Category: photos
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Friday Fun Links: Jewelry, Sweet Nursery, Chickens, a Desk and Zoom
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I’ve found a few gorgeous things and new-to-me blogs around the internet in the last week. I figured it would be fun to share them with you all. Mimi & Lu: Gorgeous jewlery for a good cause. Jewlery maker Michelle Watson named her company using a mashup of her name,…
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The Feast of Saint Francis
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This last weekend we headed out of town to Guerneville, California which is up on the Russian River. The cottage we stayed at had a peaceful garden, along with a statue of Saint Francis, surrounded by little animals. I thought it was so appropriate, and uncanny, that we were visiting…
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Happiness is Trying to Find You
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“Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.” – Hafiz I took this picture back in 2007 in Edinburgh, Scotland. I’d met my parents there for a trip to celebrate my Dad’s retirement, and it truly was one of those amazing…
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The Grace of God, a Quote by Frederick Buechner
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“The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn’t have been complete without you.” – Frederick Buechner Click through to Flickr to download the image in a larger size (hooray! desktop wallpaper!)
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Zoom Friday: A Library for a Little One
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Zoom has really enjoyed reading books for awhile now. We kept his books in various places throughout the house, some mixed in with toys, and others upstairs in his room. We’ve reached the stage where he likes to get in to things in the living room, and since he’s pulling…
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Zoom Friday: Tea with Ladies and More Plum Updates!
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On Thursday, Zoom and I ventured in to San Francisco with Nola (his Grandma, my Mom). We stopped off at Samovar Tea Room for lunch. It’s got such a light, airy feel, and has delicious food. Zoom had apples, some of Nola’s sandwich, and a lot of puffs. He loved…
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On Courage and Fear
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“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear” – Meg Cabot
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A Heavenly Nap: Angel in the Shade at San Damiano
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A happy, slumbering angel in the garden at San Damiano. I’d love to curl up like this for a nap and unwind in the peace of a heavenly place.
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Redoing the Bins in our Side Table
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Spicing up the little side table that I moved under our stairs was a multi-faceted project. If you recall, the table looked like this when it first was placed under the stairs: I’d bought the bins specifically for the table in it’s new home, but I found their overly-matchy nature…