fall

Here we are half way through September, and I'm ready to consider it Fall. I've celebrated by breaking out the long sleeves, wearing a few sweaters, enjoying a pumpkin spice latte, a salted caramel mocha, and a pumpkin chai.

Fall brings open windows, crisp air flowing through house, football, Matt making chili, a squash & stout extravaganza, tea drinking in the evenings, halloween!

Fall...I love you. Next year we're going to celebrate our love among your colors. How cool is that?!

ps. I'm so resisting the urge to rush out and buy a few new notebooks.

my milk toof

months to go

 mine.

 

Sunday night all I wanted were flipflops and pretty skirts and freckles popping and sunshine on my face.  

Summer. Complete and absolute summer. 

It's the holiday crash. The thought of months of cold, gray melting snow, icy roads and cold toes. 

And I'm a winter lover, can you imagine the poor folk that despise it. 

And apparently I'm not the only one.

Lauren's fill in the blank is all about summer v. winter.

1.   Winter is beautiful mostly, but long and chilly and melting, dirty snow is a total buzz kill.

2.  Summer is sunshine and freckles, boatrides and bonfires, longer days and a beautiful yard.

3.  If it were summer instead of winter right now I'd be sitting in the back yard, recovering from yardwork with an ice cold beer, or wandering around downtown.

4.  My favorite thing to do in winter is celebrate the holidays, snuggle up and watch tv or movies.

5.  My favorite thing to do in summer is wandering downtown, boating or sitting in my backyard. 

6.  The ideal outfit for a sunny summer day is flipflops, a pretty skirt or jeanshorts, and a light tank.

7.  The ideal outfit for a frigid winter day is pajamas and a blanket on the couch. If I MUST go outside jeans, boots, heavy sweater, long jacket, scarf, and hat. So many clothes. 

But it's what, 5 months til May when I finally feel like summer is almost really here. bummer. I suppose for now, I will dream. And plan: http://thepioneerwoman.com/homeandgarden/2011/01/a-time-to-plan

ordinary joy

ORDINARY JOY

I've seen a couple of people posting responses to Reverb10's prompts. Obviously, I wasn't going to make it through 31 days of posting but maybe I'll play along for these last five.

snow day!

 we got dumped on here in michigan early sunday morning and all day yesterday.

i actually got a snow day from work. which is crazy because it is the last week of classes!

 it's been a lazy day which i love. i watched some bad tv and birdies play in these fire bushes.

sam is in kitty heaven!

a mini todo list for the rest of the afternoon: shower. wrap chirstmas gifts. put dishes away. make pillow for green chair and snakey things for the windows. play cityville was not on this list but i just spent the last 30 minutes playing this ridiculous new game. ugh.

any day now

it can do this any day now.

spring

is here, sort of

it's snowing

so for now, i will dream of forsythia

Pleine fleur
Originally uploaded by lacagouille (absente)

and

delicious pasta salads

wishes & pretty things

original source?

368 Reasons to L-O-V-E winter.  http://colormekatie.blogspot.com/2009/12/winter-is-coming.html

My Reason: I could read the reasons you all love winter all day long. I love winter because I break out my hats, gloves and scarves, the way winter light can make everything just beautiful instead of gray, the outlines of tree branches in said light, walks in crisp snowy air, cups of hot chocolate, blankets, thick sock, christmas music and movies. Oh and sooo much more! :)

I had the best hot chocolate today, so yummy. Did I stop at one glass? No. I had 3. worth it.

credit  / original source?

I wish I had someone to hold my hand. One of the rare times I will comment on the bits of loneliness I encounter. The Family Stone is one of my favorite films. I love that giant family and all the layers they offer. There is something magical about how they fit together, learn about themselves, and in some cases fall in love. It's one of those films that can really make me go, I wish I had that. But I have a great family and friends and enjoy the time I have on my own. (12/5)

I wish for a camera to capture the beauty of my drive home. The beautiful lines of a bare tree, early winter light. Perfect. (12/6)

I wish there had been more hours in the day to decorate my wonderful house for the holidays. I bought the tree, first one I checked out, the most efficient shop ever!, and decorated it. perfect. (12/7)

I wish I had more confidence during my presentation. It's just a discussion of my job. Why so nervous? (12/8)

credit / original source?

credit 

I'm a strong believer in link with love now. You can see when I started I wasn't, my apologies. I hope someone can let me know what the original source of the photos above are. 

Happy December

We are two days into to one of the best months. There's the hope for snow, the anticipation of beautiful Christmas celebrations, truly wonderful family gatherings and at the end of it we start a new year. The new year is full of possibilities. Let's stay here in Dec 2nd for now though.

Last week I signed up to be a Style School student (see cute badge). I hope that it helps focus my inspiration and creativity, since I have a whole craft room to myself now! One of our early-bird projects was to start saving photos that inspire you:

http://www.pistache.tumblr.com (via weheartit.com)

Originally uploaded by ColorMeKatie

Love. So there's that. Then of course I found something else that I'm totally excited about. 31 Days of Wishes for December. I tried to do days of thanks on facebook but failed, I shall try again.

For December 1st I wish that there had been a glaze of snow to welcome the new month.
Today, Dec 2nd I wish that this pain in my shoulder would go away.

Happy December!