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The Perfect Bow

There is something about bows that is so classic. Perhaps they remind me of being a little girl (look at that devilish grin!), my days as a cheerleader, or maybe they are so Anthropologie that I simply cannot resist them. Whether it’s a bow-tie, a big bow on a pair of shorts, or a napkin tied to look like a bow, I promise you, I’ll be obsessed. What type of fabric is it?  Does it sparkle? Is it flat or poofy? Who would have thought that there could be so many options!

Now… if only I could learn how to create fancy bows for gifts! This sounds like my next personal challenge.

Images courtesy of  Taylor Lord Photography, Atlantic-Pacific, Classy Girls Wear Pearls, and Style Me Pretty.

I Went to the Woods

Voila, this is the Wandawega Tree House (featured on the The Lettered Cottage) – also known as heaven on earth. For those who know me, I am obsessed with climbing trees. I do it practically every trip that I go on. Perhaps I’ve watched Fern Gully and Avatar too many times because I literally want to live in a tree. I remember sitting in my American Literature class as a junior at Texas and listening to my professor read Thoreau’s Walden, and the words resonated in my soul.

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

Isn’t that beautiful?