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 This is a L O V E L Y local magazine

The photographs are amazing and the stories and places covered 

really highlight the best of the best in our beautiful wild state.

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If. . .  ( continued )

you shovel your leaves instead rake them :)

you don't eat breakfast. . the highly suspect "most important meal of the day"

you love the smell of leaf piles. . wet and just starting to decompose. . but still ALIVE smelling.

you don't like to read. . but you LOVE pictures.

garlic and blanket soup anyone?

last week we packed up and went for a hike hike with the littles

. . we stopped first to pick up fresh doughnuts from a little 

shop nearby that's been around longer then i've been alive. 

the sight and smell and taste of handmade fresh doughnuts

in a little white paper bag.. . .

happiness.

 

on a walk through a favorite spot a week or so back

we saw this written on an olde tomb stone from the 1800's

it was a girl who had died when she was just 19 years old.

it really went deep into my heart and i love it so and had to pass it on.

. . . . . Sigh.

love this little kids kitchen. how adorable.

Jane Cumberbatch
in one of her gorgeous kitchens.
She was one of the first to really inspire and teach
me about simplicity and enjoying the littlest things in the
everyday .
Her book PURE STYLE LIVING was the first book i
ever remember not caring how much it was. . i was GOING to buy it. :)

l o v e these kitchens. they are all just so . . wonderful.
and simple. and perfect.

This has long been a favorite kitchen of mine ( above ) I have many pictures of
it . in books, and magazines and online. i never get tired of it. there is just
something about it. although i can't say im crazy about all the glass pitchers above the sink.
i don't know what thats all about. :)
i very much love shelves that have no visual support and seem to just come out of the wall.

my dream chickens. . clucking away happily as they look for bugs
and clover.


. . . . someday.

Favorite for today

A visual list of my favorites
from
OLIVER FURNITURE

favorites for today

Pink Milk Pot
from
Labor and Wait

L O V E
pillowcases
at
Cox and Cox
and
Lush Designs

Little Mouse rug
from
Toast by Post

This .. is why i loooooooooove anthropologie

i
love
love
love

this.

anthropologie

annnnnnnnnnd. . go.

love this

. . . .

Favorite Favorites for the day

One of my favorite flicker sites to check in on
regularly is Decor 8. This gal has got it made. .
now famous for her sense of style and ability to
find the best of the BEST . . . posting new and wonderful finds
for your home and self weekly, even DAILY!
Her most recent pages of photos are particularly
wonderful to look at.
To see all of these much bigger :) plus
many others check her flicker site out
yourself.

Favorite Favorites for Today And. . im tired.

Do check out these fabulous etsy shops that are so cool i wish they were mine. :)
Singlestonestudios
and
Tasty Suite

and

delightfully busy week with friends and family
and all sorts of different daily gatherings that all caught up
with me today. . just now. i thought i would stay up
late into the night and paint and paint . . but i can barely
keep my eyes open to write this. . . . so it's not meant to be.
Tomorrow we are off to an annual country fair
with a gaggle of friends. good times. good times.
i need to go sleep so i have strength for
all the fun ahead.

nite nite then.

Love is not love. . .

Love is not Love
Which alters when it alterations finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove

O no, it is an ever-fixed mark
Which looks on tempests
And is never shaken

William Shakespeare

Favorite for today

Isn't this GREAT.
I have the Keep Calm and Carry on
version of this exact poster
so when i saw this it just made me
laugh.

Favorite Favorites for Today

Just a stream of pics that i LOVE today :)

Matilda Jane

Without a doubt. the cutest clothes you'll ever see.
Click here for Matilda Jane clothes.. . and HERE for the designer's fabulous blog.




On a more personal note. SOOOOOOOOO glad it's the weekend. I plopped down on the sofa after
tucking sam into bed and tidying up the house a little bit. . . intending to sketch or paint or do something
creative... but there was nothing.
This week was a bear... it's been raining cats and dogs for days and days
and we all almost floated away. . but the sun came out just in the nick of time.
pheeeew. .

Favorite Favorites for today

Favorite Artist
Natascha

Favorite Inspiring Wall

Favorite Pink Passport
By Smythson

Favorite Designer
Orla Kiely

Favorite Bird's Eye View
Soooo much more to see HERE!

Favorite
oooooooooh. . what i would do with you. . House
sigh. .

Find Inspiration

Purl Fabrics

Miss Capricho

I love her sweet little sketches and watercolors

She is one of the many who keep me inspired.
Check out her flicker site here.

Just Because

my sis on our steps in the morning.
she's here with us for summer
joy