{ birthday }  As of Sunday, I am officially a twenty-five year old.  Funnel & I went to Massillon for the weekend to celebrate my birthday and my dad’s birthday.  Jon & Heather came home and on Saturday night we all went out for dinner with my aunt, uncle, and my cousins and their husbands.    Other activities included [...]

Mondays can be dreadful.  And my Monday today was especially so.  Then I came home and was googling something,  (I don’t even remember what) and this came up on my image search:

Something inside of my heart leaped, and I may have let out a little squeal.  My Monday just became a little bit better. 
Without a [...]

 A quick update on a few things:
{ photography } Wedding season 2009 kicks off tomorrow with a wedding near Toledo that I am helping Ali, from Contrast Images, with. I love getting to be the “2nd shooter” in a wedding because it is less pressure, and I get a chance to get a little more [...]

Today is March 1st, meaning I will turn twenty-five in twenty-nine days.  My cousin Carmen told me on Wednesday that twenty-five was her favorite year.  I hope it is mine too.  But I am a little sad that it will mean that from then on, I will be closer to thirty than to twenty. 
Funnel is [...]

Lately, I have been evaluating what exactly I would like this blog/website to be.  Such a wide variety of my family and friends read it, and I know there are people who read it that I don’t even know.  This can be kind of awkward sometimes and I tend to censor myself or not even [...]

As I was looking for some inspiration for my quilt, I found the most amazing fabric designer: Amy Butler.  Not only is her fabric gorgeous, but she has a bunch of beautiful photos on her site for inspiration, plus there are free patterns to download!
Some of her quilts:

I would like to find a place that [...]

I’m thinking that my next big project is going to be a patchwork quilt.  I’ve never made one before, and I want to try it because it’s such a practical thing to make.  I’ve been looking through a lot of really beautiful patterns, but really, I just want to find a pattern for a simple [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]