Oh February, you've been so good

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pic 1: A sheet of red heart stickers + a little inspire lovely stamp love = awesome.

pic 2: My fav card from the journaling tag set via Inspire Lovely ETSY

pic 3: I used this cute app on my iphone called Obaby to add the "sweet" & heart designs over the photo of little r. I love this app, it only cost my $1 & the designs. I also added a heart magnet + everyday love fair (scrapbookandmore.com) and a cute Inspire Lovely Stamp.

pic 4: i bought a new sewing machine & and realized it sews letters and i love it. it's a step up from my old sewing machine & so happy to have bought something I love & will use even more :)

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pic 1: creating valentine's XO

pic 2: studio love

pic 3: heart garlands for family

pic 4: Inspire Lovely Packaging

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pic 1: candy boxes +cards XO

pic 2: I loved making & sending valentine cards for my little guy. he's such a charmer. He's also in the "helper" mode often. He asks to "help eat candy" hahaa! Takes after daddy. I think my favorite part of him helping is watching him try and concentrate. The cutest little furrowed eyebrows + little hands working away (pictured above with the "favorite"stamp). 

pic 3: I was out shopping at Vons for some groceries and wandered into the flower section and fell in love with a succulent garden. I had little r chose which color vase and that became my "floral gift" from him & daddy. 

pic 4: cute Inspire Lovely tags all ready for their close up :)

And my very favorite picture of this little guy this year xo

I always want to plan out shots for our family photos and realize it's really hard to do that for every photo. So as little r and i were walking back home from a walk one evening, i decided we would do a little photo shoot out in the front yard. We rushed home to grab the heart ( $2 from Michaels ) and Mona ( my camera ;) and quickly started shooting. I took about 25 photos just to take this little gem. He was being SO silly. Making angry faces because I kept asking him to smile a happy smile. hahaa! I used reverse psychology and asked him to smile like a lion and he gave me this. lol! The sunset 5 min after this shot and it was good timing. So happy. 

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pic 1: This past weekend the mister and I had such a full week. A funeral + a wedding + Valentines Day dinner + me getting a head cold :(  My favorite part of this weekend was a little photo love the mister and I got while attending our sweet friends wedding. I used an app on my iphone called Selftimer and thank goodness found a few awesome spots at the wedding to snap photos.

pic 2: Inspire Lovely journaling card + a quick run through of our days events. I got sick at the end of the day. yay me :)

pic 3: Another cute little space at the wedding for a quick photo with my guy. XO also Inspire Lovely stamp love XO

pic 4: My favorite Inspire Lovely Journaling card. i need to practice my spanish more and what better way than a sweet reminder to say I love You more in spanish :) I only realize how important it is to retain both languages now that i'm trying to teach little r spanish. oh i hope something sticks lol! And if then, i hope it's this. :)

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pic 1: I wanted this pic to look super old & vintage. I Love this little area at the wedding where it looked like a different era. It was so casual and pretty. I topped off the photo with the date + a cute flair from scrapbookandmore.com

pic 2: my fav jenni bowlin paper XO

pic 3: Inspire Lovely journaling die cut journaling card.

I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with this cute die cut card when I designed it for the Valentine kit but I'm so glad because it turned out to be the perfect little finishing touch for this photo. The photo was taken with the self timer + my phone was on the ground from quite a distance. I love the little twinkle lights in the trees. XO I topped the photo with a simple little forget me not floral stem + i stamped the Inspire Lovely stamp on a sheet of paper. I cut "favorite" out and added a little glue dot and used it to attach the floral stem to the outside of the pocket. love love love
pic 4: my thoughts on my mister and how i knew he was mine. I used to intentionally go up to him just to make him nervous. I also wanted to make it very clear that i liked him. It didn't work. he just thought i was cute. hahaa!



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pic 1: you & me Inspire Lovely Stamp + sequin love from valentine Journaling card kit via Inspire Lovely ETSY
pic 2: more photo love. Whenever we take photos i prefer for one of us to be holding the camera or use the self timer app. There is no way he'd let anyone else take a shot of us like this. hahaaa! So modest ;) So I took this picture and even though its a bit blurry i'll take it. it's sweet.
pic 3: My favorite lyrics from my fav song turned into a journaling card via Inspire Lovely Valentine kit.
pic 4: my favorite wedding favors of ALL time. you have succulents at your wedding? your wedding is  amazing in my book. I asked our lovely friend, the bride, if I could please take more than one. I  never mentioned how many but I think these little succulents are happy coming home to live with me :) It's a succulent fest over here now. As i sit and blow my nose for the 1,000th time i look over at our window sill and enjoy the simple beauty in these little treasures.

Lots to be thankful for even after a funeral a wedding and getting sick.  I think it's been the most productive sick day for me this year hahaa! I realized how much i missed playing with paper and it felt so good to finally get a few pages done again for this year. It's not hard as I'm only doing a page a month and thankfully i got 3 pages done & so happy to finally have some paper love to share with ya :)

big hugs XO
-d