Landscaping

This next weekend is my mom's wedding and we are going to have some guests staying at our house... needless to say we've been trying to get things ready & clean for a while now. Hence the painting of the spare room and setting up of the guest bed.
Anyways, a while ago we shoveled out this gravel area right in front of the porch between the porch and the sidewalk... and left it. Left it with a big ugly tube-y pipe thing and ugly dirt. For like the past few months. It's been bad.
So finally I talked Kendall into planting some flowers in there this last weekend! It took some work because we had to get some PVC pipe in there and sprinkler heads and everything but it looks great!








Much better! Now we only have to landscape the entire front year and entire backyard. Haha.

The many...FACES...of disneyland

Mind you, these aren't high quality pictures seeing as how they are pictures of pictures... but still worth the effort.
We had quite a hilarious time making faces on all of the rides. Love my family.
























We had a great time :)

Peek

I've been trying to get into photography for a while now. Just with getting my own digital point and shoot camera to doing little photoshoots with my family and friends. Well, lately I've been really realizing the difference that a nice camera can make to a picture {although the photographer behind the camera has to be just as good as the camera}.


So as I was driving home last Thursday talking to Kendall, I was telling him about my hopes and dreams for photography and he remarked "Well, we will have to get you a nice camera then". I responded by saying that I've been wanting one for a while and had it on my Christmas wish list. Next thing I know, Kendall has called his dad (who is a photographer and took our wedding pictures) and had found me a camera that his dad needed to sell anyways. Within 24 hours of telling him my goal, he had made it happen. Love him!


Sooo this last weekend my friend Laurel and her fiance Carlin needed engagement shots done, and asked me to take them! I was oh-so-happy to oblige with my NEW camera.


Here's a few snapshot sneak peeks:


That's all for now. Back to editing.

GONE!

Sorry I've been gone...




I've been busy being at the happiest place on earth....

along with some photoshoots and crafties.


update to come. thanks for being patient :)

Mrs. Ar-tiste?

My front room was in serious need of a picture, and on Sunday night, my brand new canvas was calling to me...




I saw some fabric online and used it as my design. Then I changed around the colors a bit to give it my own touches.

I'm going to put sconces with flowers on each side of it to make it look bigger and fill my blank wall.

Hopefully one day I can really say "I'm going to paint a picture" and come up with something all on my own. But I'm happy with creations like this for now.

Pumpkins and Wreaths.

In preparation for my mom's wedding, my sister Sarah and I took advantage of our coupons and went to Micheal's.


We bought a bunch of fall crafties to put together for centerpieces for the reception tables:


We made out pretty nicely and I think the pumpkins will look nice and festive.


Also, this weekend my friend Julia and I went for nice & easy shopping trip to Joanne's this weekend. Luckily, it was a Columbus Day sale for the weekend so there were a lot of sales.

I've been wanting to make myself a fall wreath for a while now, so I bought a few berries, flowers and trinkets to make up this simple grapevine wreath:



Here it is on my extremely tall door:



Close up:




I kept it simple. I really like the grapevine look and I just wanted a few embellishments here and there. The ones that were pre-made were just too busy, with too much fluff.
The best part: I had a gift card from my birthday, so I didn't spend a thing! I can also take it apart easily and re-make it to fit any holiday :)

I love having nice, relaxing and yet productive weekends.

My old friend

I've had a reunion. A lunch date for the past few days with my old friend. A re-awakening of past memories and a nice feeling of being once again with my friend that I have missed.



{My scarf}

My lovelybeautifulrustyredwithalittlebitoforangeytinttoit scarf.

Now I know what you're thinking. You're thinking "This girl loves clothes too much". And on the surface, I do really like clothes.

But really, I love the way clothes make me Feel.



Warm.
Fuzzy.
Comfy.
Pretty.
Flirty.
Cozy.
Fun.



And so this is what explains my current state of bliss. The return of one of many long lost pals. Along with the return of Fall. I also have a love affair with seasons that make me have to bundle up.