This lovely row of beautiful trees greets me on my drive home from town.  It's cheerful and inspires me to get into spring cleaning mode.  Here's just a little list of things I'd like to do in and around our little cottage.

+ Finish furnishing our small space!  With friends and family coming to visit in a few months, we need to make our home more of a home, instead of just a bunch of empty space.

+  Plant some flowers and a small garden. Luckily one of my girlfriends has a green thumb and is willing to help me out! 

+  Print and hang our wedding photos.  The hallway in our house is the picture perfect place for pictures (see what I did there?) and I need to display those amazing photos.

+  Print and hang some other photos and prints.

+  Pull out our bed a vacuum behind it.  That might sound silly, but with a long haired dog, it's not.

+  Buy new sheets for our bed.  We have a flannel set, a satin set, and a set that doesn't really fit the bed.  It's time for some new ones.



What's some other "spring cleaning" things that you think are important? Let me know!

sunday.

Sunday was a great day.  After being freezing for months the cold streak broke and there were shorts and t-shirts out in full force.  There was also a bbq, beer, 4-wheelers, dogs, and guns.  Our group of friends are really some of my favorite people to spend time with.  I'm a fan of fun Sundays!

ha!

Saw this and it made me laugh...

Happy May 1st everyone!

Hope your day was wonderful.

normally...

Normally I don't believe or participate in retail therapy, but yesterday and today were just those kind of days.

I hate a coupon for Victoria's Secret and then it seemed like every other store I went into had something adorable on the clearance rack or a $10 off promotion going on for shoppers. Score.  Plus it was nice to be out of the house, even bigger score.

I've got buyers remorse big time, but I keep telling myself that I hadn't been shopping in forever and I needed some new spring tops.

What about you ladies? Are you a believer in retail therapy?

in honor of the rain

via

To read in the morning and at night
My love
Has told me
That he needs me.

That's why
I take good care of myself
Watch out where I'm going and
Fear that any drop of rain
Might kill me.

Bertolt Brecht

Lots of eyeliner and skirt

Last night I helped serve dinner/drinks/dessert at a 50s themed Spring Fling.

It was a lot of fun and I think half of it happened before the event, while our house was full of girls getting dressed and ready in their 50s attire.  I think that the 50s gave us some of the best music out there.  There wasn't one song that was played last night that didn't attract most of the 350 people there onto the dance floor.  I hope your Saturday night, before this wretched time change, was enjoyable!

Car shot.

Skirt c/o my grandmother. 

Real vintage = love.  Heels that kill = not so much love.

12 more weeks of winter? Really?

So apparently there was supposed to be 12 more weeks of winter or some nonsense like that.

It was gorgeous in the valley today. I mean t-shirts, flip flops, windows rolled down kind of weather. If I was in school today would have been the worst kind of torture ever.  If I still live down south, I'd probably go to the beach with Hannah and we would probably get in the water just to say we did.  Today's weather also made me wish for summer and for North Carolina.  My family is planning a pretty sweet summer vacation, probably my last with the whole Mann Clann for a little while.  It ends with spending at least two weeks in our favorite state, with our favorite people.  I can't wait to be tan again!

Tanning in NC = perfection.

I hope that where ever you are that you enjoyed your Thursday as much as I did!

Tonight's American Idol and Vampire Diaries, who else is stoked?