Tuesday tunes : Into my heart.

Here is some feel good music for your Tuesday. I hope you love it as much as I do, I have been listening to it on repeat and can't get enough. We are headed to karaoke tonight, so I need a little tune up... as I DO plan on singing. My roommates in college and I used to give music performances at our parties. Our top songs that we performed were 'Lipgloss' and 'Stilettos' if you don't know these songs, you should... life changing, really.

:) xo.

Look of the Week: Picnic in the park.

We are getting glimpses of Spring now, which makes me so excited for bright colors and sundresses. The best. So, this week I decided to put together a look for a picnic at the park. Do you like to picnic? Picnics are the best, minus the bugs and the birds trying to snatch up your food.

On another note, I am making a vow to try and start wearing wedges more often. They are just as comfortable as flats, but make me feel like a woman :) Hope you enjoy the look as much as I do, and maybe try it out for your own picnic!

Sunglasses - Moscot

Cardigan - Crumpet

Dress - Cacharel

Bag - J.W. Hulme

Basket - Crate & Barrel

Pita Chips - Trader Joe's

Hummus - Baba Foods

Wine - Kunde

Shoes - Anthropologie

P.S. Stone and I went to the Kunde winery in Sonoma Valley this past Summer and it was incredible. The wine is great too, but I am no connoisseur. So beautiful, it should be on your bucket list.

Weekend wrap up : Photos, friends, and flowers .

Welcome to Monday!

So, we lost an hour of sleep this weekend, BUT it was so great last night to have the sun in the sky at 7! I would lose sleep any day if that was the reward. I love being able t do things outside in the daylight after work. Stone and I decided it was time to plant on our porch so we headed to the Home Depot and went a little crazy. Home Depot kinda makes you do that thought! Especially with all of the crazy flowers, plants, and trees that California has to offer. So many of them I had never heard of before. We decided to go for some succulents, herbs, and perennials. It is hard to think that in Colorado.

On Sunday we had a great photo shoot up north, and again, I cannot WAIT to share the photos with you :) Then the best surprise of all... my friend Jenna came to visit for here Spring Break. We thought her flight was going to be delayed, but thanks to a couple guys with a criminal record, a spot opened up for her on a flight and she was able to make it last night! So we are off to the beach today :) Don't be jeal.

xo.

Have a fun weekend.

Stone and I woke up to 3 different text messages today...

"You are aware of a tsunami hitting the west coast of US right?"

"Praying for you both"

and

"Tsunami... want to go ride that thing?"

Needless to say we jumped out of bed and ran to our computer to see what was up. Absolutely devastating what happened in Japan. Did you watch the live coverage of it? I have never seen a tsunami in action before and it is absolutely terrifying. Hopefully I never actually see one live. I just keep wondering what happens to all of the people now stranded on top of buildings and homes? Either way I will be praying for all of them.

What are your plans this weekend? Stone and I have turned our home into a hotel temporarily for all those who are so blessed to have a Spring Break! It is fun for us, and we cannot even wait for all of our visitors! I actually have to head out the door, so Stone is going to share some of his favorite links from the week. Hope you enjoy! xo.

... Boom!

Stone here. Shel had to run before wrapping up some weekend links, so I'm here to fill in.

I love this. Go digital without giving up the look and feel of pencil and paper.

I'm going to keep posting stuff about this sweet ride until it's parked in our driveway (30 yrs. from now)

Every dude should have a bad-to-the-bone axe right?

Solid advice

Well ain't that a fine howdy do? No matter how may times I watch this it's still hilarious.

Kind of a cowboy shower? Pretty cool though.

Breathtaking, tragic, amazing, beautiful. Go check out the World Press Photo winners

Men ... Don't miss the moment to be heroic. Here is training to chase down a purse snatcher

Summer is on the way and I definitely want a pair of these retro board shorts

Can I get it, can I get it, can I get it!?

Alright. That's all I've got. Stone signing out.

Have a great weekend!

PATTERN and POP!

It is time to start planting! Decorate your patio with these PATTERNED giraffe planters and then add a POP of color to them by planting some beautiful succulents!

