i must have a thing for pillows right now. first the felts ones, now these burlap ones.

i love october, especially the first day because it means it’s my birthday! this year [i'm not sure how] but it sort of snuck up on me. i have a bit of printing to do today that i’ll knock out his afternoon. then, i think kacey and i are going out for a nice celebratory dinner! hope you have a great day!   |   photo via amy atlas

a few sailboat races + birthday celebration + sunset boat ride + board games with family and friends. it was such a wonderful weekend. how was yours?

i’m craving a cupcake right now and these from martha look so yummy + pretty!

hope you had a wonderful weekend. we spent ours visiting kacey’s parents. they live on a beautiful lake, and we had such a relaxing time. visiting. boating. tubing. playing games + catching up.

so, what did we bring back from paris? well besides a few souvenirs for friends and family, we packed these goodies in our suitcases and brought them to the states with us. first, not shown above is a longchamp tote + makeup bag picked up at a store in the international airport. great thing about the airport stores is duty free shopping. plus, they allowed us to pay for them in dollars, saving us even more money since we didn’t have to convert to euros. we scooped up the reversible chalkboard from au petit bonheur la chance. that’s also where we got the vintage gargoyle over paris pic and a very old hand-scripted receipt. i just loved the type and the vintage stamp on it. we picked up the black tin at mariage frères. it contains a wonderful earl grey french blue tea. the small acrylic square is actually a petite ring holder we purchased at muji. the small cylinder holding the small colored pencils was also picked up at muji. finally, the tall wooden pencil holder + a couple of pencils came from papier +.

hope you had a great weekend!

summer is definitely here. the sounds of kids laughing + lawn mowers in full roar. and the smells? barbecue + fresh cut grass.  |  picture via flickr