Touches of Pink

1) Looking Back , 2)Fireflies - Mae and Bebe series , 3) Couch , 4)Pink Mermaid
5) Marie Antoinette , 6) Sassy Sea Urchin, 7) Horse of a Different Color
8) Elsa , 9) Quiet Evenings

Love, Emma

J is for...

...Jump
There is happiness in a jump!


Hannah Davis

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randi bee

ryan schude

Ahhhhh! Beautiful Wedding!

These two weddings (here & here)make me sigh and become glassy eyed with love! I just adore all the colors & the unique and feminine touches! And both are DIY which makes them even more special!

I saw this adorable cottage on Olivet (wonderful!) and I had to find more. I don't know if the day to day life of living in an old cottage would actually be sweet and cozy but it sure seems dreamy and romantic to think about! Cold weather and the seasons that come with it always make me dream of living in a quaint cottage! I found some very unique little houses around the internet. Aren't they lovely.

(click on the photo for the source)

My plan is to go to bed and have cozy cottage dreams!
I hope your dreams are cozy tonight.
Emma

Wow! Where have I been!

I have been eating up this sweet little book of, well, cupcakes!

Hello, Hello Everyone! I missed being here so much! I have been very busy working, taking a course for work, having a baby horse, rescuing a sweet pup, baking cookies and cupcakes, welcoming friends babies into the world and making their baby announcements, hiking with my sweets, and searching for the perfect college for him too and so much more! And to be honest I had a few moments there that I really wanted to stop in and say hey but I didn't feel I could keep up with posting and reading comments and just hanging out in the blogging world in general so I decided to wait until I could devote more time. A time out really does show you that this world of bloggers is actually another world. If you are not keeping up it fly's by you and so much can change in such a small amount of time. I think for now I will just post a few photos of what I have been up to and be back soon to share some things that have been inspiring me since I have been back! For now have a wonderful Saturday and talk to you soon!

First my sweet baby Jack! He is beautiful! I arrived at the barn moments after he was born. I was hoping to witness the birth but he was born rather early in the evening and I wasn't there yet. But I did get to help him walk which was wonderful!
His first few days were hard. One of his front legs did not straighten out and curled so that he began walking on the front of his hoof. We had the vet come out and put a splint on him. It broke my heart but it was off in 2 days.
And was soon running and playing in the pasture! Here he is meeting some of the other horses.
And meeting the rest of my babies!
Micheal, myself and the girls (including our new little lady Marley) went to a beautiful garden.
My first baby announcement. I think it turned out rather well. It was done on the spot but she was so cute anything would have looked nice!
Love, Emma

Kisses and Carnivals! I do!

I saw this beautifully done DIY wedding on Snippet and Ink and had to share! I love it! It's carnival themed but the bride kept it pretty and feminine at the same time. Everyone looks like they are having so much fun! My favorite part is that her dad surprised her with a box of monarch butterflys to release during the ceremony! And I adore her dress and cake! Enjoy!

photography by Jessica Peterson

Love, Emma

It's the Little Things

I saw these lovely still life photographs on Please Sir and was just taken aback by how happy they made me! I love a photograph that brings little lovely objects and color together to form a beautiful scene! Find these and other wonderful photos at burcu avsar photography! The interiors are lovely as well. I think I will post some interiors I have seen around the web this weekend! I just love looking at beautiful and inspiring interiors! I also have to do the J is for... for the alphabet series but I feel stuck on J! I can not settle on a good theme! Anywho, there are worst things in life! Have a absolutely wonderful Friday!

Love, Emma

A little whinny is on it's way!

Okay so my fun news is that I am having a baby... a baby horse that is! My mom is leasing a mare who we haave wanted to breed to this gorgeous stallion (the hottie below!). The mare is a thoroughbred and the stallion is an Arabian. She is due August 17th and I am so very excited! My mom brought her up a week ago. I can not wait to see if it is a colt or a filly and if she/he will have the pretgy dished Arabian face of it's father!This one makes my heart pound a little!

Hopefully we will have a little baby like this one. This little cutie is one of his offspring.
A very exciting time! This is going to be a long month!
♥ Emma

Dream Come True on a Budget!

