obsessed.

it has been a long time since i posted something about wedding invitations. a loooong time. tonight i am obsessed with these.

i am in LOVE with the colors. i am OBSESSED with the font. i can't wait to go to work tomorrow and play with it. but my favorite part? the envelope liners...

SO CREATIVE. i am jealous i didn't think of this. the invitation envelope says "you're invited" and the response envelope says "RSVP".

and i love that the script is in all lower case. which, if you didn't know is my personal fave.

photos via oh so beautiful paper.

fall is in the air!

after a cold, rainy saturday followed by a chilly, sunny sunday i am pretty much positive that fall has come to iowa. which i personally love. i already have accepted it and am looking forward to yummy sweaters, boots and jeans. the problem? i am in desperate need of a new fall wardrobe.

i have been wanting my wardrobe to "grow up" (hello, big girl job for almost a year and i'm still wearing the jeans chef got me two years ago...) in the office as well as outside of work. i have a clear picture of what i want to look like in my head. it's basically this:

all i want to do is introduce a little more polish to my wardrobe.

i think i will start with this:

i am now accepting donations for the 'monica needs a new wardrobe' fund.

what are you going to wear this fall?

(all images from jcrew & gap)

dark and twisty.

i have nothing positive to say. i'm feeling a little dark and twisty tonight and i'm letting those emotions get the best of me. i had so many things to tell you! even my cheerful yellow walls aren't doing the trick tonight.

it is feeling very fallish around iowa city tonight. it is making me yearn for new clothes. a new wardrobe. a chance to start fresh. and a textbook.

tomorrow i will head to kinnick to watch my beloved hawkeyes take on ball state. let's hope that they win. pulverize them. break the other teams legs. and for goodness sake, stanzi STAY ON YOUR FEET!

happy weekend - and happy fall!

happy weekend!

ahhh, weekend. isn't it so nice when friday rolls around and you think about how you don't have to go to work in the morning, because its saturday? this is a new phenomena for me because this is my first free-saturday since the opening of the studio. (i am soooo not complaining though, because that means its wedding season - my favorite time of the year! it also means that i busy with work & have job security. double bonus!)

tomorrow is my first football game of the season. i am so excited to make the walk to kinnick with the fam. i love fall. i love football. and i especially love the hawkeyes. (followed closely by the tigers, of course!) but i am not going to talk about football and the weekend. (although, i will tell you that i am excited to eat a hot dog tomorrow. so excited. and i will also tell you that i am in desperate need of a new facebook picture of my stylin' new do. hopefully i can accomplish both of these goals tomorrow!)

aside from watching the hawkeyes show the cyclones how real football is played, i have a few other goals:

• go grocery shopping (we're down to the bare minimums at the condo)
• paint my nails (i'm giving in and going dark. welcome, fall!)
• laundry. ugh-a-bug. i hate putting away laundry. i don't mind the sorting, washing, folding. but i HATE putting it away. isn't that strange? there is currently a nicely folded stack of my clothes on the armchair in my master suite. just sitting there. approximately two feet from the closet where they belong. so after doing the laundry...put it away would be another goal.
• meal plan. (okay, this could go with grocery shopping.) until recently, i gave up drinking soda. it had been a good couple of months without the sweet dark brown syrup, but recently i'm back on the crack pipe. (that's probably not a totes appropriate way to say that...) i have to kick the habit. have you all seen those nutri-grain commercials? where they say one good choice can lead to more good choices (or something like that...)? well, they are right. because with my relapse to the dark stuff i have also picked up on other bad eating habits. candy, 24/7. i can actually feel my teeth rotting. SO gross. hopefully after going grocery shopping i can nail down some healthy choices for lunch, snack, dinner, desert and breakfast. hopefully.
• clean my guest bathroom. i realized this week i have a tub. who doesn't enjoy a good bubble bath, a glass of red wine and a good book?
• clean master suite. head to toe (or floor to ceiling).

don't i sound like a good domestic lady? i should add baking to the list. but i don't want to have too many goals. i like crossing things off my list too much to be an over achiever this weekend.

what are you doing this weekend, huh? hope its ab fab!

{funk}

i'm so sorry.

i have nothing to say.

i'm hoping my writer's block will go away soon.

until then....GO HAWKS!