Great scarf DIY

So the dogs woke me up early and to try and keep them from waking Beau up I decided to get up with them and go in the other room. We're trying to get Rocky used to sleeping later than 5am but the closest we've gotten so far is about 6:30am. Thank goodness we prefer mornings to nights.


I signed on my email this morning and found a really nice comment from a new blog friend Lola's Girl. Check out her blog if you haven't done so already. She has a blog post this week all about fun, spring scarves and one of them reminded me of a fun project I found over at another great blog called Pretty Ditty.

Scarf from Rouche


Scarf from Pretty Ditty

I actually found this project last fall but it is definitely more a spring scarf so I hadn't posted it yet. I made one of these for my sister in law Lauren and she really liked it. It's super easy and relatively quick too. The toughest part for me was finding fabric because I was looking last fall but you should have no problems now that spring is on it's way.


I apologize but I didn't take pictures because it was a rush birthday gift but I definitely plan on making another one soon so I'll be sure to take pictures of that one.

Quick Craft: Rope jewlery

Check out this total awesome DIY from ...Love Maegan. It is so quick, cheap and easy that you could easily recreate this cute look in just an hour or so. It just uses curtain ties and some ribbon. How cool is that?

I'm always looking for new, fun blogs to be inspired by and I'm totally digging ...Love Maegan so be sure to check out her blog whether you like the craft or not. And because I love how you can totally start out on one person's blog and end up at a blog you've never visited before, here is the 6 Degrees of Separation (more like three I guess) for how I got to ...Love Maegan.

Divine Chaos>One Pearl Button>...Love Maegan

Happy Weekend! We're planning on spending as much time outside as possible so hopefully I'll have lots of fun pictures to post soon!

Some things I'm really loving

I just watched the end of Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day and I loved it just as much today as I did the first time. If you haven't checked this one out do yourself a favor and rent it! It's such a wonderful story of love and loss and self discovery. Plus spoiler alert it has a happy ending and who can argue with that.

Source: Wikipedia and EW.com


The second thing I'm LOVING right now is The Last Time I Was Me by Cathy Lamb. We just read this for book club and it is amazing! It's a story of a woman who's life has reached a breaking point in her life. She's realized that the life that she's been living has been a lie and this is the story of her hysterical journey back to the truth which includes pancakes, finger-painting, germs, a naked run along the river and yet again another happy ending.


Source

One thing I've learned is that it may not be hip and it may not be artsy but a happy ending beats a sad ending any day. Call it romantic comedy or chick lit but I call the belief that everything is going to turn out okay therapeutic and wonderful. So for those of you out there that love a happy ending please consider checking these two out.

I love to make this guy laugh...

I fall more in love with Beau every day for a million different reasons. One of my favorite things about Beau is his laugh especially if I'm the one making him laugh. Every once in awhile when we're joking around I happen upon an accent or impression that he cannot help but laugh at and I absolutely adore it.

Sorry for the sappiness but I just had to share :-)

Spring is nearly here!

I love love love Spring and cannot wait for March 20 to get here. Not only because that is the first official day of Spring but also because that's the day that Beauseph proposed. We're considering making proposal day like our own personal Valentine's day...how fun is that?


We are supposed to have some great weather this weekend and thank goodness; we deserve it! Alice in Wonderland comes out this weekend and we're super psyched about that. I don't think we'll go tonight because it will be too crazy but we'll definitley be checking it out sometime soon. This weekend Beau and I are also going to look at houses. Our lease is up in a couple months and it's time to figure out where we want to land.


In honor of Spring starting to peek out from behind Winter, here are some pictures of one of the first good weekends of last Spring.

One of the first signs of the beauty to come.

The Lord works in mysterious ways

Beau found out today that a friend has passed. As many of you know Beau was injured in a car accident at 17 and fought back through cardiac arrests, a coma and a severe brain injury. Earlier this year Beau's aunt asked that he get in touch with a friend of hers whose daughter was going through a similar injury as the result of a car accident.


Beau reached out to the family and visited several times. He didn't know Candice prior to her injury but felt instantly connected because of having been through the same thing. Last week Candice had become more responsive and was even able to mouth some words. She asked her parents to bring someone in to help her do a bible study of Ecclesiastes 3. Later that day she slipped into a coma and passed away on Saturday. May God bless her family in this time of need.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

Candice loved butterflies so here are some butterfly images from weheartit.com. We know she is with her Father in heaven but she will be missed here on earth. Enjoy your wings Candice!

Congrats to Mandy!!!

Congrats to Mandy of Just Mandyness and Hello Ladies is the earring giveaway winner. Mandy please email me at MissShadowDozier@gmail.com and let me know what color earrings you would like and where to send them!

Here's what Mandy is looking forward to this spring:
"Hmmm, what I am looking forward to most about Spring .... Hopefully getting some baby bunnies! One year we 'bunny sat' some bunnies for a month or so and I miss keeping little hippity-hops! :)"

Have a great Monday everyone!!!