~ M's Week In An Insta ~

voted:  my fav pic of the week.
 i am OBSESSED with my new white nails and snap watch

rhett.  driving us up to {Timberline Lodge}, Mt Hood Oregon

it was naaasty up there!  cold, super windy, and wet.

my road read.  i highly recommend picking it up!  funnyfunny.

rhett. fireside.
check the headphones.  his new obsession is audio books.  

my bird has become a book worm.  i am so PROUD.

my view from my sprawled out position on the couch in the main lodge

mmmmmmm.
yummmmmmmmmmmy.  

i thumbed through InStyle and found another reason to head back to {Target}

how incredibly fabulous is this bracelet

i wanna rock lady gaga's suit, bad.
with a cami, not a bra :P

i got my gift from sweet Amanda @  {Raising Miss Momma}
i just die for this {owl}.

i told my boy that i AM still a head taller.  see!!?

he's cheating!! 

okay, so i'm a nose, two eyes, and a forehead taller!

i have totally taken over rhett's sean john pajamas he got for xmas. 

well.  i figure i have a year of height left on him.  maybe.

good heavens.  i'm tired.  it has been a very loooooong week.  

i'm ready for friday night date night and alone time with my babe.  

Cheers to a fun filled, rejuvenating weekend! 

-m-

New Year Blog Party Gift Exchange

my present from my gift exchange partier arrived today!! 

this is Amanda.  my link party 2012 New Year Blogging Party Gift Exchange partner.

 she's gorgeous, a sweet heart, blogs about life and raising herself and her precious babe at

Raising Miss Mommy ..
"Just when I thought I was all grown up"

{www.raisingmissmommy.com}

and most lucky for ME:  She has IMPECCABLE TASTE.

Look at what Amanda sent me!

the card.  i just love the owl!

i untied the red ribbon and... ooooooh!  looks like gorgeous toned jewelry!! 

aren't these earrings amazing!  they will go with evvverything.  

and THAT is a bracelet.  It's AMAZING!

I love all the colors and the clasp is so unique

i LOVE it. 

It was so fun to participate in this gift exchange. 

thanks to all the ladies who worked hard to make it happen.

And Amanda, thank you so much.  

I've never received a gift from a perfect stranger,
and though I don't know you personally,

I will think of you every time (and I know it will be many!)
I wear these fabulous earrings and bracelet.  

-m-

{click here to go to the exchange party!}

My Big Win!

Now.  I have a major secret to share that I'm not sure you'll believe because I myself didn't believe it till it happened to me.  You know all those great giveaways?  Someone really DOES win them, and last week, that someone was MEEEEEE!!!!!  Ever heard of bluebird vintage? {prob a crazy question, forgive me, I'm kinda new around here, the bleu bird blog is large, so I imagine a lot of you have been there before} The blog is large because it is also insanely beautiful and she is ridiculously cool.  If you haven't been there before, be sure and check it out NOW {click here} because as I type this, she's giving away one of those theit camera bags that every woman with a DSLR (or whatever the acronym is) camera would DIE to have.  

So anyway... back to Me.  ;D ... I entered one of bleubirds giveways a week or two or three or so ago, and I got an email last week telling me that I had won!!!!!!!  Look!

the winner of the ellington handbags giveaway is: 

OHMYGAWD.  You know how you have to go click on the shop and check it out in order to enter a giveaway?  Well I checked out Ellington and fell in love with a particular Hobo bag they have. Their Sadie Hobo collection.  Big, simple, classic.  Soo me.  I was over the roof excited to have won, and EVEN BETTER, they are located in Portland, as am I!  Ellington emailed me and offered to send me the bag I wished for in my entry comment, or, I could come down to the shop and pick out whatever bag I wanted!  

 So last Saturday, I headed down

let's go! 

{click here to see ALL of what was inside}

Their leather is top notch, they sell for themselves and to small boutiques {no department stores have them which I love} and they offered many different, classic bags, but their Sadie Hobo line isn't one of their best sellers for no reason.  It is AWESOME.  And it comes in sooo many colors and textures!

the Sadie Hobo Glazed Cognac.
the original bag i wanted so badly

but the brown suede and the brown were amazing too!

and what about this debossed black one?!

photo doesn't capture the color well, but their new spring gray suede was amazing too!
and of course.  classic glazed black.

how could i possibly choose!!?

It was so hard to decide!  But I did.

me with my new bag in bag
and yes, i am very very happy  :D

any guesses on which one i chose?? 

-m-