Weekly Tiny Home: Italian Cottage

This 592 square feet cottage in Italy is absolutely lovely!

As always, the white walls make the space feel airy and bright.

My favorite part of this cottage? 

The outdoor space is almost as big as the indoor space! That's the key to a perfect tiny home! I also adore the built in seating on the patio. Perfect for dining al fresco and Prosecco. 

 Tiny home + Italy = where do I sign up?

xo

Happy Fall Y'all

 Despite loving Summer, I'm ready for Fall!

I'm excited for the leaves to change colors and for perfect nights on the back porch with the chiminea (sadly, we don't have a fireplace...sighs) with apple cider.

I've already got mums on the front stoop and now I've got to get some pumpkins!

Here's a great Autumn bucket list I found (although I must admit that some of these don't apply to me since I don't have kids yet)! My favorites from this list are "go on a nature hike" and "watch "It's a Great Pumpkin,Charlie Brown'" (which is already a tradition in our household...even without kids :))!

We also have a special guest coming to stay with us for a few weeks tonight so I'm excited to show him around the neighborhood tonight and enjoy the first night of Fall!

More to come :)

What are you must excited about for Fall?

xo 

Weekly Not-So-Tiny Home: Creekside Cabin

 Although this cabin was originally 960 square feet, the owners ended up adding on space to make it 1200+ square feet. So it doesn't classify as tiny by any means, but it's still a relatively smaller space and it's absolutely stunning.
This living room is by far the best room and where you'd find me 24/7. The full wall of windows overlooking the creek is incredible and I love that you can see where the house ended before the addition!

I love all of the storage in the galley kitchen and under the stairs.

 

Wood floors in the shower...yes please!

 Imagine this home in the Fall! I don't know about you, but I'm thinking that I need to make friends with these people. :)

 xo

Weekend Recap

Happy Monday, y'all. 

This weekend was a good mix of fun + hard work. 

On Friday night, I spent some quality time with Townes on the couch (my little buddy follows me everywhere) and then I went to Zumba. When I came home we made this recipe from Blue Apron and it was awesome! We also made some sauteed spinach as a side (my favorite).

 It's always such a good mail day when the monthly Birchbox comes! :)

 The aftermath of mowing the entire yard while it was still somewhat wet from the morning dew. At least the weather was really nice (small victories)!

 On Saturday afternoon, we headed to my in-laws' house to celebrate my FIL's birthday! 57!

Per usual, he wanted to go canoeing and it's always so much fun. The lake was empty and it was a perfect breezy, sunny day.

 After canoeing, we grilled out and I had a little too much wine (which is normally the case when my MIL is in charge of the pours)! Ended the evening with some homemade lemon meringue pie and test driving their new car. It was a great day and the weather and company made it so much fun (although we missed Lauren)!

 On Sunday, we woke up early and rented a pressure washer for the deck. Since we don't want to add the screen to the deck until it's stained, we wanted to get the rest of the deck ready for a fresh coat as soon as possible (since we'll need to let it dry out for about a month). 

In the meantime, check out some of the progress of the new addition. So excited to enjoy it...eventually!

 Sunday afternoon I headed to my parents' house to celebrate my beautiful big sister's birthday! We enjoyed the hot tub, drank prosecco, and ate pizza and greek salad. It was super laid back, but really nice to laugh and catch up. 

The girls: me, mom, sis, and Brit (my niece) ♥

 Happy birthday, Kimmy! Hope your day was a blast and that you get all of the love and magic that you deserve this year and always. Love you!

How was your weekend? 

Hopefully it was spent outside and with those you love!

xo

Friday Favorites

Happy happy Friday!

This weekend will be spent with my sister-in-law before she heads back to FL, some volunteering, Anthony Bourdain, and then possibly some pool time or a hiking adventure!

Speaking of adventures, how incredible are these beautiful campsites?

I need these watermelon lemonade slushies. ASAP.

Did you know it's the 40th anniversary for the movie "Jaws?" Check out this insane screening in Austin!

Preach.

Interesting article about what to do with weird farmers' market veggies (I really needed this to use all of the CSA seasonal vegetables)!

Quick and fun quiz to determine which "Parks and Recreation" character would be your BFF.

What are your weekend plans? 

ATL will have hot, sunny weather so I hope everyone local gets to enjoy the heat from the water!

xo

Weekend Recap: Birthday Edition

Hey y'all! It's been so insane since the long weekend ended...so forgive my tardiness. :)

A week ago (exactly) was my birthday and boy, it was a great one.

For lunch on Wednesday, some of my favorite coworkers/ friends took me out to lunch at Alma Cocina for some guacamole, fried avocado tacos, and tres leche cake! YUM!

I also got some beautiful flowers delivered to my office...I definitely felt spoiled.

After work, I headed to Twain's Brewery to meet up with some lovely friends. It made my heart swell to have so many amazing people show up. I sure am lucky! To have people drive so far (and in the rain) and even bring their kids was awesome. Everyone kept saying how great my friends were and I'd have to agree! :)

We did these crazy birthday cake shots that tasted JUST like chocolate cake! I still can't decide if that's even a good thing or not! :)

Our company was gracious enough to give us 2 days of PTO for the July 4th holiday so on Thursday I met up with my adorable mom to do some birthday shopping. We also had a great lunch together! :)

Townes has been such a cuddle bug lately...man I'm loving our new couch and how wide it is!

On Thursday night, I put together a new media console for our living room. I love how it turned out! 

For dinner, we had fried green tomato burgers with a sweet potato salad. My kind of dinner!

The updated living room...it's still a work in progress though!

For the 4th, we went to my in-laws' house to see my sister-in-law who is in town from FL. We spent the day swimming and then had a cookout. I may have had too much wine, but it was so lovely. :) My FIL just got this huge new smoker grill, but it was broken so in the meantime, he had to go old school with the small charcoal grill. 

My new tank top...love it!

On Sunday, I woke up early and colored in my anti-stress coloring book (I love it)! and spent some time with Townes. He's my favorite buddy! The long weekend was great, because there was a lot of down time mixed with doing errands around the house. Sadly as adults, unless you go out of town, I suppose every weekend has a mix of fun + work!

He follows me everywhere ♥

For an early dinner, my folks and brother came over and we went to Leon's. The food was so good! Even though I don't eat meat, the charcuterie plate was super impressive!

It was so nice to have them out to Decatur and spend some time with them. We even got ice cream afterwards!

J + I ended the weekend watching the World Cup finale and it was amazing! Go USA! I promise that we were more excited then it appears below. :)

How was your weekend?

I hope it was awesome!

xo