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Bucket List

1. Safari in Africa
2. Go ice fishing
3. Zip line across the rainforest in Costa Rica
4. Learn to do Botox and Restalyne
5. Buy my own house
6. Have a croissant at a cafe in Paris
7. Throw an amazing surprise anniversary party for my parents
8. Run a half marathon
9. Watch the sun set across the Aegean in Greece
10. Stay in one of those private huts on stilts in the water
11. Scuba Dive the great barrier reef
12. Fly fish
13. Go to Vegas with my girls
14. Teach my dogs not to jump on people when they walk in the door
15. Read the entire Bible
16. Rent a cabin in the Smokies in the Fall with friends
17. Host a killer dinner party
18. Sky dive
19. Live in another country for a year
20. Wine taste in Napa Valley
21. Take a trip with just my sister and mom.

To be continued....

This is what I wish I was wearing today. And I love those boots- they are slammin

Picture courtesy of kg4vin on Flickr

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend! Mine was great- the weather could not have been better. Sunshine and 70--thank you Jesus. One of my best friends from the time we were in diapers (me usually only in a diaper, and her in a perfectly smocked dress with a matching hair bow and Mary Janes) made an impromptu trip to town. We spent the weekend talking as fast as we could get the words out, laughing, shopping, drinking cocktails, and dining at a few of my favorite local spots. As I get older, I realize how precious and few lifelong friends are. I consider myself extraordinarily lucky to be able to say that I have a whole handful that I could never imagine my life without. Catching up brought back so many memories as she helped me (always) sort through my crazy life with such rationality and sensibility and a few glasses of wine.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!
—Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

Best advice of the day:

"Don’t lose yourself in a guy. The most important relationship you have in your life is the relationship you have with yourself."
-Diane Von Furtenburg


Well said my friend. PS - I love your clothes line.

Dreaming of the Coast

So spring time is starting to show its face, and all I can think about is getting to the coast. I love love love the beach. It is soothing to my soul in a way that nothing else is. Its simple really, all I need in life is to sit on a quiet beach with a good book. Give me that, and I am the happiest girl on Earth. Unfortunately, I don't get any spring breaks anymore, and my vacation time is minuscule in comparison to what I am used to. And it doesn't help at all that my dashing beau is on his way to the beach as we speak for a bachelor party. Its fine, really, I will just sit here and cry into my keyboard as I long for the sunshine, breeze, and sand between my toes.

Etsy Love.

Aren't these vintage inspired, hand made pieces beautiful? I love them. And I just ordered a few pieces to prove it.