irene carole: 01/01/2009

Busy busy busy

I praise God for He keeps me busy.

And praise God for people who keep me busy as well.

{headband orders were to the max today, as well as other business}

The past 24 have felt like 48 because soo much has gone on, and soo much has been soo good and though it may be overwhelming, God is so good. Too good really. His blessings never seem to stop, and though I am surely undeserving of such things His love is steadfast.

Maybe it's me, maybe God's been growing me so much my eyes are more aware of His blessings and goodness all around me, or maybe His blessings are just that much more than usual, either way I am so delighted to be in His favor. None of this has been my own doing, none of it, it's all been God's grace and provision and I praise Him for the lot of it!

New York city here I come!! Please don't freeze me to death or eat me alive for I have work to do and only two days to do it. Praise God for weekend trips, headshots and actor friends who give me reason to travel and shoot!

Please keep me in your prayers, I'll be taking on the Big Apple by myself for the first time ever and in the dead of winter, but I know God's got me safe in His hands. Have a wonderful, possibly white weekend {east coast} and keep warm!!!

Wall love!

Ok, so the last how every many entries have pretty much been Valentines Day driven by all the amazing Etsians posting up their Vday products that have caught my eye. But let me diverge from that for a moment and share some Etsy love for any day. Wall Work's shop is super lovely!

My mom did tons of cross stitching when we were younger, and one of her pieces still hangs by the front door of my best friend's family's house today, so cross stitching is very dear to me though I don't do it myself. Wall Work's shop brings me back to my mom's art but has so much modern flair it's inspiring and refreshing.

SHOP: Wall Work

Little counts alot of awesomeness!!

EveryLittleCounts's shop is AMAZING!

I love love love a good V-neck tee, these are truly amazing!

SHOP: EveryLittleCounts

I love you more than ____________

I love you more than blank is such an awesome love filled website. Simple in design and amazing in concept. A place were you can proclaim your own love, as well as see the love of others. I left the site with warm fuzzies and I bet you will too. Here are my favorites.

i love you more than the miles we are apart
i love you more than photoshop magic
i love you more than warm blankets on a winter night
i love you more than pooh loves his honey
i love you more than my macbook
i love you more than i love loving you
i love you more than you love loving me
i love you more than watching FRIENDS reruns
i love you more than i love to blog
i love you more than cupcakes
i love you more than i love books
i love you more than One tree hill
i love you more than ms. piggy loves kermit
i love you more than sunshine
i love you more than video games
i love you more than jim loves pam
i love you more than target

I'm about to submit my own blank, and I think I'm going to go with

"I love you more than tea" ... 'tis very me.

Fill in your own blank!!

{I'd love to know your blank}

Buy some blank

Smitten by Rosie Music

I'm completely smitten by Rosie Music's shop take a look and see why.

Besides theses lovey dovey prints I do adore the rest of her art work.

Rosie Music Rocks!!

Rini & Faith's new look

I had time to design a little something the other day and decided to give my shop and shop's blog a little face lift. I miss designing and getting creative like this so I dabbled in a little more .. here is just a little bit of my design mess.

The Bird and the Bee

I love their quirky tunes, though I've forgotten about them for some time. I was flipping through the tv earlier and saw them on Jay Leno .. they sang My love, my favorite of their tracks. Have a listen ...

Gotta Love The Bird and The Bee

Collection of the week {60}

I love love love love love Michele Maule's collection on Paper n Stitch!!!

This is just the cutest darn print ever!!!

I love letters, and I love writing and I love a beautiful design.

And how bout this print, this is tooo cute too!! It's tittled "It's Okay"

Michele Maule rocks!

Check out her etsy

and her blog

Collection of the week {59}

I missed last week but here's the collection I did want to share. I was browsing around Paper and Stitch, a site I'm currently addicted to, and landed on A beautiful party's collection. A beautiful party is also found on etsy and has a fun blog as well.

