It's a beautiful day

I'm sitting here enjoying this amazing Arizona Spring day, about to head out to a little sewing group and an early Easter dinner so I thought I'd check in and give you a teeny tiny update: 

One:                                                                                             
I'm a little late on posting this, but my Android-owning self hopped on the Instagram train the other day!! Find me using this screen name: @adie_ if you'd like :)

Two:

Happy happy happy Spring, and for those that celebrate, happy Easter!

Three::

Remember when I was freaking out about Titanic 3D here? Welp, I don't know if Danielle and I could have enjoyed it more. For those of you that have seen it too, wasn't it MUCH crazier in 3D? I have a strange fascination/mortal fear of large vessels inside and outside of large bodies of water, so when key horrible events were happening related to the above, I was seriously shaking in my boots (Danielle and probably half of the theater can attest to that!)
Aside from that, I also really loved that Danielle and I made a point to re-analyze the movie even though both of us have seen it countless times throughout our lives. I guess it was really special to re-watch it through our new life 'lenses' and see which heart strings were tugged now that we're older and have new priorities in life.

Four:

I'm making headway in Patti Smith's book, Just Kids. It's amazing, and I'm really going to hate the day I finish it. The writing comes across with such ease that it seems like she is one of my good friends. When I read books like that it really infiltrates my life. So much so, that I have to resist the strange urge to tell her life stories as if they are my own, or those of a good friend..."Oh, you're reading a Ginsberg book? Well, when I first met him, he thought I was a boy and bought me a sandwich!" ahahaha ;) If you haven't already, I really recommend it.

Five:

Mixed blessing alert! I didn't pass a placement test for school (for those of you that don't know, I'm getting my post-baccalaureate certification in Elementary Education...more on that in a future post) which would have allowed me to take my final 3 classes in the program. This means that I will have to push back those classes until the Fall, which is when I'd planned on finishing the whole shebang and when I'd hoped to be doing my student teaching...a big fat delay in my whole process. BIG BUMMER, right? 
Well, I'm just saying fughheettabooout it! I can' change it, so I might as well embrace it as a beautiful opportunity to work harder in the studio. So, I've decided I'm going to produce a Spring/Summer Adiemade update. Keep those beautiful eyeballs peeled, because I have a few great one of a kind and other special pieces in the works. 

I'd better get back out there and enjoy this beautiful weather! I hope you all are as well and are having the most amazing day evvaaarrrr!!
xoxo,
Adie

Happiness is

 

A 60 degree day on the 3rd of March
A "Hello, life is beautiful" kind of day

One filled with children
with love
and with chocolate
Lots
of
chocolate

Where there are hammocks and swings
teepees and chickens
soda pop and fresh baked cookies
cows and horses
and ipods and wiis
beer and spagetthi
ponds and wiener dogs

Where this family that you totally love...
discusses "remember when"s and "that one time"s
And you listen
and you're grateful

for that little kid over there spilling soda on the floor
for his killer score in the Michael Jackson Experience
for the...I hope it's chocolate...stuck to your laundry

the Adele sing along sessions
the underdogs
learning the Thriller dance with your boyfriend's Mom
and all of the laughs
and every single smile

 

Today was Addison's sister and neice's birthday party in Skull Valley. It was beautiful. Just what I needed. Happy birthday to Shauna and Sophia! Love you!
xoxo,
Adie

Hi, 2012!

So, I took forever to begin writing this post.
I really wanted it to be amazing...it's a post about the new year, after all. I wanted to encapsulate my year of 2011. I wanted to scrawl and scratch out all of it. The beautiful and the ugly. The tiny, stunning memories I wanted to hold on to forever.

I wanted to write about how much better 2012 will be, because it's always supposed to be 'better', right? Oh boy. I wanted to do that.
But, you know what? I'm not gonna.

Because, when I sat down to get it all out, to shower the interwebs with all of 2011's beautifully complicated intricacies as I bid it adieu and welcomed in 2012, all I could come up with was this:


"2011 was...hhmmm...like any other year."

Good, bad, ugly, serendipitous, beautiful, horrible, incredible, normal, new, old....all the time. 
In 2011, I lived. 

