friday i'm in love...(with one small rant)(but mostly love) :)

I came to do
Friday I’m in Love
but I feeling so happy
from my Friday adventure
that it’s all that I want to
talk about.
😊

I wasn’t going to go far
but ended up going pretty far
for staying on the island…
all the way to East Point Lighthouse.
(Also can I complain just a tiny bit
about how gawd-awful ugly all that
metal fencing is around the site….
I mean I get that it’s dangerous
but really…that fence completely ruins
absolutely any view you have there…
can someone please fix this?
Honestly, I was so disenchanted by it
that I don’t think I will ever go back again.
Seriously. The fence is hideous.)
(Rant complete)

I made a stop at one of my most favorite places,
Mooney’s Pond.
I had the whole trail to myself for about 2 hours.
The leaves are changing color,
it was the perfect temperature,
and the sun came out while I was there.
🌞

I shot a wedding last weekend,
the first in a long time…
and doing that made me want to take the
big camera out with me today.
And I was so glad I did.
It was a perfect day to get lost
looking for the light.

Other things I love:

♥ rewilding…I know I shared this before but
it’s something I really would love to know more
about and would love to see take off and be considered
the norm.

♥ reading nooks

♥working on homework today while I was out and about
for the creativity course I signed up for…gathered items
while out for my walk today

I hope you had a fantabulous friday…
there are lots of other things I want to talk about
(like…did you read the ACOTAR books?
I am dying to talk about these! And Perfect Couple…
the netflix series vs the book! but I digress…
future posts…haha)

but I will say one last thing
because he is on my mind a lot
right now…
my dad would love Mooney’s Pond.
🩵💙🩵💙

friday i'm in love...

It was a rainy Friday off
but I didn’t really mind.
I spent the day drinking coffee in a pumpkin mug,
catching up on blogs and pinterest,
making big plans for updating
my living room colors and
creating a new artsy/creative space and
reading nook
and finally getting back
to the little blue desk and
tried out my new paints.
Big learning curve…..but still so fun!

FRIDAY I’M IN LOVE

🧡this movie looks so cute and rom-com-y

🧡i forgot how much i love this song

🧡still on the music…a very chill gilmore girls inspired playlist perfect for fall

🧡i was so happy to see that my favorite candle is back in stock at Superstore…I bought 3 more. i couldn’t find a driftwood scent that i liked anywhere else.

🧡a friend messaged me to see if i wanted this sesame street pictures…did I?? YESSSSS!! i love them!!! 🥰

🧡i completely forgot how much i love toaster waffles.
it’s the little things. :)

Happy Friday…I hope you have a fun as heck weekend!
I have some pretty big things on the go…
shooting a wedding again for the first time
in a long time…
my nerves are just a little bit shot. Heh.
Wish me luck. 🤞

friday i'm in love (started on Friday; posted on Saturday)

I started this post
last night…
well, yesterday….
and then again last night
but I was sleepy.

The words
along with the ambition
escaped me.

Now it’s Saturday morning
and I am armed with the
fortitude of
a perfectly messy
tomato and chicken sandwich,
all salt and pepper
and dripping onto the plate.
I am still wearing my mickey mouse pjs,
messy hair, drinking cinnamon apple tea
and feeling wordy from the book
I finished this morning
while watching the sun come up.

It was an awesome book
(this summer will be different by carley fortune)
(I know I am jumping ahead and this is not a book review
but spoiler alert, I’m giving it many, many stars & hearts)

THINGS I AM LOVING RIGHT THIS SECOND::

♥ my deck and the swing and the new door
(if you follow me in other places, I apologize for gushing…
AGAIN…heh)

(also I know a door should not be that BIG of a deal
but if you know me, you know that this was at least 6 years
of a procrastinating guilt ridden fearful and anxiety ridden task
that is now COMPLETE)

♥ i fell in love with this

♥ reading books & watching the clouds go by on the swing

♥ this movie looks funny…

♥ playing this on repeat in anticipation!!!!

♥ and is it even a friday i’m in love without a doughnut or ice cream?
this blueberry lemon from get caked was so messy
and fun and de-FRIGGING-licious…that lemon in the middle?
I was not expecting it and that was a happpppppppy surprise.

happy happy saturday!
I hope it’s filled with
all the things you love.

friday i'm in love...

So far, September has brought me
stock car races, demolition derbys
and time lounging on the deck…
but also a two day headache 🤦‍♀️
which I am not that happy about…
I had gotten away from headaches
for so long
and I don’t really want to go backwards.

But yay for Fridays!
Let’s get right into what I am loving right now::

♥ this made me laugh so hard…

♥ wanna buy a maritime fort? I’ll go in on it with you…
I mean…I won’t be able to go in much but you will still
have to pay the bulk of it but….wanna??

♥ my new hello kitty crocs….I honestly
never thought I would get on the croc-bandwagon…
but THESE WERE SO CUTE AND ON SALE!!!

♥ I am obsessed with the idea of
free little libraries…leave a book/take a book
kind of idea…especially if they are cute.
I stopped by a new one “out home”
which has even more meaning for me
because…memories.
I left 3 books and scored these three.
I am keeping a bag of “ready to be rehomed”
books in the back of my car
at all times now just in case I run into one of these.

I hope your friday was super fun!
and that you don’t have a headache…
but if you do,
I hope it’s not a bad one and that it
goes away super-duper fast.
💕

friday i'm in love....and also a bit of a ramble...heh...

Do you ever feel like you are
struggling to find yourself?

Like…you know you are still in there
because you keep seeing glimmers
and shimmers of your old excitement,
your usual joy and creativity and happiness…
but it feels like it is buried down deep
and you have to keep shifting the sands
in your brain to let the light back in?

That’s kind of where I have been.
And it’s weird, it’s so up and down and
in and out and topsy turvy…
one second it all makes sense
and the next second, I have lost the thread
that holds it all together
and pieces fall on the floor.

I try to give myself space
and grace,
I know the loss of my dad is still very much
driving my actions and reactions…
and a recent health stress is kind of
freaking me out but I tell myself
that worrying will not change anything,
I just have to wait and see.

BUT….
this is a friday i’m in love post
so let’s get to the good stuff! 😎

💕 I have been loving the new jar of challenges challenge -
30 days of fairy tales (reward of new stickers!)

💕This stuff. I am currently on my 3rd bottle of this. When I start running
low, I literally panic-order it because my sleep has been SO good.

💕Speaking of good sleep, it’s possible it plays a role in the fact that this
is day TWENTY SIX of NO headaches. And I mean NONE. Not a threat,
not an echo, nothing. Nada. I will post more about this later…I kinda don’t
want to jinx it. (Hopefully I haven’t already!)

💕Look at my lilacs!!! Every time I see it, I think “I did that.
I bought that. I planted that. I did that.” And I have had fresh lilacs
in my house for weeks. So happy!

💕This post on aging. I feel this deep in my 55 year old heart.

💕And this adorable artist…but much along the same theme as above.

💕And finally, I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE THIS MOVIE!!!!!

Happy, happy Friday to you!
I hope it was a stupendous one and that you got to
celebrate donut day which I actually didn’t do…
but definitely intend to rectify that tomorrow.
😘 🍩