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I love that my birthday is in July. I always had wonderful water-centric birthday parties as a lil one, and it's the middle of the year a chance to check in and maybe start some things over (or start some things at all). I'm also excited that my new found love of blogging has inspired to write these lists.

twentyfive before twentysix.

1. get active at least three two times a week

2. spend a weekend away, just me

3. visit my grandparents every six to eight weeks

4. make a fort in my living room and camp out for a weekend

5. road trip with no destination

6. learn to sew clothes (branch out from square purses and pillows)

7. ride my bike to work (buy a bike)

8. make and actively stick to a budget, if it's not in the budget don't buy it, no more retrospective

9. buy toms

10. go a week without the internet

11. journal every other day more

12. organize my life and keep it picked up

13. learn make frames for odd sized posters

14. participate in a blog or flickr challenge

15. research eating locally and seasonally

16. learn something and laugh everyday

17. live deeper

18. cook something new once a week

19. start & finish style school & tell your story

20. create a backyard oaysis

21. write letters

22. downsize, declutter

23. send postcards to strangers

24. fireworks & cedar point

25. learn to like the number twenty-six.

a look back to my ten goals for twentyTEN

1. Wear more orange! - oh yeah, more color in general, if that's possible!
2. Embrace life. Be strong and laugh loud. - working on it, still have hesitations, feel refocused on this!
3. Rock the crafty nerd that's inside. - no, but as fall begins i'll spend more time in my cozy craft room.

4. Take more pictures. -  about the same, but new subjects: yard, house, kitties!

5. Keep my home organized. - nope, chaos reigned. but it's so picked up now it feels great!

6. Restore the original beauty to the house. -  you know it! it looks amazing!

7. Create a history of the house to have for the library. - fall
8. Cook more yummy food and be a more focused cook. - about the same.
9. Grandma's Recipes & EIW Journal - fall

10. Get fit! - bought a membership, haven't used it. 

remember: "I hope you are a wonderful year! I can't imagine it not being one. That's my style."

 

welcome to july!

it's my favorite month because of sunshine, my birthday, summer is in full swing, time on the water, the boat, an occasional storm, loved ones, i just love it all!

seven things i want to do in july:

one. ring in twenty-five with a bang and my favorite people!
two. spend time in my house and yard that doesn't not include oodles of work.
three. walk more. talk more picture. be more. be me.
four. write my life list & a 25 things to do before 26.
five. visit my friends around the state!!
six. enjoy
seven. summer!

this is it, the wheatfield
i love, love, love wheatfield!!

july. JULY. UNDERSTAND. LAUGH. YES.

quick june recap: just & now - i think i tried, but failed because of how i wanted this to go. i think by saying i wanted it to be just now, i was trying to hold something (see previous depressive posts) together that shouldn't have been. update - so well, except that most of it didn't even happen until july! haha. i will post pictures post bday bash/housewarming! it looks AMAZING! enjoy - i think i might have learned  more about this than anything. i realized that i'm scared if i don't get everything i want right now i'll be disappointed and unhappy forever. but then i opened my eyes and saw that all of the amazing people i know have had amazing chapters in their lives. i have to enjoy what is right now and try not to be a know it all. (and yes, i realize that this probably contradicts j&n)

love: anxious sparrow tumblr

i feel: sad. inspired. jealous. understood.

unless otherwise noted, all images from anxious sparrow tumblr, original source unkown! (i tried!)

today really was a good day, the first day i didn't feel sad or angry or lonely 40% of every moment. thank goodness.

and tomorrow another day begins.

it will be a good day. promise.

oh yeah

i've always had this bad habit when i'm having a bad day to stay up and stare at the tv or internet. it's like i'm hiding from tomorrow. 

today, yesterday and friday were good days though. yay! for the weekend. i spent time with lovely friends and family which i totally needed. today was cleaning - rain - more family.

now it's a short work week! let's do it!!!

today

sleeeep. i guess i needed it. fell asleep at about 10:15p watching an old L&O: CI and with the exception of feeding the cats at 10:30a didn't wake up until 12:45p. holy moly people. i'm a solid nine-hour sleeper when i have the chance, but nearly 15 hours! yikes. you'd think i'd just played nine hours of tennis!

this really through my plans for the day out the window: bank, laundrymat, general productivity, as i still needed my slow weekend morning/afternoon to wake up. i made breakfast, read my book, snuggled kitties, sent an email that needed to be sent and caught up on my google reader. i successfully wasted five hours! (before heading out to post golf-outing dinner!)

i hope for a restful yet productive weekend:


tape, tape, tape.
empty and wash shelves in dining room and library.
wash bathroom and library walls.
see family and go deaf at river roar. (which i can hear from my house! well the concert tonight, i'm not sure about the boats.)
see friends and relax. 

all the paint and primer i bought a few weeks ago, waiting to go on the wall! it'll be good times.
  

home inspiration overload!

it's been six months since i started bookmarking inspiration - the only thing i was good at for style school! and i have so much. the two-five is just a month away and there is much to do (big party/open house the day before). i think boiling the inspiration down is a great place to start.

blue bedroom, original art (kelly rae) . that color! the painted globe... . know you, love you . family art wall (rachel)

i really, really love the pieces of original art and how rachel displays them. i think i'm going to take the art that inspires me and create my own version. my personal version. because that's what i can do at this point, i absolutely want to purchase original pieces some day but that's in the budget at this point.

clockwise | beauty . the Perfect Snow . home sweet home . Daydream List

 i love how this is hung (and the print!)!

clockwise | life itself is a most wonderful fairytale . branch . Manny Rodriques (via decor8) . twain quote

Everything that can be imagined...
Originally uploaded by Jewdar

i wound up with a house that has more shelves than even i can use, including a library! i love the idea of a quote there, in playing with the ideas of painted shelves, and have an amazing curly cue tree that is losing it's branches!

clockwise | orange bird . garland (via) . happy . bikes pillow in red

to do & more links!

• hit garage sales this weekend to find goodies, even if temporary, for shelves! (oh my goodness! or wonderful plates to stencil) or fun projects with flash cards!
• take camera and go on letter hunt!
• buy handles for side table. not very functional if you can't open the drawers!
• magazine  holders. seriously. 
• buy wonderful sewing machine with table. for tv wall!! (seriously, ten bucks how can you pass it up?!)
• i love the use of these spools as a hose hanger. 

i think my next step will be making a real to do list for all these projects and figuring out when everything can and needs to be done!