i'm featuring a hopefully awesome simple living month over at my new blog, as well as some more artist interviews and giveaways!

check it out!!

www.agirlandherscout.blogspot.com

another giveaway and artist interview

over at my new blog www.agirlandherscout.blogspot.com

don't forget to check it out!

I've moved!

Hey all you loyal followers! So after graduating, getting married, moving, getting a job, and getting a puppy (yay!), I have finally started a new blog over at
http://agirlandherscout.blogspot.com
so please come over and be loyal followers over there! I would love you forever :) Hope you are enjoying the summer!

my apologies for the lack of posts recently. between final exams, wedding showers, wedding planning (it's in 12 days!!), the flood in nashville, and being a senior/ graduating in less than a week, life if a little crazy right now. i promise to come back with some posts probably after the wedding. i want to spend every second with andrew, my family and my friends. also since i will no longer be a "college girl," i'm planning on changing up the blog so check in for a new link post graduation, wedding, moving, starting new job :) love to you all! ~A

I'll let you in on a little secret...

If you don't know, there is this super cool art project goin' down that has gained quite the fame.
It's called PostSecrets.
The short of it- people write down secrets on post cards and send them into the artist who then publishes them in books and on his blog. See here. They are a bit of a guilty pleasure, but sometimes I really connect.
Like this one... I'm not as much into the feminist part of it (mostly because I already knew women's brains were bigger ;)- just kidding just kidding- equal sized) but I love the quote,
"People tell me that a Ph.D. means I'm smart.
I have never felt more stupid or incompetent."

I don't know if I would go that far, but the one thing that college has taught me
(I contemplate such things since I only have 2 weeks left!) is that
I really don't know that much at all and have A LOT left to learn.
After all, the world is a big freakin' place.

thursday things i love

1. I'm still counting down the days till the wedding. ONE MONTH FROM TODAY! Andrew and I both can hardly wait--- I'm trying not to wish away these next few weeks as they involve very significant and wonderful moments. But that said... i'm digging this hair-do. another possible wedding option.


2. On that note, one day soon I will be decorating Andrew and my apartment. Since it is an apartment (as opposed to a house), we don't have the ability to change too much, but I'm digging this kitchen with the white background and the little punches of color. We are getting FiestaWare which I think would look great with a neutral cabinet look like this!

[Il Duomo in beautiful Florence]


[Milano]

[My Brother, who I also love, sipping coffee in Rome!]

3. I also love traveling and learning other languages and have spent a summer in Hiroshima, Japan and a semester in Sicily though I had the fortune of also traveling to other places in North Africa and around Europe. Then I was able to return to Italy this summer with my brother, Mom, and Dad which was AWESOME. I am always in awe of and inspired by other people and cultures. I feel so blessed to say that I have great friends all around the world.

Must be the week for good quotes...

But we can always learn from the wise words of others. This one is my first lesson in married life (though I'm not quite there yet).

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves,

and not to twist them to fit our own image.

Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

~Thomas Merton

After all, we should be celebrating the diversity of life. It keeps things interesting :)