free to drop the ‘I’ and call me Melda. I’m newly married to my husband, Jabi, and we live in a small city near San Francisco with our little over-energized Shih Tzu, Lucas!

I have a degree in Anthropology, I love to read and eat, and if I can choose my dream job it would be to be an author or book critic! In the meantime, I (and Jabi for that matter) work for a well-known health care organization and I’m content to be there, for now.

When I’m home I find I’m cleaning and finding ways to organize – it’s very therapeutic for me to have everything in its place. I’m still very much making my house into a home and decorating (I love Pottery Barn). I’m still learning how to become a better cook and building my knowledge in better eating habits. Fitness is still a challenge I’m working on too.

I’m thirty and I’m in this weird funk of finding a style that’s age appropriate and I’m trying to restock my closet. How I wish everything I pinned on my style board on Pinterest would just magically appear in my closet. Sigh…

Overall I’m in this huge transitional period of my life. Jabi and I dated since our senior year in high school, we were engaged for almost ten months, I’m married now, I have to re-identify myself with my new last name, we are planning to make our family grow, all the while I feel a bit lost in my career and self-image. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not moping about it, I just want this blog to serve as a creative outlet for me. I’m sure I’m not the only one out there and I hope this will serve as a positive source for others as well.

Thanks for taking the time to read this and getting to know me a bit better! Until next time, take care!