It's a strange place to be in, this 5-days-into-a-new-year sorta place. It feels like we're commanded to be either saying goodbye to the past or welcome the future with open arms. I mean we have all of the "year in reviews", the "best of" stuff, the resolutions, all of the "this year I will....", but where is the RIGHT NOW?


Well, you guys, here is my now:


Hearing my sweet love saying, "I love you. You make me happy." while he cooks a beautiful meal with this beautiful song filling my heart and my ears. Squeezing him tight in our cute, cramped, yellow paint filled kitchen. It's out of a movie and it's right here.

This sweet boy of mine and a small group of friends sure did have a beautiful time saying hello to 2012, though, I'll tell you what. But this year felt different. Maybe it's because it was 'drama'-free. Maybe it's because I'm getting older. Maybe it's just because. But this time it was all about being present. Being present and grateful for it all.

 So, this year, if I 'resolve' to do anything, it'll be to be more grateful for all of the beautiful moments I experience every single day of every single week, in every single month in every single year....while they're happening ;)


xoxo,
Adie

A little late...

Hiiiiiii!
So, this is awkward... I know Christmas was soooo last year and all, but I'm finally out of the holiday craze cloud, missing you all and ready to share the few holiday pictures I've been squirreling away for the past few weeks or so! Yay!


Better late than never, as they say ;)

This year, Addison and I decided to have our lover's Christmas celebration early, and boy was that siiiiccckkk! The whole time we were sipping on our "Christmas eve" drinks getting in the spirit, I kept thinking to myself "How cool is it being an adult and just deciding we can have Christmas early if we wanna?" So rad.

On the real Christmas morning, we celebrated with our families and then finished off the night with a trip to the world's largest gingerbread village which just so happens to be in my hometown! I swear that it gets bigger and better every year, and this year was no exception. My heart seriously melts when we walk through those little houses, and I feel a huge amount of calm (as silly as this probably sounds) when I think about the time people take out of their lives to bond with each other in making these candy confections. Amazing! 


So anyway, just in case some of you were out there sitting in front of your computer thinking, "man, I'd really like to look at some more Christmas pictures...like, bad", then you're in the right place ;)

Lover's Christmas Eve (2 days before the real deal)

Biggest Christmas tree you've ever seen, I know

 

 

Christmas snowglobe/music box collection. At my Dad's.

At the world's largest gingerbread village. Prescott's downtown courthouse! <3

 I hope everyone is finding this year to be beautiful and inspiring, and I'll be back soon soon soon (as in probably tomorrow) with my photographs from New Years! xoxo
-Adie

Excited Adie

Hi everyone!
December has been a pretty great month already. I can feel it in my bones, guys. This is going to be one for the books.

Here are some things that have me pumped this month (so far):

Already we have gotten a good amount of snow, which equals LOTS of Adie grumbles. More importantly, however, this also equals lots of quality time with mah man friend. We've been drinking wine, getting all wild and crazy, and doing cool stuff like watching Titanic (we are WILD, I say! Wild!). Speaking of, raise your hand if you're as excited as I am for Titanic 3D to come to theaters in 2012? That right there is reason enough to count down until next year, amirightoramiright ;)

Got this flat out righteous screen shot the other day. Quick! Name that B list celebrity!(wait, C list?)

P.S. Sorry it's so blurry. In the awkward screenshot business, it all happens so fast. You know?

ANNNNDDD, remember when I mentioned how hard I've been working in my studio? Well, I made another update to Adiemade and I'm pretty darn excited about it. There are more to come, so stay tuned. I gotta say, when fun things start a-brewin' for me in my creative mind, I can not even begin to tell you how centered and balanced it makes me feel in every.single.other.area of my life. Amazing! 

I also went ahead and created an Adiemade Facebook page, so if you all are on there and would like to recieve more regular updates about my jewelry, hop over there and become a pal! I'm not going to give tooooo much away right here, but let's just say I have a couple of surprises up my sleeve that FB pals will want to keep up with, if you know what I'm saying ;)

www.adiemade.bigcartel.com

I hope December has you all as excited as I am! As always, thanks for stopping by.
xoxo,
Adie

Grateful for it all

November was a real doosie for me(by the way, THANK YOU to everyone for your kind words on my last post!)...it was filled with really high highs and really low lows. 

