Today's Happiness

Today's happiness equates to:

1. Wearing cowboy boots
2. Reading Eat Pray Love while listening to Jens Lekman
3. Buying a new book for fifty cents
4. Eating yogurt and granola
5. Crocheting while watching random tv episodes on Hulu
6. Styling my hair like a swedish girls
7. Catching up with a best friend
8. Writing things on my calendar to look forward to
9. Smelling the flowers on my desk that my Dad gave me for Valentines Day
10. Reading Zephaniah 3:17

Etsy

So I've wanted to open up an Etsy shop for a couple years now, but I've just procrastinated and procrastinated and I haven't gotten around to it.
This year I am finally getting around to it.
I have been making things like crazy, and as soon as I can complete the 37 things on the To Do list to make this thing happen, I will be in business.
Keep checking back because I will have updates and such as to when it will be open, and new items I list and stuff like that. Also I plan on doing a give away or two here, so keep an eye out!
And I will also be donating a portion of my sales to the A-21 Campaign to support victims of human trafficking. Check out the link for more info.


Wedding's Make Me Happy

It's true. Wedding's make me happy.

Of course probably any girl over the age of.. well.. of any age, will tell you this. And if she tries to tell you otherwise, she's lying and is in fact bitter and resentful because she wants nothing more then to be married and have a wedding herself, but can't have one because she hasn't found "the one".

Anyway.

I like thinking about what my wedding will be like, and I actually have a little folder of pictures saved on my desktop of pictures I find that I like, or are inspirational.
Is this dorky/embarrassing/weird/sad/cheesy of me?
Maybe a little bit.
But I don't care, I love dreaming about what that day will be like, it's one of the most important days in ones life and I like to look forward to big and exciting, important things. And dreaming about them.

To end this little nonsensical post I will now share some pictures from the above mentioned folder.
(I can't give credit to where credit's due because I get these from all over sooo... hopefully no one's offended.)











I love weddings.

Blanket Forts





When you were little did you make forts?
Me and my brothers made them all the time.
Out of blankets, pillows, sheets, cardboard boxes.
Forts were the best.

And I was thinking the other day (after stumbling across some pictures of some super cool blanket forts) how much I miss doing those sorts of things.
Cliche as it is, I miss being little when doing things like building forts, running around outside pretending to be a spy on a top secret mission, or traversing through creeks to find hidden treasure, was socially except-able and age appropriate...

However I've decided that I'm going to start building blanket forts again anyway.
In fact when I get married I fully intend to build forts and make my husband live in them with me.
And then when I have kids I'll build them all the time.
There. Problem solved.

(More cool forts via Rockstar Diaries, Bleubird and Google.)







Lovely Lace

So I've recently decided that the next addition to my wardrobe needs to be a lace dress.
More specifically One with long sleeves, fitted, in a cream color and is stunningly gorgeous but not wedding dress like.
Some examples:


Mmmm so lovely.












A tisket a tasket a green and yellow basket




I so dreadfully want a bike with a little basket on the front, to ride around and carry my books or toto-like dog (which I don't have either) or whatever else I wish in....


Of course this goes along with the fantasy of having my own cute little apartment (preferably painted blue) which is decorated in similar indie/vintage/kitsch style to go along with my cute vintage bike. Like so:


(Photo credit: Naomi over at Rockstar Diaries)



Oh how I love dreaming.



New York I Love You

So a very good friend and I went to New York City for the day a week or so ago.
One thing I will say for the big apple is mannnnn is it cold in January.
We had quite the adventure. After our bus got there an hour and a half early, and we wandered around the city aimlessly looking for any place that would be open at 3am to get a little warmth (thank you 24 hour starbucks) we went to the Brooklyn Bridge to watch the sunrise.
And after waiting for an hour and a half we finally saw it.
It was a beautiful sight, these photos don't really do it justice.


Despite the trip not going quite the way we wanted, and at times I felt the sentiments of this song, we still had a grand time and New York City still remains to be one of my favorite places.


Coke and Oreos



So today I was eating lunch, a pretty healthy one (for the most part), when I had this sudden urge for a coke and some oreos.
Kind of a random craving you might be thinking, but I knew that we had oreos in the cabinet and that one of the classic cokes in a glass bottle, that my Uncle had given me for Christmas (he gave me a bunch of things from my Things That Make Me Happy list. Sweetest most thoughtful gift ever), was sitting nice, tall and cold in the fridge.
Disregarding my better judgement and temporary guilt for indulging in such a sugary snack, I ate the oreos and drank the coke and did not feel one teensy bit bad about myself for doing so.

I think we need to indulge ourselves in the simple, yet fun things in life, that make us happy, more often than we do and not feel so darn bad about it when we do. I think we'd be a little bit happier. I know I would.
God gave us these simple things to enjoy, with moderation obviously, because as we know too much of a good thing isn't good, but I think I personally need to just stop and smell the roses more often as the cliche saying goes, and not get so stressed out and caught up in the everyday worries of life.
Or, as I would say, stop and eat some oreos and drink a coke.
In a glass bottle preferably.

That's my silly insight for the day. Who knew you could get something so inspirational out of an afternoon snack.