the little toil of love

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Hello, Saturday Morning (and weekend links)

Now that college basketball is over, we need something new on our door, and I'm liking this wreath by Gina of Temporary Nest that I spotted on KT's Refinishing School. I've been reading Aimee's posts about life as a newlywed (she and her husband married about six months before C and I did). Yesterday, I discovered that one of my oldest and dearest friends has been blogging about some seriously delicious food. I want to make pumpkin cake and chocolate meringues. I'm also slightly obsessed with this Australian magazine's website and want to try about a million DIY projects right now (like, right this second), like creating a stacked storage unit. I just need a home to decorate--or, rather, a home we won't be moving out of in five weeks. But hey, I'm ready for that move. Now I just need to track down a bunch of boxes (without buying any) and figure out what to pack first, and how on earth we'll store things until we decide where to live.
In the meantime, I'm reading Hanna's Daughters and trying to get all my application materials submitted for graduate school.
Have a happy weekend!

{"Katie" print fabric, also by Ambatalia, who sells textiles here}

Friday, April 8, 2011

spring sprung

I wonder if these beauties are blooming yet?

I sketched them a bit here and entered it in the Design*Sponge giveaway this week, which has got me taking pen(cil) to paper today. I'm being brave and sharing, even though I'm no artist.

I don't expect to win, but I do expect to pull out a gift card and buy Jill Bliss' drawing nature journal. I'd love to fill it to bursting, wouldn't you?

interruptions :: wanderlusting; or, remembering where I've been and wanting to go somewhere new

It's been awhile since I traveled. My husband and I went to Sanibel Island for our honeymoon almost a year ago (crazy!), and we were in Wisconsin for a reception with family and friends who couldn't travel to our wedding a week after that, but otherwise, our travel has only been between our hometowns and our current residence. In my high school and college years, I traveled a lot--not the exotic vacation type of trips, but adventures with my family in the US and going across the Atlantic with my church. I've been at English immersion youth camps in Poland and Romania and traveled with local churches doing some aid work in Kenya. But the last time I travelled somewhere overseas was in 2007, and the last time I traveled somewhere completely new was in 2009. I'm getting the itch to board a plane and see a place I've never been, but I don't have time or resources. For now, I guess I'll soothe the itch with prolific pinning and meandering through my photos--and wishing I'd brought my scrapbooks with me from my parents' house.