Now that it's officially December and all, a part of me would really like to say "alright, November, I wash my hands of you" and move right along, but I feel that I have to take a minute and be thankful for that dang ol November anyway. Sure, November 2011 tested the SHIT out of me. Sure, it gave me some serious curves in the road but that's all they were. Tests and curves. And did I pass? YES! And did I make it around each and every one of those sick little twists? Yes I did! So, here's to that, and making some damn tasty lemonade if you know what I mean.

A few things I am grateful November gave me:

Studio time almost every day and working on the new Adiemade collection with the passion it deserves.

My sweet, loving, patient boyfriend and his love for cooking. My soul thrives on it, I swear.

I love photobooth-what can I say?, a stunning way to wake up, Dog-sitting the coolest wiener dog in all of AZ, Irvin Rex

My sweet 18 year old cat, tulips for heads during Thanksgiving, giving my jewelry collection the love it needed (antler and Japanese 'lunch box' are from my amazing Grandpa Tom)

Retail therapy in the form of an amazing deal on Sam Edelman Adena flats, studio video chat sessions with my gal Alex

This is what I'm looking forward to in December:

Pouring more passion into Adiemade
Making time each day for tea
Eating. LOTS.
Watching "Captain Ron" and "Overboard" more
Retaking my math assessments and not failing (anyone wanna tutor me over the internet? haha)
Leaving more and more space for gratitude in every area of my life
Having my family in one place again
Resuming video chat dates with my long-distance best pals


xoxo,
Adie
 

An Adie Update (not so sunny side up)

This is one of those times when it's all too much. 

Where positivity and strength really have to struggle to find their place. 

Where the only thing left to say is (wait for it...it's my favorite thing to say...) "fuck it". 

This is one of those times when people ask you how you are and you struggle for a minute, vacillating between "OK", "horrible", "What do you care?", "GREAT!" and "I'm hanging in there"...even if those people are just bagging your groceries at Safeway or painting your nails that hot new shade of pink.

These are the times that you wish people were like dogs and that they'd just get it. You know, that they'd flip on their empathy-switch and they'd fetch you an apple fritter and some hot cocoa and wouldn't demand great things of you. These are the times when you think, "hey, if dogs can do it without opposable thumbs, ability to speak, write, OR reason, how come you can't, Mr. Human? Hmm?.."

These are the times that we think quesadillas, pizza, corndogs, AND Starburst are all part of a balanced breakfast. When we gain 20 pounds just thinking about how HUNGRY we are. All. Of. THE. Time.

These are times we talk to the television. When reruns of America's Next Top Model make you cry. When you start saying out loud "I know, girl. I know it's hard" to a woman plastered with makeup in some imaginary land filtered through wires and glass. These are the times you feel that you really see her pain. These are times you feel that you really see everything.

These are the times when you want to be somewhere, over there, over here...Thailand? Hawaii? Maybe Turkey?...Anywhere but where you are. These are the times you wish you had an excuse. You might even wish you were ill with some sort of mild ailment. If it just gave you reason to shut down, to shut off, to slow down. To be.

These are the times you're not so proud of

These are the times of constant roller coaster rides

Up, down, turn it around

upside down, right, left

But the ride oporator is some kind of depraved fuck 

and you. can't. get. off. of. this. damn. ride

These are the times we've all been friends with. We've all snuggled up and drank this time's kool-aid, if you know what I mean. Well, guys. Right now I'm drunk on this Kool-aid and I just wanted you all to know. That's where I am right now. 

It's all gonna be ok though, so I will now reward you all with some humor for reading this post. Just picture me crying watching the gals pictured below on the television. Just put that scene in your mind's eye and giggle-cry with me now. Life is funny. 
  
**************************** WARNING! ******************************
I'm a big nerd (obviously) and like to pass my time by taking awkward screenshots of reality TV stars. The following tiny sampling of my screenshot collection may be disturbing or offensive to some. Consider yourselves warned ;) hehe

I actually really liked her on Project Runway. Like, lots. At this point it seems that I'm just showing off my awkward screenshot collection ...

Now I'm really just bragging about my awesome collection of images cause I like these people.