Time Fades Away

Good morning everyone!  This morning, I woke up with Neil Young's Time Fades Away ♫ and it's not getting out of my head any time soon.  Since I love Neil Young with all my heart, I'm totally going to embrace it and listen to him all day.  With all this snow falling down, it truly is the perfect kind of day to listen to Harvest. 

Does anyone else share the Neil Young love with me?

Tee hee

 My very silly nephew, Cameron.  So dramatic!

 Hadley & Ryan's Christmas party quickly turned into the cutest Christmas party in recent history.

 Gus :)

DIY, baby!

As of Sunday, our friends Inna & Alex have begun their long but super amazing DIY project.  Inna bought a house, located sort of in the Ukranian Village here in Chicago, and together, they're going to totally "flip that house"!  I'm so impressed already.  We stopped by their place last night, and Inna had already set up and unpacked almost everything (she obviously hadn't done much sleeping).  Alex already painted some and is quickly going to begin working on ripping out cabinets and laying down new countertops in the kitchen (which, trust me, can use some cosmetic work). 

This project really fascinates me.  I'm so excited to see my friends' talents shine.  Inna is so amazing when it comes to interiors, DIY, well pretty much you name it and she's good at it.  Alex is such a wonderful artist and creative genius, and is really handy and experienced at re-doing houses.  It's going to be so incredible to watch the transformation.

Check back for various updates on the project.  Inna's taking off for Europe for a month but once she's back, there will be progress made!

Yay!  See look, he's excited...

(photo via cuteoverload)

I can't resist

This picture I ffffound on ffffound.com is too interesting/amazing/hilarious/cute/insertadjectivehere to pass up sharing.  I mean...seriously.

I'm speechless!

Talk about cute!

I want an entire wall devoted to these adorable photos.  This guy right here, Jameson,  looks like someone's stressed out coworker or a crazy uncle or something.  I love it!

I can think of a few pictures of my fiance making this same facial expression as Deano here.  No joke!

Just look at this Dapper fella. 

Seriously, what a genius series of photographs.  I wish that were my day job!

You can buy these prints at Christine Edwards' Etsy shop. 

Another very special day!

HIP-HIP-HOORAY! for the birthday of a very special someone, my current husband, Bort.

Yes, our birthdays are back-to-back – what are the odds of that, ‘eh?!

To the handsomest, cleverest, kindest, funniest and generally loveliest man in my life: here’s to another wonderful year for you.

Yours truly + always :-)

A very special Birthday

Ladies and Gentledudes,

Today is Anna-Maria's birthday!!!  Happy Birthday to my most favorite Londonite in the world!  What an amazing friend she is.  And she's not just my most favorite person from London, she's truly a special woman and I love and adore her with all of my heart. 

Anna, I hope you have a wonderful day.  I hope Bort treats you to an amazing time full of cake, romance, gourmet food and whatever else your cute little heart desires.  Here's to another wonderful year!  We are all blessed to have you in our lives!

(Photo via too nice to slice)

2010: The year of travel and love

This year has been declared the year of travel, the year of love, the year of happiness and new beginnings. 

First up: California

San Francisco, Napa, Lake Tahoe all in one long weekend! 

It will be fun, productive, romantic, adventurous and lovely all in one!






Next up (March): Austin, TX

Badger & the boys are playing SXSW again this year and I am going with them.  I went with them in 2007 and had a really great time.  So I'm pretty excited for this years adventure too!









Honeymoon: Italy

Since my mom bought us an Italy travel guide, I guess it's been finalized.  We're going to Italy!  I don't know when (obviously after August), I don't know if we can afford it (where there's a will there's a way) and I don't know how long we'll go (hopefully a long time).

Rumor has it, we may be traveling to Vegas for Badge's stepbrother's 21st birthday in November.  We'll see if we are traveled out or broke or what! 

It's going to be a wonderful year! 

Yellow Owl Workshop

 

Aren't they lovely?  I ordered the winter one for myself, but seriously wanted to order them all and stamp everything I own.  I saw an awesome save the date card in Martha Stewart Weddings which led me to this San Francisco-based shop.  Everything is adorably awesome.