Saturday Saturday!

Well last night I went to work and much to my surprise, we were dead. I'm talking DEAD DEAD. So dead I made roughly 1/3 of what I normally do. Kim (our waitress) was cut before midnight and I was cut around 1am. Awful. Hopefully tonight will pick up and make it well worth it. I drove home and passed out fairly quickly. Only to be startled awake several times by goodness knows what. I was woken up by the ridiculous sound of a monsoon hitting our windows at around 6am. The entire driveway was flooding... but by the time we drug ourselves from under the covers at 10am, it was gorgeous out. Today turned out to be PHENOMENALLY beautiful.

Oh, before I forget... here are a few photos of Georgia and Mike from the puppy park last night. Georgia went swimming in the kiddie pool (we're going to buy her one for the house), and played with the other dogs for about an hour and a half. We spent a giant chunk of our time at the puppy park, thats for sure. I love it though. I love seeing her have fun and playing around. We forgot her leash at home so Mike had to carry her to and from the car.... she was SOAKED... and SO exhausted by the time we left. Peep for yourself!




Here's a photo of me from work last night. Yes, thats how dead we were... I was being narcissistic haha But I finally got my 1" white acrylics plugs in :)


Today's weather was so nice, I threw on a spring time dress, cardigan and flip flops (I want to be a sandal girl, but it's difficult!).


We took Georgia to her vet appointment at about 12:30 and got her vaccinations, and had them test for a mite in her skin. She was not happy. Not happy at all. However, there was a new vet visiting from 100 Oaks and she was so very kind and personable. I'm a fan of hers, for sure. We scheduled her eye surgery and a dental clean for next month, so say goodbye to that awful looking cherry eye! It'll be fixed (for the second time!). She let us in on a way we can upgrade our puppy insurance to help take a couple hundred dollars off of her surgery. Huzzah!



After the vet, we went by the puppy park but no one was really there and it was awfully hot for her to be out so we went home. We grabbed our disposable camera and followed Georgia to the creek in our backyard. We decided to walk along in the water with her as she splashed and played in the mud. We found a gorgeous little path that lead to this beautiful little overgrown area. We took some photos but I look ridic so we'll take more soon! We shot all 27 images, headed to Walgreens to drop them off, and had lunch at Blue Coast Burrito. After that, we headed to the mall for a bit just to kill time. I can't go to the mall without buying something so I walked out with 2 adorable dresses (photos soon!) and a floppy summer hat! I've never been a hat girl but you can understand my excitement when I saw that this one didn't accentuate the already-awkward shape of my noggin! haha

We shot a few polaroids and went on a wild goose chase for a power adapter. We picked up our prints and came home. I just dyed my hair and I'm about to go dry it. I have to leave for work in the next hour. Phew!

I'm going to post a bunch of these disposable camera pictures in the next post. I'll put it up in the queue to be posted tonight! (Check back at 10:15pm CST for the photos!) We went and bought 3 more throw away cameras because I'm officially obsessed! I'm going to take several tomorrow as we go down to my parents' for Easter!

I hope you're all having a glorious weekend!

PS; Here's a SHOP IT TO ME invite if you want to join! Daily deals like 30% off Marc Jacobs, etc! And they've already sent me $40 giftcard to Starbucks and a $10 one to Urban Outfitters! Totally not a scam, I promise! :P

Friday Favorite: (Great White) SHARKS!

I'm a huge huge fan of sharks, as most of you all know by now. I'm not sure exactly where my fascination stemmed from, but I'm glad I have it. Luckily, my BFF/Roommate Bryan also loves sharks... He let me borrow this awesome Sharks & Rays book he just got from Borders. So excited! I've got Shark Week on DVD, and when that time of year rolls around, I venture to my parents' house (they have cable; i don't ha!) and I stay glued to the tv for an entire week.

I live and breathe sharks.

and unfortunately, over 100 of the 370+ species of shark will be extinct by the year 2017. That's only 7 years away! They're being pulled up from the ocean, having their fins sawed off, and then they're thrown back overboard to let sink in the depths like a torpedo. All for Shark Fin Soup. If we eliminate the need/desire for Shark Fin Soup, we can continue to live with these glorious creatures, study them, and figure out exactly what makes the tick. It's times like this I wish I had gone to school for Marine Biology.

But everyone can help. CLICK HERE to visit SharkTrust and adopt a shark! You can choose Cut-Tail, the Great White, or you can choose a Basking Shark. Every little bit helps!

