My Grandma June just celebrated her 86th birthday on June 27th.

My Grandpa Bill passed away 1 year ago, yesterday.

They were married for 61 years when he passed away.

So, I used my Anthropologie gift cards last night ((thanks Jon, Heather & Funnel!))  I bought a lovely, summery dress, which I just felt like i was supposed to have.   It was on sale for the exact amount I had on my cards and it was the only one left and just happened to be my [...]

I’m so glad it’s Friday.
Just got an email that my book’s printing has been delayed
but they are giving me $10 off my next book (sweet!)
Started reading the saddest/most hopeful blog ever.
A man whose baby was born and wife died,
all within 27 hours.
This weekend:
maybe going to comfest
maybe going to Easton (need a dress for a wedding!)
going to [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I took Thursday and Friday off of work and stayed in a cabin in Laurelville with some of my girlfriends.  It was in the middle of nowhere, but that was perfect.. we just took it easy.  We read books, grilled out, watched movies, did some creek-walking….

visited the animals on the farm down [...]

Today at work I got to meet and photograph all of our therapy animals for an article I am writing.  There were a ton of them… everything from hissing cockroaches to a chinchilla, and they were all so sweet (even the skunk). 

There was one little critter that stole my heart (don’t tell Kirpi!) and I think I [...]

I finally finished my book.  I started it last February, but I’ve really been going at it for about 9 months, and now it’s finally finished and ordered.

It’s called ”love in the heart-shaped state” and it’s the story of Funnel & Jen. 
 
It ended up being 314 pages long and it’s a compilation of all of our photos, [...]

Yesterday, Funnel and I went thrifting.  We hit four stores and at the very last one, Funnel found this amazing, distressed, shabby-chic, orange desk that had just been brought in the day before.  He showed it to me and we talked about how we didn’t have room in our apartment for it, but then we decided [...]

I just added a new item to my etsy shop:  A custom, frameable keepsake of your wedding vows in a 5×7 or 8×10. 

I love you
for putting your hand
into my heaped-up heart
and passing over
all the foolish, weak things
that you can’t help
dimly seeing there,
and for drawing out
into the light
all the beautiful belongings
that no one else had looked
quite far enough to find.
— from the poem “I love you” by Roy Croft
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After I posted the photo of our new pink mugs from Anthropologie earlier today, I decided to make an inspiration board for the future green & pink kitchen.
The green is just plain pretty and the pink is girly, but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a girly kitchen.  I think it’s very cunducive to baking cupkakes [...]