Happy Friday! And more importantly……happy 100th edition of the Lil Treasures newsletter, my Lil Swipes! 🎉 Welcome to the centennial edition. Let’s celebrate!
I started this newsletter a few years ago as a way to create a space for meaningful conversation and funny Tweets. It has changed and blossomed and even switched platforms since then, but still to this day I am exceedingly grateful for the opportunity to continue writing and sharing in this amazing community with you all. Thank you all for your support, which means so much to me! If this was an in-person speech I would rally all of you like former basketball coach Roy Williams (see first gif) and we would crank up 90’s Jock Jams and tackle a 3 tier cake together. For now, I will just settle for a giveaway to celebrate this momentous occasion! If you share the newsletter on social media this weekend, you’ll be entered into a drawing for some free Olive and June! 💅 Just make sure to tag me in the post, and I’ll DM the winner on Monday!
Now for those long-awaited treasures:
🍁 The queen of pop (T.Swift herself) made this post earlier this week and reinforced many of the/my basic opinions on fall drinks, scarves, feelings. UNITED WE STAN.
🍳 My friend Sophie Hudson (some of you know her as Boomama) has been compiling some of her mother Ouida’s recipes and releasing them each week on Instagram. It’s been such a sweet testament to her late mother, and the recipes are like, REALLY GOOD. Sophie has now put them all into a single digital cookbook with over 35 recipes! If you’re looking to throw some good new recipes into your rotation, check out the Ouida Wednesday cookbook!
⛪ I posted this article from The Atlantic a few days ago on Instagram - but if you missed it or are not on the socials right now, it’s a terrific read about the reckoning of the white evangelical church and the divisiveness that is so prevalent right now.
💛 This beautiful piece, entitled The Afterlife of Rachel Held Evans, is such a lovely read, especially if you have read or been affected by any of Rachel’s work. Her writing had such an influence on my life, and I still find it hard to grasp that she is no longer living in her earthly body. She left behind parts of a book she was writing, and the wonderful Jeff Chu has been piecing it together via a new book called Wholehearted Faith, available this Tuesday. You can pre-order it from Amazon here! The article linked above talks about the book, her family, and the legacy she left behind. I am so grateful for Rachel and hope you are able to celebrate and enjoy her work, too!
✈️ Do yourself a favor and read this poem from Savannah Locke. Let it sit with you.
👗 Okay I was reading this EXCELLENT post from Friend of the Newsletter (In My Own Heart), Anne Helen Peterson, and was reminded of my VERY BEST middle school outfit: black and red plaid skirt, red sweater tank with matching short-sleeved cardigan, white knee socks (!) and chunky black Mary Janes. And of course, don’t forget the butterfly clips. Currently lamenting that I apparently never took a picture in this iconic fit. I remember EVERYTHING about that outfit: all the places I wore it (school, a school dance, church), what I felt like in it and it took me back to The Good Place, where all I was worried about was if I would make the basketball team (she did not make the basketball team), and if my seventh-grade boyfriend was going to try and hold my hand again and HOW DO I MAKE IT STOP SWEATING, YM MAGAZINE?! Please answer my letter to the editor on this matter. So in honor of this throwback treasure, I want to know your middle school power outfit. Please give me all the details possible.
🥤 Here’s some wisdom to take with you into your weekend from a sheriff in Polk County, FL.
Let’s celebrate some more with these good Tweets!
YOU AREN’T READY FOR THIS
(If don’t understand the bones reference, please check out this Tiktok account)
Alright pals, can’t wait to see you and your middle school OOTD in the comments! I’m also here for your Halloween garb and any “greatest hits” newsletter moments you want to share. Here’s to the next 100. 🥂
I was in middle school in the mid-90s, and my favorite outfit was a flowered, baseball sleeved, hooded t-shirt, my wide-legged jeans, and my plaid Tweety Bird chucks. Lol. I hadn't thought about those shoes in YEARS.
I was in middle school in the mid 2000s. Flare jeans, lace hem tank tops under everything. I was really crafty/artsy as a kid which my mom really encouraged. When I wasn't wearing a pink corduroy BLAZER to school, I would wear some homemade styles like a DIY halter over a long sleeved shirt or a cropped shrug top that I'd made out of an old t shirt. And even though I'd never touched one, all the popular girls wore skateboarder shoes, so I also wore skate shoes.