Surround yourself with beauty.

1. Take a lazy day tubing.

2. Watch a play in the park.

3. Buy flowers at the farmer's market.

Lately, I've been lucky enough to have some time to explore the town Ashleigh and I live in. During the school year, I really only spend time on campus, but being in the city during the summer has been turning out to be a lot more pleasant than I expected! I made a checklist a couple weeks ago, which has been forcing me to do new things and see more of the place that I live. 

I labeled this post about beauty because that is what I am surrounded by right now as I am writing to you! My boyfriend interns at the Columbus Art Museum, and so he brought these beauties home to me a couple nights ago from a wedding that took place there :)

The print below I found at a thrift store a couple weeks ago. I'm obsessed with it. 

Do you see a butterfly or two birds? 

The farmer's market that I mentioned earlier is in charming, downtown Worthington. I definitely hope to go back there more often! Near the market, there is such a cool place called the Igloo Letterpress where I picked up the postcards below. 

Remember this chair? 

Look at her now! Ashleigh and I sanded away all of the bugs, re-stained and reupholstered, so now it looks brand new! I picked up the chair for $5 and found this fabric at a thrift store for maybe two or three bucks!

I've also been meaning to ask advice about this piece! 

I found this coatrack about a year ago and have been meaning to repaint it! Finally I decided on a bright orange color! After sanding and priming the base, Ashleigh and I finally got started....and 4 coats later it was done! Well almost, I think it could actually use one more coat! Since it took, so long I put it back together and back in its place. What do you guys think? Should I paint the rest of it orange or possible just a few more sections? 

Decided to throw in one more photo of the millions of flowers in my room right now! Sorry our posts have been so spread out. We've been so busy this summer. Keep posted for the redesign of our blog though! Currently I'm sketching up a new logo and Ashleigh and I are off to a photo-shoot this weekend for our new header! ...We'll let you know how it goes!

Sincerely,

Sarah

PS:

An Impromtu Post

I've been reading A Beach Cottage for along time now. It was one of the first blogs I bookmarked and read every day. So when Sarah started a "club" with "challenges" I knew I had to join in on the fun.

Now let me tell you, this last challenge was HARD ;) Buy a little something for yourself? Go shopping? How could I ever do that?

Well it was tough but I managed. I started off by buying myself flowers. The challenge was to buy lotion or something of that nature, but I've got enough of that to stock my own Body Shop so flowers were my alternative. They were springy and smelled good and they were only a few dollars so I couldn't help myself! having them in my bedroom makes it just a little easier to peel myself out of bed in the morning :)

Even Liam enjoyed smelling the flowers!

Then, I spent the afternoon shopping with some awesome girlfriends and picked up a few little things for myself.

Spring is almost here! I just know it!

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!

Sincerely, 

Ashleigh