A beautiful party

Oh bugger ...

So all week long I've been sick. Took one sick day but worked through the rest of the week. I felt a little bit better yesterday, but this morning upon waking up I felt super sick all over again. Blowing my nose and throwing up all week is no fun, but by the week's end I've learned that there's a bug going around. I think I have a cold on the side of the bug ... and from what I've heard the bug has gotten a bunch of my coworkers {before I came into work this week}, my sister's coworkers, and even the girls from church. I hope this bug doesn't get you too, so have a happy healthy weekend, and hopefully I'll see you on the other side of it feeling all better.

Share the love of being JesusBranded

YOU CAN HELP!

Be JesusBranded, help this amazing company continue to share the love of God

and the love of design to others. Tees and long sleeves are only $10, hoodies $15!!!

***edit: I didn't have much time to elaborate early this morning but now that I do I hope you take the time to visit JesusBranded.com. Speaking as a sister in Christ as well as a fellow artist, I have been so blessed as well as proud to see these guys use their amazing talent to help others as well as share the love and beauty of Christ with simple t-shirts. Help them stay afloat and "if its within your means, to please visit www.jesusbranded.com and buy even a single t-shirt."***

All Downhill from Here

Easily a new Favorite of mine, Amy Kuney

Sound familiar ... maybe you heard her here ...

Amy Kuney = love love love!

Single or Taken

Single or Taken, look cute either way

Keep Warm with a Winter Song

Finally a music video. I love love love this song.

The music video is perrrrrfect!

Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson

Paper Source

During my date day with Tim in Reston Town Center we stopped by Paper Source {as I requested} and boy was there to much to see. Here just a few of my favorite finds in the store.

Vera Wang Note Box

Orla Kiely Journal

Oops eraser

This Letterpress Desk calendar

Bliss Mug

Doodlebook Frame

At the end of our Paper Source visit Tim kicked me out of the store so that he could get me my Valentine's Day present. I wonder what is it, and I'm super excited to find out {and no worries there was no peaking.} But look at that smirk, what could it be?

Beholding Your Beauty

Beholding Your beauty is all I long for

To worship You Jesus with my soul's desire

For this very heart you've shaped for your pleasure

The purpose to lift your name high

Snowy Monday

Praise God for snowy Mondays,

And praise God for special people to share it with.

Coloring Day

It was coloring day with Ms. Rio Joy Laxa.

When we started that morning I had hair that was black as night. And though my hair looks retarded in the first shot, it only looks that way 'cause I let it air dry. {My cut is exactly the same in both shots, and is another one of Rio's amazing works of art} When we finished I had peek-a-boo color like fire going from my bangs and wrapped all the way around to the back of my head. We didn't get to the color we were aiming for quite yet, coz my hair would only lift so much, and didn't take to much to the pink, but with a little Photoshop help, here is a preview of where my color is gonna go.

Though my color is halfway there, coz today when I woke up it was pinker than it was last night.

I guess the color set in some more while I was snoozing.

Subject A & Subject B

Subject A. My current color {washed out by to much light ... I couldn't get a picture that's true to the exact shade in my hair but it is richer and a bit pinker than that} Subject B. A bit of photoshop help, this is the color we're aiming for. But even if we don't turn up the pink coz I'm happy either way, Rio Joy did an awesome job, especially since we were short on time too.

Thanks Rio Joy you rock!

I've never done color before because I loved my super black all natural hair,

but gee golly I love love love my new rock star locks!

Guess who got her hair colored ...

hehe .. Stay tuned for the big reveal!
{Rio is truly amazing!!!}

In the afternoon time

Though day has already turned to night, this week my afternoons spent at home before work have been filled with a coffee table of love. Cake for three {Me, myself and I}, yarn to make orders, my favorite magazine, a book to keep things interesting, passion tea to keep me warm, and our DS to have some fun. Praise God for the little blessing that make up our day.

{My mornings look a whole lot different}