Hello Everyone! I wasn't sure what would bring me back and make me want to post but I saw this adorable cottage (via Darling Dexter) and had to share. Due to outrageously priced real estate in New York City this couple bought their first home in Sparrow Bush, NY. They spent time renovating and bargain shopping on craigslist and the result is just a dream! Check out that sunroom. It was a garage and was then renovated with salavaged windows and doors! Read more details here!
P.s. i have some pretty fun news to share when I get a minute! I'm excited!
Love, Emma

Hello

Hello Hello Everyone! I have never forgotten about my blog escape. I have just had a very busy month and some roller coasters but I am hoping things have settled some and I can get back here to this magical place we all love - The Internet! Be back very soon! Hopefully tonight!

Love, Love, Love,
Emma

My heart is pitter pattering for...

...this wedding! So handmade and sweet. The bride made "peace flags which sort of became a theme. Her bouquet feels so fresh and a friend made the adorable ring pillow sporting a little birdie and the flags!

...these bright and cheery fabrics from Umbrella Fabrics. found via Mint!...Blue Moss! Her jewelry always makes me want to slip into a spring or summer dress and go dancing! OR Wouldn't it all look lovely just hanging in your bedroom!

...a yellow bed! And, well, this entire bedroom of Jenny's over at Little Green Notebook!

...a sweet and tart summer time dessert! Find the recipe for this Lemon tart at Heart of Light! (I love raspberries so much!)

I really really hope something makes your heart pitter patter today! Let me know! ♥emma

I is for...

innocence

To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower: Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. ~William Blake

MySpace Music Playlist at MixPod.com

here's to holding onto innocence. to dream impossible things and imagine unseen beauty. to have all the time of the world at your fingertips. to love without reason and to see perfection in simplicity.

click on the images for the source!

I hope you see innocence today!
♥emma

These make me happy!

These make me happy for no particular reason. They just do.

1)found via Make it Easy by Nicholas Haggard
2)tsumori via Windy Days via Make it Easy
3)is by the ever so talented Whitney (Darling Dexter )
4 & 5)found via Wild Keiki photos from Abless' Flickr stream
5)via Darling Dexter from Dace
Have a very happy night! Be back here in the morning! love, emma

Sunday Reads

I have not shared a book review in a very long while. So I thought I would tell you about two of my recent favorites. The first is Little Bee by Chris Cleave. I really, really enjoyed this book! I have never heard a peep about it and while browsing in the book store I could not help but be drawn to this amazing cover! And then you open the cover to read the jacket and you are met with this...

"We don't want to tell you too much about this book. It is truly special story and we don't want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this: This is the story of two women. Their lives collide one fateful day, and one of them has to make a terrible choice. Two years later, they meet again. The story starts there. Once you have read it you'll want to tell everyone about it. When you do, please don't tell them what happens. The magic is in how it unfolds."

Now tell me you would have been able to put that down! And so I will not say much since the jacket pleads with me not to. I will say the two women are from very different worlds. Everything from their country, culture, age, everything is different from one another and the author does an amazing job of alternating back and forth between the two ladies narrating the tale. You are perfectly aware of who is telling a specific piece of the story. Cleave is wonderfully descriptive and unfolds the story in a beautiful and painful way. There are nice touches of humor and plenty of moments that will catch your breath.
The one thing I didn't like is hard to explain and not a deal breaker by any means. Every once in a while in Cleaves efforts to be descriptive or touching or whatever, he becomes obvious or silly in what he is trying to achieve. I don't know if that makes any sense and like I said it does not happen enough to even think about putting the book down!
I give it ♥♥♥♥ out of 5

