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I am really trying to be better about taking more pictures so I decided to take some of the pretty foliage of my backyard area. Can you find the gecko in two of the photos?


I will be away for a few days because I am going to Oahu with my mom and her friend Larissa (LeRu) to go thrift shopping for my moms shop! Looking forward to getting off this island for a bit. Hopefully I will be good about taking some pictures of what we find. Have a great Monday!

I have been a little absent from blogging because it took us almost all week to move. We decided that we wanted to live in a newer place and go back to condo living. We rented an older home for about a year and it made us realize that we arent quite ready for the maintenance that an old home requires. Both of us work a lot and it always felt a bit big for just the two of us. Excited to be cleaning less and am loving how modern everything is in our new abode. It smells like a model home and I think our cat is liking it as well. 

I have decided to take a one week break from blogging to help myself catch up on all the work I need to do. I have a lot on my plate right now and as much as I love to blog it is more time on the computer than I can handle at the moment. I will be back next Monday with more posts. Have a great week!

Congratulations to these fabulous winners who participated in our giveaway!

What we are giving away!

1st Place Winner: Gets a 300x100 banner towards the top of our blog for 3 months + a blog post about you or your business! Banner design included. (worth $100)

2nd Place Winner: Gets a 150x150 ad banner placed on our blog for 3 months. Banner design included. (worth $50.00)

3rd Place Winner: Gets a 150x150 ad banner placed on our blog for 1 month. Banner design included. (worth $20.00)

See more details about our advertising HERE>>

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Thank you everyone for participating and helping us spread the word about our new catalog! :)

I just finished the Lovely Clusters Spring 2011 catalog! I am so excited to finally be able to share it with all of you. :) I have pages curated by color and some by spring themes. If you would like to help spread the word about it I would like to enter you in our blog advertising giveaway! Please read below for more details. Thank you and have fun browsing through!

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Giveaway Details:

How to enter:
1. Create a blog post about the new catalog with at least one image of one of the pages (more images HERE) (worth 5 entries!)
2. Facebook, twitter, pin an image on pinterest, or other social network sites. (worth 1 entry each)
3. Come back to this post and leave a comment and provide the link to either your blog post or facebook/twitter etc. links so I can see it. (these comments will only be approved)

What we are giving away!

1st Place Winner: Gets a 300x100 banner towards the top of our blog for 3 months + a blog post about you or your business! Banner design included. (worth $100)

2nd Place Winner: Gets a 150x150 ad banner placed on our blog for 3 months. Banner design included. (worth $50.00)

3rd Place Winner: Gets a 150x150 ad banner placed on our blog for 1 month. Banner design included. (worth $20.00)

See more details about our advertising HERE>>

Please enter by April 15th.

Thank you for your support and helping to spread the word. Good luck!

I am excited to be entering the challenge hosted by JessLC called design YOUR look! The winner gets $200 cash and two pieces from JessLC for the perfect spring look. You can see all the details HERE>>

I can only enter one so I need your help deciding which one! Thank you for your help! :)

Which Look Should I Enter?

Thought I would show some of my favorite photos from our honeymoon trip to Ireland a few years back. Such an amazing place and I just love all of their gorgeous castles. This one below is my favorite. Its still standing!

Last night at around 9:30pm I hear that there is an earthquake in Japan and that there is a tsunami warning for the state of Hawaii. I have gone through several tsunami warnings while I have lived here and so I know what to do to prepare for the worst and fortunately most of the time it doesn't do too much damage. We started to research how severe the earthquake was and came across some pretty scary videos of the tsunami that hit Japan. This is when I started to worry that we could experience something similar. We are only about 75 feet above sea level and they say you should be at around 100 feet. Our safe spot is only about a 5 minute drive and its at around 300 feet.

We ended up going to bed at around 2am after the news let us know that they didn't expect it to hit very hard. I was happy to wake up this morning with everything in tact. Some places got water damage and there is more debris scattered around but nothing too serious. I feel very lucky and my heart goes out to the people that had to experience this horrible catastrophe first hand. I really cannot imagine what my day would be like today if we did get hit like they did. Instead I am spending the day celebrating my husbands birthday. The chocolate fudge cake is in the oven and looking forward to spending some good times with friends.

Thank you everyone for your comments, emails and calls and for thinking of us. It means a ton! :)

I have decided to bring back The Lovelies for the month of February! Last year was a ton of fun and a huge success. I really enjoy being introduced to new shops and blogs and it is so great to see people support one another.

We have some pretty fabulous prizes as well from a few of the gorgeous sellers on Lovely Clusters and I will be posting about them as soon I get them all rounded up.

So if you have to the time please share some love by voting and/or nominating your favorite blogs and shops right HERE>> Thank you and have fun!!

http://loveliesaward.blogspot.com

I recently received a lovely calendar filled with pictures of my husband and I. I am calling it our love calendar. Doing this I realized we do not take enough pictures together so I mainly had my wedding photos in there. They were also the more higher quality ones that I had on my computer. My iphone pictures weren't quite cutting it even though some of the best ones of us are on my phone. :)

Its pretty fun making your photo calendar on the minted site but it helps if you have fast internet. My computer was bogging down that day and it took me a while to upload all the photos. I really love the custom options they let you choose and you can pick which photo you want for each month.

Here is a little peek into our printed copy. Looking forward to using it for the new year!


Here is our holiday card that I also made on the minted site.

Last night was a blast! My friends and I got to get all dolled up for my moms fashion show at the Melting Pot. Everything we are wearing is from my moms shop Hula Gypsy and my friend Mandy on the far right did our hair and makeup. I am the tall one. I got to finally wear my boots for something. :)

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Here is a picture of our tree!I have butterflies, birds, berries, and even acorns. Things you might find in a tree? The teeny tiny stocking is my cats. :)

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Here is a picture from the Ladies ornament exchange party that my mom and I went to. We even got to sit on Santas lap! My mom got a sweet teapot ornament with Alice from Alice in Wonderland inside. So cute.


Hope you enjoyed my pictures. :)

I finally had a chance to take some new photos yesterday. We went on a little road trip up north past my house with some friends. We first went to Honolua Bay and then we stopped at the blow hole and then swam at the Olivine pools.We drove down the road some more and stopped in at my favorite little town in the world Kahakaloa and bought some delicious banana bread and likimoi dried mangos. Yum!

We then ended up in the main town (where the aiport is) and bought our Christmas trees! I am going to buy a few more ornaments and another strand of lights and then I will take some pictures and show you all.