Merry Christmas

Hope everyone is having a happy, happy Holiday! Cheers!

Happy Holidays From Africa!

I'm so happy I could cry! Just a few more hours until I am officially on vacation! We got the keys to our new home last night and celebrated with a bottle of champagne. Lots more celebrating to follow in the next couple of weeks.


{photo by me, santa hats from flickr}

I want to wish you and your families a very happy, healthy holiday season. I would love to blog while I'm over there but don't want to make any promises I can't keep so I'll sign off and say see you next year!

XOXO

P.S. This will have to serve as our Christmas card since I didn't get around to doing them this year. Oops!

Reason # 3,157,597 why I love my iPhone

Playing dress up with it! Seriously. How cool are these?

{The bikini by Incipio}

{Cork covers from Amazon}

{Wood case from Urban Outfitters}

{Griffin Elan Form Chilewich Case}

{iPhone hoodie from Urban Outfitters}

If I had $228

I'm really a lot in love with these criss cross platform heels from J.Crew.

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{image via ffffound}

We're signing loan docs today and we should get the keys in ONE WEEK! I can taste it. I can't promise many more posts in the next coming weeks as things are just way too crazy round here. But tell me one thing....can I twitter from South Africa? I mean without it costing me a bazillion dollars? I would love to keep in touch with all of you while away via tweets as blog posting may get tricky.

Happy half way through the work week to all of you! XOXO

The Countdown Begins....

14 days til we leave for South Africa!! I NEED a vacation like I've never needed one before. Don't you love this Elephant necklace? A sweet little email reminder from Anthro that my vacation is near and soon I will be frolicking {from a great distance, hopefully} among these amazing creatures.



I would also like to wish a very Happy {30th!} Birthday to my girl Lynne. Love you to pieces.
XOXO and a happy weekend to all!

Whoa

To say things have been crazy would be a bit of an understatement. I can't believe I'm still functioning right now. I think I have 3 full time jobs.

1. My "real" job - which is changing {in a good way - I think}
2. Our photography business - which is going well but is extremely time consuming given that I can only focus on it during nights and weekends. But I love it so I won't stop.
3. Buying a house. Going through escrow is incredible exciting and incredibly overwhelming at the same time. Not to mention that between calling our agent, signing my name a million times a day and faxing my bank statements to everyone and their dog - it's a full time job.

Throw in planning a trip to Africa in less than 3 weeks, packing the house, trying to hit the gym after work and then come home to make a decent meal...WHOA.

So those are my excuses for neglecting this little blog. I'm very sorry. I'll do my best to get back on track.

Starting with thanking all of you for the lovely comments about our Trash The Dress shoot.
Thank you :) and then asking you all if you had a nice Thanksgiving. Did you? Ours was lovely. It was really great to spend time with our families and just relax for a bit. I have a few photos to share with you. Coming soon....

I'll end this post with some photos of masks I made for a recent birthday party. Super easy to make and a fun craft night project. Just add wine. If you'd like to know how I made them leave a comment or shoot me an email. Cheers!