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snippets / november 2014

• Rita, D, and me at Danielle's Baby Shower (baby girl due Christmas !!!)

• Elisa, Nat, and me at mt faux birthday party

• mom's new kitten, Jack Black

• my Dallas TX 30th birthday entourage 

• my very first shiny heads-up penny from Nana found on the floor of a Whattaburger at 2am on my 30th birthday

• my Hard 8 birthday BBQ lunch after church

• up and down every aisle at Costco during holiday time

• Anna visited; we didn't stop; us on the rickety boblsed ride at Six Flags Over Texas

• planning / crafting / stamping / wondering / thinking / marking / hoping

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a bit about snippets:

Blogger Manda Townsend posts snippets of her life every now and then, and after seeing her ode to snippets post, I commented that I would join her this year in 'snippetting'. :)  

What I find I usually include are those images that get lost in the shuffle -- ones that I would probably never include in a post or instagram, but are attached to a fun memory or a highlight of the month.

I plan to post snippets of my month on the last day of every month. 
(see snippets of Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | June | July | Aug | Sept | Oct of this year) 

little joys

• waiting in line for a roller-coaster ride at dusk
• having conversations about what weapon you'd use if a zombie apocalypse really happened
• waking up on a Monday feeling rejuvenated and ready for the week
• waking up to find one of your cats left a dingle-berry in the cardboard box next to the bed
• working from home ♥
• anticipating an upcoming trip home
• home, itself
• powder pink christmas trees
• gold foil stickers
• planning my holiday cards and making a list of who'll receive them
• Christmas in New York
• straight hair
• wearing a new sweater
• pecan pie
• new navy nail-polish color, and decently done DIY manicures
• anticipating the arrival of my niece next month
• this song from Christina Perri's christmas album
• cozy pajamas
• a perfectly toasted English Muffin (w/ peanut butter + banana lately)
• noise-cancelling headphones
• spontaneous inspiration

Sometimes what I plan to post about doesn't pan out on time, and I'm left with a blank spot in my editorial calendar and my mind.  When that happens, I peruse my favorite blogs for a few minutes and BAM! Something...something...always spontaniously inspires me - enough to get me amped to publish.

This morning it was this post on Goodnight Little Spoon. After a weekend of equal parts jam-packed fun and rejuventating rest, lots of little joys popped in my head to jot down.  Also, with it being Thanksgiving week and all, a few jots of little joys to be grateful for wasn't so far fetched a topic.

What little joys are on your list?

burlap + gold DIY Thanksgiving Centerpieces

Happy November, all! To get it started on my blog I have these burlap + gold centerpieces to share with you today. They were a DIY craft I made for the me & my BIG ideas / Hobby Lobby collaboration that took place last week on the mambi blog & Hobby Lobby social media.

Supplies needed:

long-stem burlap flowers, styrofoam balls, mason jars, wood skewers, gold & brown fabric, 2 sheets of white card stock, 'The Good Life' jumbo mambiSTICKS, gold foil BIG mambiSTICKS alphabet stickers, scissors, double-sided tape, heavy-duty wire cutters 

If you stop right here, these signs could make the perfect bunch of Thanksgiving photo props!  

*Note: the wire inside each stem is about a millimeter thick, and a heavy duty cutter is need to snip through. I found those pictured above in the 'Electrical' section at Loews. 

Ta Da! All done! I know it seems like a lot of steps, but they're relatively simple. They look awesome in-person, and I look forward to using these for years to come.

snippets / september 2014

• my work week in Cali / Laguna Beach. game over.

• that Sunday we set up the cats' new tree b/c we three were becoming a little more adjusted

• pumpkins & painting them white + neon (full project post coming tomorrow)

• a stuffed peppers experiment for dinner

• this sign at the batting cage

• so much softball /it's like I'm 11 years old again

• I swept the stoop like a good old world Italian woman one Sunday morning

• signs of autumn in Texas

• plans for my Project Life comeback

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a bit about snippets:

Blogger Manda Townsend posts snippets of her life every now and then, and after seeing her ode to snippets post, I commented that I would join her this year in 'snippetting'. :)  

What I find I usually include are those images that get lost in the shuffle -- ones that I would probably never include in a post or instagram, but are attached to a fun memory or a highlight of the month.

I plan to post snippets of my month on the last day of every month. 
(see snippets of January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August)