A New Blog Website and An Anthropologie and Jot Giveaway!

I wrote my very first blog post on December 12, 2012 and I remember feeling a sense of liberation that I’d have a place in the blogisphere to say what I wanted and… Read More →

Jot, Naked, Smoothies With Paper by 53: My Favorite Things

This week was fun for me. Really fun, like “jump up and down and get superly, dooperly excited, with lots of exclamation points” type fun!  Of course, what constitutes fun varies from person… Read More →

Failure Is Not Fatal

I have a confession. Lately, I’ve been a failure. I’ve been failing in a few professional and personal areas in my life and it was starting to get me down until I talked… Read More →

DIY Fabric Photo Frame: From Drab to Fab In About An Hour

Every day in my upstairs living room, I pass a small box that holds fabric scraps from a chair I recently had reupholstered.  Initially I held on to them because I planned to… Read More →

Keep Austin Dancing!

Few things in my life can make me forget about all that’s wrong with the world, my stresses and all the ways life could be so much better.  One of those things is… Read More →

Tokina Is One Year Old Today!

Today was a great day.  Well actually today was not that great.  I have had much better days, but this post is not about all the ways today could have been better. This… Read More →

Goodbye 2012, Hello 2013

Today is January 1, 2013 and I’m still alive.  If you’re reading this, so are you. And so are billions of other people.  That’s right, eleven days after the world was supposed to… Read More →

A Single Girl, John Mayer and a Box of Crayons

Tomorrow is my birthday and every year as another birthday approaches, I reflect on the year before.  Mostly, I am thankful and happy about what great accomplishments I made or goals I reached,… Read More →

Shed Some (Natural) Light on Christmas Day

Today in several parts of the country and the world, it’s Christmas.  It’s a wonderful time to celebrate with family, friends, food and gifts.  Today is not a day to be reading long… Read More →

Three Gifts You Should Give Yourself Every Single Day

With the gift-giving season in full swing, I thought I’d do a post about giving.  Not giving in the usually way, to loved ones, friends, charities or people in need, but giving to… Read More →