pretty things for a monday morning.

Mondays are rough….especially after a four-day weekend. So….I thought I needed a little something pretty in my day……. As of late I’ve been quite enamored with vintage children’s illustrations. I would love to have a little collection of my own when I have my own kids one day. I may have to start keeping an […]

my favorite thing about today #19

My favorite thing about today was church and finding beauty in the broken. {via} For some reason I’ve always had a penchant for beautiful ugly things. I find beauty in dirty, old and broken things. Weeds over flowers. Scratched up, paint peeled furniture. Old rickety houses. The sun glimmering off of a mud puddle. Broken […]

family portrait.

I had been adoring the lovely little silhouettes I’ve been seeing all over the interweb for quite some time now, so I finally decided that if everyone else could make them, so could I. It was a super easy project and I already had all the supplies, so it was cheap too. craig. lauren. marley. […]

i could do this for hours. seriously.

La Photocabine is my new favorite thing (I found it via Bluebird Vintage). I just spent the last half hour messing around on it making these: There were more but I thought I’d only subject you to a couple. It’s super fun, but takes a second to figure out since it’s in French and I […]

for the love of socks.

I have currently been up for almost 19 hours. I woke up at 4:30 this morning to brave the Black Friday crowds for our annual sock shopping excursion. Fred Meyer (which is a one-stop shopping place here in Oregon….groceries, clothes, decor, toilet plungers, bird seed, exotic plants, etc…..) has a half-off sock sale every year […]

my husband was once famous.

So…today was Thanksgiving and it was wonderful. We went to my parent’s house for dinner and my mom is the absolute cutest. She went to great lengths to make sure Thanksgiving was as perfect as she could make it because she knows it’s my favorite holiday. She’s not really into domestic stuff (i.e. cooking, decorating, […]