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{inspired} diy shelving

July 13, 2013

{A Beautiful Mess} I’d like to put new shelving in our living room. Two IKEA shelves that I found for the crazy deal of 29.99 a piece currently adorn the largest wall of the room. You can see how I styled them after our move here. I bought them for our first apartment seven year […]

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{dreaming of} july 2013

July 10, 2013

{photo source} … swinging in a hammock, reading a book, while the chickens run around the garden. I think it was two summers ago that I fell head first into the Hunger Games trilogy. I want another book the whisks me away the way those ones did. … really enjoying the phase of life that […]

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{celebrate} happy fourth!

July 4, 2013

{cupcake flag} Happy 4th of July to you and yours! Hope you are enjoying the day!

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{this month’s magic} june 2013

July 1, 2013

June was a crazy, exciting, jam-packed month. It was one of those months that makes you laugh and makes you cry. …the last days spent with my students. Saying goodbye was really hard, but every moment of those last couple weeks were filled with sweet memories. My favorite part of being a teacher was the […]

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{dreaming of} june 2013

June 10, 2013

This has been an incredibly exciting, emotional, overwhelming, exhilarating, groundbreaking time for me. I have decided to take a leap and leave my incredibly rewarding and exhausting job as a teacher to follow my dream of having my own business crafting little creations. This transition has been huge for me. As you can imagine it […]

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{backyard chickens} baby chick survivor

June 9, 2013

When I was a little girl my dad and I built a chicken coop together in our backyard. When we were done he got me three little chicks of my very own. Even though I am all grown up, I still remember hammering the nails into the shingles of the roof. Since then, having another […]

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{this month’s magic} april 2013

May 1, 2013

…getting my hands dirty in the Spring soil. Our yard is starting to come together. Not only is our giant veggie bed back to having things growing in it, but we have started to landscape the big patch of dirt that makes up the majority of our yard. I’m living for the spring sun right […]

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{instaMoments} No. 1

April 17, 2013

I’m a little bit of a instagram addict. I am a visual person. Images can pull me back in time and remind me of the moments that have filled my days. Looking back, especially on darker days, at the good things that have happened can help me find the light again. I heart vinyl. Especially […]

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{inspired} tufted headboards

April 12, 2013

{photo} The room in our home that has probably received the least attention is our bedroom. The furniture is a collection of college purchases, family giveaways, and IKEA goodies. Since I feel the centerpiece of the bedroom is the bed, I know… I’m a little crazy, I have been inspired to get something that is […]

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{diy} metal flower update

April 9, 2013

I can never turn down a bottle of spray paint. So, when I stopped by my mother-in-law’s and she asked me to help her revive her garden flowers with a box of spray paint in hand, I couldn’t say no. These large metal flowers have adorned her gorgeous garden for sometime now and the weather […]