2014 in review

Looking over at the side of this blog, 2015 is the 7th year I will be documenting! Seriously! I started this little thing when I first moved away from home and started design school in seattle. I was 19 and a spaze, er, well, still a spaze, but a 7 year wiser spaze. This year I celebrate year 25 and have some big plans on the horizon.

2014 started quickly, I was off to Nashville last January for an award nomination in the Special Events industry. It was a wild ride, both for the snow storms that covered much of the US, but also being perhaps one of the youngest nominees for design work. From Seattle we traveled to Detroit to get to Nashville, and Atlanta and Houston to get home! This was year of a lot of travel, 14 states with my road trip this past autumn!

There was lots of adventure in 2014, and i hope for more 2015!

2014 was also a year for growing friendships. I was around so many new and old friends, and despite my loner tendencies, it felt really nice. i've always appreciated a handful of closer friends to piles of acquaintances.

cooking was also a blast this year, it helps to have a partner to help (who will also take care of extensive leftovers for picky eaters like me...). Being a home chef is so fun and anthony has kept me inspired to try lots of new things. He even got me to eat way more vegetables and use a little less cheese ;) My favorite recipe of the year was a weird one, Braised Coconut Spinach & Chickpeas with Lemon - Served over a Roasted Sweet Potato. Holy grail of flavor! This sounds random with thai and italian influences, it is, but gosh was it was yummy! We used kale instead of spinach. make this!

In no particular order, here are some of my favorite photos from the year. Magic.

New Year Steve 2015

Well, January 1st was a rather slow day, this may have been due to the night before. :)

I visited a party store earlier this week, inspired by a funny moment from last year. Hats were very important this year. While there, I also came across holographic streamer curtains and knew a photo booth was needed. So here is what happened with that, the last photos from 2014 and first of 2015.

This post is just goofy, tomorrow I'll have a better retrospect of 2014... ;)

Discovery in November

A chilly walk over the weekend around Discovery Park. Anthony threw a rock across a frozen pond and it made a magical spaceship noise that I've never heard before. Funny when you're caught off guard by such a simple discovery, skidding a rock across a frozen pond :)

My busy season at work is picking up, it will be crazy through the first weekend of December. We're also moving our 17,000 sq ft warehouse. My mama bought a new building! (more on this... sometime. I own 10%!). We moved our desks and computers over to the new space today. :)

I've been burning a lot of candles at home (this one is dreamy!), and cooking some yummy seasonal recipes. I highly recommend this Smokey Butternut Squash Pasta with Greens. Love sweater and boot weather.

Also, kittens. Wait until my next post. It will be cute overload. You're welcome in advance.

seeing, making

i must be the luckiest girl this week because a crow pooped on my head while i was walking 2.6 miles to work last Tuesday (yeah exercise!). that's what several people have told me at least... but maybe it's just a nice thing to say when something unfortunate happens. my sister presented me with some "i'm-sorry-you-got-pooped-on banana bread," so that was nice :)

on friday we had a "spirit-animal" themed house party. i decided on being a rabbit. i change up my favorite animals pretty quickly. a few years ago it was crows. but after a camping mishap, and a crow stealing our last piece of food before we hiked out... well they are no longer favorites. especially after being pooped on. last year i really loved foxes. their presence represented change, the unknown, and also brought a new soul into my life. and now, rabbits have sparked my interest. a good omen and recurring theme. so for the party, i made a giant pompom pouf tail, and fashioned ears from a vintage hankie tied around a headband.

fighting a woozy morning, i headed up to seattle for the afternoon. selena and i went for a walk around volunteer park. she let me borrow a silk dress because i had been wearing all black for work. it was hot! we went through the conservatory and i was dying! sweat was dripping down my back! (sorry selena's dress...) but what a pretty spring/summer day. i have a new set of prism filters to play with. they are hard to focus my SLR camera with, maybe it was just the lens i was using... but i love these experimental shots anyway.