Thank you SO much everybody for entering our Valentine’s Day Giveaway!  We loved reading your beautiful love stories and seeing your creative ideas, seriously this was ridiculously and unfairly hard when there were SO many of you with such awesome ideas.  In the end we couldn’t pick just one so the TWO winners of this […]

We’ll be announcing the winner of the Valentine’s day giveaway at 3PM – stay tuned!

Portfolio Site This creative confection from My Sweet and Saucy Who say’s wedding cakes have to be huge towering tiers – these little beauties are some of the most beautiful creations I’ve seen – created by http://maggieaustincake.com/. For beautiful cakes in the Peoria area: That’s a Cake? Wedding Cake Connection Trefzgers

on this lovely Thursday afternoon! We’re trying to get the house switched over from winter decor mode to spring, and after an unfortunate mercury glass incident by the fireplace, we’re well on our way to a chipper, cheerier, spring-like home! my beautiful fake mercury glass, now shattered – and my beautiful real grey cat, Toby. […]

whimsical, flowing, delicate – enough said.

I made this bouquet yesterday to bring some semblance of April/May beauty into the office. I must say despite the HOW-is-it-still-this-cold…it’s-February! mantra that keeps surfacing in my head, the sunshine does help it feel a bit more spring-like. As does the Riverdance tune currently playing on Pandora…

As the winter season has finally slowed down, I thought it might be fun (and maybe just fun for me) to do a weekly post of something other than my own pictures – be it wedding inspiration, home decor, gardening ideas or clothes – I’ll try to keep up with a “snippet” of my life […]

Well, technically it’s a junco in a birch tree – but that’s still pretty Christmas-y if you ask me! And I may have just outed myself as a “kind of” bird watcher. It’s hard not to when my 2nd story office has three giant windows surrounded by trees filled with pretty birds. And today they […]