Odds and Ends
(Photo by Simone Anne, via Death to the Stock Photo.)
This time of year always finds me a little uninspired. I think it’s that normal post-holiday slump, plus the weather has been especially awful these past few weeks. I’m a Texas girl, so sunshine keeps me going, and without it, I can feel a bit down. When I taught middle school, our principal would remind us that February was the lowest point in teacher morale, but that things got better from there. I think I just need to get over this winter hump and I’ll be feeling better soon. Here’s to warm spring sunshine and fields of wildflowers!
This weekend, I didn’t do much blog work at all. No photo shoots or research. I think the break is good, and I’m trying to find new sources of inspiration, too. I guess this is a blogger version of my weekly links, but these are things I’m looking forward to soon.
Raven and Lily’s new spring collection is out today, and I’ve seen a few snippets of it on Twitter. Here is the lookbook, which is lovely.
Passion Lilie’s new collection debuts March 1st, and their lookbook is also quite beautiful. Nothing like fair trade dresses to make me think of spring!
I really love this unique necklace from Oh My Clumsy Heart, and I’m hoping it’s back in stock very soon.
I’m almost halfway through Mockingjay, the third book in The Hunger Games series, and this fashion site is so much fun. It’s also incredibly well-done!
We signed up for our first delivery from Greenling, a local food service, and I’m excited to try the produce when it arrives on Wednesday. I hope to post about it soon.
I’ve got the entire fourth season of Downton Abbey on Amazon, so I’m actually ahead of the game when it comes to the Crawleys. I really wish Sherlock was longer (it’s so good!), but I’m hoping to catch Benedict Cumberbatch in August: Osage County soon. He even speaks in a southern accent.
The Winter Olympics start Thursday and I feel so conflicted. These are my favorite games, but I almost never watch live TV these days, due to my little guys and blogging, so I don’t know how much I’ll catch. Plus, the politics are especially awful this year, too. I might have to make due with recaps. Will you be watching?
The Oscars are March 2nd, and I’ve actually seen some of the nominated movies this year! Plus, there’s still time to see more.
I think that’s enough on my plate to keep me going until spring, and I’ll be sure to update when I find new inspiration. How are you getting through the winter?
Your odds and ends posts are always so interesting!
We don’t watch ‘live’ TV anymore, either. I probably watch too much TV, but always on Netflix or Hulu. My dad gave us a digital converter box for our television, but we never got it to work, and we find that we don’t miss it.
Passion Lilie looks like they’re really stepped it up a notch – this lookbook is so nice and summery!
I saw August Osage on the stage years ago, and while I can’t say it was my genre, I am curious to see how they adapted it. I can’t believe Cumberbatch is in it! I think he’s a great actor, but my husband can only associate him with Atonement.
Thank you, I’m trying to stay excited about winter. 😛 I’m excited for Passion Lilie’s new line, too! I forgot he was in Atonement, but I love him as Sherlock.
I don’t know how much of the Olympics I’ll manage to watch; I’m usually not as excited about the winter games as I am the summer ones. (Except for ice dancing. I like that.) But somehow, I always end up going places where they put it on TV, so I’m sure I’ll see some of it. I don’t usually go out of my way to watch though.
In the past, I made it a priority to watch the winter Olympics, but that was before I had kids and when James was really little. I’m not sure what I’ll do this year. 😛
This is always the time of year where I start justifying — February is short! Then in March we have a vacation, and April is allllmost spring, and May is usually when there’s less snow, and by June winter better be over. 😉
Ha! Yes, I keep reminding myself that our winter is nothing compared to so many other people! Thanks for putting it in perspective for me. 🙂