Food to Love : Grilled Pizza

Ever since I wrote this post, I have had a few people ask me how exactly to grill pizza. And, even if you did not ask me you are going to want to know this because it is just that good! Stone and I have found ourselves making this meal at least once a week it is so easy, you can play around with toppings, there is enough for friends to come over and share, and usually you will have left overs for lunch. All good things. One of our favorite toppings that we have tried so far was on Christmas Eve in Colorado when we attempted three pizzas and on one of them put butternut squash, spinach, goat cheese and proscuitto. Sounds a little strange, but turned out to be a favorite of the family.

I really hope you try this out, and tell me how it goes! You won't be disappointed.

Grilled Pizza

Get your grill going at about medium heat.

Take your pizza dough, either bought or homemade, (we get ours from Whole Foods and it is the best!) and work it out until it is evenly thin and in somewhat of a rounded shape. Generously pour olive oil on the top side of the dough and then carefully flip the dough onto the grill with the oiled side down. Let sit on grill for about 5 minutes until it begins to bubble. Remove the dough from grill and you should have one nicely grilled side done. Add the toppings to that grilled side then put the pizza back onto the grill, this time grilling the opposite side. When the cheese melts you are done!

Enjoy.

Feeling Crafty : Frame of love letters.

Stone and I dated long distance for 3 years before we got married. Three years! That seems crazy, and this was back when it was totally creepy to be video chatting with someone, even if it was just your boyfriend. So we talked, wrote letters, sent packages, and flew to see each other whenever our school schedule and bank accounts would allow it. Now, we have an entire shoebox full of letters and emails we wrote to each other and it is kind of sweet to look back and see the things we talked about... especially when we were first getting to know each other. Our emails back then were full of the 'get to know you' questions like... 'What is your favorite breakfast food' or 'Have you ever broken any bones' (granola and no... in case you were wondering).

So when we got married and were decorating our first place together, we ended up using the cards to create a collage of sorts above our bed. We chose just some of our favorite ones and I have to say I think it turned out pretty great. Also, with the white matting and frame to help balance the pattern and color inside. Two and a half years later and I still love it, and that says a lot for someone who is constantly wanting to change up things in the house :)

xo.

Inspiration board : Mad Men.

Stone and I are a bit addicted.

At this point (we are still mid-season 2) I am not sure why we are addicted yet. After each episode I am so bothered by all of them men on this show and their ways. Yet, the other night we watched three episodes in a row... so it is now an full blown addiction. The characters, the storyline and the clothes keep me coming back. How fun would it be to be a style designer on this set? It seems almost everything from this period is coming back full circle with the red lips, beehive hair, skinny ties, sleek furniture and vintage glasses. I love it all. If you have not started watching you should get going, trust me.

Below are links to some Mad Men style for you to love and here is a look into the ad agencies of today. Enjoy!

1 : Herman Miller sofa. I pretty much want everything in this beautiful furniture store. Stone and I will take little trips here just to poke around, sit in chairs and pretend that maybe one day we would only be so fortunate!

2 : Last summer we took a trip to San Francisco and wandered into this little hat shop with the most fun handmade hats. Since then I have spotted people all over wearing hats with their famous brand. So classic!

3 : Skinny ties... you have to love a man in a skinny tie, right? These ties are even more spectacular because they are made from recycled cassette tapes, for your music loving man. So green of them.

4 : I think that this lamp is pretty great. Great for decor purposes AND if you want to interrogate someone of course :)

5 : So classic, very Joan Holloway.

6 : Do you like thrifting? There were some pretty great consignment furniture stores in Boulder and Stone and I were lucky enough to find a vintage typewriter at one for $30. It now decorates our bookshelf! Here is one similar, maybe even cooler I have to admit.

7 : Retro glasses for the men.

8 : Retro glasses for the women.

9 : I have found that this is a new trend in a lot of my friends' homes... free standing wet bars. We are not really liquor drinkers, but they look so classy we may just have to get one anyway:)

Oh, and the photo of some of our Mad Men favs was found here! xo.

Tuesday tunes : Sparks.

