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Monogram Chick Give-away!

Heather Irene — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:59:42 +0000

Enter to win until noon today!

I could definitely use one of these bags. Of course, I could also use a free vacation to go with it! We’ll just have to see how our annual Valentine’s Day lottery tickets did after the drawing tonight…

stolen quote

Heather Irene — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:20:58 +0000

“The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable. Remember one is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.”

C.S. Lewis, Letter to An American Lady

From: S.D. Smith (Thanks!)

passing by

Heather Irene — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:54:15 +0000

So, I just realized that we took 0 pictures of our apartment at Christmas, 0 pictures of our cute little Christmas tree with our 1st year ornaments on it and the happy little train going around it, 0 pictures of us at Christmastime (other than the family pictures up in Ohio). How sad is that? We will have to go on our failing memories for everything having to do with our 1st Christmas. The way our memories are going I think we’re going to be in trouble.

Not our Christmas tree.

yogurt & granola

Heather Irene — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:53:54 +0000

I have a new love. Don’t worry. Ben isn’t in trouble. My new love is yogurt and granola. You know how you can buy the Yo-Crunch that has it all nicely packaged for you? Yeah. That costs way too much for me. I decided to come up with my own snazzy packaging so that I could take it to work with me. I bought the big container of strawberry yogurt at the grocery. (I usually buy Yoplait, but they were out of it the other day, so I bought the Wal-Mart brand. I actually really like it! It has strawberry pieces in it.) I then went to Publix because it is the only place that I’ve found granola. They have it with the nuts in the produce section. I then took my wonderful “prep bowls” from Pampered Chef (To get some of your own Pampered Chef “Prep Bowls” click HERE to go to my friend, Jenifer’s page.)

I filled the bowl up to the 1/2 cup mark to leave room the granola.

I added the granola.

I ate a tasty treat. (And did it inexpensively!)

tardy (or Heather should have posted something by now!)

Heather Irene — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:53:04 +0000

Yes, yes. I know. It has been a month since the wedding. I should have posted something by now. I haven’t. I haven’t wanted to touch the computer when I get home from work. I will post something of a little more substance later, but for now, here is a picture from the wedding:

Three Word Thursday

Heather Irene — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:32:40 +0000

Red Wedding Shoes

& a bonus for good measure:

9 Days Left.

the apartment

Heather Irene — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:01:39 +0000

Ok, so here are pictures of the apartment as promised!

Our stairs leading up to our door:

Looking out our picture window into the stairwell:

Looking out our front door from the kitchen:

Our kitchen from one angle:

And another:

And yet another or “Look! There’s a dishwasher!”:

Dining room:

Another view of the dining room:

Dining room into the kitchen:

Living room:

Bathroom:

Guest room/Office:

Guest room/Office again:

Hallway from guest room to master bedroom (bathroom on the right):

Master bedroom:

The fun-sized closets:

More to come once we start adding our own touches!

“small” is relative

Heather Irene — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:41:25 +0000

So, Ben and I now have a place to live after we get married! Yeah! Ben will be moving in next week and we are already trying to think logically about where to place things. It is a two bedroom/one bath apartment with a large living room/dining room area and a fair-sized kitchen with washer/dryer hookups. The problem: storage. There is only one closet in the master bedroom and even that it fairly small. (And as Ben likes to remind me, it is made for someone like me -a very short person- because of the placement of the doorknob, which is about at his kneecaps!) The kitchen is lacking in storage space if you think about the fact that if all of our dishes & other such things go in the cabinets, there won’t be any space for pantry items and the same is true if we do it the other way around. Since I love looking at magazines, I thought, “Hey, I’m sure that there is something out there for living in small spaces!” Lo and behold, I found something! It was then that I realized that “small” is a relative term. Most of the “small” rooms would take up the majority of our apartment. When did that become small?!? I guess I’ve always known that small is relative, but I’ve always looked at it in the other direction. I look at these rooms and say, “Well, the second bedroom doesn’t have a closet, but at least it’s larger than the length of a bed. I didn’t have that in the second half of my junior year!” or “At least I don’t have to walk across the hall in a house full of girls to get to my dresser and closet like I did the first half of my junior year!” (Rest in peace, Music House…)

So, now I’m on the hunt for creative storage. My friend, Patty, just told me that I need to look at it as a European would. So, now I think that I need to set out to find some sort of “European Apartment Living” magazine or book. Anyone know of any? Our other plan of action is to head to Ikea on Saturday. We were headed there with my mom already to buy decorations for our reception, but this gives us just one more reason to scour the store! Number 1 on the list is a wardrobe to put in the second bedroom. Number 2 is some sort of cabinet for either dishes or to act as a pantry. Number 3 is a filing system for the second bedroom/office. We’ve got some work to do!

I’ll try to get some pictures up of the apartment and of what we are looking at as far as storage goes. Thank goodness there are only 20 minutes left of the workday today and tomorrow is Friday!

Three Word Thursday

Heather Irene — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:49:14 +0000

Taking a cue from Just Something I Made, here is my Three Word Thursday:

Fifty-one days left.

Mrs. Darcy says chill

Heather Irene — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:31:03 +0000

I just found a little gem thanks to one of my favorite websites, Snippet & Ink. This post is from The Future Mrs. Darcy. I absolutely love Pride & Prejudice. For a short time I even considered using music from the new movie in my wedding. This is a good reminder for me:

So here we find ourselves. Smack in the middle of wedding season. Let’s take a deep breath.
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