#82

today was a particularly bad day. mostly sad, a little heartbreaking and entirely unbearable. which means it is particularly important that I find the things I'm thankful for:

1. my church (i've been totally blessed by michael hildalgo's unique, fresh + powerful perspective. every sunday i feel like i could just keep on sitting and listening until the sun goes down. i'd just need some light snacks here and there.)

2. reading the beginning of mark 10: 21 'jesus looked at him and loved him' i've read this story so many times and have never seen that beautiful little phrase. (have you?!)

3. an extra long walk from our parking spot to church because of a race that blocked a major road. i love walking. nothing quiets my mind + heart quite like a good walk. impromptu walks are even better. not to mention that the sun was new + bright and the air was perfectly cool.

in contrast, this was a particularly good day.

(our 1 year anniversary trip to the moutains)

bad days arn't bad. they're just unpleasant.
i made it through and now i whole heartedly welcome my pillow.

#81 chill

{my favorite fall pics}

i'm grateful for the chill in the air yesterday. teeth chattering. the collar of my chunky cardigan unfolded to protect my neck from the icy wind. arms crossed and locked against my chest in a desperate attempt to stay warm. grateful that God is moving everyone indoors again for a while to teach us about change + cycle and how very capable we are of adapting and enjoying it; even how refreshed + cleansing change can be.

#80: happy birthday to the mister + the sister.

(^^would you just look at that face! oh it kills me. )


HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO...

ERIC (my hubs)
+
CHALICE (my baby sis)

you wanna get her something but you just can't think of the perfect gift? help her get to + be able to stay in Uganda! She's almost to her goal of raising the entire amount. (entire amount means she stays for the whole 6 months. if she dosen't reach that, she's coming home early. that's no good!)


If anyone should go + stay in Uganda to love on babies who need it, it's Chalice. Wish her a happy birthday + then make it happy by giving her exactly what I know she wants more than anything else !

(and yes i'm shamelessly plugging my sister because I believe in her mission, her drive + her capabilities. she will transform lives. i have no doubt.)

if you'd like to be her launching pad, contact her here for more info on how to support her.

on a designer's role:

"like a small voice that gets attention in a crowded train station, we know that the way to get someone's attention is not by shouting but by making deep and lasting connections. we know what it takes to make an idea resonate in a world weary of too much information, too many frusterations and far too many people wasting our time."

Howard Belk

#79 happy when i get to be carefree again

when your a design student you just don't get too much creative freedom.there's a whole lot of problem solving, aligning, balancing + calculated adjustments but not a lot of glue under my fingernails or snippets of paper littering the ground around me.(like in the old days when the dining room table was perpetually piled high with paper and magazines and buckets of art supplies.)

that's why i'm grateful whenever i can be creatively messy + free again.

i helped eric do the above project for an art eduation class he took last semester. he had to make a lesson plan + then produce the art that he would expect from his middle school student. so he lesson planned it and i promptly reverted back to being a 13 year old. btw, one of the perks of marriage is that you become one so if i do a portion of his project it's just like he did it. see, EVERYONE should get married. there's just all sorts of fantastic loop holes like this ;)

i actually threw this project away. i have a problem with getting rid of things. (i swear nothing stays in my house for more than sixth months.) but just had to photograph and share it with you.

happy tuesday evening!

#79 good layouts + gorgeous photographs

 I wish i knew exactly how to channel my enthusiasm whenever I crack open the cover of a particularly promising magazine + find beautiful, gasp-worthy spreads inside. I haven't found an outlet yet. help me. do i rip it out and frame it for a bit? do i call a friend? do i scan it in to my computer and quickly email the ones I know will gush like me? this time, I slowly flipped through the pages --back and forth and then back and then forth in no linear way, just soaking it up. I shared my magical floppy book with both my husband and his brother, neither of which looked like might cry (the way i felt.) but, it felt good and incredibly fitting to simply share.

needless to say, this magazine won't be hitting the recycle bin anytime soon. 

(p.s. if you happen to pass october 2011 issue of vogue at a newstand by you, please take a minute to crack the cover. and if you feel the need to rip pages from something dosen't belong to you, know that i've been in your shoes and you're not crazy. you just like good layouts and gorgeous photographs. and then buy the thing and be at a complete loss for what to do next.)

#78 i like brother dynamic

saturday night with the boyz.  

(eric & bryan bushaw, everybody)

had a lot of sister dynamic growing up.

not a ton of brother dynamic. 

i like watching these brothers together.