tuesday truths

♥  i have been completely blown away by the surge in blog traffic
as a result of being mentioned in a recent CBC article about the
top 5 island bloggers...
and i also think it's funny to be able to say
"no, no...i was mentioned BY one of the top five bloggers...(one of my favorites, i might add) but i'm not one...yet...hahahah"
if you are visiting from the CBC article, HI THERE!  :)
i'm so glad you dropped by!

♥ i have to get a bite plate....did i tell you that? sigh.

♥ i love taking pictures of pencil crayons.

♥ i might have dyed my hair slightly purple. 
i see it in certain light and it shocks me sometimes...
but...mostly in a good way...

♥ i'm praying for a snow day.

♥ i sharpened ALL of my pencil crayons the other day...i have a lot of pencil crayons.

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whatcha readin'? {it's a brand new year}

i went into 2016 with a goal of reading 12 books.

the year before
i had only read 8.

8 books.

me.

8 books...in a WHOLE year.
my face is still burning with embarrassment.

so i had set the bar low for 2016
(but not as low as EIGHT for crying out loud)
and set it at 12...
i read 18 in total, so yay me!

considering i have no weddings this year,
i am raising the goal to 24 (and hoping to exceed).
one down already! 
off to a good start, heeheehee.

on a related topic,
i am trying to complete some of my 50 before 50 list
(because you know...50 is coming...faster than it should be, but definitely coming)
and one of the items on my list is to read everything by
LM Montgomery...including the journals.
i have already read a good number of her books
most of them many, many times
but am going to try to re-read them all anyway...
i have never read the journals so i'm looking forward to that, too.
(first i have to find them...i don't really want to buy them all...
but may have to).

Also open to book suggestions for this year....fire away!
:) :) :)

catching up on the bullet journal

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and....it's done!

i liked the idea of doing a "doodle a day" challenge
but was finding it hard to follow the prompts
so i thought that, for december, i would do my own.

i used my "word" for the year, ADVENTURE, as a bit of a loose "theme"
and built on it from there.
every day, i added a little something to the page.
some days it was a big thing
but most of the time,
it was a tiny star or a flower...
and i colored it in a bit as i went
and finished coloring it in today.

i really enjoyed doing this...
i am going to do it again for february
with a heart/valentine/red/pink theme...
stay tuned!
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hello february!

i have not been here on the blog for awhile.
i know i said i was going to be
but january was a mix of finishing up weddings
and tearing my kitchen apart to reorganize
AND getting completely lost in
snuggling on the couch with that guy i love
fuzzy pjs with blankets & diet coke & popcorn
watching true detective and the 100...
soooo good. 
and so gawd damn addictive....
(both the shows and the snuggling)
heeheehee

so, to celebrate finishing and delivering the LAST of my weddings
for 2016:) :) :) :)
i decided to completely reorganize my little "corner".
SIDENOTE:  one of the things i love about S. is that he does not care
at all
when i take over a quarter of the living room
to house my pencil crayons, markers and smurf collection.

SIDENOTE #2:  i know have at least 80 smurfs...almost 99!
but, i have like 5 smurfettes so really, they don't all count.

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i had totally forgotten about my ceramic mushroom
until i was cleaning out the kitchen cupboards...
the woman that owned our house had a ceramic studio
in the barn and had a ton of ceramics stored there...
when i saw the smurf mushroom house in the barn,
i took that as a direct sign that S was right,
we had to buy this house...it was meant for us.
she let me keep the mushroom...
but not the kiln...which i would have loved to have kept!  :)

and yes...i know the smurf on the mushroom is wearing red
but shouldn't really be wearing red unlesssssss
he is a young papa smurf before the beard...
so...that's the theory we are going with.

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i absolutely love how this looks now...
i didn't have enough space on the desk before
& i needed to find a place where i could put my camera
that would be both
accessible to me without too much work
but
NOT accessible to the cats/feline destruction team...
now that the weddings are over,
i want to try to get back to
actually using my cameras again
without being scared
something may happen to them
with a wedding coming up...
and now i can use them without fear!

so now instead of brides and
wedding bouquets, i hope you are ready to be
bombarded with photos of smurfs and pugs,
my feet, the felines,
and a multitude of sunrises/sunsets...
:)

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here's a cute pug to start the bombardment off right....