it was a snow day

Last week we had a little bit of snow here and there in Southern Oregon, but by Thursday night it hit us pretty good and we saw about 7" in a matter of hours.  I'm a total kid when snow arrives (especially this much) so I play, throw and eat the good white stuff. I'm totally 6yrs old like that.  

I just think its magical, until it starts raining and gets spotty and slippery- then I curse at it, but for the first couple of days I try to enjoy it all.  And even though it took out our internet for 4 days and caused a little stress, the snow day was worth it. Thankfully it all came back on last night and now I'm able to share some photos from the day after the storm, here around the farm. 

Today we are skipping mani-monday to celebrate Christmas Eve, please join us for our last one of the year (& link up 2 posts if you have one from today!) on the 31st.  To the friends that celebrate have a Merry Christmas and those that don't Happy Monday & Tuesday!!!

farm life

I mentioned before that I needed to create better habits as the new year approaches as opposed to making resolutions next year I will probably end up breaking.  One thing I wanted to make sure I do for myself is still allowing time to pursue hobbies, like taking more photos.  Since we will be moving to a new city in a few months (and are staying here until then), I want to make sure I enjoy this time out in the country, in the quiet, and on the farm.  Between feeding all the animals-collecting eggs-stepping in poo (yep!) and no longer being surprised by finding bits of straw in my hair, I took in the scenery.

We moved to Oregon from Southern California in '93 and lived on an old chicken farm next door before my parents split the property, sold the other place and built a new house when I was a freshman in high school.  It was the first brand new home I ever lived in and my parents are still here today.  I love how all the additions to make it a farm are collected, recycled, used and loved.  Everything here has been built and taken care of by both of my parents- the gates, the fences, the chicken coop, the gardens.. all lots of love, all lots of work. 

Are you a city dweller, a country folk.. or can you do both?

photodump instagram style

since carrying around a canon 5d (plus battery pack add-on) isn't as easy as my phone, my instagram account gets lots o' love. follow along @thingslovely

yard sale finds, being the first customer in goodwill (nerd alert),

a little gardening and becoming free of acrylic nails

love club products arriving, driving to the airport to take mr.smith to work a week early,

junking therapy and arthur being his amazing self

my husbands view from the colorado fires, the inappropriate garden squash 

(it finally went down!)

my new favorite fabric and prepping lots of boxes for shipments

a $1 yard sale find that works, filling up the boxes with goodies , 

my nanas beautiful roses and a cute print that should say'

"wakey wakey eggs and bakey.... and lots of coffee" =)

stop to smell the roses...

Its been a little while since I've shared mobile photos here, I try to capture things all day everyday and if you follow me on instagram (@thingslovely) then you get to see most of it there.  However, I also have been trying to enjoy the moments that soon will pass me by.

I might take a photo here and there of something I want to remember, think is funny or want to show others.. but I also don't want to miss being in the moment while being too busy capturing it.. make sense?

I want to make sure I do these things each day, do them well and enjoy every second of them.

Life can get crazy, but I don't want to miss any of it.  So even if I just do one thing well each day.. then at least I tried.

shake it like a polaroid picture

Photo Challenge: Complete!

Booya.. I did it, every.darn.day =)

I mentioned last month that I was going to skip out on the #fatmumslim challenges to take part in the instafa.me #febphotoskill, and I'm happy to say that I stuck with it.  I'm pretty sad that the creator of this one didn't post anything up for March, but I did find another one (which I posted below) that I'm going to start today so I hope that one goes just as good!  

Are you sticking with your photo challenges? If so and you posted them on your blog or you have a link to your instagram page through an instareader leave it in the comments, I would love to check it out! You can follow me on instagram @thingslovely, I also have a feed on the bottom right of my side bar or you visit me on Ink361.

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