Over the Weekend...

 This past weekend was, again, awesome. It began with Florence and the Machine and ended with an intense game of hangman, with a little bit of pumpkin decorating in between. 

And now somehow it's the middle of the week already. How does that keep happening?

Wants, Not Needs

         

   

Cardigan | Cups | Men

Over the weekend...a few days late.

Erika and Lauren at SparkCon

Pumpkins!

Pumpkins for everyone!

With Amy, waiting for BFF to take the stage

Uggh, you guys. This weekend was so good that I found myself sad on Sunday night while trying to  think of the next weekend that would have so much fun crammed in. 

Weekend Highlights:

*fashionSPARK Fashion Show on Thursday night

* Dinner at Lilly's followed by some extreme crafting on Friday night (more on that later...)

*visiting SparkCon in downtown Raleigh after enjoying some coffee at Morning Times

*the abundance of apples and pumpkins at the farmer's market

*Ben Folds Five on Sunday night to celebrate Amy's birthday 

It's beginning to feel a lot like fall around here and I love it!

Over the Weekend: Hopscotch

A Tin Djinn

Megafaun's back there somewhere

Shelby won a PBR pin, The Love Language performs

Shelby, me, and Sarah dreaming of beards

This weekend was awesome! I spent a majority of it outside at a free day concerts put on by Hopscotch. I was able to see The Love Language, A Tin Djinn (my guitar teacher's band), Megafaun, and a lot of other bands around downtown Raleigh. This was the first year I've been able to go and am already looking forward to next year! There was no shortage of hipsters drinking PBR all weekend long. Rumor has it Bon Iver even stopped by to watch a few shows but I didn't catch sight of him in the sea of handsome, bearded men.

Hope your week is off to a good start!

Book Club

Ali, Lauren, Mary, (the other) Courtney, Kelly

A few weeks ago, my friend Lauren proposed the great idea to start a book club with some of our lady friends and I jumped on board immediately. I was lucky enough to get to pick our first book options and we ended up deciding on Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, my author crush. And boy, was it an interesting book. Definitely different than his others but just as good. 

This past Monday, we met up for a potluck dinner and to talk about the book. The rain and heavy storms kept a lot of people away but we're hoping for a bigger crowd next month when we discuss The Innocents by Francesca Segal. I'm especially excited to read this one because it's described as  "combining 'Gossip Girl' with every one of your own dramatic family get-togethers."

Thirteen

Abigail at 3 years old, being flower girl in a wedding

Today my sweet little niece, Abigail, turned 13, older than I was when she was born. She's one of the people I love most in the world and the past thirteen years of watching her grow have been wonderful. She's an awesome big sister and can talk to anyone about anything. I think she's got an old soul. It hit me that she was growing up earlier this week when I called home to ask what she'd like for her birthday and was greeted with an official teen's answer: money.