The second one which I just finished a few days ago is absolutely stunning! You sit down, read the first few lines and the pages start to fly by. Yours eyes gliding over Cormac McCarthy's masterful prose and captivating story-telling! It is beautiful and terrifying! The back of the book reads, "A father and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. They have nothing but a pistol to defend themselves against the men who stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food - and each other."
There is no sun because ash hovers over everything, they walk around with masks and run into terrifying situations that will have you quivering with the thought of actually being there. There are strong biblical themes throughout the book which added a deeper meaning and more interest.
The conversations between the nameless man and son are short, perfect, and poetic. The formation of words used to describe the bleak landscape, horrific encounters, or the moments of luck and hope shared between father and son are gripping and emotionally wrenching. Making you wonder if you could ever exist in this post-apocalyptic world! One review that I read so accurately described, "the word choice and imagery is classic McCarthy yet is leaner and more honed, tighter and in turn more intense. The whole book follows this pattern. No word, not a single one, is extraneous." This last sentence is so true and perfect, because each word is used on purpose!
Some lines I fell in love with...
"The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get up. No sound but the wind in the bare blackened trees. He rose and stood tottering in that cold autistic dark with his arms outheld for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings. An old chronicle."
"By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp."
" He pulled the boy closer.
Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, don't you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget."

"If he is not the word of God God never spoke." father, about his son
There were so many more but these were shorter so...
And I give this one ♥♥♥♥♥

I also wanted to apologize if my posts have been bombarding your blogroll! I am trying to organize my tags so that I can have them in the sidebar for easy access to posts. I don't know of any other way to do this except to go in and change the tags and republish the post. I would love a tag cloud but I can't seem to find a place where I can create one for blogger. Any suggestions? I hope you all have a fantastic Sunday and maybe get a little reading done!

H is for...

Heart♥

How can this one organ make so many choices for us? It does not think, it does not calculate, or reason. And yet many of our decisions are based on what our heart is feeling. A squeeze or a flutter. The feeling of your blood pumping quickly from it's center. It can make you walk away or it can convince you to stay. Your heart can pull tears down your face or lifts your lips in a smile. In this one muscle it provides you with passion and pain.
It can make you
sick,
sore, or
broken.
It can make you
soft,
light, or
warm
Wild hearted or faint of heart

The heart has reasons which the reason cannot understand. ~Blaise Plascal

where the heart is
from the bottom of my heart
shot through the heart
hearts on fire
my heart hurts
deep down in your heart
oh, my heart be still
i (heart) you
my heart will go on
the heart wants what the heart wants
(click on the photo for it's source)

Sorry I have been so absent! Work has been very, very busy! But in a good way!
I miss being here though and seeing all the amazing things that people have to post on their own blogs! I am happy that it is now the weekend and I can browse!
A few people asked if I wrote the last post and I did. So thanks so much for the kind comments! I get nervous posting those types of things because they come from a real place and it is hard to put even little things like that out there.

I have been meaning to share two wonderful things I received in the mail recently.
First, I received this beautiful necklace in the mail a few weeks ago and I LOVE it! Cindy Hoo is so talented and makes amazing jewelry with a rustic touch! Her package was so adorable and perfect I almost didn't want to open it! But come, knowing this was inside? I opened! Her is site Here and Etsy Here!

And I was so thrilled to learn that I had won this t-shirt (the cute yellow sun! it says kiss below the sun!)from April at Secondsister Suaviloquy. It is a Ando and Friends shirt and it is so adorable! She is so sweet and has a really fun and touching blog. She also has an Etsy shop where she sells fun and lovely jewelry. I like this one a lot...
Well that is all for now my lovely bloggers. I hope to run into you around the internet this weekend!
♥Emma

A Memory

Our small hands pressed the brown-grey shells together until our knuckles turned white and the hard covering split open between our palms. We pulled out the divided pecan meat while we laughed at the events of the afternoon. Although the soft nuts did not fill our stomachs as a hearty meal would we were satisfied. We could have cracked through an entire bumpy carpet of thick oval shells that lay under their trees and return tomorrow to be greeted by newly laid ground coverings. It seemed as if the mossy trees could have held no more nutty shells yet everyday the ones we had emptied the day before were replaced there on the dirt and grass.
While we laughed and cracked and ate it rained. Only an afternoon shower, light. But long and steady enough to filter it's drops down through the mothering trees, sliding down leaves and gliding around the lush curls of grey moss. We did not move. We stayed and cracked and ate and listened to the wet slip from leaf to leaf to head. The rain trickled through our hair and we tasted the cool drink when we were able to catch some on our flat toungues.
Soon, the clouds drifted past, finding new trees to cover and new upturned mouths to fill. Maybe this time it would see a wood full of pine trees. It's droplets would not struggle through curls and leaves but effortlessly slide down thin needles to a soft bed of fallen brown.
Our hair stuck wet to our necks. Our clothes clung to our backs, our chest, our sides. We felt a chill in the once gracious shade of the trees and decided to move to the space between their overhang where the sun had room to warm the wet ground and our bodies. There in the weedy green, with satisfied bellies and wet tongues, with the sounds of nut shell falling on nut shell, our clothes dried in the sun.

