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  • Showered

    My dear friend Erin is getting married this summer. I am so excited for her because it is a perfect match, and also she is awesome and I love weddings. So when I took Tuesday to the carousel and noticed a little bee/honeycomb dish set in their gift shop (Erin is an amateur bee keeper) I had to pick up a few pieces for her shower. The next time I talked to her I asked her who was going to throw her shower and volunteered myself. She said she wasn’t thinking she would have one. Ok, I live for stuff…

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  • Al fresco

    I am so excited about my yard this year.  All three of us are obsessed with it I think. I’m having fun seeing how many plants I can cram in, so many nurseries, so many choices! Bj is more practical and pointed out that we needed something to eat on out there and maybe we should take care of that (side note, check out what my yard was up to last year, crazy!). On one of Bj’s days off last week we decided to just bite the bullet, drive to the big city and go to every outdoor furniture place…

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  • The Cottage Garden – early spring

    It really is spring, and I really am starting to love it. Of course it’s mostly been raining, but we go out as much as possible (even in said rain). This weekend though we got a little bit of not-quite-sun-but-not-freezing-and-only-a-little-wet weather that was good to get things started in the yard. The first thing you see coming to my house is the front rock wall we put in last year. Next week this is going to be all kinds of wonderful colors, exactly what colors I don’t quite remember (I waited too long to order tulips and basically took what…

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