Liz | Alchemy of Home

I just learned about #souplor so I think it’s a good day to buy some cans for a local food bank

My delulu mind is what if Kim apologized to Taylor for Kanye’s shit and to make amends, she got in on the New Romantics plan. I’m insane. I’m sorry.

To be clear, I have zero faith in Kim. But how was she a lawyer fighting against wrongful convictions, and is now dead silent on ICE but pops out to billionaire on us?

I have no one to talk to about how it feels like EVERY celebrity is trolling us so hard. I don’t keep up with the kardashians anymore, but that hairy underwear + call her daddy interview has the same rage troll energy and TLOAS! I can’t explain!

A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

Did you catch her lyric in Discovery Channel when she says “about 20 years ago we started playing a game, now we’re all going to sit down and finish it” it feels so random in that song

Why did I read this at the exact moment I was pondering the whiskey? 🥃

This is why we can’t have nice things!!!!

Billionaires ruin literally everything.

I just can’t abide the oracle and ai slop of it all. I was passively falling for too many nothing-burger AI videos, and that made me so uncomfortable. Imagine what consequential videos I may have fallen for! I can’t! I won’t!

I mean, it’s been ruining my brain for years, and I’m excited to get creative time back, but damn it makes me love people and their genius.

I’m deleting my TikTok account today and I am SAD. But it’s been ruined.

One of the covers of Taylor’s debut album. Taylor in a white dress kneeling in bright blue water, with the words “Taylor Swift” across the front and some butterfly stamps throughout

Taylor in a white dress for the Fate of Ophelia music video, sitting on her right hip and looking wistfully towards the right

Taylor in a white dress for the Fate of Ophelia music video, lying down as if she’s part of a well-known painting of Ophelia, skirts draped out around her & flowers and other vegetation surround her

Part of the cover art of Taylor’s debut album. Taylor in a white dress walking through a bright blue creek, holding her skirt out in both of her hands, looking down, there are trees in the background - one of which is leaning over the creek

Happy 19 years to Debut. The deliberate callback in the Fate of Ophelia MV to the album cover from the start of her career, before the current of fame pulled her under/into the underworld, is really hitting me fresh today.

The thing I love about my cats is that I can rouse them from a dead sleep and all they do is purr violently because they love me 😭😭 when I roused from a dead sleep I’m downright hostile

I’ve always done that to try to “fit in,” but then I lose my own voice 🥲

I’m also really trying to stop looking at what everyone else is doing so much.

I am GOING TO LEARN BLUESKY goddamnit. I’m seriously so tech challenged sometimes.

YEP! It’s too much and as a new business owner I just need my time back. It drains my creative force and I’m looking forward to not even having it as an option. I got rid of twitter when Elon bought it 😭

Thank you!! That’s what I love about it. Came from TikTok. I’m deleting that app bc the AI and oracle are freaking me out

For me, it’s about hope that there IS meaning. That the New Romantics really are up to something. I related to your post about maybe needing to step back. Bc the world is SO bad that I’m clinging to hope via pop star?!?! But I love the community & learning so it’s worth it.

I always wanna comment, “you’re so close” but I just don’t. Hi btw! I’m Liz- brand new gaylor trying to learn everything I can lol. Obsessed with the performance art of it all

I’m a brand new Gaylor and was confronted with this too — and lots of other “omg” moments.

You're not lazy, you're stuck.

You're overwhelmed by decision fatigue. You're short on time. You're disconnected.

Try ONE small shift: empty a drawer, clear a shelf in the closet, reposition that chair you're always bumping into.

Manually move your energy. Open space for mental clarity.

I think I’m done trying to make my content perfect. There are literal Nazis in charge of the government. I’m sure my stream of consciousness isn’t gonna hurt anyone

Random but true: There's so much furniture in the world that needs a home. You can create a beautiful home AND boycott corporations by thrifting and up-cycling.

Sure, it takes more time, but convenience is killing us and making us boring.

Liz | Alchemy of Home | Substack Interior alchemist & chronic ponderer. I guide scattered creatives to style soulful, intentional homes — and study the archetypal, symbolic threads that weave through art, design, and transformation.

If you’re navigating your own homecoming, read J.’s story in this week’s Tales of Transformation.

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After a major life transition, coming home can feel less like returning and more like rebuilding.

I view home as an extension of ourselves, and sometimes reclaiming our land means building over what’s been left behind.

Truly

I'd love to know what you know and love about this archetype - I'm stuck trying to get my feelings about it on paper.

A collage of photos revolving around the theme of magic. The magician tarot card is featured alongside a flying cat, several crystals and a house of magic sign.

When I'm not thinking about the Alchemy of Home, I think about the alchemy of life. Splashing around in different esoteric puddles is my special interest. I can't pick just one path, so I learn a little at a time and let one trail lead to the next.

This week, I'm stuck on The Magician.