Welcome to my table...

Welcome to my table... and my newest obsession. Sophie Conran for Portmeirion dishes!

Visitors at our house will now be eating off the most beautiful white dishes. Thank you  to everyone who got us these dishes as wedding gifts (and to those who gave us money to put towards dishes). I promise, the food does taste better when eating off these dishes.

I also love the green boxes. There may be a pile of them now on display in my dining room... you will have to stop by to find out!

One Dress... 2 ways

I recently picked up a great summer dress at Le Chateau for my wedding rehearsal. When we travel, I try to pack multipurpose outfits to save room in my suitcase for potential shopping finds! These options could be potentials for an upcoming trip!

dress - cardigan - shoes - belt

dress - shoes - belt

Tea Leaves

The morning after our wedding, I came down to the lobby of the Manteo Resort before the family picnic and discovered a wonderful selection of tea, hot water, and paper cups with lids. The tea selection provided was from a local company called Tea Leaves based out of Vancouver, London, Seattle, and Shanghai.

herbal spiced chai - lavender earl grey - tangerine - organic green darjeeling - pina colada rooibos

The flavors are excellent and the selection is more than I could ask more. I cannot wait to try more of this tea again someday.

Inspired

I am not very creative when it comes to my own fashion choices... although I am improving. One of the bloggers I turn to prior to any shopping trip (or getting dressed in the morning) is Jill GG at Good Life For Less. Although I have never met you, thank you Jill for all of your inspiration in the fashion area of my life.

I even emailed her one asking for fashion advice for engagement photos and she responded within 24 hours! Seriously! Considering she is a mom who contributes to 3 blogs, I was very impressed to get a response that quick.

 I am obsessed with two of her recent posts:
a consult and her outfit to a ball game

Maybe I am just obsessed with navy right now, although I loved navy before Kate Middleton single handedly brought it back with one outfit.

Some things on my shopping list for my upcoming trip to San Diego include:
a navy tank
sparkly TOMS or wedge TOMS
a mustard cardigan
chino shorts

last MAX class

Last night I attended my last MAX class as we have decided to bite the bullet and change gyms. The class was excellent but throughout class I keep thinking about classes at our new gym. I get excited for little changes like this because with change comes new challenges!

Last night's MAX class included: a warmup, squats, back, chest, triceps, biceps, shoulders, glutes and abs. I feel like I got a good workout and I was energized when I got home.

Depending on when we get to our new gym tonight to sign up for our membership, I hope to get in a workout. The workout will depend on the time as we have a few visitors stopping by tonight! Rumor has it the equivalent to MAX at World Health is Force. I cannot wait to try it!

C