champagne and babies

last sunday i went to a baby shower for my friend stephanie.  she is due to have her first baby on the 23rd (that’s next wednesday!!).  kiera, andrea and evyn hosted the beautiful shower - evyn was in charge of the champagne for mimosas and kiera & andrea cooked the most delightful brunch!! i just wanted to share a couple of photos from the day…

kiera’s fruit salad, andrea’s delicious quiche, waffles and bacon

all the makings for strawberry napoleon….yum!!

the beautiful mommy-to-be

all the girls…

agyness, that’s who.

i have a huge girl crush on agyness deyn. i’ve seen her work as a model and i always loved her look and style - but now i find out not only is she super cute, but the girl can sing. here she is singing “who” with five o’clock heroes:

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i say yikes all the time.  so when i saw this on d*s i just had to share!

you can see some other cuties at zand2ohs.com.

beauty overload

i saw this video on a cup of jo.  it’s a montage of women in film including rita hayworth, audry hepburn, shirley mcclain, diane keaton, sandra bullock and charlize theron… how beautiful!!

i’m the luckiest girl in the world

seriously.

♥

hello again

i’m back after a mini-hiatus. i was super sick for a few days and am done catching up and back to feeling mostly normal…

i wanted to share a few things i’ve been reading lately - i’ve been searching blogs for inspiration and found a bunch that i love! here are a few:

random, fashion, art, etc:

a cup of jo

because i’m addicted

simple lovely

unruly things

heartthrobs & villains

food!

everybody likes sandwiches

unique eggbeater

milk eggs chocolate

smitten kitchen

hope you all enjoy! i’ll be back with more fun stuff soon…

i’ll take the stairs

i saw this on swissmiss’ flickr photostream and couldn’t help but laugh…reminds me of just a few months ago when jennifer and i got stuck in our office elevator - quite the experience!

ugh.

i’m having a wretched morning.

so i just ordered these:

i feel a little better already. shhh, don’t tell stephen.

my heart wanders

i was perusing some random blogs today when i came across this on pia jane bijerk’s blog, “enhance the everyday.” the project is called “my heart wanders: a collection of subtle hearts in special places.” it is a collective book project that involves people taking photos of heart shapes in random/unexpected places.  it is open for anyone to enter and the images so far look beautiful…i can’t wait to see the result!

old shoeboxes…

my niece kaitlin at age 1

i love it when i find old stuff i’ve forgotten about…especially film. after the move, i went through all my old camera equipment and came across 4 or 5 rolls of film that were undeveloped. a couple of them were nothing spectacular, and one is still being processed (they said it will take about a week or so). but this one just made me smile. these shots were taken with my Canon AE1 - it was my dad’s and i still love using it. i think some of my best shots ever were taken with this camera.

these were taken with black and white fuji film and are about 2 years old - pretty sure around thanksgiving to christmas of 2005.
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