An Attitude of Gratitude
This Thursday, we’ll gather around the table with intentions of piling our plates high with turkey and cranberry sauce. Our nights will include gobbling down heaping spoonfuls of green bean casserole...
View ArticleWhere to Find the Real Magic This Holiday Season
There are plenty of things I love about celebrating Christmas: the songs that grace radio stations just once a year, the surprise of receiving season’s greetings in the mailbox from friends far and...
View ArticleScripting Love to Emma
In the spirit of the holiday season, More Love Letters annual “12 Days of Love Letter Writing” campaign is 12 days packed to the brim with love letter requests, social media mayhem, giveaways, holiday...
View ArticleHello, 2014: Plans + Goals for a New Year
Setting goals for the year ahead. I’m not normally a New Year’s resolution type of gal. I don’t sit down on New Year’s Eve and think of all the things I’d like to do differently in the year ahead....
View ArticleThings I Love Thursday
I believe that we can always use a little more gratitude in our lives, and research has proven that listing things we’re thankful for can make us happier. Inspired by Kristin of My Life as a Teacup,...
View ArticleThe Perfect Valentine’s Day Card
I haven’t always been a fan of Valentine’s Day. Personally, I think we should focus on celebrating love all 365 days of the year. But it’s also hard not to get caught up in everything red +...
View ArticleCurrently | 02-14
I love these currently journaling cards that Kristin makes, so I’ll be sharing what I’m currently up to by featuring one at the start of each month! Get your own set and join the journaling challenge....
View ArticleCelebrating Galentine’s Day
I used to be a bit anti-Valentine’s Day, but have grown to love it recently. There are so many ways to celebrate this holiday, rather than just being attached at the hip with your significant other....
View ArticleThings I Love Thursday
♥ Heart shaped treats. I couldn’t get enough of Valentine’s Day treats last week… don’t sweets just taste a little bit better when they’re heart-shaped? Or is that just me? Thanks to Dunkin’ Donuts...
View ArticleCurrently | 03-14
I love these currently journaling cards that Kristin makes, so I’ll be sharing what I’m currently up to by featuring one at the start of each month! Get your own set and join the journaling challenge....
View ArticleA Detour On My Dreams
Image via soworthloving.com A year and a half ago, I sat on a grassy football field surrounded by my fellow classmates. With graduation caps perched on our heads, we listened to the overflowing advice...
View ArticleNovember Rain
The dawning of November is my favorite time of year. I meet her at the doormat with a sweater draped off my shoulder and anticipation in my eyes, for she has come right on schedule, the month of limbo...
View ArticleTurning 24
This weekend, I’ll be celebrating my twenty-fourth birthday. When I was a teenager, I had plenty of ideas of what life would be like at this age. I had an entire plan laid out for myself which...
View ArticleStroke of Midnight
We sat in the faint glow of the television, our little black dresses and freshly pressed suits swathed in blue. Clutching full champagne flutes between our fingertips, the bubbly mixture making us...
View ArticleI Threw All of Your Notes Away
I threw all of your notes away. I stumbled upon them in a rose-covered box, hidden in a corner of my bedroom closet, stowed away for safe keeping if anyone were to come snooping. As I pulled the lid...
View ArticleBe A Dream Catcher
From a young age, we are told that we can be anything we want to be. We read the motivational posters in our elementary school classrooms telling us to reach for the stars and bypass the moon, that...
View ArticleHow to Pick Up the Pieces + Start Somewhere
Mornings are the ideal time of day. Sunshine glinting through the blinds, a newspaper waiting on the front stoop, a fresh pot of coffee brewing in the kitchen. It’s the time of possibility— this day...
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