It’s officially 100 day until Christmas and I couldn’t be more excited.  It ‘s my favorite holiday hands down over Halloween and Thanksgiving.  I start planning for Christmas in August and I am very excited that the countdown has begun.

Christmas is the perfect time for DIY projects and honoring long time traditions.  I would love for everyone to share some of their traditions and DIY ideas!

This blog hop is curated by  Paw Prints & Pastry Bags !  So please join and in the fun and go link up! If you haven’t made it over to Pinterest yet, please let me know and I am happy to share an invite!

Via M Stewart  from The Things

Via M Stewart from Home Stories A to Z.

What are some of your favorite holidays scenes?

Have a beautiful weekend!

Anne Hathoway looked AMAZING in Valentino!

Mila Kunis in Elie Saab!

Michelle Williams in CHANEL.

What were your favorites from last night?

I am so excited that Spring seems to be on it’s way. I guess that groundhog was right! Although I could do without Spring Allergies but I’ll be fine. In honor of this lovely season, here are my top five favorite things about Spring!

5) Spring Clothes. I love this time of year because you can start to transition some of your winter duds back into the drawer or closet and bring out an outfit like this:

Women’s Boatneck Sweater Dress @ Lands’ End Canvas

4) Flowers.  I love flowers all times of the year but love to see annual perennials popping up as the temperatures warm:

3) Getting outside to enjoy the sunshine!  Natural Vitamin D is so good for you!

2) Spring Cleaning and Organizing!  I love it!

Photo courtesy of Real Simple

1)  Healthy and Lighter Eating!  I love having Shakeology by Beachbody for breakfast and having 4 healthy meals throughout the day!  What are your favorites?

Have a great weekend!

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For a fun filled night with my sorority sisters.  These gals are my besties and I can call on them for anything.  We are staying in with plenty of wine and food but should be fun!  Happy Weekend!

In honor of my new gig as a preschool teacher, I give you my top 3 sayings of the week: *Names have been changed.

1.  Me:  Bill, listen to Tom’s words.  Bill:  I don’t wanna listen to Tom’s words.

2.  Me:  Emily, where are you going?  Emily:  To my grandma’s house.  Me:  Where’s that?  Emily:  The sky.

3.  After realizing one of my kids had been in the bathroom for nearly 15 minutes.  Me:  Are you okay in there?  Dwight:  Yea, I had to poo.

Happy Friday!

WITH LIFE!

People are just about my favorite part of this thing called life. I love having conversations with people, hanging out with people, meeting new people, championing for people and having people do the same for me.

I turn 30 in less than a month and life certainly where I thought it would be but that’s okay.

I love when people challenge me hence the question posed to me yesterday:

“Adrienne, you’re turning 30, what do you want to do?”

insert cricket noise here

Okay fine, it didn’t take me that long to answer but it was a challenging question. There are many things I want to do and there are many things that I thought would be completed by this point in my life. I don’t have full time job and while it isn’t bringing the financial security I desire, it has brought a lot of time to explore things.

But I think it’s time to end this exploratory trip. I’ve applied for many full time jobs and have been told how great I am however it never seems to work out at the end. The good news is that I have a lot of people championing for me including a new connection I met yesterday. The difficult news is that I have to continue the honor the voluntary things I do and welcome in things that will generate a livable income for me. So please wish me luck:)

It’s tough to fit all my talents into one full time job…or maybe two part time jobs:)

Have a beautiful weekend!

Hello Loves.

Yes, I’m still here even though my lack of posts this week tells you the opposite.

A little thing called real life has gotten in the way this week.  I am making some personal changes and that takes time away from blogging.

Nothing too major but a real lesson in making more time for me to pursue things that I have gifts for.

It has been really hot here as well, and we finally got some rain yesterday.

I hope you all have a great and beautiful weekend and I hope to be on my regular blogging schedule next week!

Happy Friday!

This lil ole blog of mine has come a long way this year and I thought I would devote some time to thank and introduce you all to some people that made it possible.

First, my fabulous blog header was designed by Dawn over at Lydia & Pugs.

Second and Third, I discovered two great sites for women bloggers:

And most of all, my readers!!!  Thank you for being with me on this journey!  My google reader is full of so many wonderful posts and I am glad to take part in this blogging world with you!

Happy Friday!

Have a beautiful weekend!

All photos from marthastewart.com

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND!

MAY YOU ENJOY CELEBRATING OUR NATION’S INDEPENDENCE!

Happy Friday!

As you have probably noticed, with the help of Dawn over at Lydia & Pugs, I got a great new blog header!  Dawn was very patient with me and all my little details.  I want to take you through the steps that Dawn used to create my header.  If you have the creative ideas and a great designer like Dawn, you too can have a wonderful header! *All artwork property of Lydia & Pugs

After a few emails back and forth about budget and all the details; I got this sketch of me in my inbox:

So cute right?

Then she sent me the rough draft.

I thought it couldn’t get any better than this folks in terms of cuteness..

I was wrong!

So cute!!!  And so many pink peonies!

What do you think?