Is it monday already?

I hope you all had a fabulous 4th! I know I did. We went down to visit T's mom and step dad. We did a little (ok- a lot) wine tasting, bbq-ing, trivia playing, fire work watching and laughing. I obviously skipped a little blogging but it was a fun weekend and I'm sad to see it end.

Doesn't that peach drink look delicious? It is. We made it this weekend but felt it would be even better with some peach juice and extra simple syrup.

I've not yet seen 500 days of summer but this wedding is amazing.

As if children's drawings aren't sweet enough, they've made them even sweeter.

What a cool family photo idea. I think I'd like to do something like that once we get married.

This house is so fresh.

A dry bar? Probably the most clever dry bar I've seen.

My BFF started a blog, go check it out.

 Sweet dreams!

Loft Lust

I am in love with this loft apartment. Can you imagine living here? The wooden floors, exposed beams, gorgeous curtains, sleek furniture... I love it.

All pictures from loft life Via SeeSaw

T squared

Thursday Throwback!

I'm going the safe route and doing another drawing :)
A lot of the time me and my BFF, (A) would use drawings to describe important/ embarrasing/ silly/ etc. things that happened to us during the day.
In this one me and K were at the movies and when we left this guy Joe who I thought was cute was sitting in the lobby. I got nervous and squealed "hijoe!" then ran into the door. What can I say? I'm smooth like that.

It looks different in here...

Via seesaw

I know I mentioned it a while back but I'm trying to change up the look of the blog. So far, I haven't found anything I love but I'll keep looking. I'd love to have something simple with birds, owls or trees...

It's times like these I wish I had some awesome HTML skills but I do not so if you know of a good template website, let me know.

Bathrooms!

I've decided if I were to go back into interior design I'd specialize either in bathrooms or nurseries. Here's some bathrooms I'm lusting over:

Via desiretoinspire

Via desiretoinspire

Via http://www.desiretoinspire.net/

9bydesign

Via desiretoinspire

Via http://www.desiretoinspire.net/

Via http://emilyaclark.blogspot.com/

Seven Sleeps monday links

Via Oh Happy Day

I'd love to have an outdoor shower someday. Especially if it looked as cute as one of those.

A big red ball.

Suburban humor at its best.

A food map? I'm in. Why did they leave of Alaska and Hawaii though?

These darling S'mores kits just might make an appearance at my wedding someday.  

I really want to make one of these , not sure what I'd do with it though. They remind me of those Badgley Mischka shoes I want.

What an awesome idea. I just wish we had some old electronics to send in.

White hot

 I just love a good, white, clean interior. Especially this house featured on Desire to inspire
I realize, I pretty much stole their post but this house is just too pretty not to share.

How simple, charming is this? 

I'm in love with this type of door 

Ahhhhh 

Think she will let me move it? I'm dying to use that kitchen.

Japenese Architecture

 

 

When I first saw this house on desire to inspire I was blown away. The architects at Suppose design office are amazing.  I love the glass ceiling and how it brings the outdoors in. What a neat concept.

Not your 5 year olds drawing...

...but pretty darn close! It's Thursday which means time for a "throwback". Here's one of the many *awesome* drawings I did in High school.
In this lovely little drawing (from left to right) we have; Me, T.P., Kendra and J.

You see, in high school me and my best friend Kendra were rather obsessed with wrestling as all of our best guy friends were wrestlers. We went to every match and tourney and were the best little cheerleaders they could have asked for.

Every week (or when we got bored) we'd draw up some silly pictures like this usually starring our crush at the moment and some awesome destination.

In this one we are both with the guys we liked at the time, T.P. and J. The guy I liked went to our rival school Grace. Kendra and I are both holding Bawls (a delicious energy drink we couldn't get enough of) and wearing "Gerardo Jammie's" (the same type of pajama pants that one of our friends wore-so comfy!).

I have a lot more of these drawings that I'll be posting and be forewarned, I have some old, old, angsty, blog posts that I will start sharing. I'm telling you, their a bit pathetic but they're good for a laugh and who doesn't enjoy a good laugh?

Swiss Family Robinson

Have you seen the movie, or read the book? If not you really must. It was one of my favorites when I was younger. They live in the most amazing tree house!
There are some other, real life tree houses. Like these ones here, or these featured on the MSN homepage. How cool!
Then  I came across this amazing Bali treehouse via apartment therapy

I love it.
What do you think? Could you ever live in a tree house like these? I totally would.

Vermont

I'm thinking now that I'd like to live in Vermont. Sure, I might have the glamorized view of it from Newhart and Baby Boom but I think I'd like it. They have what looks like the most gorgeous Autumn ever, snow and cute cottages.

This house looks amazing.

Oh my, I want it.

This one is amazing as well. Look at those colors!

Here are some real life options:

I'm in love

I love the bathroom on this one.

Look at this sweet, kitschy kitchen.

The perfect, American dream home. 

 Lake front? I'll take it!

So perfect. It takes a very close 2nd place.  

By far my favorite! Sorry, no sneak picture. I love it so much you have to click it to see.

Summer links

Bob O'Connor via Desire to inspire

Made it through another Monday and summer is officially here (as if it hasn't been in Phoenix for the past 3 months...).

Summer is here! Throw a party!

Pets on furniture might be my favorite thing about Mondays. This week Ponyo is my favorite.

 Sweet & inspiring, I would love a cute little French house.

I can not get over how amazing that first house is. Do you see that kitchen?! and that bathroom....

I love everything about this video. The cute girl, those coral lips, the nautical touches. Oh my.

I am currently obsessed with this song. Amanda Seyfried has an amazing voice to go with her amazing looks.

Yum! I'm dying to try these.

Camera talk

Our lovely little camera took a fall recently and the flash no longer works. We've been wanting a nice SLR camera for a while now, so maybe now is the time? Especially with my upcoming  birthday *hint hint*.

The question is which one? I kind of have my heart set on a Canon Rebel but, what do I know? I've heard there are also some awesome Nikon's  out there.
If I get a Canon do I get the xs? xsi? xti? I just don't know...
What do you recommend?