small plans & a look at Meadowlark...

So I've been working many hours and just been flat out super busy for the last week or two, but I have three days off this coming week!! I'm planning on using them for basically gutting out my room and re-styling a couple pieces of furniture. One of these pieces will be my beloved vintage dresser (seen here and in many other posts). I would have loved to just keep it as is, but I wasn't expecting that this new NW environment I've moved it to would "change" it like it has. The same goes for a couple of other pretty pieces I own, so... I've got a lot of sanding, refinishing, protecting and painting to do! I'll be sure to take some before and afters...that would be a fun post, don't you think? So for now I'm off to find some sand paper and paint. I'm thinking the dresser might look it's best in a new coat of the same rustic orange, but then again I am so very tempted to create a whole new looking piece using a pretty color combo. Do any of you have any color combinations that you're just loving right now? I think I need some ideas...
p.s. the giveaway post will be up in a couple of days so make sure to check back and enter it! For now here are a few photos from my June Giveaway sponsor, Meadowlark. They make some very pretty earrings that I'm really liking!

tele-photos, May giveaway winner & a peek...

...at next months Giveaway. I'll put up the actual June Giveaway post very soon where you can comment-to-win and you'll be able to see more of the cute goodies. In the mean time...

The June giveaway will be lovingly sponsored by Meadowlark! 

Oh.....the randomly selected winner of the May giveaway is Hannah! (it goes to show it totally helps when you have more than one entry!) so Hannah, just email me your info so I can send your goodies off!

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These photos are from a Portland weekend by the waterfront and the Portland Rose Festival Cityfair!

wanted: "perfect" summer...

I really am not a fan of Summer...but...don't you think these pretties would make the hot weather so much more fun?!

1. Coney Island Top

2. Butterfly Poplin Dress

3. High Wheeling Dress

4. Midday Market Dress

5. Shop Until You Lemon Drop Flats

6. Make Lemonade Bag

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ootd: thrifted...

My day has been mostly spent cleaning and finding new homes for everything I don't need. I would just love to be in a space that is clutter free! I seem to always get in this kind of a mood after a stay in a nice, clean hotel room. Maybe I should just live in a hotel, no? Anyway, I just thrifted this dress for $1 and I couldn't wait to wear it! It's a little Moroccan and I love it!

pretty dessert stands...

After dinner in Minneapolis, we came across the most tempting bakery windows. I mean tempting! I think it may have been a good thing that they were closed for the night! Aside from how delicious the pastries looked, what also caught my eye were the pretty stands they were displayed on. Then I realized these stands were more than regular store-bought dessert stands. They were all either cute goblets turned upside down or vases with little platters and plates attached to the tops of them! Why haven't I seen these before, or thought of making these stands myself!?! (well maybe because desserts around here may not last long enough to display them, but still!) Have you guys done this? Cake and cupcake stands can get so expensive, but this is such a great alternative! Imagine the color combinations! Plus, thrift stores seem to always be packed full with little vases and cute plates for practically nothing. Ahhhh, imagine a little table full of upside down vintage goblets of every height, displaying pretty cupcakes!

tele-photos: day trip

travel bags

I thought I'd share some "tele-photos" from our little day trip to Minneapolis. I didn't take as many photos as I normally do when I go somewhere new. Really I'll blame it on my hands being full of tissues for my watery eye and runny nose and the fact that we were running on maybe a couple of hours of sleep. I don't think I was in the greatest of moods. However the weather was great, there were lots of train rides, lovely buildings, dark chocolate drizzled caramel corn, delicious dinner at Hell's Kitchen, visiting the Mall of America, and of course staying a night in a hotel. *sigh* I love a good hotel. If I could go on vacation and just stay at the hotel, I would be one happy girl! Just stick me in a clean hotel room full of pressed sheets, fluffy pillows, a great big bed, and turn down service (oh turn down service!!) Try putting a chocolate for yourself on your own pillow...not as special!

 1. pre-flight dinner at the airport Rogue

2. First time at the Minneapolis airport!

3. larger than life Snoopy in my favorite outfit.

4. Boarding the train

5. Super huge figures made from Lego pieces (spanning 2 floors!) @ the Mall of America

6.vines on an old hotel

7. Mall of America

8. lovely cathedral

9. Painted facade in Renaissance Square

10. Mary Tyler Moore (obviously) 

11. Through a bakery window (more on that tomorrow)

12. In the lovely hotel room (where I could've spent FOR.EV.ER!)