Now, here's a bunch of photos!

Things I Love Thursday

1. Our TOMS Style Your Sole Event on Campus. Merissa did such a wonderful job putting it all together. She contacted vendors, got sponsors, rallied up the team and even made us all shirts. She went above and beyond and really nailed it. You can read more about it HERE!

2. Seasons 3 and 4 of Dexter! We finished season 3 within a couple of days and with Season 4 yet to be released on DVD, we took our MegaVideo subscription and found it on there. The quality was less than stellar but who cares! I can't wait until August for the DVD! I hope we can find a way to watch Season 5 when it starts! We are SO hooked!

3. Dreamy Bedrooms. The first and second are lovely (the second has that awesomely huge hand-painted sign. Swoon!) but nothing compares to the third one. Give me the palace of Versailles and I'm in! Mike probably wouldn't be too happy if that was our room but I'd be in heaven!

4. Silly/Interesting/Cute Photos via WeHeartIt. I have a feeling Lindsay would really love the panda one! I said the elephant one aloud to Mike the other day and he was cracking up. So cute!

5. THIS PHOTO! I found this while browsing through beer cans on Google for a portfolio project I'm working on. HOW HILARIOUS!

6. Pastels for Spring. I Love Love LOVE pastels and that includes gorgeous nail polish. So dreamy!

7. Cake from Helvetica! I don't care how played out Helvetica may be, I love the typeface and I love it even more when it's paired with cake and pastel icing! Oh, and sprinkles! Yum!

8. Typographic Video of The Features by Sean Morphy. Merissa showed me this earlier today as the guy who made it also won the auction for the autographed Features TOMS on ebay (Roger, the bassist, works at our school). I have to say, I LOVE the way he did this. I keep watching it over and over and over!

9. Last but totally not least... Gorgeous artwork by PIGMALEO STUDIO. Everything about these is phenomenal. The textures, the colors, the glitter! Oh my!

♥ (all photos courtesy of WeHeartIt, Tumblr, and Google) ♥

What are YOU loving this week?!

My Birthday & Toby! (Image Heavy!)

First off, thank you to each and every one of you who wished me a Happy Birthday yesterday! It means a lot to me and I'm happy to say it was a splendid day. Typically birthdays don't go very well for me but I can safely attest to the awesome friends that I have and I'm lucky to have someone like Mike. It's all worth it!

Now where to start it... The past few days, Mike and I have been going gaga over these delicious little fruit snacks from Kroger. I LOVE SHARKS, obviously, so I had to snag up a box. At $1.25, they're DEEEELISSSHHH! AND they're vegan! Even better! Seriously.. go buy some. So good!

I spent some time after class yesterday at Barnes & Noble, looking for inspiration and picking up a new journal/sketchbook to keep all of my school thumbnails in. I picked up this one because 1. I'm in love with the design and 2. I love the color, but after thinking about how I couldn't bend it, I put it back for a different one (Turns out Jordan, Caitlin, Amanda and I THINK someone else, has the same little notebook! funny :P) Anywhoo, I want to get a print of this and hang on our large wall behind the couch in our room.

My little birthday present to myself was the Special UN-Anniversary Edition of Alice in Wonderland. Sorry, but Tim Burton can suck it. The Disney version will always have my heart.

This is what I wore for my birthday yesterday. Broke out the kite banner dress!

I have some seriously amazing friends. Honest. Upon arriving to school, Merissa had folded a paper crane on my desk that said "open me".... it was a picture of a gorgeous turquoise stone owl necklace she had bought me but it hadn't arrived yet. I'll wait to show you because I want to show you the actual thing. It's MARVELOUS!

Kayce came strolling into class and brought me a thing of tulips! So excited! These are now on our back deck soaking up a little bit of sunshine. I can't wait to break out the planters of flowers and such this spring/summer!

Caitlin got me this EPIC shark poster (they know me so well!), a gorgeous smelling Citron Basil candle for Paper Rock Scissor downtown and she even did a little portrait of me and put it in the most gorgeous frame! She found the frame at Goodwill and said she was like "tacky floral frame? Kaelah will love it!" and I do!

We had plans to go to The Pond (a local bar) for a bit after classes and stuff but Kayce ended up having plans she didn't know about and all that jazz so we decided on rain check. I've started planning a big Picnic in Pinkerton for next Friday afternoon. Balloons, Shark Cake, good friends and sunshine! If you're in/around Franklin, let me know if you want to come! The more the merrier!

