.hello, spring! And a happy Easter to you all.

Today, I want to wish all of you a wonderful day of Spring, and a most blessed Easter!

farewell 2012

Here's to wishing for beautiful things, wonderful connections, and the celebration of life, family and friends in the coming year!  Happy New Year to you all!

.happy valentine's day my lovelies.

Happy Valentine's Day my beautiful friends!  Can you believe we're already half way through February?!  It's crazy.  Alrighty, so today, I wanted to share with you a handful of blog sites that have the word LOVE in its title.  Here are the ones I hand picked for ya!   

• Diana Mini Love
• Love It Alot
• One Love Photo
• life.love.paper.
• handmadelove
• bloom, grow, love

Make today the day that you blow kisses to your sweet's heart, give a trillion times more hugs & smooches to your kids (whether they be human, canine, or feline), give someone a wink just because, and  remember that random acts of kindness to a complete stranger is always, always a beautiful thing.   xoxo

.happy easter.

Happy Easter everyone.

.holidays are approaching!.

I picked up a couple of my favorite import lifestyle magazines yesterday, Marie Claire Idées and Country Living UK. Of course, I ate up all the wonderful images! Now it was while I was browsing through these fabulous, glossy pages that I came upon a spread for the Country Living Christmas Fair in London when it truly dawned on me. HOLY CRAP! Christmas is just around the corner!! Is it just me or did we like miss a couple of months somewhere during the year? Is it the fact daylight savings took place in November instead of October that has totally thrown my seasonal holiday clock off?! Or perhaps is it the fact I no longer work in the retail craft world where Christmas rolls in off a 51 foot trailer in the middle of May? Makes you wonder. I guess it's time to get excited and get crackin' on some Holiday gifts. Hmm. . . got any ideas? I like this gift idea I found on Beryl's blog. She's also running a contest on this item, so you'll need to check that out!

This will definitely be a much more sentimental Holiday season for me and my family. Money is tight, as I'm sure many of you can relate, so there will be much more thought going into the gifts this year. But isn't that how it should be anyway? How about you? What kinds of neat Christmas gift ideas do you have?