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friday i'm in love (summary::may)

June 3, 2016 Arlene Giddings

i keep a gratitude list where
i try to write 3 things every day
that make me happy.

here are some of the things
that made the cut
in May:

  • watercolor robots
  • sunshine
  • no headache today
  • game of thrones with stirling
  • canned corn
  • pc points
  • perfectly cold coconut cream pie from water st bakery
  • a good hair day
  • chicken fricot
  • polka dot rubber boots
  • a new space to put my pens and stuff
  • emma's mother's day gift...so sweet
  • seeing my family out in the sticks
  • surprise smurfs at work
  • emma playing purple rain on guitar
  • got my new bullet journal
  • robot shoes and mismatched socks
  • blackberry gingerale
  • my bff starting working days
  • bridget left me a comment
  • living your potential course
  • an unexpected and very sweet gift of a zentangle book
  • 5 days off in a row!
  • emma got accepted to a school
  • hiking adventures with an old friend & a hand drawn map
  • oreo cookies
  • bare feet
  • campbell treating to ice cream at dairy bar
  • felicia day liked my tweet!
  • canned corn
  • overboard with emma and stirling
  • milk duds
  • giggly texts with M when i was stressed out and needed a release (& also couldn't find a bathroom...which i also really needed...)
  • sunshine when they called for rain
  • a trip to kool breeze with my mom
  • recreating the "little red car" photo
  • bob's burgers
  • stovetop dressing
  • bare legs
  • emma and her 8 chocolate bars
  • stirling's bone crushing back cracking hugs ♥
In happy2016, grateful, friday i'm in love, list-me-up Tags grateful, May, all the good things, happy, happy2016, polka dot boots, i like canned corn
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wordless wednesday (well...maybe a couple of words)

June 1, 2016 Arlene Giddings

every day i write 3 things that i really really want...these are usually things like "to enjoy the day" "to not stress over things" "to focus" but sometimes includes "to be debt free forever" and "knee socks"  (cause you can never have too many pairs of knee socks)

and then on the next page, i write at least 3 things i am grateful for from the day before...i love love love this...they can be as big as "stirling survived a motorcycle accident" to as small as "perfectly slightly stale marshmallow strawberries for breakfast".

weekly layout...including what book i'm reading and the series i'm watching (right now:: game of thrones, gray's, nashville and scandal)

and i had to include one photo that wasn't horrible...the other ones were all done in low light with my phone...blech.

In wordless wednesday, bullet journaling Tags bullet journal, bujo, wordless wednesday, layouts, june
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whatcha readin'?

May 30, 2016 Arlene Giddings

DISCLAIMER:  this photo really has nothing to do with the post below...

it's a whatcha readin' post
but without a finish,
there's no "the end"
because...
i haven't gotten to the end yet.

but i have to tell you that
while i am reading
the heart goes last
and really enjoying it
i am also reading a couple of other books
(which i don't normally do..
normally i am a monogamous reader,
loyal to the last page).

but this is different.

i am trying to journal every day
and sometimes, i need some help.
so i started reading elizabeth gilbert's
big magic
and i am loving it!

and i am also trying to doodle a little more...
so i had gotten
drawing lab for mixed media artists
by carla sonheim (whose art i love)
and last night
i spent about an hour and a half
drawing a full page of cats
30 cats to be precise...

i have never drawn
a cat
in my life.

at first it was kind of terrifying
and all sorts of frustrating.
but once i kept going
(like about 12 cats in...)
it started to get fun.
i drew them with glasses on
and bowties...
laying down, sitting up, backs arched,
fluffy, skinny, black cats with green eyes...
and it was fun and kind of
enlightening in an unexpected way.

so...a bit of a mass book update instead...
best i can do
in a rambling have to do this very fast because
i-have-to-go-watch-game-of-thrones-before-stirling-starts-without-me-kinda-way
 

In whatcha readin' Tags books, avid reader, all the books, elizabeth gilbert, carla sonheim, drawing lab, big magic, margaret atwood
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friday i'm in love (on a saturday)

May 28, 2016 Arlene Giddings

♥♥♥ i am totally enamored of these 60 second videos...so beautiful and evocative.

♥♥♥ this movie trailer...

♥♥♥ this sneak peek that might have made me clap my hands a little...

♥♥♥ this post...love the words...sigh

♥♥♥ now THIS is a hosta...so pretty!

♥♥♥ this instagrammer...so light and pretty and sweet

♥♥♥ i'm coming back to flickr...and realizing how much i missed it...it was a staple for me when i first started playing with photography....and so many fantastic awe-inspiring images on Explore.  Makes me want to grab my camera and play.

♥♥♥ there's a contest happening over here on this sweet girl's website...

and i've been playing with the timer on my camera...both the phone & the big camera...it's been fun...and fun is good.  :)  HAPPY WEEKEND! 

In friday i'm in love, happy2016 Tags flickr, rainboots, a green bench, hostas, beauty and the beast, friday i'm in love, a day late
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#tbt (late) of when the cats were kittens...<3 (and a pug)

May 27, 2016 Arlene Giddings
In #tbt Tags casey and finnegan, pugsley, looking back, they were just babies!
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