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So....yes, as many of you guessed, I am pregnant!
James and I will welcome a baby to our home sometime around the first week of September.
We are thrilled with this news.
I am only about 9 weeks along, but so far so good. James and I have known for almost four weeks (yes, you can find out that early) and we just couldn't keep it in any longer.
Anyway...be back with more later.
Happy Monday, friends!
Hello friends!
Wow, it really feels like I haven't been in this space for a very long time.
I didn't anticipate a lack of posting for this new year-my apologies to you and thanks for sticking around.
I've been shying away from here because I have a few bits of news that I can't share quite yet. After almost six years of blogging and being pretty open-I find it excruciating to keep secrets from my readers (and I'm sure it's annoying from a reader's point of view...).
Anyway, next week I get to share the online projects I'm working on, the event here in Austin that I'm helping plan and a wee bit of personal news.
I can't wait.
For now I hope you'll enjoy these photos and I'll leave you with a few links.
My friend Natalie is hosting a special pop up shop to debut her new side project: Canoe. If you are in Austin, stop by-it should be a fun time!
And another friend, Jen, just debuted her new project: The Makers. The first installment will appear on Monday-don't miss out.
Happy weekend to you all!
(*** I've gotten several emails asking where in Texas this is-it is not in Texas. I shot this in December, in California in the Sierra Nevada foothills. I wish Texas had big hills and mountains like that...but alas, no...;)
Mom's porch, in the rain at Christmastime.
Hope you are all having a good day.
Hello out there!
I've been silent around here for a few reasons. I'm working on a couple of projects I hope to share soon.
In the meantime I'll pop in and do some photo posts.
Hope you enjoy!
(p.s. remember my friend, Brooke? That's her beautiful daughter up there. So precious, right?)
Chances are if you grew up in California and attended public school you probably built a scale model of a California mission at some point in your academic career (for me it was in the fourth grade).
I chose the Mission San Luis Obispo, mostly because of its close vicinity to my favorite beach town, Pismo. After wrangling some cardboard, a little bit of spackle and some acrylic paint-it all came together and I was pretty proud. That summer my family visited the mission. I remember being one part freaked out (Catholics scared me at that time) and one part mesmerized. It was a pretty place.
I still have a big crush on the mission, I mean-in California pretty much all of the architecture is new or newish and here's this cozy little 300+ year old church in the middle of a bustling downtown. It's kinda cool. I know the history of missions isn't exactly all pretty-I mean-what from that time period is, really?
I visited the mission a couple weeks ago with my folks. It's sort of funny to revisit places from your childhood. You realize things are maybe a bit different than you remember.
Hope you enjoy these scenes.
Happy Monday.
Hello out there.
Happy Friday to you all.
If you've read this blog over the years you are probably familiar with my Aunt Diana.
I've written about her several times (including here) and taken many photos of her place (that you can see here).
To me, she in an endless source of inspiration.
When I was a little girl, my sister Maci and I would go and visit Diana often. Once she declared that she would call me "Abby Apple Fritter" and Maci "Maci Maple Bar". Thankfully the nicknames did not stick.
Along with Diana and my Mom we'd visit junk stores hidden away on back roads and in old packing houses. These were the days when things cost 10 cents and sometimes the proprietor would let my Mom or Diana haul away scrap wood for nothing. These two women had a gift for making something out of nothing. During this time many funky benches, bookshelves and cabinets were made from salvaged bits they picked up on their adventures.
Besides my Mom, Diana is proabably the biggest aesthetic influenece in my life. Her ability to see beauty in the quirkiest of things and places is uncanny.
I feel lucky to have her.
Hope you enjoy these shots.
Happy weekend, friends!
When we arrived in California we were greeted by heavy rains.
I could not have been happier about the situation.
For me the most perfect light exists in between the rain.
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Thank you for the well wishes, friends.
Slowly but surely I'm feeling better.
More soon.
I sort of started getting sick on Sunday but refused to let my body take a rest.
Am feeling like this barn today!
Be back (hopefully) tomorrow with some of the 240+ photos I shot recently.
Take care, friends.
