The Paris Apartment

How amazing would it be to rent an apartment in Paris? Especially one with a view like this.

I just found the blog The Paris Apartment, and while it's not totally my style, I do love the photos she shares from her visits to Paris.

Free Valentine art

Our Humble A{Bowe}d shared these free Valentine's Day downloads that you simply must add to your home. I love, love, love. I'm going to dig up some spare card stock in the Pink House and print these off. It's definitely time to switch up some of the art on my walls, and this is a great free way of doing so!

There are a few downloads you can choose from (or choose all!) so stop by Our Humble A{bowe}d and get hooked up!

Over the weekend...

Liv's Favs received two awards! Many thanks to the ladies of A Lil Bird told me for the recognition.



Rules for accepting this award are:
1. Link back to the person who gave you this award.
2. Share 7 things about yourself.
3. Pass it along to 7 other stylish and trendy bloggers.
4. Contact those bloggers and tell them about their award.

7 tidbits about me:
1. I love Yoga, whether teaching or practicing
2. I could eat ice cream for breakfast, lunch and dinner
3. I'm addicted to blogging; I couldn't stop if I wanted!
4. The majority of my big furniture purchases are from IKEA and Ross
5. I learned to drive in a stick-shift, four-door Geo Metro aka, STEEL WHEELS
6. I'm in TWO book clubs
7. I asked my husband to help me make this list

6 Bloggers who are deserving of these awards (I know, I failed):
The Mundane Adventures of Miss Jess
Cardigan Empire
New Dress a Day
Indie Ogden
A Cup of Jo
A Little Sussy

Congrats!

New love

I don't often browse for new blogs because when I think I've found a site I'd like to read each week, it often ends up being a dud. Then I never get around to deleting it from my Google Reader and I'm stuck scrolling over the new posts to get to blogs I actually like.

Woe is me, my life sounds so hard, right?

But this week I stumbled upon a recommended feed for a design-related blog. The couple, Aubrey and Lindsay, live in Toronto which makes me love them even more. You know I'm a Canada freak, right?

Well, if you'd like to read about DIY, Canadian thrifting, a new baby, silly cats and more, then check out their blog here. Another reason I love them is because Lindsay gets a lot of items from IKEA. We were meant to be friends, I just know it.

This is what blogging is all about anyway, right?

I do not hand-write much of anything anymore. I journal on a private blog and I write for two public blogs.

The only thing I write these days are "To-Do" lists and Christmas cards.

The journals in this Etsy shop are very good motivators for rededicating oneself to putting ink on paper, as is the quirky Scrabble journal I received from Andi.

Do pretty notebooks inspire you to push away the keyboard and pick up a pen instead?