Best Friends & Pretty Stationery

YALL!!! I get to see this goof ball tonight!

YAHOOOOOO

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I feel like its been a year since I saw Francelina which is not okay. Life is crazy these days. She  has an hour & a half commute to work every day, and even before I moved to the ham, we never got to see each other. | S A D N E S S | We would however have good long phone calls while she was driving home from work. I think one of those is in order in the near future. Needless to say....I miss the heck out of Frances! I miss working with her and I miss living in the same city as her.  I guess I've realized over the last couple of months that a friendship like ours is super hard to come by and I think we both refuse to let our insanely busy lives, and living in different cities have any sort of negative effect on our friendship.

I remember probably around 4 years ago, {WHAT!!!! HOLY HEAVEN FOUR FREAKIN YEARS AGO....MY LIFE IS FLYING BY...SLOW DOWN!!!} Frances and I became long distance pen pals and this is truly where our friendship grew so close. Still to this day, we are pen pals!!!! and YES even when we were living in the same city, we still write to each other!

Writing is so beautiful. There is something so special about going to the mail and finding something other than bills!!! right? When I go to the mail and find a personal note for me I get so happy because that means someone took time out of their super busy life, to take a few minutes simply to write to 

M E !

I have another little pen pal. It started when I was in college!! My sweet sweet Meme would send me little cards. We started sending little notes back and forth to each other and again, we still to this day send each other pretty notes on pretty stationery that we actually do get from the best stationer in the Shoals :) Speaking of which....I just remembered I actually have some pretty new stationery to pick up while I am in Florence!!

So I wanted to share some pretty little stationery that I am totally into right now. If you ever want to get me something that you can definitely count on me using the heck out of....get me some stationery. But, please purchase from MRS. FRANCES LEDGEWOOD. Best friends support each others career!

 {Winona Gray Design}

Vanilla & Coffee Scented Stationery?? Umm YES PLEASE!

{Being Maisey}

{Irsteiner}

{Social Salutations}

{Naomilynn}

{FoglioPress}

{Dinglewood Design}

{Modern Pink Paper}

{KTF Design}

{IdeaChic}

{LionTailPress}

AND of course... THESE are my FAVORITES!

{HautePapier}

I 100% blame Frances for my stationery snobbish ways and I'm honestly not sorry for it ;)

All of the above companies can be found on Etsy!

Well friends....I'm pretty busy with work {thank the good Lord!!!} so I'm going to knock some work out before I head to Florence for a shoot with Will!

Happy a l m o s t Weekend!

Bye now

B's

P.S. can you believe FOOTBALL starts Saturday!!! What in the world?!?!

YESSSSSSSSSS!

Charlotte Fun!

Hey dearies! 

You know I was in COMPLETE Heaven while I was in Charlotte! Being around clothing day & night was completely amazing!!

Here are a few photos from our trip.

Sandra & I had the BEST time. I never imagined it being as great as it was. We picked up so many great lines and restocked on the lines that we already love so so much. 

I loved meeting gorgeous Mrs. Judy from High cotton Ties. She was so precious and she made some delicious cake. I met so many wonderful people and seriously had such a great time. I got to talk to Sandra and get to know her a little more. We had some really great bonding time:) and I loved it!!!

Another part of the trip that made the trip so awesome was something that most people probably wouldn't think twice about. But, it honestly made my weekend! It was my first time meeting & working with the guy in the last photo. When we walked into the showroom, the first thing I noticed was his WWJD bracelet. And I thought well thats by far the coolest bracelet I've seen all weekend. Come to find out, he is actually doing mission work in Spain. I don't think he realized how much talking to him made my day. It really put things in perspective for me...he said a few things about his story that made me realize that I need to re-prioritize my life. I realized yesterday that I should never be in this place where I feel like I am close enough to God. I want to always want more, to be closer...I can never have enough of him. I realized that I've become comfortable where I am and thats the furtherest thing from what I want. I had a completely different view on my relationship and priorities when I left that room. Its just the coolest thing to think that even right in the middle of an appointment at an apparel mart that God can completely transform my view. I just love it! and the icing on top of the cake, D gave me this amazing Koozie that I have been obsessing over for months!!!

Again, I had an amazing time on my trip to Charlotte with Sandra.

& I can't lie...today at work was insane trying to get back in the swing of things.

I might or might not be fighting my eyelids as I am typing this now!

Bysie Bye for now!

bB***

Twenty-Five BEFORE Twenty-Six

Hey there!

I know I am a few weeks (or month, plus some) past my 25th birthday, but I wanted a pretty looking list for my motivation;) So here it is friends....This years motivation.

Last year, I chose not to have a goal list, 24 before 25, and I feel like that year was the most least productive year of my life!!! I am beyond happy that this year that wont be the case because I will be tackling this list full force, with lots of smiles, laughs, tears, memories and so much more I cant even imatgine. TWENTY FIVE is going to be a FANTASTIC year!!!

What do you think of my list?

bysie Bye for now.

bB***

AWESOME week!

Umm can you say AWESOME week?!? Yep I do believe so.

I was a little overwhelmed at the beginning of the week with so so sooo much work. I might have had a few breakdowns. Thank GOD I work with my best friend in the entire world. Frances understands it. So, she can talk me through anything that might be driving me insane on a stressful busy day!

Wednesday was the B O M B. 

About an hour before my break, I hear the door to PSI open.

From my computer in the very back of the store, all I could see was a silhouette of a very familiar hat.

THE BEST SURPRISE EVER.

J came to see me!!!

He's so stinkin precious. I just love him to death! I didn't want him to leave. gah. BUT he'll be back in  TWO weeks for Handy Fest. <3<3

P r e c i o u s Guy!

Thursday was BUSYBUSY helping Frannie Mae get ready to go off and stock PSI up with some fantastic Merch! She is gone to the Gift Market in Atlanta. 

She has sent me some pictures of GREAT things that I can't wait to get my hands on.

Well I dont know what the plans for the weekend are...Homework, illustrations, and hanging with friends is what I am thinking. 

OH and meeting Baby Charlee Bea Tomlin and visiting her momma and daddy!!!

HEY incase I haven't said this in a while 

I am B L E S S E D beyond belief. 

HAPPY WEEKEND FRIENDS.

B's