back to school giveaway!

Yay for a giveaway! If you like the earth and free stuff, then this giveaway is for you :). Welcome my newest sponsor: Liz of Liz Bags! Liz is a Portland local who is finding a market creating cute bags for all things.  Need a reusable bag for grocery shopping?  She’s got it.  Reusable sandwich bags? […]

weekending.

The highlights of my weekend were: {CPR and wine tasting.} You probably think I’m joking about the CPR, but I’m totally serious.  The lady who taught the CPR class was freaking hillarious, AND at the end she taught us dog CPR!  I was seriously so excited.  Everyone thought I was a little crazy for being […]

ooooh! shiny!

I am in love with…. Every single piece in Rachel Blakley’s etsy shop is pure perfection.   Simple, polished and delicate – but not too precious. Her pieces have a slight organic feel and a definite edge. Here are a few of my favorites…. Add it to my wishlist :). xo {Lauren}

fill in the blank friday.

Today’s Fill in the Blank Friday is filled with the randomness that is my brain.  If you’d like to play along then fill in the blanks over at your blog and then link up using the linky below. Enjoy! {this picture makes me happy :).} 1.  The most adventurous thing I’ve ever done is      […]

some fun tutorials.

Tonight I was perusing the interweb looking for some tie-dyed leggings.  I saw Gretchen wearing some on last week’s Project Runway and knew immediately that I must have some.  Perhaps you didn’t notice them, because she was only wearing them while hanging around the apartment, but I thought they were so chic for both lounging […]

cutest little family ever.

Perhaps some of you readLife @ 1521. If not…. you’re missing out. This blog is authored by the lovely Becca, whom I just met for the first….er….second time recently.  Let me explain….Becca happened to read my blog and through a series of back and forth comments we realized that we were actually in a group in […]