52/52 2014

I honestly am so surprised that I made it through the year and remembered to take a picture every day! I am so proud of myself. The last time I tried to do a photo-a-day for a year, I think I missed the first day actually, and then forgot a couple pictures in July, so I gave up on that year. I think that was 2011 or 2012.

I meant to post this on the first, but I stayed out until four in the morning and never finished editing the photos, and then I slept in today and almost forgot!

{all photos from this project can be viewed by clicking here}

Wednesday 24 December // day three hundred fifty-eight :: Christmas Eve is always spent at my grandparents' house. I love this shot of my grandma's orchid and their Christmas tree!

Thursday 25 December // day three hundred fifty-nine :: I think I have a thing for leopard print.

Friday 26 December // day three hundred sixty :: dish washing view.

Saturday 27 December // day three hundred sixty-one :: I love this little note at the very end of my calendar. I still have to get a calendar for 2015!

Sunday 28 December // day three hundred sixty-two :: new Christmas slippers. these are my third pair from L.L. Bean. they are just so fluffy!

Monday 29 December // day three hundred sixty-three :: met up with some high school friends for lunch! the martini had to be pictured because it was peer pressured from the three of them and the bartender (who I teach Sunday school with). it was so strong that I only ended up drinking probably less than half of it. and Kyle's face looks so red! we were at the Red Room...

Tuesday 30 December // day three hundred sixty-four :: I thought that this gift card sleeve was just too cute. I can't help it, I just really love gift cards.

Wednesday 31 December // day three hundred sixty-five :: I felt like a packmule with all of the stuff I brought to work! these clothes to change into + my camera + my purse. it was a bit ridiculous.

xoxo.

51/52 2014

another average week with working and working, but I got to go to a concert on Friday night, and I had Monday off from both jobs. I ran errands that day and got a lot done at home too, including baking and wrapping Christmas presents. my sister got married out in Washington, and my mom and I got to FaceTime in to see it happen.

Wednesday 17 December // day three hundred fifty-one :: ready for the last classes of the session before Christmas! our books for the day were: If You Take a Mouse to the Movies, Mrs. Wishy-Washy's Christmas, Pete the Cat Saves Christmas, and Olivia Helps with Christmas. my socks are from Target (;

Thursday 18 December // day three hundred fifty-two :: I sometimes like to leave my shoes by the heater to warm up and dry off!

Friday 19 December // day three hundred fifty-three :: such a very special night getting to see a pat mAcdonald solo acoustic show! {and yes, Ruby is wearing a red and leopard print Santa hat!}

Saturday 20 December // day three hundred fifty-four :: all I really wanted for Christmas was this blanket, because I was too cheap to spend the $40 on it and I wasn't brave enough to go to Target on Thanksgiving evening after leaving family stuff to get it for $20. thanks to my sister and her boyfriend, it's now on my bed. (:

Sunday 21 December // day three hundred fifty-five :: a joke Christmas present from one of my friends. I don't even know how it came up, but I had been complaining to her about how my grandma used to always get books about Native Americans for me for my birthday and Christmas, and I so wasn't into it. Susan says that this book is good. {and you know I love showing off my socks}

Monday 22 December // day three hundred fifty-six :: Disney Princess soup for lunch because yes.

Tuesday 23 December // day three hundred fifty-seven :: I love children's books, and I love Oliver Jeffers' illustrations! and look, I went to a different (worse lit) part of my apartment so that it wasn't the same background as two other pictures this week. haha.

xoxo.

50/52 2014

I'm still learning how to use LightRoom over here... the pictures look kind of weird once they're in the post. I'm not too sure about it yet, and it's a definite learning process for me since I never really did a whole lot with the PhotoShop Elements that I have. I'm doing a video tutorial, but it's hard because the guy has all of these incredible photos that he is editing.

I spelled so many words wrong while typing this post...

Wednesday 10 December // day three hundred forty-four :: books for class - The Lonesome Polar Bear, Stella Queen of the Snow, There Was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow!, and Holly's Red Boots. they were all hits!

Thursday 11 December // day three hundred forty-five :: I burned this candle for the first time the night before (because I finally bought matches; I've had the candle for almost three years), and I thought that the wick looked like a winter tree!

Friday 12 December // day three hundred forty-six :: sparkle.

Saturday 13 December // day three hundred forty-seven :: cat-sitting.

Sunday 14 December // day three hundred forty-eight :: bathroom mirror reminders.

Monday 15 December // day three hundred forty-nine :: a wonderful reminder.

Tuesday 16 December // day three hundred fifty :: possible outfit for a show on Friday - velvet pencil skirt from Forever 21 + leopard front sweater from Target

xoxo.

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Please bear with me as I learn how to use Lightroom! (:

Christmas is crawling closer and I just can't wait for wrapping presents. I love all of the beautiful displays at the stores and looking around to see what is for sale. There are so many things that I have on a want-but-never-going-to-acquire list. (:

Wednesday 3 December // day three hundred thirty-seven :: I know I've sung praises for Number 2 Pencil's Perfect Single-Serving Chocolate Chip Cookies before, but if you just make one cookie instead of two with that recipe (I bake it for 13 minutes), it is even better.

