Good morning!

Today is kind of a gray and dreary day (totally my kind of day btw), and I’m here at the office under the fluorescent lights.  So naturally, I’m thinking about lighting.  Right?  That’s a pretty normal transition, right?

Anyway, once I started thinking about lights I realized that I kept thinking of a specific kind of light: the drum pendant.  It’s so pretty!  I like that it looks like a regular lamp, but the scale just gives it so much more oomph.  You can use it over a kitchen or dining room table, in a foyer, even in a closet.  Personally, I’d put a sheet of vellum or something (heat proof of course) on the bottom because I can’t stand staring at bare bulbs.  But that would be an easy-peesy addition I’m sure.

So now, without further ado, my favorite pendants – ranging in price from $40 to $240.

So, what do you think?  Would you ever use a drum pendant?  If they get too big, my husband is definitely in the “no” camp, but I think I could sway him if we saw one in person…

Phew, I am incredibly glad that this week is over.  School was insanely busy this week.  But I’m back, I’ve got some projects lined up for this weekend, I’m getting photoshop tonight, and this is going to be the best weekend ever!!!

But for today, I’m feeling bright and girly, so I thought I’d share with you some of the most fun and feminine decor ideas I’ve seen in a while:

via Country Living

via Country Living

via Country Living

via Land of Nod

via Ballard Designs

I like them because they’re so incredibly ruffly, but I don’t think I would ever decorate with them.  I prefer big ruffles, they just seem a little more flowy and a little less stuffy.  I’ll show you an example once I’ve finished some of my weekend projects.  Yay!!!

Hello world,

Sorry I haven’t seen much of you lately.  All that will change tomorrow, and I will be back to exploring and having fun!  But for now, it’s time to go meet deadlines and be a professional student.

Also, I had to put a new operating system on my computer, so I’ve been without photo shop for a week, hence the serious lack of fun posts.

Here’s just a little bit of pretty for today:

via Shabby Chic Blog

Such a nice mixture of winter and spring, don’t you think?

I hope you’re all doing well!

This weekend was insane – really, it was worse than trying to decorate a house with toothpicks, yarn, and neon finger paint (although I’m sure somebody has done that and somewhere it’s modern art).  But the good news is, I got stuff done.  The bad news is, I fell behind in my blog reading/posting.  Fortunately, I have blog friends who not only love me enough to give me a fun little award, but also know me well enough to know that I may need a reminder that something has happened.

Jess Peak from Good Girl Gone Glad gave me my very first blog award!!

To accept this, all I have to do is list ten things that I like, and pass the award along to ten other blogs that I think are amazing!  So, my ten favorite things are:

1. Being married.  So far it really is all it’s cracked up to be (that or I just married the most perfect guy)

2. Living in Colorado.  Yes, it’s far from home, but you just can’t beat the views.

3. Cookies

4. Running

5. Mary Chapin Carpenter and Lady Antebellum (yes, I know, that’s two things, but they’re in the same genre…)

6. Decorating cakes

7. Showers – the baby and bridal variety

via The Party Dress

8. Simple and beautiful flower arrangements

9. Blogs (kind of obvious, but I’ve seriously become addicted)

10. 3-day weekends – can’t wait for my next one!  We’re going here

And now for 10 blogs that I think really deserve an award:

1. A Country Farmhouse
2. Bogs of Ohio
3. Decorology
4. Ducks in a Row
5. Fixing it Fancy
6. Gillar Girl
7. Julie Harris Photography
8. The Farm Chicks
9. Velvet & Linen
10. Wide Open Spaces

Thanks for the great job guys, I’m always impressed.  And thanks again to Jesse, I can’t say how excited I am – I wish I could have a balloon drop!!!

Now that the holiday season is over and Groundhog’s day is quickly approaching, I’ve been thinking more and more about spring.  And how much I want a garden.  And a hot gardener (just kidding!).

Since we have an apartment that faces west and only gets about an hour of sunlight a day, I don’t have a garden, or really even the ability to grow stuff in pots.  Seriously, I killed lavender last year.  Try doing that sometime, it’s not easy folks!

But still, I want a garden.  So I’ve been dreaming about gardens and, because my mind doesn’t have the ability to follow a single train of thought, I’ve also been dreaming about cute gardening outfits.  Now I know that this totally impractical, but if you just had a cutting garden and you wanted to go outside and grab some fresh flowers or herbs for your house, then this outfit would totally be worth it!

See items here

Thanks Polyvore, you’re my hero!