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Holiday Gift Guide for Her

Collages•HOLIDAY
It’s that time of year again! Happy Monday Y’all! Only 3 days until Thanksgiving? I can’t hardly wait to head home to Chicago and spend Thursday with our big family in the burbs and then do some Christmasy things on Friday and Saturday. We’ll be crafting ornaments with my grandma Tommy who used to have an ornament business. And we’ll of course stop by the Christkindlmarket downtown & take a picture in front of the Macy’s windows. Eeeee I’m...
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All About Dat Plaid

OUTFITS
Ohhhhhhh the plaid fad. Every returning fall, we can expect to see new shirts, dresses, blanket scarves, & throws, all decked out in our favorite plaid patterns. It’s a trend that never seems to go out of style. And why should it? The colors & patterns seem to fit with the season of harvest and overwhelming swale of color. So fitting.  *** My collection of plaid has grown over the years but it’s always exciting to find more colors...
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The Happy List Series Part II

HAPPINESS SERIES
It’s been a bit dreary lately here in Austin and when you live in a place where it is hot so often, this change is welcomed with open arms. Especially when you’re from Chicago. It feels like home. When the weather is like this, I have zero guilt being inside reading and writing. And the dogs lay by my feet as I type away and I feel at peace.  I’ve been listening to George Winston’s ‘December’ soundtrack which is...
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The One Where We Went to 50 States

USA
Whenever I am meeting a new group of people and the ice breaker prompt of the ‘tell us something cool about yourself’ comes up, I always have the perfect answer- I’ve been to all 50 states! If you think about where you have been in the country, you might think that is an enormous feat, but my family got started early on this adventure. Back in the summer of 1999 when the number of children on our block under the...
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My Aunt Peggy’s Butternut Squash Soup

RECIPES
The weekend flew by way too fast and I’m struggling to regain my energy today! It was so much fun to have family in town and get to spend quality time with my aunt and cousin whom I see infrequently. And it’s always great to see my mom :) As I mentioned Friday, we spent Thursday night cooking a butternut squash soup and drinking wine. Here is the amazing recipe my lovely aunt crafted! Enjoy :)
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TGIF! It’s Family Weekend

Home Decor•LIFE
It’s Friday morning. My Mom & Aunt Peggy are in town. And my cousin Kristin is leaving her kids with her husband and flying down here from Boston this afternoon. Eric and I are totally flattered that everyone is making the effort to come down here. We know it’s totally JUST to see us and not explore Austin. Austin isn’t alluring, like at all ;) Last night we caught up on life, drank wine, and cooked butternut squash soup together....
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The Alsace Region :) France’s best kept Secret?!

ABROAD
As I previously promised here, I am sharing our day trip from Lucerne to the Alsace Region of France. Just a short 2 1/2 hour drive from Switzerland, this quaint and gorgeous region of France was vastly different than the other locations we had visited on our honeymoon. Less tourism. Less English. Breathtaking scenery and lots of untouched land. We felt like we were stumbling along an area that other Americans hadn’t really discovered. They had, of course- we...
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One Month Anniversary for The Autumn Girl- thank you for reading!

THOUGHTS
The Autumn Girl is ONE MONTH OLD! :) It is surreal to me that it is already November. October 2015 flew by faster than any other month I can ever remember. Even our wedding month last year. We’ve been on the go. We’ve traveled 3 out of 4 weekends. And we moved to a new place. It has been a whirlwind month. We are so excited to be in our new town house. We feel like we are finally...
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Little Home Accents: The Power of a Flower

Home Decor
For a long time, I didn’t really enjoy flowers. Or at least the idea of having them for a few days and then losing them as they wilted and fell apart. Plus they cost money! I’d rather spend that on clothing or jewelry or something that will last me longer than a week! (I also think I secretly chose to dislike flowers because no boy in high school or college had ever given them to me). WOMP. Oh well. Things...
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The Happy List Series Part I

HAPPINESS SERIES
It’s 60 degrees and I’m sitting here at Starbucks with my laptop, my grande coffee with cinnamon & nutmeg, thinking and writing. And I can’t help but feel this overwhelming joy as I ponder all the lovely things I want to write about. I’m currently working on posts about the Alsace Region of France, a guide to Munich, and a series of people who inspire me. I might also begin guest posts because there are so many people around...
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