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Time for us to play a little catch up! Here's a little taste of what life has been like lately while I've had my phone in hand.

Took (and continue to take) the time to enjoy spring.

SE Hawthorne

Our (Christie and myself) fashion/ interior collaboration vignette got into our school's gallery!

Had some good eats.

Loving carrot juice right now.

boiled bagels.

getting in lots and lots of greens.

Native Bowl on N Mississippi

Muddy's. Also on N Mississippi. I got the green eggs and ham!

Avocado on the daily

Didn't share said good eats with Jackson.

Headed to Breitenbush (hot springs in eastern Oregon) with the girls.

Dairy Queen

Didn't make it due to cracked radiator.

Got stranded in Stayton for a good chunk of our day. Best "worst" adventure of my life.

Still loving my amazing job.

Especially when Alena buys juice that looks and tastes like lake water and still forces herself to drink it.

AND when we have family Easter.

Enjoying school. Mostly when I sit outside of the Anthropologie downstairs and dream. 

Met Mei cat. We shared my water (and when I say share I mean I took a sip and then she took over).

Went back to brunette! I miss the red but still so happy about it.

And in short, there you have it! We have had some pretty amazing weather here in Portland and I have made a pact with myself to enjoy it to the fullest this summer. Soak in as much of that good ol' vitamin d to last for the rest of the year. Hope you all have the opportunity to do the same!

Happy Tuesday!

Inside Look

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I love seeing artist journal pages. I think it's really awesome when a story can be told in little doodles instead of lengthy paragraphs. Definitely more my style.

On a completely different note Jackson's skin is still in bad shape. It was doing really good and then yesterday while he was home alone he got his cone off and reversed all his progress. I'm a sad mama today. I feel like no matter how much we try to help him and take care of him he's making things harder for himself. It's just really frustrating- it's my job to make sure he's happy and healthy but I feel like it's something I can't always control despite my best efforts. It just stinks. If you can send good vibes his way or maybe slip him into your prayers I would be so grateful. I just can't stand to see my little guy in pain anymore.

With all this not so fun talk about Jackson I figured it was only fair to share some fun stuff, and what are more fun than a few super cute puppy pictures?

The day we got the little fur ball

First camping trip!

His first unlikely friendship. 

See you tomorrow guys! I promise once the pup is all better I'll be back to my old blogging self ♥

May the odds be ever in your favor

Just got home from the Hunger Games. Wow. So awesome. I think it's always hard when there is a book involved to please everyone with a movie, especially on the first one. I always just try to look at them as two different entities. With that being said I loved the movie and am excited to see the rest. If you haven't seen the movie or read the books yet I highly recommend doing so.

A few pictures from our wet journey downtown. We had to wait an hour for the bus back home so we decided to stop for some burgers at Violetta.

Nick and I have had another leisurely day of hanging around town finding things to do on the cheap. We are just about to head out again to go to my friend Betty's (who I work with at Icon) art show opening.

Tomorrow Spring quarter starts. A week break just isn't long enough. Luckily I don't have class until Tuesday so I still get one more day! Which is perfect because I still haven't caught up on my e-mails (sorry if that includes an e-mail from you! I promise you will hear from me soon! Just trying to savor my week break as much as possible.)

Home Sweet Home

We're home! I apologize for my absence yesterday, I got home and took a very long nap and watched a lot of Twin Peaks. Going on trips is always great but complete relaxation (aka being a lazy bum) is a necessary evil when on break. Today Nick and I strolled around town for a bit. We started at the food carts on Hawthorne. Pyro Pizza is one of my all time favorites and I highly recommend it if you're in the area. After lunch we went across the street to Lounge Lizard which just made me want to have a house so I could fill it with all the lovely things I found there. We ended our adventure by going to Open Space for some coffee. It's a cute little cafe by our apartment that I need to go to more often. $2 bottomless coffee? Talk about new homework/study spot.

Also I've been doing a lot of work redesigning Icon's retail blog since we're officially launching it as Velvet Empire in April. Go check it out!

It's getting increasingly rainy out so I think for the rest of the day I'm going to cuddle on the couch with Jackson and catch up on oh so many e-mails. Wishing you all a wonderful day!

Kitty Love

For those of you who don't know him yet, this is our cat Dexter. He has the spirit of a grumpy old man but is also very cuddly. We were having a moment so I figured I'd click into photo booth and save it forever. I promise I am not crushing him.

Bend has been amazing and we're heading home tomorrow early in the morn. As much fun as we've had here I can't wait to cuddle up with this little dude and puppy Jackson. I also can't wait to share a little peek into our ventures with you guys! See you then!

Time for a little VACA

Making a fresh batch of puppy food for Jackson for while we're gone! 

We're gearing up to head to Bend for a couple of days! Our amazing friend Tiffany who I go to school with was able to watch Jackson last minute after many failed attempts of trying to get our usual prospects to. Add that to the list of why I am glad I am too young to be a real mom. It's stressful!

We love Bend and are so excited to go back. It's so beautiful and peaceful. Nick and I went about a year ago and had an amazing time. These are some of my favorite pictures.

 We did not partake in the brew part of the"brews and canoes" tour. We figured it would not aid in our already bad canoeing skills! I just thought this was a cool picture!

I will be sure to take lots of pictures this time around too! We are going with our friends Tessa and Russell this time which is going to be super awesome!

In other news we shot our Kickstarter video yesterday for the funding to launch the retail side of Icon into it's own entity called Velvet Empire. We are all so excited! Our morning before shooting consisted of us sending lots of goofy pictures to each other with different outfits on as we tried to decide what to wear. I've decided to share this one with you because I think it is particularly goofy and it is also the outfit we chose for me to wear.

My favorite new jacket. A mom purchase from Nordstrom Rack. <3 you mom!

 Have a great week everybody!

All Business

I was trying to be very serious but I always end up cracking a little smile.

Our friends are coming into town today, woohoo! They'll be here soon so I only have a second to stop by and say hello and Happy St. Patrick's Day! Be sure to wear green or else. You all know the drill.

I regards to my mixing patterns version of Friday Favorites yesterday I wanted to share a sneak peak of my What We Wear post over on the Icon Blog. I thought you would appreciate seeing my spin on it.

Hope you guys have a fantastic weekend. Next week is finals and then I get a break from school! Holy moly so excited.

Psssttt

REAL QUICK I wanted to let you guys know we're doing our first giveaway on the other blog I write for the retail side of the tattoo shop I work at! I like you all a lot and want you to be able to qualify. Head on over HERE and check it out. To qualify you need to be a follower and then comment on the post telling us you follow. We're picking the winner at the end of the day today! Good luck!!