around the house

The new Sigur ros, kitties all over the freshly clean sheets, homemade pretzels (there's a fun video coming!), and the best healthy chocolate chip cookie dough bites i've tasted (recipe will be posted tomorrow, you'll want to come back... believe me!)

But in reality most of this week was spent catching up on sewing work and last night I had a tension headache to prove it. But now its our weekend and the rest of the emails and piles of fabric will have to wait until Sunday.

Also, happy first day of summer! I'm hoping to do some reading and lounging. I also planned out a little  maternity series to do in my own way, so we'll be shooting the first of those photos today. It probably won't be a weekly thing but I wanted to document at least some of it... we'll see!

Hope you enjoy some lemonade or something summery today.

WEARS 01 // easter

We had such an amazing easter, there wasn't much to it but it was special. For some reason we woke up at 7:30am (which does NOT happen on the weekends), but i'll chalk that up to the sun shining bright in our room. We traded some small gifts, not sure why we still do this but its a fun excuse to spoil each other a little. Then we ate breakfast and lounged around. I dropped him off at work then spent some time with family, celebrating easter and birthdays. We ended the day at our church, with a beautiful service.

Before we ran out the door josh took some photos of me... this is me trying to document more daily stuff and not just flowers ;). I bought this dress recently with a gift card and I'm excited its finally nice enough outside to wear it. i haven't owned a white dress in a long time but i love it. Confession: I wasn't ready to go tightless just yet but i felt insecure about wearing black tights with a white dress, so i searched for that combo on pinterest and million things came up which gave me the confidence i needed. (thank you pinterest!)

Hope your easter was lovely too!


P.s. i cut a few inches off my hair. it feels SO much better but also so short, i almost feel bald. Crazy that a few inches can feel so different! Glad to have the crunchy ends gone though

the second week of march

so far it's looked a little like this..

1. pretty flowers from my husband on a bad day
2. wearing a favorite dress
3. new magazines
4. and a new succulent to add to the collection








5. washing sheets and bedding (i looove clean sheets)

6. sewing a mountain pillow, because everyone needs one of those right??

7. cleaning the bathroom

8. new paints to play around with 

Other than that, i've been catching up on work, organizing closets and avoiding returning emails (i'm so good at that). It's an exhilarating life I live.... ha!
Just kidding.. i'm actually loving this season of life i'm in, trying to work hard but also take time for myself to do fun things like paint or sew something for myself or even read a book. It keeps the creativity alive.


p.s. did you see that google reader will be retiring July 1st? i'm bummed! i've been an avid google reader user for many years. I need to look for the next best thing... what blog reader will you use when it's gone? (or maybe you already use something else...?)

to the mountain...pt.1

On monday we headed 60 miles east to play in some snow. We drank some overpriced nasty coffee at timberline lodge. Punched the powdery snow (its really satisfying, you should try it). Trudged through tons of deep snow until my toes almost froze off... tip: rain boots keep your feet dry but not warm. 

We had originally planned to go sledding or renting some snow shoes but we weren't dressed appropriately... we were so cold! (next time!)

So instead we just walked around and admired how beautiful everything looked. That sounds lame.. but when you aren't used to seeing that much snow you do some serious admiring.  

It's amazing how often i forget how close we live to such beautiful places... I like these reminders.

this and that

this:
i've never been much of a flower girl. i would always hint at josh for anything other than flowers on special occasions but lately, i'm totally enamored by them. These $4 tulips from trader joes must have converted me. I want to branch out (pun?) and put some bouquets together myself... who am i?
At the very least I decided to get flowers once a week while i'm grocery shopping.. it's makes the house (and me) so happy and for $4, why not??


and that:
i have some pendleton clutches hitting my shop soon. I've been using my prototype for over a month now and i loooove it (can i say that about my own stuff?). they'll be up for sale in March as well as some other clutches/bags. What do you think? Like it?




Josh has tomorrow off so we're headed to play in the snow on the mountain. We haven't seen snow at all this winter so i'm really looking forward to it. I also plan on watching way too many episodes of parenthood, i'm still trying to get caught up so i've been binge watching. its.so.good.

sauvie island + relaxing

Yesterday we went to Sauvie island as a final farewell to summer. The whole island (full of farms) is so serene and quiet.. it feels like a small town (well, it is a small town..) i just love it. 

It was warm outside but the water was too cold to swim this time.. at least to us (There were quite a few people swimming, more brave than us i suppose!)

We napped and read and picnicked and enjoyed the peaceful view.  It's such a beautiful summer time place.. but luckily, sauvie is just as nice when its cold and foggy. We'll be back soon..

p.s. if you're in the portland area and you've never been, you need to! It's 30 minutes from the city and just as good as the oregon coast. Just be careful how far down the beach you travel, there's a nude beach a couple miles down from where we were ;)

hottest day of the year

Portland has pretty mild summers, which is one of the reasons I love it so much. But every now and then a 100 degree day pops up and melts us all into a cranky people.. and since most houses don't have AC, it can get pretty miserable. (Our third story was 110 degrees!) So I skipped town and headed to the suburbs with some friends and sat in the pool all day.. which was HEAVENLY. I'm such a sucker for  swimming in a pretty blue pool..

And even though I've been loving every second of summer, I can feel fall just around the corner and I can't wait..

anthony + candyce

A new engagement session is up on my official photography website! If you'd like, head on over to see more! (I'll be adding a few more sessions throughout the week too!)

tiny things

i've been working my tail off the past couple weeks trying to get Little Vanilla & Lace up and running and if all goes according to schedule we are looking at a launch this Monday! You can see the colors (and prints) i've chosen in the first photo..  fun summery colors. These have been SO fun to work on.. everything is so cute and mini!

I am way excited to get these out there!