Last year I was forced to put my beloved Christmas Tree in the dumpster after we took it down on New Year’s Day. It just couldn’t stand up straight anymore to save its life, and it was hard to fluff it out without having all of the branches fall off in your hand. It lasted…
My favorite part of Thanksgiving is making the table beautiful. It’s not often that I get an excuse to make a really gorgeous tablescape, so I get a little giddy on the holidays where I get to do that. I love getting out my good silver and polishing it, I love coming up with centerpiece…
If you follow me on Pinterest you might know that I have an obsession with pumpkin. I freaking love it. My Pinterest board called “Pumpkin is My Favorite Food” has (gulp) 767 pins on it. Yes. Seven HUNDRED and sixty-seven. As if I would ever make them all. And, obviously, about 750 of them are…
I’m a Mormon. I know it. I live it. I love it. It’s a huge part of me, my faith, and I am incredibly grateful for it. This is a printable I made for my mom last year when she was Young Women’s President. The background has all the colors of the YW values, as…
It feels sort of like I’ll never finish these Epic Vacation posts, but I am bound and determined to do it. Even if it kills me. Thanks for reading them even though I know they are probably excruciatingly boring to the people who read this blog. Except my mom. She likes them. So this is…
In the dressing room before my performance on Saturday Night of Mahler’s “Um Mitternacht.” The final moments before I perform are usually spent touching up my lipstick, pondering the soul and emotion of the piece, and praying. I have a friend named Sarah who is an incredible artist. In fact, if you are in Utah,…
The morning of Day 9 dawned bright and early, and we were all excited to get to the cruise terminal and board the ship! Hooray for cruises! With the help of my Dad, my brother Dave, and both of Dave’s cars, we all made it to the cruise terminal and got ourselves checked in. If…
Oh, you betcha I am soooo using NaNoBloMo as a way to knock out some Epic Vacation posts. My ultimate goal is to get them into a book to give my family for Christmas this year. We awoke on Day 8 at Mimi and Papa’s (Joel’s parents) house in Sandy. We did a final pack-up…
It’s time to take the Halloween decorations down and start putting up Thanksgiving decor. I liked the idea of decorating with printables in frames so much for Halloween, that I decided to make some for Thanksgiving, too. I fell in love with this quote when I first saw it on a big sign on Pinterest,…