Instead of doing The Pond, Mike and I made plans to continue with our normal Tuesday night activities... which means every Tuesday night, provided something decent is playing, we go to the movies. We started this tradition a little while ago and it's stuck. Everyone at the theater knows us now haha We saw "Hot Tub Time Machine"... it was funny. Definitely a good laugh, but I probably wouldn't see it again. Afterwards we ran to grab some groceries, came home, he cooked me some Veggie Stirfry (I'm not lying when I say I could live on this stuff!) and we watched FOUR more episodes of Dexter! (Only 1 left in season 3! eep!) Then it was sleepy time!

Today I woke up and headed over to class. Katie, Caitlin, Jordan, Kayla, Merissa and I headed up to Athens Paper afterwards to get some nice paper for our Print Design 2 coffee table book project. Merissa and I took the Yeep (her amazing red jeep) with the top off. We were there foreverrrr! But we all got plenty of awesome paper. Afterwards, she and I headed over to East Nashville to meet Kayce for some drinks at Red Door East. She introduced us to her friend Bobby and the 4 of us had good conversation and a nice time. This weather is glorious! Her friend Bobby is starting a business called SunnyDaze which is like skateboard apparel I believe. I'll have to keep my eyes/ears open for it & spread the word. We stayed for about an hour and a half and decided to try to get home. Bad idea. We were stuck in traffic FOREVER. What would typically be a 25 minute drive home turned into an hour and fifteen. Oh Nashville! On our way, though, Merissa got a call from Caroline... the TOMS internship coordinator. EXCITEMENT! She had a phone interview and will have her second one later this week. PLEASE EVERYONE KEEP YOUR FINGERS AND TOES CROSSED FOR HER! If anyone deserves this opportunity, it's Merissa. She's gone above and beyond for me so many times and I can't imagine them ever passing her up! Eeep!

She dropped me off at home and stayed for a hot minute, then Mike and I went to Blue Coast Burrito for some veggie burritos. Now we're at home, blogging and whatnot. About to watch the last episode of Dexter, then catch up on Community, The Office and Modern Family. Phew!

OH OH OH... I'm so excited to show you all pictures of Toby! I have sooo many on my phone and he has just stolen my heart completely. Mike has decided that it's okay to put his pictures up because his desire to show him off outweighs any kind of fear. Prepare for him to melt your heart!

The first two are from the first time I ever met Toby... back in January! Awww! And his first trip to Sweet CeCe's!

Here's one from Centennial Park when Mike got to see him walk for the first time (and say DaDa!)!!!

The last few are from this past weekend. I bought him a little lamb at Target and he was enamored with it! So precious! The last one is from the TOMS Style Your Sole party that Merissa hosted on campus. Excuse the fact that I look ridiculous messy/chubby/awful hahaha I hate wearing jeans and I had VERY VERY little sleep! :P (The Chik-fil-a cow loved to play with Toby... I think it's funny Mike and I are standing with a cow that has a shirt saying "eat more chicken" and we don't even eat meat haha)

ANYWAY - so sorry for the overload! Stuff catches up with me! I hope you're all having a marvelous week thus far! I can't believe that April starts tomorrow! Eep!

xoxo

Book Project: Last Chance to Submit

I could REALLY use everyone's help on this project! Please read and send in stuff! You can send as many items/scans as you want! Don't limit yourself!

I'm ~stalking submissions. I'm doing a coffee table book for my Print Design 2 class and I'm taking submissions for it (It's just for my portfolio... not for sale). The idea is to have photos/polaroids/pictures of something that means a lot to you ("What Makes Your Heart Flutter?"). Then on a plain white piece of paper, write your name, age, location, and what it is/why it is important to you. These will be scanned into a large format coffee table book. I want it to be very personal so thats why I'm asking for you to write with your own handwriting and scan it in. I have to have submissions by Sunday, April 4th at the latest and they need to be 300dpi or better (Hi-Res). You can scan them in and email them to me or you can mail them to my PO Box if you'd like. If you submit something and would like to see the final product, I will gladly email you a PDF of it (just say you'd like one!). If you're interested in participating, feel free to leave your email below, email me, or pop over to my journal and let me know! I'm sure so many of you have awesome things you'd like to share so I hope it is okay that I open this up to you!

If you'd like to see an example of what I mean, just let me know! I'll try to post one ASAP. You can email your submissions to kaelahbee(at)gmail(dot)com

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