busygirl

for those who need some distraction...

Some linky love for you:

Grace Hester Designs

Her 2010 Personalized Calendar has been nominated for this week's Etsy Voter!  I'm in love with the stuff she creates, simple silhouette and typography prints with calming colors and intriguing designs.  Check it out and vote for her calendar!

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Vanderbilt Wife

Has a GREAT holiday menu if you're looking for ideas...and it features yours truly along with many other bloggity brains who are clearly much better at cooking than me.

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Need fashion inspiration? 

I'm obsessed with Jessica Schroeder's daily journal of her outfits - without a doubt my favorite fashion blog.  Here's some of my favorite outfits: Fringe Effect, Channeling Chanel, Hazy Sunday, Mama's Boy, Meh, Something Outta Nothingand my absolute favorite look - Loving Life.  And she's getting married (to an Adam as well!) so I love following her on her wedding planning adventures!

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And just for fun...

Kristen Stewart goes a whole 45 seconds without biting her lip - for some reason I found this impossible but here's the proof.

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Happy 3-days-till-Christmas!

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Looking for some new holiday music!  Look no further!  Amazon is offering a free holiday song download every day until Christmas!  Check it out here!

Dec 1st - 'Joy to the World' by Casting Crowns

Dec 2nd - 'Snow Angel' by Tori Amos

Check Amazon daily as a new song is unveiled!

love me some vera.

You can run but you can't hide.  I KNOW that some of you internets...ahem, you know who you are...have an unhealthy obsession with Vera Bradley.  Although I can't say that I don't share in your pain.  I have been known to devote an entire section of my holiday wish list to verabradley.com and am still completely in LOVE with my first taste of vera bradley - my green apple betsy!  Soon followed by my villager, my jewelry case, etc etc.

So how excited am I that verabradley.com is having an awesome sale right now!  Laptop bags for $46 (orig. $70), Villager tote bags (I used mine every day in college) for $42 (orig. $72), curling iron or flat iron cover - lined with heat-resistant material for easy travel (I use mine all the time) for $10 (orig. $17) and even belts to jazz up a plain t-shirt for $5 (orig. $26).

Oh and did I mention that you get free shipping if you spend over $75?

So get shopping (SALE ENDS SEPT 15TH!!) and remember...Adam's birthday is in October...I bet he'd really like one of those belts ;)

what you can control.

After waking up at 5am to exercise, play with the dog, clean my room and somehow get to work on time today, I'm feeling a bit frazzled.  My to-do list that was too long to begin with just grew by four emails at 7:30am.  I feel like I'm losing my mind this morning.  So, to gather my thoughts I took a 'smoke break' (aka a google break for those of us who don't partake in that habit).  And caught up on my google reader.

I was reading this article originally posted by girlymama about just taking things one step at a time.  And for some reason really liked this last paragraph, so I thought I'd repost it:

'Have I totally messed up my life? Fine, make a list. Here are the things I cannot do: I cannot turn back the clock, I cannot cork up sinful words once spoken, I cannot take back squandered opportunities in career or love. But here are things I can do: I can start from today—with today's time, today's skills, today's health, today's grace. I can do this trusting, even at this stage of the game, that God is still sovereign and still good. And faith, come to think of it, is the whole enchilada.'

My boss is always telling me to focus on what I can control.  I guess he's right.