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tuesday // autumn to do:

October 10, 2012

Miscellaneous

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  nine things in autumn we have yet to do
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~ picking pumpkins at a pumpkin patch (say that ten times fast)
~ putting out the halloween decor
~ drinking hot cider with glazed donuts
~ watching breakfast at tiffany’s “poor cat. poor slob. poor slob without a name.”
~ leaf raking
~ autumn bike ride
~ pumpkin carving
~ getting lost in a corn maze
~ lighting a pumpkin candle (target always has the best)

i have given us a deadline of halloween to complete all of these cool weathered rituals, so it looks like we better get our butts in gear. we are a bit behind on our autumn festivities due to our move but do them we must. what are your autumn traditions? i just love adding new ones to our list. feel free to link your lists below or add some of ours to yours. let the festivities begin!
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i wore: top, urban outfitters // dress, madewell // shoes, j.crew // necklace, target 

the stomach flu

October 8, 2012

Miscellaneous

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(let me just apologize in advanced for the many photos of food and the over-excited mood towards food in this post. i guess you could say i have food on the mind.)
could there have been a worse weekend to catch the stomach flu? i was seriously hoping to make major headway on putting together our house but instead i laid all day in bed, a whole 24 hours, trying to keep anything and everything down. gosh darn stomach flu. the only thing, and i mean only thing good about the stomach flu is experiencing food for what feels like the first time the next day. oh glorious, succulent, delicious food. there is something about being sick that really makes you appreciate being healthy. i made camden run to whole foods this morning, because as i have so recently discovered, their bakery section is to die for. i have also very recently realized that whenever i have the stomach flu i oddly always crave chili, although, as camden so graciously pointed out to me today, just about every day i crave something different regardless of being sick or not, he can hardly keep up. so tonight we had some of the best chili from, yep, whole foods and check out those grapes. those are some serious grapes.

camden dragged me out of the house today for a sunday drive to see the falling leaves up the canyon and just get out for a bit. we came across the coolest tepee on a little, hidden, windy road. one of the highlights of my day, well let’s be honest, my weekend really.

i’m happy to report that i’m starting to feel much better and after a full nights rest i should be back to normal. so i bid you all a wonderful night as i hope all your weekends were a bit more exciting than mine. xoxo

etsy favorites

October 4, 2012

Miscellaneous

sometimes when i’m redoing or uplifting a house, i find myself needing to get the job done inexpensively, yet i don’t want the design elements to look cheap or dinky. this is exactly the situation i find myself in now with our current home. i find anytime we move to a new floor plan with new quirks and wall spaces, the same decor doesn’t necessarily fit the same way as it did in the old place, plus it’s always fun to add some new elements to freshen things up or give a bland wall new life. this brings me to etsy. etsy is sort of my go to place when i need something beautiful and unique but can only spend some spare change. this isn’t to say there aren’t any expensive items awaiting your pocketbooks if you are willing, but more what is so great about etsy, the number of things for sale ranging from expensive to almost free. i’m always bewildered at the plethora of choices to choose from and the sheer number of talented people alone selling their creations or vintage finds. long story short, below are just a few of my favorite, generally inexpensive, beautiful purchases, made for our new home, from four wonderfully different stores on etsy.triangleDSC_0375-2-5preserved craspedia flowers  // $18.00 // flores de sol 
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custom made doily blanket (similar) // $84.00 // goodknits
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vintage weathered deer antlers (similar) // $25.00 // myra melinda
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vintage triangle white lace curtains // $19.99 // cape cod laurie designs 

a “new” normal

October 2, 2012

Miscellaneous

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we are all moved in . . yay! i can’t wait to share with you our new home. come to think of it, i can’t wait until our new home looks like a new home, rather looks like a home at all. things are hectic over at the charlesworth residence at the moment. boxes and things are everywhere and did i mention we have no storage? literally we have no storage. we have had to make some lifestyle changes that’s for sure. – such as: washing all of our dishes by hand and going from 1200 square feet down to about 900, just to name a few. however, we are managing, and once all of our things find a place i think we will manage even better. i would like to thank all of you for your kind emails and messages wishing us good luck on our move. i would also like to thank all of our friends and family who helped us with this move. you all mean the world to us! i have had to come up with some brilliant organizing and storage solutions (with a lot of help from my mom) and i’m working on sharing them with you. our internet is down at the moment so it is taking a bit longer than usual for me to put these posts together. soon i know everything will come together and everything will be back to normal. a “new” normal.

outfit: sweater, madewell // shorts, american eagle // shoes, report // necklace, target // purse, vintage coach // sunglasses, anthropologie // iphone case, j.crew

life through the eyes of instagram

September 28, 2012

Miscellaneous

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i hope you all have had a wonderful week and i wish you all amazing weekends! this will be the last night we sleep in our soon to be old house. it’s sort of strange and sad in a way to say goodbye to what we have known as our home for the past year and a half. -but i know only good things are to come. regular posting will start again next week . . . thank goodness! see you then. xoxo

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