Hallelujah

This is where I've been sitting.
In my doorway, where I can see, smell, hear, taste, and touch the rain. And yes, that is a pot of freshly made chocolate frosting with graham crackers next to it.
Why not indulge in some comfort food while feeling so comfortable?


This is the view of the sky from my doorway. And just below the sky is the view of my wet and pretty street. This pictures aren't exactly professional-photographer-worthy, right? They are for Travis who is at work and does not have a window.
But he does have a mac.
Travis and I learned how to spell hallelujah on Sunday.
We both tried several times before looking it up in the Bible Dictionary and then we both practiced writing it in speech bubbles over the cartoon people drawn on the back of our church program.


If any type of weather deserves a hallelujah (correctly spelled), it is this gorgeous rain.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Praise ye the Lord!
Today is highly perfect.

edit: This blogpost now has a part two:
PART TWO:
My computer does amazingly well choosing rainy day music.
Yes, it even chose Hallelujah, which was in fact why I decided to title my post by that name.
Here is the mix that it created and which I am listening to currently:

workspace

I've seen a lot of desk spaces on blogs lately. It's like everyone else can read my mind.
Or maybe it means that everyone is on the same secret wave-length. We just don't know it.
I've been doodling a lot in my journal lately, you know, pictures of my future office.
So here are some of the lovely spaces I've seen, that I would just love to duplicate.
Wouldn't you just love to have a little nook like this to study in?




(This one isn't really a workspace, but I really want that little yellow type writer. And I wouldn't mind that clock or lamp, either!)

Pretty Things

I have a folder on my desktop titled Pretty Things in which daily I add pictures of spring dresses, wildflower bouquets, bedspreads, bookcases (A LOT of bookcases), bedrooms, swimsuits, fanciful weddings, flower wreaths in curly hair, little girls in tutus, sun flares, people kissing, fabric, J. Crew models, buttons, bicycles, fruit, envelopes, fancy handwriting, graffiti, tattoos, books, banners, games and lots more. Really, LOTS more.
Did you stop reading and just skip to this line? Its a long list. I accidently started to repeat myself, but went through and took those things out.
Its a very full folder. It is my favorite folder.
Because I love perfectly girly things.
Not like lipstick, or hairspray (although I know I have a few pictures of the former) but really wonderful girly things like fresh herbs in the kitchen and baby feet and flowery, light, sunshiney wonderfulness.
Before I was married (before I was even engaged or seriously dating) the Pretty Things folder was eighty per cent wedding-related.
I had my dress and style decided on before I knew I would need a dress and style anytime soon.
Now its full of living rooms, gardens, babies, and (like I said before) about a million bookcases. I have a perfect little study already planned and painted in my mind.
But where do I get such pretty pictures, you ask?
The sidebar headed Lovely Links is home to all of my favorite blogs. Blogs of design, fashion, cooking, happiness, and so many are devoted wholly to pretty things.
So here are some of the pretty things I've seen this week and added to my folder. They make me happy to look at.

Umm, Helvetica cookie cutters anyone? LOVE it.

I'm sorry to those who I stole these from, I was going to link back to each picture but my blogger is having a fit.

February is not fun.

Springtime.
I miss you.
I wish you were here.

These are the things I would do if you were here:



Wear pretty little clothes and shoes. Eat pretty little foods.




Smell pretty little flowers. Play pretty little games.



Ride a pretty little bike.
And kiss my pretty little husband.

Be pretty happy, and little nostalgic for winter. (isn't that how it goes?)
(And, all this bike riding and fruit eating would make me pretty and little)

Other things to do it the spring:
Not have to scrape my sucky windshields.
Not have to be in sucky school.
Not have to eat sucky heavy winter foods.

As you probably figured out, my current feelings towards
Winter are: you are sucky and endless.
and towards Spring: you are pretty and little.

Aaand, Travis is neither pretty or little. He is a strong manly man, who is big and handsome.
I'm sorry I said that he is little and pretty above. It just fit best with my theme.
I still kiss him now too even though its winter time.

*Click on each photo above to see who I stole it from!