Thursday 4 December // day three hundred thirty-eight :: Christmas presents waiting to be wrapped.

Friday 5 December // day three hundred thirty-nine :: grocery shopping prep.

Saturday 6 December // day three hundred forty :: clean tablecloth (:

Sunday 7 December // day three hundred forty-one :: I needed a new purse for travel, and while I'm kind of over all of Vera Bradley's bright patterns and colors, I did like the hipster style, and this one sort of matches my car. I wanted the purple leopard one, but it wasn't on sale like this one.

Monday 8 December // day three hundred forty-two :: a little piece of history.

Tuesday 9 December // day three hundred forty-three :: I am getting so excited to wrap Christmas presents! I just can't wait for them to be opened. I feel like I am terrible at picking out gifts, but I think that these people will like what I got them! (:

{the cheetah print wrapping paper and gift bags are both currently being sold at Target}

xoxo.

48/52 2014

Thanksgiving has come and gone, and now it's December. December!! There is less than a month left of this year... I can't comprehend that. So much has happened in the past eleven months. Crazy.

Anyway, here are some {wintery} scenes from this past week.

Wednesday 26 November // day three hundred thirty :: I guess I like taking pictures of squirrels...

Thursday 27 November // day three hundred thirty-one :: so obviously there's a story for this one. it was Thanksgiving morning, and I decided that I should prep the green bean casserole that I had to bring to my grandparents'. I was watching Red Band Society before going to work for a few hours. I realized that I didn't have a can opener, so I tried stabbing the cans with a knife, which clearly didn't work. so I washed the dishes, and as I was drying them and putting them away, thinking about how I would text my mom about borrowing a can opener, I remembered that I did have a blue KitchenAid can opener. I prepped the casserole and baked it later. the people who ate it seemed to like it. the end.

Friday 28 November // day three hundred thirty-two :: still reading.

Saturday 29 November // day three hundred thirty-three :: I hung up a couple more frames in the dining room. I took more of a close-up of the pictures, but then I decided that this was real, so let's just see it all. the middle picture was taken by my dad, but the other two are mine.

Sunday 30 November // day three hundred thirty-four :: I got a new pair of black heels. (: they're the Jayney from Rampage. I just liked that they were less expensive than some at Target, but the little silver logos on the back kind of bother me. (they're really small and no one is going to be looking at that anyway.)

Monday 1 December // day three hundred thirty-five :: it was ten degrees and I practically froze my face off taking this picture.

Tuesday 2 December // day three hundred thirty-six :: one of the things I hope to do this winter is more baking! I received this attachment for my mixer for Christmas two years ago, and it has yet to be taken out of the box!

xoxo.

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Snow. Snow? It's barely Thanksgiving and we have snow! The snow that we got on Wednesday (first picture) was pretty much melted a few days later, but now we have a few more inches. I don't particularly like having a white Thanksgiving.

Wednesday 19 November // day three hundred twenty-three :: snowfall.

Thursday 20 November // day three hundred twenty-four :: Macintosh apple + Yoplait caramel Greek yogurt + Simply Balanced vanilla bean granola

Friday 21 November // day three hundred twenty-five :: sunlight.

Saturday 22 November // day three hundred twenty-six :: the pictures were ordered and arrived, but now need to be put away to be displayed.

Sunday 23 November // day three hundred twenty-seven :: Sunday nights are for grocery shopping.

Monday 24 November // day three hundred twenty-eight :: added a mirror, a canvas, and a frame to my bedroom wall, but now I need more Command strips to hang the other frames and try to make it look like they go together.

Tuesday 25 November // day three hundred twenty-nine :: laundry day; flat to dry.

xoxo.

{this is my 300th post!}

46/52 2014

sometimes it just feels like I just keep moving and don't stop to take a look around. I think that's what I need to work on for this next week.

Wednesday 12 November // day three hundred sixteen :: I liked my blue peacock feather infinity scarf so much that I bought the purple one too. (: [orange here] {and of course they're on sale now...}

Thursday 13 November // day three hundred seventeen :: when I want something sweet, I often whip up a batch of Number 2 Pencil's Perfect Single Serving Size Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Friday 14 November // day three hundred eighteen :: canvases!!! (:

Saturday 15 November // day three hundred nineteen :: I didn't realize that making mashed potatoes used so many arm muscles! I made them like at Texas Roadhouse, so they have peels and aren't perfectly smooth. I froze them (and they thawed a little weird) and then I baked them.

Sunday 16 November // day three hundred twenty :: currently reading: Shopaholic to the Stars & Women in Clothes. I started reading the Shopaholic series when I was 12, so I am always very happy to see a new one! Women in Clothes is a really great read as well. It's really long, but it's all different little stories and interviews, so it's going pretty fast.

Monday 17 November // day three hundred twenty-one :: I've always enjoyed reading Door County Living, and I would flip through Door County Magazine when we had copies at work. Door County Living has always (as far as I know) been a free publication that you can pick up at many places in the area, and now the same is true for Door County Magazine! This is the Best of 2014 issue, and I was happy to see that some of my favorite places won!

Tuesday 18 November // day three hundred twenty-two :: this picture doesn't really show it too much, but the light was just streaming into my bedroom.

xoxo.