Reveriemine Giveaway

Do you know Sky Hardwick?  If you are a photographer - I am going to guess you do - she is amazing!  She runs many different blog's - one even more fascinating than the next....

Soulographer
The Work Shop Workbook
Reveriemine
Work of Heart Photo

Amazing - seriously.....

Anyways - she is doing a giveaway over at http://reveriemine.com, go check out the amazing giveways - great stuff!

Mudroom Locker Love

OK - so the other day I was talking about some Pantry Love, and I switched my pantry and coat closet.  I am trying to switch my closet to more of a mud room type entry.  Here are some really inspiring mudroom / front entries. Not sure which way I am leaning.  Should probably start measuring and figuring that out...

http://www.ivstatic.com/

I really like this one!

http://www.diylife.com/

This is neat to store coats instead of a bench.

http://styleunderstood.blogspot.com/

http://www.mudroomstorage.net/

http://www.mudroomstorage.net/

http://www.simplyseleta.com/

http://designingyourdreamhome.blogspot.com/

http://www.ikeahackers.net/

http://www.houzz.com/

http://www.houzz.com/

http://www.bhg.com/

http://www.myuncommonsliceofsuburbia.com/

http://www.houzz.com/

http://justinetaylor.tumblr.com/

http://www.bystephanielynn.com/

http://www.320sycamoreblog.com/

Pantry Love!

Ok - here is some pantry love.  I have been a pinning maniac over on Pinterest.  I need some inspiration - and would love any of these!

Love all the neat labels on this!

From: http://365days2simplicity.blogspot.com/

I have died and gone to pantry heaven! 

http://mylovelylittlelulu.blogspot.com/

What a cute idea with the chalk boards!

http://www.simpleeffects.com/blog/?p=1849

What pretty labels!

http://surrealcamille.tumblr.com/post/10194377098

I love the background and chalkboard labels.

http://michellelunt.blogspot.com/2011/09/operation-organization-pantry-palooza.html

The tin cans are amazing!

http://poppytalk.blogspot.com

HELLO jars!!!! Love them - all!

http://www.bhg.com

So pretty!

http://www.re-nest.com/

So Chic!

http://d30opm7hsgivgh.cloudfront.net

I like the idea of something on the door.

http://junkgardengirl.blogspot.com

The wired baskets are an awesome touch!

http://www.5dollardinners.com

Time to make my pantry half as nice as some of these!

Newborn Shoot

This is super picture heavy!  I got the great opportunity to take pictures of this beautiful little girl!!  She was an angel, she slept the entire time!  And when she woke - I just "shhhhhhed" in her ear - and she went right back to sleep! 


I had a hard time narrowing it down - there were a lot to choose from - here are some of my favorites.

A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. 

~Eda J. Le Shan~ 

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
- Carl Sandburg

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
- Charles Dickens

Making the decision to have a child--It's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
- Elizabeth Stone

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
- Frank A. Clark

A baby has a special way of adding joy in every single day.
-- Author Unknown

A baby is sunshine and moonbeams and more brightening your world as never before.
-- Author Unknown

Babies are bits of stardust, blown from the hand of God.
-- Barretto

Babies are such a nice way to start people.
-- Don Herrold

The smile on your face brings a smile to my heart.
~ Unknown

It was the tiniest thing I ever decided to put my whole life into.
-- Terri Guillemets

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
-- Deepak Chopra

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.
-- Leo J. Burke

Watch a mans toughness melt away when he looks into the eyes of his baby daughter.
~ Kim Mc 

Opportunities....

I sit here lately and look at my kids.  It's such a big world out there for them.

There is a long open road for them....full of possibilities. 

They can turn back and ask for guidance and see where they have been.

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Or they can keep their eye's on what they want and keep moving forward

I love this picture. To me it represents that path, that road, those opportunities.  The simpler times, the peaceful times, where anything is possible. 

Children have nothing but opportunity in front of them. The world is theirs. So my question lately is does that opportunity end? When is that age where the world gets smaller and your opportunities are less?  And my conclusion is - there is no age.  Don't close those doors, don't make excuses.  Find what makes you happy, believe that it can be yours, and seize those opportunities.  

I am starting my path to find what makes me happy and surrounding myself with those opportunities.