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europe reflections

7 Mar

roma

venice

praque

ireland

amsterdam

paris/notre dame

aix en provence/southern france

Oh how I miss Europe.  Lately, I have been thinking about Europe every day.  More specifically, I have been thinking about France every day.  It might be because my sister and her fiance are planning their honeymoon to Spain right now.  And I am so excited (and jealous) of the amazing adventure they are about to take.  It is going to be spectacular!

Above is a random assortment of photos from my trip.  Every place we visited was life changing and I would be lucky to go back to any one of those countries.  But today I would do anything to go back to France.  Whether it is the cobble stone streets, the crepes (amazing!), the beauty, the laid back culture, the fresh, outdoor markets, the wine cafes in the street, it is all amazing.  Ok, now I am conviced–lets go!

thankfulness

5 Mar

Last week I had coffee with a friend and during our conversation we started talking about thankfulness.  She was telling me how important it is to remember what we are thankful for and how she tries to write down at least one thing she is thankful for every day.  I think this is the most wonderful idea! This is something I do every year at around Thanksgiving and as cheesy as it may sound, it is always very helpful and meaningful for me.  And I think it is important that I reflect on what I am thankful year around rather than just once a year. 

My goal is to keep a notebook and write in it at least one thing I am thankful for every day.  Lately, my anxiety has been higher than usual as Jonathan and I go through this stressful time waiting to find out about our future.  I find myself worrying about the future all the time and meanwhile, I am letting my life pass me by!  I want to enjoy every minute I have left in Spokane.  I want to remind myself of all the wonderful things in my life past, present and future!  Here’s to thankfulness!

Today I am thankful for fresh flowers and my wonderful husband.

What are you thankful for?

happy friday/sparkles

2 Mar

Source: photo taken by Jefra Linn  and posted on ohhellofriend

I posted this picture in honor of our decorating party tomorrow.  Holly and I are planning a little decorating party to get some of the wedding decorating projects for her wedding done.  We have to start kind of early because I have work later in the day so we decided Holly would get the coffee started and I would bring some yummy donuts.

The reason I posted the fabulous sparkle picture was because a lot of our projects include sparkles!  A couple months ago Holly and I went to a decorations store in town and stumbled upon an aisle of sparkles.  Honestly, it was one of the prettiest sights I had ever seen.  There were large jar of everyone color and size of sparkles that you could imagine.  We picked out the colors we liked and took the jars up to the counter to be weighed for our specific purchase.  And ever since we picked out the sparkles, I have been dying to start our project.  I won’t tell you exactly what we are doing with the sparkles so that I don’t spoil the surprise but I am sure I will post some pictures later.

Happy Friday everyone!

the first of march

1 Mar

I don’t know about you but I am so happy it is March!  This means we are getting closer and closer to spring.  I can’t tell you how much I miss warm weather and sunshine!  February in Spokane has been so odd this year.  This week we have had two snow storms and this month we have barely seen the sun!  But I have high hopes for March.  It think we are all in desperate need of some vitamin D!

Here is a list of a few things I am looking forward to this spring:

– Holly and Jeremy’s wedding!

– Finding out where we will be living for the next few years

– Participating in outdoor activities again

– Budding flowers

– Picnics

– Jonathan and my neighborhood walks

– Sunshine (of course!)

– Jonathan’s graduation from medical school — I am so proud of him!

– Holly’s graduation from Whitworth

– Iced coffee

Happy March everyone!

inspiration

1 Mar

Here are a few pictures that gave me inspiration today.  I have found that beautiful spaces bring creativity and inspiration into my life.  Sometimes when I am working on a project and need help thinking outside the box, I look at beautiful pictures to help me.  I am always more creative when I am in an inspiring space and when that isn’t possible, the next best thing is to look at pictures of inspiring spaces.  The pictures below brought sunshine into my life today.  I hope they bring you some as well.

Source: stylizimo.blogspot.com via theprettyblog.com

Source: thedecorista, via browneyedbellejulie

Source: puregreendesign.blogspot.com, via Pinterest

wedding invitations

28 Feb

I have been working on Holly’s wedding invitations and I am getting so excited about them!  The theme for Holly’s wedding is a vintage carnival theme (genius!) and it is going to be fabulous!

I was excited to design Holly’s wedding invitations long before her and Jeremy were engaged.  Once it became a reality, I started to put a bunch of pressure on myself for the invitations to be perfect (surprise, surprise :))  and then didn’t get anything done at all!  I was just waiting for a burst of inspiration and it wouldn’t come.  But I am happy to tell you I got my burst of inspiration and I am so excited about them.  I can’t wait to share them with you but I will have to wait until we mail them because I don’t want to spoil the surprise.

Have a wonderful Tuesday!

Snow

28 Feb

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!  In my last post I was wishing for sunshine and guess what we got all weekend…SNOW!  I thought for sure Spokane was done with that but I guess not.  But we decided to embrace it and meet some friends at a cute cafe for hot cocoa.  We ended up having a wonderful time and I guess in some ways I am thankful for it.  I think snow reminds us to slow down.  And that is what we did!

I also wanted to share a picture of a card Jonathan made me awhile back.  He knows how much I love making cards so he made one of his own and I just LOVE it!  I am even thinking about making some to sell on Etsy.

happy friday

24 Feb

This picture is of a street in Paris that I took on my Europe trip a few years back.  I chose this picture because lately I have been missing Europe and I have also been missing sunshine.  February tends to be a tough month for me because my inner self is ready for spring but Spokane is not.  Hopefully Spokane will see some sun this weekend.  I am crossing my fingers.  Here’s to sunshine and weekends!  I hope everyone has a wonderful Friday!

colored jeans

23 Feb

So one thing is for sure…colored jeans are taking the fashion world by storm!  It is honestly amazing.  They are everywhere!  I have known for awhile that they would be popular, but it seems like every store I walk into has colored pants.  And I love it!  Here are a few wonderful examples of colored jeans, where to find them and how they are worn.

(Just in case you are skeptical :))

1. Nordstrom 2. J Crew 3. Anthropologie

it has been way too long

23 Feb

I know it has been awhile since I have posted anything on my blog but I have recently realized how important it is for me to have a creative outlet and I think this blog is that outlet.  I would like to become more disciplined in my writing as well as my creativity and I want to use this blog as a way to practice that.  For some reason taking this much time off blogging has made it even harder for me to start it up again.  It is something I love but I keep putting it off!  So this first entry is my attempt to start the process without so much pressure to make it perfect.  If you have stuck with me all this time, thank you!  I hope to be a lot more diligent this time around.