Thursday, December 22, 2011

Glad Tidings

In three days at this exact time we'll be getting off a plane and being swooped up by family from the north.
It's my husband's first flight with both girls. I had the pleasure of flying with both of them cross country this past summer. Don't expect to make friends, I say as I prepare him. Just be as quiet as possible, and keep shooting silent, pained looks to those around you and try to make your eyeballs convey a sense of both deep apology and Christmas spirit.

I'm excited about visiting family, and taking advantage of free babysitting(!) so Wes and I can take a few quiet moments to drive around our old stomping ground...the place where we spent our first years as a married couple...to try and remember what exactly we did with all our free time before we had the girls???

I always think it's funny when people without kids bemoan their lack of "free time". If you have no children, all your time is free time. I don't care if you work 80 hours a week and haven't been on vacation since 1987. If
 you're able to go to the bathroom alone, sleep through the night in a bed without goldfish crumbs, drive in your car with whatever music you feel like having on {or better yet..none!},  then you are free baby, free as a bird! If you don't believe me, {or *worse*, tell me that you have pets so it's really like the same as having kids}, your time will come. And if you don't plan on having kids, you may come borrow mine so I can take a nap. Afterwards, you will drive away wallowing, simply wallowing I tell you, in all of your glorious free time.

Well that was a sidetrack-ish sort of tangent possibly spurned from sending someone to timeout 7 times today already. Anyway.

What I'm trying to get at is that while I am super excited to celebrate Christmas, to be with family, to make memories...I'm really looking forward to a new year.

A fresh start. A new beginning. A new calendar filled with tiny boxes waiting to be filled. Changes can be made anytime you get your backside out of the chair and just do it, but somehow a new year just gives me that extra push.

I want to be more intentional. With my time, with my words, with my actions...I want to spend more time playing with my kids, not just watching them play. I want to write letters to people. Real letters. With ink and stamps. I have a big design project starting the construction phase in January and I hope it's a push to even bigger things.

And I want to change this little piece of blogland too. I started it wanting to write about "lovely things, wife-ish things, and raising girls." Or at least that's what my header says. But I got really sucked down the rabbit hole of all the down right amazing blogs written by such talented women and moms, and I doubted my voice and stopped writing anything really worth reading. Just posting pretty pictures that you could go search out from somewhere else if you wanted to. So I'm going to change that. I know I don't have the time or skill to craft the words or take the beautiful photographs that some of my favorite blogs do.

But I am the only one who can take the pictures of my girls, and write the words of their story, of our days.

And that's what I want to go back and see that I've done in a year from now. That I've written things that matter to me and want to remember. Anything else is a waste of time. And time is a-flying people!

So Merry, Merriest of Christmases! And I'll see you in the 'twenty-twelve', friends :)

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Tastes Orangey...Etsey favorite

I can't claim discovery of these beautiful paintings. The constant-finder-of-all-things-lovely, Erika, is the one who introduced me to this artist's beautiful work.

And it's too good not to share.









I am SO in love with Clare's work. They're so emotive and full of life. I'd love to have a whole gallery wall of them someday.
Would make a lovely last minute gift, any gift givers out there..hint wink hint :)

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Hallway Organization...

Loving this simple and lovely hallway update from {The Yellow Cape Cod}, a new favorite read of mine.

The chalkboard is just a large piece of MDF covered in chalkboard paint {less than $15 total}



Definitely go visit Sarah at the Yellow Cape Cod...so many great spaces and ideas

Friday, December 09, 2011

Some Truth from G.P.

Sometimes she rubs me wrong with a teeeny bit of snootiness.
Other times she says stuff like this and I love her again.



Friday, December 02, 2011

Fave fabrics from DwellStudio

I think sometimes DwellStudios gets overlooked as an amazing {adult!} fabric and design source.
Partly because their signature baby line of bold, graphic prints is so easily recognized...high end baby boutiques all the way down to Target carry their fun bedding and clothing.

I recently got my fabric sample book in for the 2012 collection and I'm SO in love with all of them.

Here are some of their pillows...
Ogee {Azure}  

Thistle Vine {Amethyst} 

Vintage Blossom {Persimmon}
Peacock {Azure}
Peacock {Citrine}
Gate {Citrine}
Labyrinth {Ash}


Medallion Band {Citrine}
Casablanca Geo {Aquamarine}
Ikat Trellis {Toffee}
Freja {Blush}
Batavia Ikat {Citrine}
Batavia Ikat {Aqua}
Vintage Plumes {Jade}
Vintage Blossom {Dove}
Gate {Charcoal}
Boteh {Jade}
Love. Love. Love. 
And they have some gorgeous rugs in the same prints.

Have a great weekend!










Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Oh all right Santa. If you insist. (Anthropologie Edition)

Happy Wednesday!
Wishlist time...
Some things I fancy from Anthro...

oh all right Santa, If you insist (Anthro Edition)
I've coveted that little egg crate for a long time. So lovely, but so impractical now that someone's 3 year old hands have learned how to open the fridge!

Anything catch your eye??

Cuff jewelry
$188 - anthropologie.com

Snow Owlet Shakers
$48 - anthropologie.com

Flocks & Herds Napkin Rings
$20 - anthropologie.com

Striped Bottle Vase
$48 - anthropologie.com

Curvy Chrysanthemum Vase
$28 - anthropologie.com

Farmer's Egg Crate
$14 - anthropologie.com

Edwardian Knob, Aqua
$10 - anthropologie.com

Fleur De Lys Pitcher
$28 - anthropologie.com

Kitchen Calendar
$22 - anthropologie.com

Atom Art Serving Bowls
$24 - anthropologie.com

Pure & Good Hand Soap
$22 - anthropologie.com

Tea And Toast Butter Dish
$12 - anthropologie.com

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