Boo on Spring Forward (and a Texas Style Council mixer!)

Happy Tuesday everyone! Anyone else seriously off-kilter after the "spring forward" time change this weekend? I absolutely love the extra hour of daylight in the evening, but waking up at 7 AM to still-pitch-blackness throws my mornings all off. So much so that I didn't blog yesterday. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. :)

Over the weekend I attended a couple Texas Style Council mixers, and as always, it was refreshing and fun to spend time with local bloggers, talk shop, eat treats, and meet cool new people. Friday night's party was at Langford Market on 2nd (a sweet little boutique you should definitely check out if you haven't yet!), and of course I snapped a few photos to remember the evening by.  Tomorrow I'll be sharing more from my time with Lilly Pulitzer and the shop hop in the Domain. It was so much fun.

Hope you have a wonderful day! See you tomorrow...

from left: Britt, Kristen, me, my SIL Kelsey, and Shanna

pretty Nikol! 

That day I met Sarah Tucker…

It’s such a strange experience, to be in the flesh with someone who you’ve stalked on the Internet for so long. I began reading Sarah’s blog when I first started SOML, and vice versa, and honestly, she’s felt like a part of my life for more than a year and a half now. She’s been off gallivanting around Europe and back around to Florida, capturing her beautiful life in photographs and sweet words, and I’ve immensely enjoyed getting to know her. Meeting up in real life was the perfect cherry on top. She’s just how she seems on her blog… gorgeous and sweet as pie. She made the two hour trek to Orlando and took Kristin and I down to Winter Park for some lunch and shopping, and the day just couldn’t have been more perfect. (well, I suppose it could have been cooler and less humid, FLORIDA.)

Here’s some photographic evidence from the day… if I didn’t have these pictures, I might have believed it was all just a nice dream. :)

 

After lunch we headed to THE Rifle Paper Company store… like kids in candy shop, we were. :)

bought this one for Matthew <3

And there you have it! Our fun little afternoon in Winter Park. Thanks again for a lovely first IRL meeting, Sarah!