Spring Fever

 So I totally know we would be better friends if I actually posted more regularly.  But I had a fun week off learning new things and I actually sewed!  I lost my sewing scissors a couple of weeks ago which is a big deal if you are left handed.  Not just any scissors will work.  I finally gave in and used my rotary cutter to cut out a pattern. But only because it is the cutest dress ever.   LOVE IT. When I made it last week we had spring like weather.  Now, not so much.  Well, ok so we don't have the warm sunny spring like weather.  We have the blustery,rainy spring like weather.  Either way we definitely have spring fever around here.  How are you coping with your spring fever?

:: Spring Fever Pattern {Me Sew Crazy}

:: Nicey Jane Hello Roses Olive {Heather Bailey}

Can we be {better} friends?

 I need tell you how much your kind comments last week meant to me.  I think I cried every time Google sent me a new comment email.  I cried for all of your hurt and just because I was so thankful to have good friends.  Isn't it nice to know that people do understand how you feel?

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So can I ask you all a teensy favor?  At the beginning of the month I decided that I should be a better friend and reply to any comments I got.  But about half the time I hit reply and it says no-reply.  I get sad because I really would love to tell you thanks for stopping by.  So could you, pretty please for me {and I'm sure a million other bloggers} enable your email address?  Then I can say Hi, and it would make it much easier for me to be your friend back.  Or if you had a question I could answer it for you in a jiffy! And it would make things like getting a hold of giveaway winners a whole heck of a lot better.  I'm just saying.  You know if I did have any other giveaways, in the very near future like next week or something :).  So you might want to get on that!

Have a fabulous weekend.  Talk to you soon!

Because I do that too.

Sigh.  Boo for heartache.  Boo for hard.  I've thought that too many times this month.  And I sat down to tell you boo about my heartache and my hard.  Because I can so relate with this girl, and this one, and countless others  about what they are going through.  And I know I do it too.  Subconsciously I get sad.  My heart knows that a year or two {or who knows how long}ago, it was broken. I was devastated that a part of myself disappeared without knowing why or without any way to make it better.  I sat down to tell you about me losing my last little 8 celled wonder baby and my hopes of experiencing pregnancy ever again 2 years ago and how it still breaks my heart.  Because it still does. 

But guess what?  I'm sitting here trying to think through my sad thoughts I try not to think.  And guess what I'm thinking of? Of all of the happy things I have in my life.  I'm thinking of the sunshine we have been lucky enough to enjoy this month.  Of my other cute little test tube baby in the other room watching The Land Before Time because dinosaurs are one of her favorite things. Of my husband who puts up with every bit of me and loves me even when I'm off kelter because of my hard things.   I'm listening to some good music, and I'm thankful for great friends. I'm thinking about how far I've come this past year. And I'm realizing  that maybe my heart isn't quite as broken as it was last February. Or the February before that.  

So I still say boo to heartache and hard.  But today, I am happy.  I can be happy for my knowledge that Families are Forever.  I can be anxious and positive for my new adventure our family is taking.  I can be happy with myself and the simple fact I'm happier. I can be ok with the fact that I won't feel that way every day.  But I'm thankful for the gift of feeling  that way today. On a day that breaks my heart.    

Hippies And Hearts

Hello everyone!  I am so excited to FINALLY share our "Hippies and Hearts" photo shoot with you.  I was able to help with the styling and made a few things.  You'll see them as you watch the video {which I highly recommend it is gorgeous.}  Pretty things like my Burlap Wreath, my wood+glitter heart, and some other little things here and there.  Thank you so much FotoNovella and Darin Warnick Photography for letting me be a part of your amazing project.  

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{If you follow me on twitter you saw that our Hippies and Hearts was featured!}

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Borrowed and Bleu

Hi Fi Weddings

Wedding Wire 

One Stylish Bride


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{and a few more waiting in the wings!}

                                                                                                                       

Happy Valentines Day!

From Us to You.  
Love Jenn and Ivy.




Photo styling thanks to Pugly Pixel.