This weekend, my sister (maid of honor) organized a surprise engagement dinner for me and Ryan! It was my first surprise party, and the first wedding related event since we’ve been engaged. Ryan and I were supposed to be babysitting my nephew but my sister’s plan “fell through” so we all went out to dinner [...]

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A while back Alicia of Alicia B. Designs nominated me for the Honest Scrap-tastic awards and it’s taken me way too long to accept it. Not that I’m not flattered that people want to know random interesting facts about me, but it’s more I didn’t know what information to share. So I hope you enjoy [...]

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Our life was like a book.
It had introductions, problems, solutions and endings.
We could always have a “once upon a time”,
but not always a “happily ever after”.
It seems fate chose the characters, and everyone fit in.
Some chapters ended as soon as they began,
and others were a hundred pages long.
Even though it wasn’t in a far off [...]

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I’ve set a new goal to share more personal things with my readers. I mean, of course we’ll have boundaries, but I’ve found that my favorite bloggers are those who share details of their personal life. Last night, I spent a good amount of time looking through my computer to free up some space. My [...]

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I’m really excited to share this inspiration board for our wedding! We don’t want to have a theme but we’re drawn to the deep plums and grey neutrals in these images. (And by we, I mean I love them and Ryan just agrees.) While we originally planned on having our wedding at a local museum, [...]

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We finally booked a venue for our fall nuptials! Here’s a little sneak peak!

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Living in a studio has provided lots of challenges (space, patience…). Even though we have three full closets and a linen closet, it seems as though we never have enough storage in the 483 square feet we own. Ryan’s been trying to talk me into “letting him” build a pantry, and I finally gave in.

This [...]

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My blog and I are feeling a little under the weather. Thanks for being patient while we work out the kinks!

a life more fabulous

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