A little something for the tiny lumberjack in your life.

I have exhausted my girlie creative side lately with all the glitter and lace. For all of you with little boys, I apologize for that. For those of you who require a little bit of rustic in your nursery, I've dedicated this mobile to you in sneak peek form. That's right, you blog/instagram, facebook followers get the very first sneak peek of my woodsy lumberjack mobile before it even sets foot in the shop.

Just a few little alterations and finishing touches before this little guy is ready for a new home. Mobile will go on sale at the beginning of June.


Love you guys. <3 Thanks for making my job incredible.

My first Mother's Day.

Photo by Hibben Photography

This year was my very first Mother's Day, and let me tell you.. I've never been more thankful for my family than this day. I teared up so many different times. I'm so thankful for my wonderful fiance and our gorgeous baby girl, who made me a mother, and ultimately made me this big ole bag of waterworks and squishy feelings. I've never known a love like the love they give me.

After celebrating with them this morning, as they showered me with love and sweet gifts, we went to spend the day with my mother, and grandmother Just thinking of how each of us were raised to be the women we are make me so thankful for motherhood. It's truly a special thing.  There aren't enough words of admiration and gratitude for those women. The only reason I'm any sort of successful mother is because of those ladies. I'm so very blessed by them. We celebrated with our entire family (which consists of my grandparents, my aunt and uncle, my cousin, my fiance, Fern and I, and my mother and her 8 other children) by gathering at my grandmothers house after church, eating lunch and some yummy dessert pies my sweet little sister made, and lounging outside and playing our own special version of softball. I love these people more than anything. I hope when I'm my grandmothers age, we'll still have a large family who gathers for special occasions just like we do now. 

I hope all of you out there got to celebrate your mothers in the most special of ways. They certainly are amazing women, those mothers of ours. 

#18 make a list of books to read

An easy one to check off the list, really.  It's #19 that'll be the challenge really, in reading them all. Some of you book junkies out there don't think that 30 books in 4 years is a challenge, but let me tell you, for me....  well let's just say, I'm skeptical. I could give you a list of excuses why I'll probably fail, but I'm not going to, because I don't want to give up this early in the game. Plus.. I just discovered books on tape/CD recently, so I may have a fighting chance.

For now here's my list:

 1. The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow by Rita Leganski

 2. The Light between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
 3. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
 4. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
 5. Eleanore & Park by Rainbow Rowell
 6. A constellation of vital phenomena by Anthony Marra
 7. An Invisible Sign of My Own by Aimee Bender
 8. Under Wildwood by Colin Meloy
 9. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon 
10. The Firefly Dance by Sarah Addison Allen, Kathryn Magendie and Phyllis Schieber
11.Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender
12. Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen
13. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
14. Wish You Were Here by Stewart O'Nan
15. Divergent by Veronica Roth
16. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
17. Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman
18. The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
19. The Rules of Inheritance by Claire Bidwell Smith
20. Bloom by Kelle Hampton
21. Comfort Food by Kitty Thomas
22. The School of Essential Ingridents by Erica Bauermeister
23. St. Lucy's Home for Girls raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
24. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
25. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
26. The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
27. The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
28. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
29. The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshily Jackson
30. The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry


A huge thank you to everybody who pitched in their suggestions on facebook. I couldn't have picked out 30 books if my life depended on it. I got 42 comments with several suggestions, so I had to just pick out 30, but I've saved all the recommendations, because after I read these I'll need to make a new list! (That's postitive thinking, right?)

marekalaine: favorite find

One of my biggest inspirations in starting an etsy shoppe was my (future) sister-in-law, Marek. She makes these incredible pillows featuring your state of choice. Here in Oklahoma, we eat that stuff up. She makes a quality product that she can be proud of, and her business is just booming. That's exactly what i wanted to do. Marek now has her pillows in storefronts all over Oklahoma and even a few neighboring states. She made a sweet fox pillow to go in Fern's nursery when she was born. If I ever open a storefront (a future dream of mine on my 30 before 30 list) I'm going to try my hardest to convince her and bribe her and guilt her into doing a Moons & Junes line just for me with characters like Fern's fox. [I haven't told her that yet. ;)]

My attempt at getting Fern to pose with her pillow was a fail. She thought I was tricking her into naptime.

Keep up with Marek and her pillows, and find out where you can get yours here:

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