{beautiful atlanta home}

These lovely photos are from a recent issue of Atlanta Homes, I am in love with this beautiful home and the great use of color in every room. This could be one of my favorite homes ever featured in a design magazine. I love how clean and traditional the home feels, it is WONDERFUL! ...makes me want to move to Atlanta!

{gratitude}

Gratitude: a positive emotion or attitude in acknowledgment of a benefit that one has received or will receive.

• my wonderful family
• education
• fabric softener
• sunny days
• spring flowers
• blueberries
• text messaging
• my awesome boyfriend!
• my health
• integrity
• childhood friends
• self-help books
• thunder storms
• individuality
• barbeques with good friends
• a good wine
• learning to golf
• perfect vision
• my faith in God
• Love
• candle lit bubble baths
• children
• people who want to help change the world
• music
• artwork, artists, designers
• warm homemade cookies
• chi omega
• role models
• fresh washed sheets
• vacations
• puppies
• sense of calmness
• new ideas and thoughts

{this is pretty}

don't you agree??

{ Matt's Graduation Weekend}

Matt had tons of family and friends come out for the weekend of his graduation! My parents came up with me to help me move up and to celebrate with Matt. We had a blast and were super busy the entire time, it was great to be able to meet more of his family and have fun getting to know everyone better. On Sunday we went to Looie's for Mother's Day Brunch, they had an amazing buffet (as you can see!), afterwards 16 of us went to Anaconda, Montana to play 18 holes of golf.

{Cake Boss}

The cupcakes I posted on my blog earlier were a huge hit at Matt's graduation party. Since I have yet to find a job in Bozeman, I have had plenty of extra time on my hands. I found a great book on Cupcakes yesterday and plan to make several different kinds in the near future. Who knows, maybe I will own my own cake shop someday! Don't the cakes in the picture just look delicious! yummy*

{moving day}

This beautiful Tim Walker picture perfectly describes how I have felt the past week. I had to move out of my apartment last Thursday and all of my things and furniture are all packed away in several different locations and I can't find a single thing that I am looking for. However, the madness will be over soon! I am leaving tomorrow morning to head up to Bozeman, Montana to spend a wonderful summer with Matt. I am DYING to be up there, it has been way too long since I last saw him. His graduation is on Saturday and my family is joining me for the trip up there, only for the weekend. I am really excited for his graduation party, and I gave the cupcakes I talked about a few days ago a test drive today, they are WONDERFUL!!! Wish me luck un-packing and hopefully my life will settle down a bit!!

Love List #1

• Bubble Baths
• Bunnies with one ear up and one ear down
• Getting flowers from Matthew
• The New York Times
• Clean sheets
• Purple
• Lazy rainy days...like today
• Laughing till it hurts
• Home cooked meals
  

{I miss Chi Omega. . .}

...beautiful ladies


To live constantly above snobbery of word or deed; to place scholarship before social obligations and character above appearances; to be in the best sense democratic rather than "exclusive", and lovable rather than "popular"; to work earnestly,to speak kindly,to act sincerely,to choose thoughtfullythat course which occasion and conscience demand;to be womanly always; to be discouraged never;in a word, to be loyal to my Fraternity and her highest teachings and the have her welfare ever at heart that she may be a SYMPHONY of high purpose and helpfulness in which there is no discordant note.


~ Ethel Switzer Howard Xi 1904

{I want. . .}

No. . . NEED this dress! Beautiful dense gunmetal jacquard, trimmed with glimmering linen and inset with panels of embroidered mesh. By Moulinette Soeurs for Anthropologie.

If you love me, or want to get me an early Birthday, or "Congrats on finishing up your school year" gift, this is what I LOVE! :)

{Hello Cupcake}

Found these delicious looking cupcakes online while looking for something to make for Matt's Graduation Party next Saturday. These may be the winner! *click on the link for the directions to the frosting!

{Banana Cupcakes with Honey Cinnamon Frosting}

Ingredients

Makes 12
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
3/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted
1 1/2 cups mashed bananas (about 4 ripe bananas), plus 1 whole banana, for garnish (optional)
2 large eggs
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Honey-Cinnamon Frosting

Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a standard 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
Make a well in center of flour mixture. In well, mix together butter, mashed bananas, eggs, and vanilla. Stir to incorporate flour mixture (do not overmix). Dividing evenly, spoon batter into muffin cups.
Bake until a toothpick inserted in center of a cupcake comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes. Remove cupcakes from pan; cool completely on a wire rack. Spread tops with Honey-Cinnamon Frosting. Just before serving, peel and slice banana into rounds, and place one on each cupcake, if desired.

Marcel Wanders for Graham & Brown

Marcel Wanders is a Dutch designer who works with interiors, architecture, and product design. He has designed for some of the top European contemporary design manufacturers like Poliform, Bisazza, Moroso, B&B Italia, Cappellini, and most recently has teamed together with Graham & Brown to create a series of wall coverings. Couture: designed by Marcel Wanders is a series of 8 wall papers all named after glamorous men and women with iconic names (Audrey, Stella, Henry, Grace, Isabella, Kelley, Alice, and Suzanne).

I have become a huge fan of wall coverings this last year and LOVED these images featuring the works of Wanders.

{Summer Time}

It's the first of May and the weekend! Excited about the Spring sunshine, open-toed shoes!, and the luxury of a lazy Sunday morning . . . Ahhhh. . . I miraculously made it through my 3rd year of college! There were more than several times I wondered if I was going to make it to the Summer months alive, but I have done it!!! It has been a very crazy year and I am happy to be moved out of Logan and back in Salt Lake for the week before moving up to Bozeman, Montana for a fun summer with my wonderful boyfriend! My classes this year were a lot of fun, but even more hard work and time consuming than I would have ever imagined. These are a just a few samples of some of my work from the year...