Link Love: Wednesday Edition

‎"The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why."

 Mark Twain

(Happy Birthday) 

Where I've been roaming....

1. Outfit to Home: Ryan Gosling 

2.  Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead

( I need a juicer, asap.) 

3. Boot Socks DIY 

I am all about this. 

4. Mix with Love

Good for your ears. Good for your souls. 

5. On Christmas Eve I will make this or this. Or both.  

6. Perfect Iced Coffee

Perfect for Coffee Addicts Everywhere

7. Freezer Friendly Meal Plans

Once we have kids, I'm all over this. 

It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas

This is my favorite time of the year. Our house feels so much warmer and welcoming. I might become that crazy lady that keeps her tree up all year. Maybe. 

Our banister. 

"Blinko"  

A Burlap Tree Skirt 

Thanksgiving

This day was full of family. Full of food. Full of love. We are very blessed. I have only two regrets. 

#1: That we didn't take any leftovers home. 

#2 That I didn't take more photographs at our second stop of the evening.  

Ryan and I made a Sweet Potato & Acorn Squash Bake. It is definitely a recipe I will use again.

My glorious meal. 

The end of the feast. 

I'm Thankful For: The Creative

I'm thankful for......

Music. Art. Photography. 

All of the amazing people that have been a part of my journey as a song-writer. 

All of the late night recording sessions and the chance to build something with someone else. 

All of the songs, the gigs, the laughs, the difficult times.

The moment when I capture an aspect of someone else's existence through the sound of a shutter. 

The glazed over eyes after editing photographs for hours upon hours. 

The back porch song writing sessions, the lyrics poured out from our hearts, and the coming together as a band of people that truly love each other. 

The simple fact that day in and day out, I have the opportunity to do something that I love, something that I couldn't possibly live without, and something that will always be knitted to my very soul. 

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

Ray Charles