star wars rock

please don't ask how i found this. just enjoy. (by Hugh Fleming)

wallace redding

"you're like the best friend i never wanted, but got anyway."

that's what i wrote on andy & linds' wedding guestbook. i never realized that till the night after ya'll got back from your honeymoon. it's true. i never really wanted a best friend (or multiple of them for that matter.) but that's what happened anyway. that's what God had in store.

pat & i were trying to convince andy to pose for us. so we can could trace it, print it, and screen print it on various items. t-shirts, canvas bags, stickers, underwear, et al.

andy was one of the first people i met at mizzou. i didn't like him. nope, not at all. we went on our first man-date & i told him everything that would deter him from me. somehow, it didn't work. i was a hot mess, for sure. yet somehow, he managed to put up not only with me, yet also patrick, AND both of us at the same time. :) (who is also a hot mess too)

so here's to you andy. you dog, you. all of those hours (literally hours) each day spent at our kitchen table drinking coffee, tea, & anything that i could convince you to drink at 11am. meeting me at a.p. green chapel & speaking truth into my life- that changed the course i was on, forever. here's to you andy for accompanying the gang to the drag show so i could get a 104% in my class for extra credit.  for the one time i almost went to l'abri but my appendix blew. to thwarting patrick & you laughing. to the time you convinced/invited me (haha) to go to jamaica, & i did, and i loved it. to going green because jesus is doing it. those 2 weeks when the girlfriends were out of town & we retreated to diablo 2 camp while listening to the lord of the rings soundtrack on repeat. the list goes on.

& i look forward to the list going on. & on. you truly model what it means to be following the Lord with every inch of your life, seeking his name in all aspects and areas of life. + you made it okay for me to dabble in nerdom.

my new bible

I student charged my new (fashion) bible today. Thanks mom.
Em got a copy today too. Cheers to back to school presents.

diy picture frame photograph collage

I snapped this bad boy on highway 40 in Colorado & blew it up to a fairly large size. However, I got back this week from Kansas City & Minnesota to find that I left the window open in the breakfast nook to find it had been watered.

Sophia & I cut it up anyway and started matting on the ragtag group of picture frames that I collected at a garage sale in Columbia. I'm pretty sure they were free or sitting in the nickel bin.

We used cardboard boxes that we found at 1605. I hope that was okay. We found them in the house broken down & ready to be trashed. (thanks girls!). A little masking tape, scissors, & some nails. Voila!

They are for sure water-speckled/stained, but it looks fun anyway. Now, I need to find some lumber to create a faux-headboard.

d*s wallpapers

incase you missed the memo, design*sponge has some new beautiful wallpapers.



i just realized that they post a new one each month. how did i miss out on this?

Staircase

I decided to fill the empty staircase walls with an ascending array of picture frames.
Golden, brown, and some handmade art.