Happy Weekend! Don’t forget to Spring Forward Saturday night.

Last weekend I got some beautiful daffodils from the farmers market. They are still going strong.

I tried a new pasta recipe similar to the feta Tik Tock pasta but better. Our Senior year of college we had pasta Sunday dinners and I think I might bring that tradition back.

If you need a way to dry your sustainable earth friendly bags I just found this option. Its from Ware AVL, a woman owned store in Asheville, NC. I need to do a weekly Facebook and Instagram post on earth friendly swaps.

My family loves Aloha bags. How cute is this sea turtle collaboration with Lazy Turtle?

Another week another picnic.

Penny has been over alot lately. She did make a great nap buddy when I was flipping to nights last weekend before working Monday and Tuesday night.

Semi homemade poptarts are a favorite of my mine. I recently got a craving. I have an idea for some cute Easter egg shaped ones. In the past I hand cut these but I thought about trying a cookie cutter for a more uniform look. It worked great.

Hopeful vaccine news/studies.

Happy weekend.

Lovies.

xoxoxo

Ten weeks into 2021. The vaccinations continue to roll out and I feel hopeful. Well until the next global pandemic when hu as can’t do the decent right thing.

Another week, another picnic. The water was higher than usual this week.

A former nail picker down to nothing, just working on my nail game.

New hair is always the best. Also I can’t believe how long my hair is.

Friends of Hunting Island installed a new playground at the Lighthouse area. It will be great for babes too little to climb the lighthouse.

Penny has been visiting so much lately.

I’m getting a new phone soon and I am totally miss droppsies. What is your favorite protective case? I currently use Otterbox Defender. Just wanting something cuter.

Happy Weekend!

Lovies.

xoxoxo

Happy weekend!

We made buffalo shrimp again. They were better this time too. We used a different breading and it stayed on better.

Our rental pup has been visiting frequently this week.

Last weekend we has our first getaway in a long time. Hooray for vaccines and science.

I am not usually a fan of carnations but take most things and make them mini sized and I will love them more. This case is actually a yogurt container from Paris. It’s ceramic. I wish the US had more cool reusable stuff like this.

I’ve finished reading about three books this week. I was reading four at one time. I used to be in the solid one book only camp but now I prefer an audiobook for errands, cleaning, driving and an ebook for other times. I also love a good physical book.

Annie F Downs is one of my favorites. I listened to this book last year that I received free for preordering. I’ve been reading and following her for some time now. She has a precious story about buying a bottle of champagne in 2016 saying she would drink it when her book hit the NYT best sellers list. Well this book did! I’m so excited for her. I feel like she is a close friend but really she is an Internet person who has no idea I exist. My favorite book of hers is Looking for Lovely which is along the same theme as That Sounds Fun. I can’t wait to see what else life gives her!

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I’ve have been making an effort to do my nails more. I guess I have been successful since all these were worn at some point since last Friday. You know those little things like painting your nails and lighting the candle when you are home.

Another day, another picnic lunch spot.

I have NOT slept well the past two nights. I am blaming my nightshift I worked on Monday. I’m praying for deeply restorative restful sleep tonight.

Happy weekend!

Lovies.

xoxoxo

Happy weekend! It’s our off weekend too.

I celebrated Valentine’s with two of my besties. Of course that called for a heart themed charcuterie board. Aren’t these fun?!? I saw the inspiration on Instagram and knew I had to make my own version.

So glad I got to snuggle this cutie for a bit this past week.

I finally got my ranunculus in the ground, you know about two months too late.

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Ryan and I had red beans and rice for dinner Tuesday night, as well as a fake King cake. I made a cinnamon roll pull apart and turned it Mardi Gras themed. I’m all about celebrating small things with great easy store bought intention.

Our neighbors dog has visited a good bit lately. She is spoiled, getting all those Ryan snuggles.

She braided my hair!

Happy weekend!

Lovies.

xoxoxo

Happy, happy weekend.

Another week, another picnic. This time I was smart enough to wear two layers of pants, a hat, a sweatshirt plus a jacket.

We attempted homemade buffalo shrimp last Friday night at home. It was good but not quite as good as the restaurant. Mainly the breading we think?

Valentine’s nails.

I made the viral feta pasta bake. I like it. Not sure Ryan did but he also had been at work since 0600 which tends to make him a zombie. Walmart was out of blocks of feta so I used crumbles. I read this wouldn’t work as well because they don’t melt as well? I don’t know. It seemed fine to me.

I’ve been loving Libro.fm for my audiobook subscription. I found it a few months ago to replace Audible, simply because I want to support local books shops instead of Amazon and Amazon questionable ethics. You can click the link for my referral code.

Got crafty this week. I am loving these colors. I had used this to make a palm and moon with the wrong glue and instead of tossing it I am repurposing.

Happy Weekend!

Lovies.

xoxoxo

Happy Friday!

Our rental dog Penny came and spent some time with us this week. One night Ryan took her home only to have her reappear on our back porch about five minutes later. So she hung out for a little longer.

A very interesting and much needed concept out of Denver, where trained mental health professionals help police officers with disruptive individuals. This provides the individuals with resources they need as well as freeing up police officers to serve more legitimate crime.

My ranunculus babies are growing! I’ll put them in the ground soon. Just while I’ve got them here might as well let them get bigger and stronger.

