PeaceLove+Cupcakes

The weekend flew by

This past...

Thursday:

Emmie, mom + I went to "My Big Backyard" @ Memphis Botanic Garden (see last post).  Here are some pics:

 

I would love to live in a house like this☺

 

I love bottle trees!  When I have a house, I want one in the backyard ;]

 

Swinging in the "rain":

 

Friday:

Zac + I went downtown to the art trolley tour on s. main.  I got a cute scarf + shirt @ American Apparel.  Here's the circle scarf (these are really in for fall):

 

We just walked around + went in galleries.  Saw the brush your teeth show:

 

and the Horn of Plenty, MCA Horn Island Alumni Reflect and Remember, 1985-2009  show.

We rode the trolley to Circa + had an amazing dinner: proscuitto wrapped asparagus; crawfish beignets; pork tenderloin medallions; sesame crusted ahi tuna with wasabi mashed potatoes, seaweed salad, soy-ginger beurre blanc; and bananas foster soufflé with vanilla gelato and warm caramel-rum sauce.  Yum!!!

Then walked back to SOB (south of beale) and had drinks.

Saturday:

Zac + I rode part of the tour de wolf at Shelby Farms.  It was too hot for me, haha :]  and I'm just getting back into it, but Zac was such a sweetheart staying with me + making sure I was ok ;]

After riding, we ate at Deli Mexicana (Las Tortugas).  Zac fell in love :]  I love that place too.  It has the best, authentic mexican tacos/sandwiches and fresh fruit drinks (I got hibiscus + Zac got watermelon).  Fire!!!

That night we (Zac + I) had dinner w/ William + his girlfriend Hallie at Rain and then went to Wimbleton to watch kickboxing + mma fights.  It was lots of fun.  I've never seen anything like that in person.  Then we had drinks at Dan McGuinness.  I got grape vodka with sprite- it was really good!!!

Sunday:

I had brunch with Zac, his dad, dad's g-friend, brother + brother's friend @ Interim.  I didn't know they had sunday brunch.  I had french toast + it was really good.

Then mom + I went to the Dixon to see Beth Edward's (my college professor) show.  This was my favorite painting in the show:

 "Happy Day", 32X38", 2007, Oil on Canvas

The nose is unbelievable in person + so are the eyes + couch.  Photos do not do it justice.

I saw this one in progress + fell in love (not in the show):

 

"Fall", 14X19", 2008, Oil on Canvas

And...I saw this one hanging on her wall a while ago + wanted it so bad (not in the show either)!!!  The lips are great!!!:

 

"Lost 1", 38"X32", 2006, Oil on Canvas

*love*

Just some videos I'm loving at the moment...

Lenka- "Trouble is a Friend"

 

I love Jack White!!! Can't wait to see them in Nashville!!!

...working on my music art journal....will post more pics + maybe do a post tomorrow :] I'm sleepy...goodnight + sweet dreams

Love

I started this new journal the begining of May.  I told myself I was going to write in it + draw + promise to fill it.  I wrote this a few weeks ago:

 

I know it's a little tough to read, so here it is:

"Love...

Sneaks up on you when you least expect it.  Finds a way to surprise you more & more.  Takes you to new places.  Leaves you feeling lost, lonely + sore when it's counterpart leaves.  Unexplainable.  Magical.  Beautiful.  Undescribable.  Makes you want to be a better person & makes you one.  Takes over your thoughts.  Makes you feel alive & can conquer any obstacle.  Painful yet the happiest you have ever been.  Makes being alone even lonlier.  Reveals why you are here & how your life is supposed to be.  Makes you whole.  Cannot be taken away.  Tells a story.  Is only seen by two people.  Has no boundaries.  Felt.  Brings meaning.  The best.  Exciting.  Healing.  Mesmerizing.  The only thing that makes sense, yet doesn't.  Unreal."

Ironic now.