Photos found on Guayayaba. She is pretty Great!

I hope you weekend is full of memory making moments!
♥Emma

Flower News

I'm super busy right moving all my pictures and music over to a new computer along with setting up all my bookmarks (the blogs are endless). So for tonight I will leave you with happy news!

Ban. do is having a 25% off sale on their lovely flower headbands for the month of May! I want one of each pretty please!
I hope your night is full of pretty!
♥emma

Oh, if only my afternoon looked like this...

find it here. found via El beso

My mom is states away and I miss her. She is precious to me! Has always been, will always be! Happy Mother's Day!
♥Emma

Showing Off!

Biggest apologies for falling off the face of the Earth for a few days! Everyone's comments have been just so unbelievably kind and flattering! You guys really make me so giddy! I especially enjoyed the stories of animal friends that were shared. I was so shocked by some of them! Everything from baby bears to elephants and rabbits, I loved them all! Thank you!
Okay, so where was I? I flew down to Macon, GA (about an hour and a half, maybe) south of Atlanta, GA to watch my 'mazing mother show in the Region 12 Arabian Horse Show. This was a big deal for her and only her second show cantering! She did a beautiful job and we had such a fun time! I love being around a horse show. Plus! There was a dog show (obedience and whatever the other is called. "best of breed" stuff) on the same grounds and my mom used to show golden retrievers so she showed me around and explained what was going on. Anyways, I am back and will have much to post this weekend and next week. Have a lovely Friday night!

mom and Godiva

♥ Emma

A few Lovelies from last week...

1)I want this scarf! Thanks to Blue Moss!
2) SeaUnicorn has such romantic and whimsical jewelry!
3)Just so pure and beautiful! Via Green Wedding Shoes
4) sophisticated/pretty dress with a bit of fun! by Maisy Brown
5)This wedding is so perfectly pretty! Not to mention the bride is gorgeous! via The Wedding Cabaret Photograghy by Dana + Jeremy Photography
6)This is just too sweet to eat! via The Wedding Cabaret
7)The umbrellas are a perfect touch! I love the shapes of these! via
8) And of course 100 Layer Cake put together a color board that just swept me away!

Marley Monday!

I watched Marley and Me last night. I wanted to read the book first but I couldn't help myself. I weeped like a little baby! Dogs are amazing creatures! and I still want a kitty! Hey, they could be best friends! Do you have a story of very different animals being the best of friends? Have a fantastic Monday! photo found here

♥ emma

G is also for...

Grey (or Gray)

where lines are drawn
the in between state of light and dark
moving clouds
soft fur and a perfect sweater
areas of the unknown or the undecided
where we are all the same
the spectrum of shades from white to black
signs of wisdom
a place to rest and not be afraid
the moments before twilight
the fog before dawn

click on the photo for the source!

♥ emma

G is for...

Girl...

MySpace Music Playlist at MixPod.com

isn't it the most perfect thing to be a girl!

this was inspired by April from Secondsister Suaviloquy! Miracles do happen! Go to her blog and read her story.
Another g is for... coming up. I couldn't resist I had two "g" words! And no it's not going to be for "Guy"!
Have a delightful day! ♥ Emma

Good Night Monday!

Here is the other video. I found it via My Fair Lady! I think this is so amazing by Evelin Lohbeck! It made me smile! Check out some more of her work here.


Noteboek from Evelien Lohbeck on Vimeo.

All this illusion is so mesmerizing to me.

♥Emma

Good Morning Monday!

I found a amazing videos this weekend that made me smile and shake my head in awe.
The first is by Keith Loutits and part of a project entitled "Little Sydney." Go check out his other videos and website for more information.
found via Here!

Beached from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

I 'll have to share the other with you tonight. Have a perfectly fascinating day!♥emma