a good word. . .

 just a few of my favorite quotes right now.

been: embroidering, listening, taking oatmeal baths, singing old songs, enjoying Christmas lights, kissing my husband, and lots of thinking. 

<3

for my husband.

I love you much (most beautiful darling)

More than anyone on the earth and I

 Like you better than everything in the sky
— E. E. Cummings

Love doesn’t just sit there like a stone

  it has to be made, like bread

 remade all the time, made new.
— Ursula K. Le Guin

 I will dream of you even when I

can feel you lying next to me.
— Tyler Knott Gregson

home coming.

1.folding never ending laundry
2.framed a holga photo of us lying in the grass from the early dating days

3.listening to Regina Spektor and Radical Face

4.watched an episode of the office with my lunch of lemon water, mac & cheese and dark-chocolate brownies

5.baby pink and baby blue sky 

6.going to have my special chicken/dumpling soup simmering and smelling up the apartment all lovely when my hubby comes in the door after two weeks of traveling
7.but first. a shower

Winterfylleth

wandering the campus// setting leafs assail// noodles & company// lots of hugs// red red red leaves// leading a small group// a text from hubby finally back in the USA// Anglo-Saxon months

farewelling

I fell in love 

with the world in you.

— Noah and the Whale

hubby is over in the kitchen right now using his magic blending skills to make us his smoothies. we're going to curl up on the couch + movie + my "polar bear" blanket + cuddle. Tomorrow we'll hug and kiss "farewell" until he comes back from business tripping (over a week). trying not to stress, trying to drink up these last minutes. but it's hard when the above quote is him to me...and our worlds are so freshly intertwined it's gonna be a stretch (absence makes the heart grow fonder?). 

above are carefree outtakes from rose & crown // the song of my life

vintage printable labels

 I've been looking for ways to organize my kitchen (or just living space in general)..and I came across these beauties.....

 the possibilities seem endless!

download the complete color set

"McGyver cooking"

             ....that's how I have begun to operate in the kitchen. McGyvering like every fourth ingredient or utensil that I use. I never truly appreciated my parents' fully stocked pantry and gadget repertoire til now. It's led me to:

- Use duct tape in a blender (attempting to plug off the spigot hole) to turn it into food processor
so that I could blend granulated sugar + a pinch of flour to turn it into powdered sugar.

- Or use boiling water, a strainer and a glass lid to defrost hamburger (didn't end well)

- goggle "substitute for . . ." countless times a day. (it's actually turned into a sort of game: "can I make this recipe with 10 ingredients when I only have 6!")

- And also against me is that fact that I am used to a 6 person family (buy something yummy it'll be gone in a week, or possibly that day). But here, stuff goes bad for lack of mouths. Case in point: a loaf of delicious tomato basil bread sitting in our fridge. But with a little McGyver cooking this half-way stale bread turns into . . .

Homemade croutons for soup or salad (or even just snacks!) and it's easy-peesy.

recipe +here+

And this morning...

nope, no pillsbury just-bust-it-out-of-the-freezer. NO YEAST either! But I still whipped up some 10 min cinnamon rolls for brekky.

recipe +here+


Seriously, I should write a book.
The McGyvering Cook Book: for Newlyweds.
;) 

This is my Autumn...

1. wearing my hair in a bun a lot.

2. dried flowers

3. enjoying layering!

4. drinking more tea than in the summer.

5. adoring this nail color.

6. wishing our apartment complex allowed kittens.

7. being right on the cusp of the leaves truly changing.

8. it's cuddling weather!

9. a discussion among friends about painting has left me restless to get my hands on a brush!

red & kitchen

"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful 
or believe to be beautiful." ~ William Morris

"Setting up house" has gone a bit slower than I imagined, but is very satisfying. & in the midst of life, living, family, work, and C, I noticed a pattern.....    ....red "splashes" in my kitchen.

Another testament to the joy of following the quote from above!

married life so far...

making biscuits...with nothing to cut them.

I found a solution.

keeping up with note sending.

+ loving rubber stamps from Cavallini & Co.

filling our fridge with collected magnets

spelling notes

my hubby making an evening snack for me...

no toaster? no problem!