in deep

This is my birthday week. I had a lovely Tuesday birthday filled with surprises and visits, fancy gifts, and lots of feeling special. I had a week off on holiday just before that, and visited some of my favorite people in three cities and two states.

I love coming home after trips. Getting to miss home is a little bit wonderful. It means that when you come back, all the things that make up your days and weeks seem less mundane.

This is the season of many splendid things. Parties and celebrations, time with family and planning trips and visits and evening meets. It is full and sometimes overwhelming, and it is warm inside by the fire and cold outside in the wind. I'm ready for some snow, watching the Pup as he pounces through snow drifts and bounds back to me with his ears up (that means happy) and his pink tongue out (that means ready for action). We are busy and exhausted and happy.

photo courtesy of Style Me Pretty

photographer: Heather Waraska

gettin' crafty

I feel full of all kinds of exciting, inspired thought. It's as if I've been sleeping (or at least that my creative spark has been taking a very long nap) and suddenly it fills me up and my brain is filled with excitement for projects and creation and Doing-ness.

There's nothing like a sister's wedding to fan the flames. It's months and months of delight, when someone else is the bride and all you have to do is play with ideas and share blogs and photography sites to help her stay inspired. I love it when I don't have to feel the stress of something like planning a big event.

On the other hand, I constantly plan big events in my head, and wouldn't it be nice to plan them out loud for real? Like for weddings? For special people celebrating special things?

A couple of my favorite sources of inspiration:

Style Me Pretty

ee photography

this is glamorous

elizabeth anne designs