Aug

29

swim suits & giveaway winner

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That was the question for the giveaway this month. And you all had some pretty cute answers.

Lots of bikini wearers, lots of one piece wearers, and many many tankini wearers.

but one of my favorite answers is the GIVEAWAY WINNER

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I love it.

So, Melanie, please send me a note with your address and I’ll send you your polka-dot goodies!

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Now let’s talk about swim suits for a minute. I sort of hate them. But I love swimming. And so I endure. My biggest issue {besides the terrible gift God gave women of cellulite – ugh} is my very pale skin.  So for me, showing lots of skin is just too much. Maybe someday I’ll brave a bikini again, but for now, I’m a one piece / tankini girl.

Because it is the end of the season, may swim suits are now on sale. Here are a few of my faves:

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{j.crew $49}

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{shabby apple $82}

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{shabby apple $88}

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{mod cloth $89}

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{downeast basics tank $16.99 + skirt $12.99}

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{athleta $69}

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{Land’s End top $15.99 + skirt $19.99}

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{Rey Swimwear $80}

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{Rey Swimwear top $49 + bottoms $21}

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The September giveaway will be announced soon {once I put it together!}.  I do have one piece for it already {from Olive Jewels} and it is gorgeous! Stay tuned …

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Aug

27

popping in on this saturday morning

Happy Saturday! I’m not regularly a poster on weekends, but the kids are busy watching saturday morning cartoons {which are no where near as wonderful as I remember them being when I was a kid. Whatever happened to the Jetsons, Dennis the Menace, Strawberry Shortcake? Those were way better than weird shows like Horseland and Trollz} and I have a second to say hi.

So, Hi. Hope you are having a nice weekend so far.

I also wanted to clarify that when you sign up for JDC | monthly, you gain automatic access to the current month’s collection. I release the new designs on the 22nd of the month, but they remain available all month until the next collection is released. In other words, if you sign up on August 22 – September 21, you will receive September’s collection. If you sign up on September 22nd – October 21, you will receive October’s collection {and I may or may not also give you the link to the previous month. Wink, wink}.

Hope that makes sense. If you would like to sign up, click the button below.

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And now let’s talk about a few gorgeous rooms.

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I’m loving the striped walls and that ceiling. Our mudroom is half-way there with bead board paneling and hooks, but I have been trying to decide what to do with the walls. This might push me over the edge for painting stripes.

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I know this is a christmas image and I am not ready for christmas, but I do love the fancy frame on the chalkboard {and the pretty writing}. I feel the need for a big chalkboard in our kitchen {where the Mt. Rainier map currently hangs} for things like a weekly bible verse, schedules, places to doodle and I’d love to create something like this with molding pieces. Or, rather, I’d love Ryan to create something like this with molding pieces.

And then there is this:

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I pinned this a few days ago with the statement “a painted piano … cool or destructive? I’m thinking cool and I’d like to do it to ours.”.

What do you think? Paint our perfectly fine, but boring piano, or leave it alone?

This is what it looks like:

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I have fallen out of love with the crazy bird collage wall {posted here} and so I’m in need of a new look for the piano nook.

Okay, time to sign off. Audrey is currently sitting on my desk pulling apart everything. Ah, children. They have such boundless energy.

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Aug

26

time for another coffee chat

It’s been a few weeks since our last chat.

Today if we were sitting together, I would be drinking this:

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I am so high maintenance when I order drinks at Starbucks. In the winter I add extra-hot. If I were to add an extra shot, I would check all the boxes on the cup. High-maintenance, I tell ya.

And here are a few things we could talk about:

* My new planter box. It makes me happy to look out my office window and see these beauties.

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* We just returned from a family vacation. Vacations are the best. The kids {8 cousins all together} played so well, the weather was warm and summery and the shaved ice stand was just around the corner from our beach house.  For the record, coconut shaved ice is really good.

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* While on vacation, we did some diving, cannonballing and belly-flopping.  My sisters and I taught ourselves to back dive when we were young and it is a skill we like to pull out every once in a while to impress the onlookers. I’m not sure how impressive my back dive is since I am about 6 inches above the water, but it feels daring and exhilarating to throw yourself backwards into the pool.

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* We listened to a lot of Justin Bieber on the trip. I actually really like JB. I may have even dreamt about him a few weeks ago.

* These sweatshirts are pretty fabulous. Have you tried one? Are they worth the money?

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* Salad-spinner turned spin-art. The boys and I need to give this craft a try.

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* I took the Strengths Finder 2.0 test this week. Ryan and my sisters urged me and it was pretty cool. You can purchase the kindle version on Amazon and if you don’t have a kindle, you can download the kindle app to your computer for free.  The whole premise of the test is to show you what your top five strengths are and focus on those {rather than focusing on your weaknesses}. My results were a little bit surprising, but after reading through the explanations of each one, they make perfect sense to me. In case you are curious, my strengths are:

Empathy . Adaptability . Intellection . Developer . Achiever

* Okay, enough randomness for this delightful Friday. I hope you are able to do something fun or relaxing or productive or meaningful this weekend.  Me? I’m going to finish unpacking from our vacation.

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If you haven’t signed up for the August POLKA-DOT giveaway, you can enter by clicking the image below. The winner will be announced on Monday.

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