I'm sharing these two musicians with you (I know you have most likely heard of Adele) because I cannot stop listening to them. Jesse Woods went to the same college as I did, he was a few years older, but not too old for all of my friends to know of him and his incredible voice. Right? It is pretty great. He has a bit of a Ryan Adams sound to him, you can go here to listen to more of his music.

Also, a friend of mine gave me a copy of Adele's new cd and I have been blaring her songs in my car and singing at the top of my lungs. Yes, it is that kind of music.

Hope you enjoy! xo.

Look of the Week: From day to night.

Again with the stripes... I know :) Just let me know if I am over doing them and need to incorporate more patterns in my look!

Stone and I have been so lucky to have made some incredible friends out here in San Diego. With that, our date books have seen more ink than ever before, which we love. So my look this week can take you from a work day into a dinner with friends! Are you allowed to wear jeans at work? Coming from a family of creatives and having married one, wearing jeans to work is completely acceptable. But, I am well aware that all of you accountants and lawyers may not be so fortunate. Hopefully you are allowed to jazz up (yes, I just said that) your workday look a bit in some ways. You could even slip on a pair of black skinny pants from JCrew instead of the jeans! Hope you like it.

Necklace - Calypso

Blazer - Juicy

Top - Madewell

Jeans - Topshop

Bag - Zara

Shoes - Anthropologie

Weekend wrap up : Picture perfect.

Happy Monday lovies.

How was your weekend? Stone and I are on a bit of a high after this weekend because we had what we think is one of the best photo shoots thus far. The location was epic, and there is no other word I can use to describe it. Huge red rock cliffs, the ocean, marshy tide pools and rolling green hills. Crazy, right? Sometimes I have to pinch myself to remember I live here, but then I pull into the gas station to fill up and am quickly reminded that you have to pay a bit extra for this beauty (supposedly gas prices are higher in San Diego right now than anywhere else in the country). We also had pretty incredible subjects on this shoot too! They live apart from each other so this was the first time they had been together in a while, which made the photos all the more sweet. I just cannot wait to show them to you!

By the way, I have been trying out the hair styles that I post on my blog here and there (have yet to do the bun atop my head though... a little nervous for that one) and tried this one on Saturday and I just love it! It is so easy and stays put all day, which is nice. Also, at the end of the day when I took it down I had really pretty messy curls! Win, win. You should try it out and let me know how it goes :)

Well here we are at the beginning of another week... go get em! xo.

Have a beautiful weekend.

Photo found here.

Hooray, I am so happy it is Friday!

I have to say this week has been a pretty exhausting one, but the sun is out and our weekend is almost here so I cannot really complain. We are having a few friends over for tacos tonight and then preparing for an engagement shoot on Saturday! Stone and I did some location scouting for this shoot and I have to say we are pretty excited :) It has been fun for us to have an entire new setting to shoot in here in California. We were so thankful of course, to have the mountains and beautiful land in Colorado for our photo shoots, but now it is a whole new ballgame.

In other news... Aren't those flowers gorgeous. I think it is time to start planting here for the Spring. At least that is what I read. We would not have even dreamed of planting yet when we lived in Colorado, because they should still be expecting a few more big snows. On of my favorite thing about living here is the wide variety of plants that can grow easily in this climate. I love walking down the street and seeing lemon, lime, avocado and orange trees! Supposedly of the trees are hanging over the sidewalk you can pick off of those branches, but I have not done that yet... I get too nervous that an alarm will sound or somebody will run out of their house telling me to get my hands off their tree :) So I suppose we will just plant our own. Some sort of citrus and definitely some herbs. I hope you have a fabulous weekend lovies and don't forget to spend some time playing outside!

Here are some links to love.

Speaking of citrus... yummmmmmmmm!

I am in love with these beach photos. And, they are taken by an 18 year old... so impressive.

Another hair style to try, I am just so bad at doing them myself, but I will give this one a go!

I secretly love that there is an entire site dedicated to the Olsen girls :) Oh, how I miss the days of Full House.

I cannot stop reading Matchbook magazine's new Spring issue... a bit obsessed.

xo.