First Photo Outing!

My first real photo outing with my big girl camera happened when my lovely friend Sophia rang-a-lang. We spent the night walking around Lake Calhoun, and I surely annoyed the heck out of her by stopping every 2 minutes to snap a photo (I would have stopped A LOT more...shhh). Oh, and that first one is in our backyard. Byeeee

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Days That Begin with "S"

While I'm dreaming of a "real" camera, I'm snapping lots of iPhone photos of outings and life stuffs. Here are some of those! Hope your weekend was more than mediocre (sincerely).

Gold Medal Park

Mill City Farmer's Market

Moosie's

First fire in the firepit.

Rustica

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Pondering Design

Thinking a lot lately about design: what it means to me, what my "style" is, what I want to pursue in the future. So many things rolling around in my head that I'll sometime find the time to document. Do you have as much jumbling around up there as I do?

photo courtesy of the design inspiration

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Goals Again - Part 1

It's time for goal-setting once again. I know that I did a pretty terrible job fulfilling the previous set, but since these things are ever-evolving (which is perfectly fine), the list must be updated/modified/expanded. Do you make goal lists for yourself? I find them sometimes helpful. More than anything, I enjoy documenting...pretty much whatever! So even if I don't go back and look at it more than a few times, it helps me just to know they're out there. I suppose one of my goals this time around is actually to keep up on my goals list! Silly, silly. What are some of yours? I'm very curious about this stuff. ;)

1) Read, read, and read some more. I used to be a hardcore reader. Then I finished college and lost my focus. This all changes now. I will read at least one chapter each day (from one of the various books on my nightstand) - no exceptions. I know, I know, this is a pretty strict expectation, but you know, if I spend at least a half hour a day searching the Internet (which I do), I can spend it on reading a darn book.

2) Learn web designy things. I would love to create my own personal website at some point. While I know I'm not really that interested in learning tons of coding, I am terribly interested in the design aspect. I so admire the skill in others to do this, and I aspire to do it too.

3) Write more. Poetry, bloggage, short stories. I need to start setting aside writing time on my calendar along with all the other must-dos. I think that taking time for yourself - whether creative or meditative, etc. - is just as imperative to hold yourself to than going to work each day. I'd love to keep submitting to dandy publications like Paper Darts, but also just freakin' do it.

4) Really learn to sew! I bought one of Elsie's wonderful online courses and have yet to dive into it. It always seems so daunting when I literally know nothing except which pretty fabrics I'm into. But I know it will be a worthwhile endeavor, especially when it comes time to open my own shop someday.

5) Turn my bike into my best friend (and eventually get one that will take me all the way to work). I am SO into my bike. Really. I never thought I would be. I'm not into it in the way that I want to fix it up and talk about it every two seconds and such,  I just want to ride it everywhere all the time! Next year I shall invest in a better one, maybe this one? Oooheeeee! <-- major excitement

6) Begin crafting a business plan. This was on my previous list, and it still hasn't begun to happen. However, next month I've vowed to get it going. I really want to get to that place where I'm doing everything I want to be doing. I know it's going to be insane amounts of work, but I am looking forward to it, because I will have chosen it. Enough with the job-just-to-live stuff. I want passion!

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Weekend Stuffs

Saturday Recap (because more fun stuff happened that day than Sunday): Chopped off my long locks (didn't boo-hoo even once). Brunch with my momma on Saturday at Zumbro Cafe in Linden Hills. Such a cute place. I want to live there. In Linden Hills, not the restaurant. Though I'm sure it wouldn't be a half-bad place to hunker down. OH! Then we went to my new favorite store, Hunt and Gather, where I purchased some pretty clothes and took oodles of pictures. It was pretty nifty. Hope you had a good one, too, and that your week flies by until the next (unless you're lucky enough to get weekdays off, in which case I glare at you).

Some weekend stuffs!

The weekend went much too quickly, as usual. But some pretty cool stuff happened. Brunch and home stuffs, super great dinner at Butcher and the Boar Saturday eve, followed by the most beautiful singing I ever did hear - one Sharon Van Etten. Sunday equaled a trip about town, visiting Minneapolis neighborhoods for the fun of it. Also, the new bookstore underneath Nina's in St Paul, then a pretty phenomenal play at Theatre in the Round. OH, and a really happy burger at Republic. Now I am getting sick. Hooray! (not really)

Geez, allegedly I did a whole crapton of stuff this weekend. Hope yours was fun-filled or relaxation-filled. Or something.

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What a lovely Sunday + Cupcakes

Today has been nothing but happy so far. Brunch at W.A. Frost this morning, followed by a lengthy stop at a half-price bookshop in St. Paul, then came home to make cupcakes and took many pictures to document the baking experience. Lovely stuff, huh? Hope your day is/was just peachy, too.

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