Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future, I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now. – Elisabeth Elliot I saw this quote in a post by @dearmushka while I scrolled through Instagram Sunday
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Sunday Morning At The Plant Sale
Yesterday morning, C and I headed to Bok Tower Gardens for their annual Boktoberfest plant sale. We were on a mission to scope out nurseries for the flower shop, and find new varieties of orchids and air plants to add to our retail inventory. It was a beautiful day at one of my very favorite places.
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Helpful Habits For Non-Morning People
Every night when I go to bed, I tell myself tomorrow’s the day I’ll become a morning person and wake up two hours early. But every morning, my feet hit the floor about thirty minutes before I have to leave the house. Here are some of my best habits for making the most of limited time in the AM.
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What’s In a Name?
Can you believe this blog is five years old? Me neither. You may notice the URL is different. If you didn’t, no worries; that means I did something right with the domain switch and the old links are transferring without a hitch. In which case, hurrah!! After many moons of writing under A Pretty Penny,
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Weekend Throwback
Last Thursday, this giant Cuban sammich and I enjoyed a rare proper lunch break on the patio of my favorite coffee shop, under the shade of an umbrella while a breeze blew, and it was perfect. {There was also a fresh chocolate chip cookie hiding in that brown bag, so consider the sundae of sunshine and
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This and That
*Knocks the dust and Girl Scout cookie crumbs off the keyboard.* {Ahem.} Hey, guys! It’s been a minute since I published a post. I’m giving myself a lot of grace with blogging these days (see: my post on ‘unplugging‘ back in October) because the flower shop keeps me super busy and I want to make
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Unplugging
I started this post a week ago. It languished in draft while I navigated a crazy few days at the flower shop, worked through the weekend, and slept it all off on Sunday. Yesterday, I penciled in some “me time,” and ended up at a bookstore (I always end up at a bookstore) where I
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You sniff it you buy it: A very expensive lesson in essential oils and other recent goings-on.
Last Saturday afternoon, C and I wrapped up work on time [glory be] and went to Ruby Tuesdays for a couple chicken BLTs. Which we’re now hopelessly addicted to; we had back-to-backers over the weekend and I may have talked my parents into meeting me for dinner for another one tonight. It’s a problem. A
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Oh hey, it’s fall!
Hi 23rd day of September! I’ve peeped you on my calendar at least a dozen times over the last several months in an effort to keep a mental note of the inaugural day of Autumn. And then you just kind of came and went, and I durn near missed you! Thank goodness for style blogs, or
