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You left your thumbprint inside me now
for months it seems
but mine only brushes your soft surface
and somehow it leaves me listless

- Jason Mraz

Remember...

...to check out paper n' stitch Tuesdays and Fridays

to see even more awesome stuff I want see my "Found On" column

{like these sweet handmade porcelain cups by Samantha Robinson}

Amen

{via i suwannee}

Mmmm

{via black eiffel}

Kitchen Envy

um. yes please.

{via home sweet home}

new favorite

when the anxious is the present
unwrap your gifts take your time
everything you've imagined
needn't be stuck in your mind

- Pearl Jam


(thank you lil bee. you are wise!)

I want to go to there

{via home sweet home}

Would you rather...

...be an incredibly popular, people-are-obsessed-with-you mega-blogger with tons of devoted commenters and fans you visit your site daily and interact with you virtually...

or

...a critically-acclaimed but not-super-popular-with-the-general-masses literary novelist?

Hello

I'm suddenly hopeful
whenever you're in sight, that's right
I talk about you all day
whisper your name at night, that's right
whatever you need
what I would give if you should ask it of me
to make you feel complete


- Sugarbomb

Goal: Squeal like a little kid

Hot air balloons still make me obscenely happy. Unnaturally happy, really, for a 24 year old who's had them puff puffffff-ing overhead each and every summer.

This weekend my teeny tiny almost-middle-of-nowhere NJ town hosts one of the largest balloon fests in the country. We wait for the balloons to launch and chase them, hoping to be there when they land.

As I left my house for work at 7:45 a.m. I saw 7 of them floating over the treetops and touching down in housing developments. I couldn't stop smiling.

Also - a sweet hot air balloon proposal story.

{photos by Tommy Bass}

How sweet it is (to be loved by you)

I close my eyes at night
wondering where would I be without you in my life
everything I did was just a bore
everywhere I want it seems I'd been there before
but you brighten up for me all of my days
with a love so sweet in so many ways
I want to stop and thank you baby


- James Taylor

Goal: Indulge daily

and make a mess of it

{by Morgan&Lucca}

Do it.

{by Kiss Her via design is mine}

Page 224

In the end they knew each other so well that by the time they had been married for 30 years they were like a single divided being, and they felt uncomfortable at the frequency with which they guess each other's thoughts without intending to, or the ridiculous accident of one of them anticipating in public what the other was going to say. Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other mortal trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore.


- Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I stink*

That is all.


* at blogging. Not aromatically.

Goal

{via design is mine}

Cold Mountain

The women started out afoot, and Inman stood and watched them climb the slope. When Ada disappeared into the trees, it was like a part of the richness of the world had gone with her. He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something better.


- Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier

10.

I want to be surrounded

by beautiful things

and smiling faces

Very Appropriate...

...for a daily-egg addict like myself.

Love this print!
(and, if truth be told, the entire house)

{via Design Sponge}

Kitchen Envy

Loving that window over the sink. Mmm.

{via Design Sponge}

Book Lust

{via Design Sponge}

Another Gallery Wall

{via here}

Words to Live By

{Prints by vol25 via The Lil Bee}

The stuff that dreams are made of

What if the prince on the horse in your fairytale
is right here in disguise
and what if the stars you've been reaching so high for
are shining in his eyes?

- Carly Simon

Who I'm hanging with this weekend...

Wishlist

Love understated gold jewelry. And I think the sweet little symbols are so intriguing (though maybe only for the word-obsessed?). Saw this a few days ago and it just caught my eye again... yum.

{by Albeit via Design Crush}

Wings

She said, Lately falling's been
easy on me a lot like breathing used to be
and call me crazy but I was thinking
maybe you'd be waiting on the ground
to come and catch me


- Matt Nathanson

Gallery Wall

I want one.

But too many options. What kind of frames? All the same color? Theme? Scattered? Help!

{Photos via ffffound; Home Sweet Home; Made by Girl (x2);

Imagine

{via ffffound}

See her smile

It's not you, she says
it's just that life's so hard
we all get through, I say
hang on tight, I'll be your bodyguard


- Tick, Tick...Boom!

Mankind Mag: The LAZY Issue

It's summer. You're poolside (or, wishing you were). You need (digital) reading materials.

Head on over to Design for Mankind to pick up your super cheapity cheap and chock-full-of-goodness copy of this month's issue of Mankind Mag.

I'm in there with my regular confessions series...this time around, Confessions of a Lazybones....

...

#1 perk to summer job: corporate fluorescent lighting really is a diamond ring's best friend.

The one that got away

Can't help it but I wait all night without you

Sunday morning didn't turn out right

I come into the morning light without you

- Adam Pascal

Lovely

{via this is glamorous}

No.

Note:  If you actually attempted to CLICK on the Yes/No buttons above, I think you've got your answer.

(I did.)

Groan.

{via Design Crush}

Goal: Dive in.

{via ffffound}

Cold Mountain

He had been living like a dead man and this was life before him, an offering within his reach... he pulled her against him and held her and held her.  She put a hand to the back of his neck and pulled him harder and then she pressed her white arms around him as if forever.

- Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier

Kitchen Envy

{via desire to inspire}

9.

the good ones are always crazy

i like to think their brains are just

too big for their heads

Goal: Sink your teeth in

{via ffffound}

Kitchen Envy

{via automatism}

Two foot fall

One word

is all you'd have to say to keep me there

and we'd hold each other tight

we were both just scared

scared of how things move by so fast

or whether or not they're real at all

- Tom Vella

Book Lust

{via sweet home style}

Kitchen Envy

Before

After!!!!

Fantasticcccccc

Love the white.  The lack of upper cabinetry.  The sleek minimalist look.  Divine.

{via Design Crisis}

Goal: Display affection publicly

{via ffffound}

Book Lust

Oh gracious.  A book staircase.  Swoon.

{from Apartment Therapy via ffffound}

Just Dance

Hot damn.  

This girl is freaking unbelievable.

(When I said "obsessed" you perhaps thought I was kidding?  Silly Internet.)

Don't Stop

This song gives me goosebumps to begin with, and hearing it from a bunch of AWESOME groovin' acapella 5th graders makes it that much better.

I am now obsessed with the PS-22 chorus.  (And the adorable inspirational director.  That has to be the greatest job ever, no?)

(Thanks Jaya!)

The Big Love

And the worst part - yes, there is a worst part - is that even when you think you've figured all this out, you haven't.  Even when you think you've got it all down, you don't.  Even when you think you've gone and made it all conscious, it isn't.  You just think it is.  Even now, you're probably convinced you've figured this stuff out.  You're probably thinking, yes, I used to be just like you, but then I did the work, I ironed out the kinks in my psyche, I found the right person, we do mirroring exercises with each other, we've pulled back our projections, and now I'm happy.  And I'm not saying you're not happy.  I'm juts saying this:  Beware of happiness.  Because happiness tends to be temporary.

- The Big Love, Sarah Dunn

Goosebump-inducing...

...to realize that that music is coming from the mouths of those little kiddies.

{thanks Jenny! via Perez}

Chinese

I don't want anything more

than to see your face when you open the door

you'll make me beans on toast and a nice cup of tea

and we'll get Chinese and watch TV

- Lily Allen

Um. Freaking adorable.

8.

the whole point

is to find someone else 

to link your life to 

balance you

keep you sane

walk with you every step of the way

and tell you 

you're the one

Goal: Splash wildly

{via ffffound}

Love in the Time of Cholera

All I need in life is someone who understands me.

- Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Kitchen Envy

{from desire to inspire via ffffound}

Book Lust

Teehee.  A very clever piece of artwork indeed!

{via Made by Girl}