We had a picnic this week. Which we do on the regular since Covid. A Covid positive so yo say. It was cold but pretty.

I needed a dose of sunshine so I grabbed these beauties at Walmart while picking up groceries.

Don’t forget if you like to buy ebooks or physical books from Amazon, check out Bookshop instead. This article gives some background on the website.

Happy Weekend!

Lovies.

xoxoxo

Happy end of January.

I was able to watch the inauguration. It was pretty incredible and I was much more emotional than I expected.

Last weekend we celebrated Ryan’s dad’s birthday. We had a campfire dinner with smores. I also made a delicious and smooth homemade hummus.

These ranunculus babies that I started about ten days ago really sprouted out! I tucked them into their bags to plant next week after I get my arches up and they get a little stronger.

I made homemade bread twice. One sourdough loaf and one yeast loaf. The sourdough is still lacking that sour bite that one gets in a crusty sourdough from the store. The yeast loaf was amazing. I told Ryan we needed to find a house with more land because I just wanted to stay home bake bread and grow my flower garden. My little flower heart is too big for my small two raised beds which is all we have room for, mostly due to neighbors/townhome rules not wanting anything past a certain line. Although there is a huge area out front that holds the septic tank. I think it would be a perfect flower garden.

I spilled tomato soup on our living room rug and thank goodness for small town living a coworker had a rug cleaner we borrowed. I used water, Dawn and a rag first then the carpet cleaner. You can’t tell. And now our entire rug has been cleaned because it the water was so gross from the area I did that I just cleaned the entire rug.

A good store out of vaccines stuck in a snow storm.

My Christmas present came. I can’t wait til we have some off time and some not cloudy nights.

Happy weekend! Enjoy!

Lovies.

xoxoxo.

Happy weekend. Not much of a weekend feels around here as it’s essentially the beginning of my work week.

The week started off with a delightful Bama win and a 18th National Championship Title.

I got these babies into some dirt yesterday. It’s definitely too late but here is to hoping. I should have done this at the beginning of December.

Who knew adulting was just trying to plan and cook dinner everyday for the rest of our lives. I feel like I’m constantly trying to add new stuff to our rotation. This week I tried fish taco bowls. They were yummy, an addition to the rotation.

I hurt my foot last weekend. Just a little tweak but I’ve been resting this week on my off days. I’ve binged season 2 of Virgin River and caught up on all but the latest episode of This is Us. Both so good. Any other feel good low stress or extremely well written shows out there?

Annie F Downs has a new book releasing February 2. I have already read it. It’s good. One of her favorite companies and mine did a collaboration the Annie Tote to celebrate. Follow Annie on Instagram for a discount.

Yesterday we got some sunshine but for the most part it’s been really overcast and today it’s been raining. I’m ready for some sunny days.

I’m planning to start some Magic Monday post on my Facebook and Instagram pages. Just a friendly reminder and inspiration of a way to cheaply and easily search for the magic in everyday life. Stay tuned for those.

Enjoy the weekend!

Lovies.

xoxoxo

Happy, Happy Friday! Since New Years was last Friday I decided to make this technically first Friday blog post be labeled as the second. You follow? 😂

This week I got my second Covid vaccine. I feel fine maybe a little tired but I also could just be a little tired.

I got my hair done this week. That’s always the best.

I made New Years party hats for our 2021 babies.

Our Chick-fil-a is closed for renovations until the beginning of March. We had one last easy chicken parm meal. I use their chicken filets add sauce, cheese cook some noodles with alfredo sauce. So easy and delicious.

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I tried some homemade roasted tomato basil soup this week. It was amazing if I do say so myself. We had it with grilled cheese and it was the perfect cooler night meals. I’m going to research how to grow and save my own tomatoes over the summer. I think it would have been even better with local tomatoes.

Sunset yoga.

I did my Bama nails for the game. Excited for this upcoming Monday but not ready for College football to be over.

This week has been scary and heavy and divisional. Please remember to treat real life humans with love and respect, even if you disagree politically or in some cases human rights-ly. Don’t forget it’s ok to turn off social media or the news or your phone. Take a break. Your mental health is important. Take care of yourself. Don’t forget to put on your own oxygen mask first when the plane is going down. You can not save anyone else if you don’t save yourself first.

Happy weekend. Don’t forget to make your own magic.

Lovies.

xoxoxo

Well Fabulous Saturday or Boxing Day we should say. But its Christmas time who actually knows what day it is. Oh right me. Because I had to go back to work. But grateful I didn’t have to work Christmas day.

Christmas toes inspired by my Bug. She loves to do her toes and fingers every other color.

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My gingerbread creations for the 40th annual Tilly Gingerbread party. This year it was virtual. I think every year we should add a virtual component for those that can’t make it.

This year we opened presents on some form of video chat with family on multiple occasions or multiple variations of family I guess. We NEVER get to celebrate with all of our family in person so I don’t know why we haven’t thought of this before but family I’m putting it on record no more Christmas presents without video communication or in person!!

Matching jammies with my brother and sissy and Embug although they failed to send me a picture…

I was able to get my first Covid vaccine earlier this week! So excited.

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It was awesome to see Saturn & Jupiter. If you missed it, there is still time. They are visible for a few more nights although now they are spreading back apart.

Hope your week was merry & bright.

Happy weekend.

Lovies.

xoxoxo