 

Nannie

My mom + I were cleaning out the attic + closets for the garage sale.  I found my Nannie's (great grandmother) wedding remnants:

 

I will update this post soon with some quotes.  They are too cute!!!  I am planning on sewing some of her dress on the inside of my wedding dress + around the bouquet (in the future! haha).  I loved my Nannie!  Things that remind me of Annie Eudora Neblett Morford (married William Morford):

• Daffodils
• Tea Parties
• Crochet
• Needlepoint
• Lover's Lane
• Honey
• Piano
• Painting
• Twin beds
• Tall ceilings
• Quaint spaces
• Easter egg hunts
• Porch swings
• Sweetness
• The Braves
• Pecan Tassies ...just to name a FEW

* UPDATE:  Quotes:

Wedding Announcement: "Miss Dora Neblett was married a few days ago to a young man of fine character and we understand that she and her husband intend to make their future home in an eastern clime.  Dora was one of our nearest little neighbors, kind and affectionate, and we regret to give her up."

Love Letters excerpts:  "Dear Little Pal: Since I left home over three years ago you are the only girl I've had.  Honestly, little girl, I would do more for you than any girl I have ever had.  There is a little sweetheart that's waiting for me back home Dora and I want to see her bad.  She kissed me good bye nearly two years ago and said, 'Bill remember to always be a good boy and never forget me, come home when you can and know that I will be waiting for you with the same old love.'  I'm going back some day and play with this little sweetheart again and she is going to tell me every thing that has happened since I came away... When we come back we will write a story.  Do you enjoy love stories?  That is the kind ours will be.  You will have to be the queen and I'll be something in the story if I can only be with you.  Little girlie, will this pass as a letter?  I could write twenty pages and every paragraph would contain something for you.  One word spells the whole thing.  'Love.'   Remember Dora you are the best little pal I ever had and will you be glad to always be?  I trust so.

With love,

Bill

P.S.  If you like this stick it in your pocket the next night we go out, and tell me what you like the best about it." 

AWE!!! Isn't that the sweetest??? :]  The other note I have is handwritten and hard to read.

Happy Friday!

How do you?...In response to my best friends blog post.

like to... wake up in the morning?

I don't.  haha.  Um...I like to be able to wake up on my own time.  I am not a morning person.  I like to snuggle with Vera (she's so sweet in the morning, she gives all her kisses, + lays on top of you).  I throw on my comfy robe, and go downstairs.  I have to eat breakfast.  I feel sick if I don't.  I like cereal (lucky charms) and I have to have my orange juice.  On a work day?  I hit the snooze every ten minutes for about an hour.  Then I have to drag myself outta bed.  I'll either throw yogurt + a bannana in my purse or eat a bowl of cereal/granola/oatmeal on the way to work.

...comfort yourself, or deal with stress?

I don't deal with stress well AT ALL.  I hate it.  I usually just breath really deep and let it out.  I just say to myself it's going to be over soon + it's fine.  I comfort myself by taking a bath, laying on the couch w/ pillows + a blanket, or drinking hot tea.

...pass the time away?

Sadly to say I watch a lot of tv.  I love to just get on the couch, lay down, and watch tv.  I also like to paint of course + draw.  Now I am getting into sewing so that takes up alot of time.  I like to look at other people's blogs + artists online.  I like reading books too.  Walking Vera.  Riding my bike. 

...come up with new ideas?

This question excites me the most.  I'd like to know how everyone comes up with new ideas.  It seems like mine just come to me naturally.  I get alot of ideas from magazines.  I used to get so many ideas from the Anthropologie catalog, but it seems like lately they haven't been as inspiring.  I love the magazines Lucky (fashion), Domino (home decorating,etc.), Everyday with Racheal Ray (sometimes), Stampington magazines (Artful Blogging, Somerset Studio), New American Paintings (art) and probably more.  I get ideas just from daily life.  I get alot of ideas when I travel places.  Looking at old photographs from my family + childhood.  When I was watching the series Planet Earth (now on HD dvd) I got alot of ideas.  The scenery is so beautiful + the animals (octopus, polar bears, etc.).  Shopping.  Things online.

...think of yourself?

I think highly of myself, haha.  I think I'm a great person.  I've been a good daughter + I hope to be a great mother.  I'm interesting.  I'm a unique.  I like to think that I walk to the step of my own beat.  I think I make a great parnter + friend.  I think I'm special.  I think at times I can be too critical.  I'm sensitive.  I pretty much wrote about my personality in the what makes me, me post.

