Friday, May 22, 2009

Happiness Is (Week 4) . . .

1. last day of work
2. moving into our first house (still renting, but it's a whole HOUSE!)
3. berries
4. improving
5. nutella on baguette
6. good quotes
7. movie nights
8. silliness
9. doubles tennis
10. canoing on the Toccoa river with David and Dawson

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Creepy

This is my favorite blog . . . ever!
Thanks love.

http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com


enjoy.

Friday, May 15, 2009

Happy Friday!

Happy Friday!


We're taking my little brother Dawson on a tour of the mountains this weekend.
-canoing on the Toccoa river in Blairsville
-visiting Misty Mountain Railroad (it is a model train city that spans the area of an entire house, it's pretty amazing!)
-going to the top of Brasstown Bald
-fun with family in between

This should be a great weekend!

Happiness is . . . Week 3

1. the smell of clean laundry
2. dubble bubble
3. summer baseball games
4. people with funny laughs
5. life of pi
6. cold pizza
7. countdowns and anticipation
8. showers after working out
9. listening to oldies
10. sleeping in with David


images via le love

Monday, May 11, 2009

500 Days of Summer


I absolutely love Zooey Deschanel and I think Joseph Gordon-Levitt is the best mix of handsome/quirky! I cannot wait for this movie to come out!
Just a few more months till September . . .

Friday, May 8, 2009

I Heart Monotones

Can I just say that I love everything about these two monotone looks from garance dore! I love jeans with button ups. The pink is so well done - just the right shade!


Thursday, May 7, 2009

Pretty in Petals


captivate me always finds the prettiest dresses and heels! love! especially the shoes!

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Happiness Is (Week 2) . . .

Here is my list of 10 things that make me happy for this week.

1. the end of phone duty day
2. thunderstorms
3. popsicles
4. pretty dresses
5. old journals
6. thrifting
7. "simple gifts" on the piano
8. cleaning and organizing
9.
meeting other people's grandparents
10. planning road trips

Decorating

Now that we have an actual house to move into, all I can think about is DECORATING it!
As mentioned in a way earlier post, I am a list-making freak. I have made so many lists of things to buy and things to do - I lost count!
I love looking through the blogs I follow for decorating inspiration, and elements of style never fails!


Our couch and table are similar to the ones in this picture. Maybe I'll pick up a striped pillow and some black frames and put this room together!

I'm also a BIG fan of exposed shelving in the kitchen, which we will have in our new house!
I like the idea of hanging our pots from the shelves. I hate stacking pots, they get scratched and it's annoying to constantly stack and unstack them when we want to use them.
I really like the hanging pots in this picture, but I wonder how they get to the stuff on the second shelf; I would need a pretty big ladder!

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Cabbagetown

So . . .

We have finally found a place to live in Atlanta!

We looked all over - Piedmont Park, Virginia Highlands, Candler Park, etc. and we liked the areas near the park, but even the small one bedroom apartments with no porch or washer/dryer were way overpriced.
We're kind of moving past the point of wanting to live in an apartment. We really, really wanted a house . . . and we found one.
We found an adorable shotgun house with a covered front porch, screened-in back porch, fenced-in back yard, 2 fireplaces, huge windows and so much more for the same price as those small one bedrooms!
When we first told our parents that the house is in Cabbagetown; they were not excited. I guess Cabbagetown used to be really sketchy 15 years ago or so, but it has been totally redone and now it's primarily young families and young professionals. I think the areas around the neighborhood may not be quite as nice, and there may be some pretty scary people there, but I have a plan! - more on that later.
I'm really excited! The neighborhood and the house remind us of Key West. All of the houses are brightly colored, bungalow-style homes with cute porches and restored wooden floors.
It's a 3-mile bike ride from our house to GA Tech, so David will hopefully be commuting via bike.
I don't have any good pictures of our house yet, but here a couple examples of houses in the neighborhood:



Not our actual house, but I'm sure as we start moving in, I will be taking many, many photos!