Relaxing weeked.

Hi there. I hope everyone is having  relaxing weekend. I have probably had the least productive weekend in a long time. Lots of sleeping in, tv time and a little shopping. The husband and I hit up the mall yesterday so I could get some new skinny jeans! And last night we went to the Cincinnati Cyclones hockey game with his work people. It was fun but I am tired today and its look like I will not be getting anything done. I am ok with that it is nice to just relax and rest up for the week to come. And because I for some reason feel I cannot post without a picture I will leave you with this. Because the only thing I have done today is spend 20 minutes scrapping off my car so I could go to starbucks to get coffee and a newspaper! I realize this may be strange to some people but I am totally addicted to starbucks. And I am ok with that.

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Happy Sunday! I am working on my freezer meal post so be on the look out for that soon!

Monthly Pinterest Challenge

Hello. Upon brainstorm texting with my sister about weekly or monthly blog posts we have come up with this... A monthly pinterest challenge! Wooo hoo! Who is excited! Well, I am I have a ton of pins (1410 pins to be exact) So its time to start making some of the cool things I have pinned. I will post my finished project here along with the original pin I got the idea from each month. I haven't yet decided what part of the month I will do this in? Maybe sometime in the middle of the month. For Januarys pinterest challenge I am going to make this.....

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I kept all of our wedding cards but just rubberbanded them together and put them in a drawer never to be seen again. I love this idea so I am going to do it! I will let you know how it goes! I am excited.

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Happy New Year!

Hi there. I hope everyone's new year has gotten off to a great start! Mine has proven to be pretty busy already. I have a tendency to make myself busier than I need to. I am coming to terms with that though I think it is just who I am I like to be very busy and get the most out of every day. I am not always a very organized though so I plan to work on that this year.

2011 was an eventful year for me because....
-We celebrated our 1st anniversary
-Dan graduated from Ohio State
-Dan and I moved to a new city
-We both started new jobs
-I started this lovely little blog
-I started my own business!

Now I need to figure out how to keep it all organized! I kind of jumped in to the whole blog and business thing without really having a plan. So this year I am going to start organizing my week every Sunday by planning meals, grocery shopping and making a blog schedule. I would like to post 2-3 times a week but once a week would be an improvement so I think I am going to start with once a week and see how it goes. I really enjoy posting here and would like to be able to do it more consistently. I got the idea for Sunday planning for a blog called design finch. She has lots of great organizing printables also! I plan on using these to keep me organized.

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via ohthelovelythings

via kamleylane

If you are hoping to get more organized this year hopefully you will find the printables helpful. I plan to print them in black and white because the colors dont really match our house. I am also going to frame them and use them like dry erase boards. That way I am not printing out papers for every week thus saving money and being green!  I also recommend you check out some of the links I posted especially design finch you will find lots of free organizing printables on her site.

I also spent last weekend making a months worth of freezer meals. I am hoping this helps me to have more time in the evenings to keep up house work and to sew and do fun crafty things. And also to avoid ordering pizza when I am too tired to make something. We have tried a few of them once we have tried and approved them all I will be posting about them. So be on the look out for a freezer meal post.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week!

Starburst mirror update!

Hi. I cant believe it has been so long since i posted! Ahh I totally missed November! I have been really busy with making dinosaur hoodies. I should be back to posting a little more now that I am caught up on holiday orders.

We bought a new couch this week so I am working on updating our living room.We are also expecting some guests tomorrow for an early Christmas celebration!  I have my first pie in the oven right now! I decided to go with pumpkin because it is my favorite and I already had all the ingredients. I am making fajitas for dinner tomorrow which is also one of my favorites! I hope to post about that this coming week with some new recipes.

I needed a piece of artwork or something to hang above our new couch so I decided to move the starburst mirror I made from the back porch. I also updated it by adding more little mirrors to it. I love the way it sparkles with the christmas tree in lit! ( I couldn't really get a good picture to do it justice but it really brings a lot of light into the room.) You may remember seeing it before in this post.  

I have a few other projects I want to complete for this room. I am hoping to make dye and stencil the existing white curtains, paint the room grey, stencil an area rug and paint the steamer trunk white. I know that is a lot but that's kind of how my brain works so we will see how it goes!  And I will post updates as I complete projects!
Here is some fun pinspiration for you!

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Finding My Style

The past several years I feel I have lost my sense of fashion or style. Whatever you want to call it at 24 I find my self feeling uncool a little early in life. I think it started when I felt I needed to transition out of juniors into....womens? I find I am not quite ready for womens at this point either....thus the loss of style and sense of confusion. So I have made it my goal to find my style and build up my wardrobe once again. I would love to not have to stress out about what I am going to wear when we go out places! I also am not particularly wealthy at this point in my life either so I took the next two days off work and I am heading to Columbus to do some thrifting with my sister!! (Its 50% off day!) Yay. I am so excited. So here is some pinspiration for my new found adult style!

So with these photos as my inspiration hopefully I will be able to find some awesome stuff! I will report back with my finds! As long as they are good! =)

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