...like to be spoiled or surprised?

oh yea.  I love to be spoiled + surprised.  As long as it is a good surprise.  I really don't like opening gifts though, because I'm afraid I won't like it.  Even if I really do like a gift I don't really show that much emotion/facial expression.  I love to get little love notes.  I love to get surprises in the mail + mail art :]  I like to be treated special + appreciated. 

...spoil yourself?

I like to get my hair done.  I've only had a massage twice.  I love getting new art supplies, there's nothing better!  New watercolor colors, paintbrushes, etc.  I also spoil myself with new purses, I just got a new yellow Fossil one that I'm breaking out this weekend.  New books- that's a big one.  I love getting new books.  I love amazon.com.  I have a wish list, and when I'm in the mood for treating myself I'll get one.  Candy + desserts.  Going on trips.  I'm going to Europe in May for almost 3 weeks!!! It's going to be so great + spoiling myself everyday.  I'm planning on blogging daily + posting many pics.  I am going to about 10 diff. countries.  (I'll blog more about this when it gets a little closer).

Any more questions anyone wants to know about me feel free to ask :]

I Do, Do U? too

In reponse to this. 

Do you believe in Dreams come true?

I like to think I do :]  I can sometimes be pessimistic, but I love to believe in dreams coming true.  (The same goes for love at first sight).

Ghosts and goblins?

I believe in ghosts to a certain degree (sometimes I question it though, because wouldn't you see a whole lot more of them.) Hmm...goblins, nah.  I have no use for a goblin, haha. 

Magic and Miracles?

Oh yea! I live for this one.  I'm all about some magic.  I believe there's magic in everything.  I love the *magic* :]  I believe in miracles too!  They happen all around us!

Do you like bedtime stories?

I love bedtime stories :]  Alice in wonderland is one of my FAVS!!!  You would like the rabbit "]  I think you might be kinda like the rabbit even though you say you hate watches + time (you are very aware of time)!  I'm so Alice!  I thought about being her for Halloween!  Who wouldn't want to play in a Wonderland???  (I love the site by the way, I'll have to look at it more later).  I love the old illustrations too!  I transferred one of the older illustrations to a book I bound with pinkish/coral bookbinding cloth.

Believe in being loyal and faithful?

Yes!  Almost too much.  I think sometimes I am more loyal + faithful to others than they are to me.  I have lost many friendships because of this.  I think that's maybe why I don't have that many friends.  I'd rather have none if they aren't going to be loyal + faithful.

That everyone plays the fool?

I think everyone plays the fool every once in a while.  It's ok to be foolish.  I'm often very foolish, but you live + learn.  "Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness + beauty" - George Bernard Shaw  "The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity." -Helen Rowland

It's ok to smile and have fun in life?

How sad if you didn't believe in this.  I try to smile as often as possible + have fun as much as possible :] 

I love Black Apple + Emily Martin

Here are some romantic prints that I <3.  I like the titles.

"As Long As I Have You"

You can find the print + info here.

"You Are My Needles and Pins"

Find this print and info here.

"Scarf for Two"

Find this print and info here.

whirlwinds bring whirlybird

I woke up this Saturday looking forward to a great day!  I got up kinda early, played with my new macbook, ate some cereal, + then started to sew.  It's amazing how one minute you can be having an amazing day, and then the next second things totally change.  Well the whirlwinds sure did come in.  After a little retail therapy, I came home to find this beautiful whirlybird sitting on my doormat.  (A few months ago I tried to look up the origin of these, because I wanted to blog about them.  I used to love these when I was a little girl.  I called them helicopters.  The only thing I really found out about them is that they are called whirlybirds or helicopter leaves, and I'm pretty sure they have some big fancy name too.  I believe they are from oak trees.)  Anyways, this one is the first and last I have seen in a really long time.  I took it as a sign.  It was my little reassurance that things are going to be ok.  Life is beautiful, and things will work themselves out.
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."
-eden ahbez (he liked to have his named spelled in all lowercase) 

National Multiple Sclorosis Society 5K Walk

Saturday Kristen, Her Brother, Vera + I walked for MS.  It was a 5K at Shelby Farms in Memphis, TN.  We all got our medals :]  yay!

Vera tuckered out after her MS 5K!, originally uploaded by lindsaypalmore.