Lazy Jane

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By: Shel Silverstein

Hey you guysssss.

No time for being a lazy lazy lazy Jane this week.

Big ole show this Thursday in Nashville. I would so love to see you there Leavie Friend!

Here are the deets...

I am also dropping off my first shipment of work to a surprise store in Franklin TN 

(right outside of Nashville)

I can not wait to post about this AMAZING space.

ok, ok! You twisted my arm!

Check it out...

The Iron Gate is the kind of space I dream of!!

Hope you had an amazing weekend.

Raleigh was wonderful as always and I went to my first ACC football game. 

Not quite like an SEC ... but we still had so much fun.

I flew home yesterday on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

The flight attendants and sweet souls working the counters could not have been more kind and warm; making everyone in the airports feel as comfortable and safe as possible.

I was beyond impressed.

Hope we all never forget what it means to be an American!

xo,

leavie rose = award winna!!

Hey lovies! 

I have been a bad, bad blogger as of late. Please do forgive me!

We did get a little award though. Yipee.

The sweet Carolyn over at It doesn't Fall far from the tree presented little ole Leavie with this fun award.

I am to tell 7 things about myself and pass on the love.

Lets get this party started...

welp.

1.

My friends call me Carrie Potter. 

heehee.

these were taken while working the soda kiln at school

2. 

 I went to college on a D1 scholarship to play soccer at Birmingham Southern. 

(pretty proud of that)

After that little freshie year of getting my behind kicked, I boxed up my cleats and headed to 

Oxford MS

 for the grove, the square, big hair, and their art program.

it wasn't any fun, i promise.

3. 

I was in school for painting and HAD to take a ceramics class to graduate.

This CRC girl did not particularly like playing in clay and put off taking the ceramics class until the summer before my junior year.

That was a pretty scary call to my daddy. "Hey puppy, I think I want to be a potter..."

He was and still is amazing about it all.

The rest is history my friends.

actually...

 I started making flowers to cover up my mistakes on the wheel.

Yes, I am serious.

These were my first pieces. 

I love looking back at them, haven't the flowers changed so much??

4. 

Wanna be real sweet to me??

Bring over a Coke Icee, Reese Pieces, a trashy magazine, and I am all yours!

I love getting prizes almost as much I love giving prizes.

5. 

I kinda reeeeeally love all things trashy.

Teen Mom, love it. Bachelor, oh yea. Real House Wives, just stop it!!

Don't judge.

I work from home... usually in my jamies.

6. 

 A fruitful day for CRC is working in the morning. 

Hitting the gym around lunch time.

Then,

getting an iced coffee from Starbucks and getting back to work.

As well as...

Throwing day = outside with my beloved Pandora

Flower making = Lifetime Movie marathon

Glazing day = Country Music Videos

7.

The only way I can make it through the day is 

through the support of my supa fabulous girl friends, amazing family, sunshine, live music, knowing that the water is a short drive away and of course Diet Coke.

Sistas

NMP

puppy dog daddy

nurse A

momma

brother bear.

I just have to add...

Beluga Whales are my favorite animal and green is my fave color.

Totally impressed if you made it to the end!!

Thanks for all of the love and support for CRC. 

It has truly been an amazing blessing.

Passing the award onto 2 of my favorite blogs and pretty amazing girls:

Hadley Designs 

and

Mack

xo always lovies!!

lovely advice

FYI - this is about to be a really, really goobie post.

Health:

1. Drink plenty of water.
2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
4. Live with the 3 E’s – Energy, Enthusiasm and Empathy
5. Play more games.
6. Read more books than you did in 2010.
7. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
8. Sleep for 7 hours.
9. Take a 10-30 minutes walk daily. And while you walk, smile

Personality:

1. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
2. Don’t have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
3. Don’t over do. Keep your limits.
4. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
5. Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip.
6. Dream more while you are awake.
7. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
8. Forget issues of the past. Don’t remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
9. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don’t hate others.
10. Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present.
11. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
12. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
13. Smile and laugh more.
14. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

Society:

1. Call your family often.
2. Each day give something good to others.
3. Forgive everyone for everything.
4. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.
5. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
6. What other people think of you is none of your business.
7. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

Life:

1. Do the right thing!
2. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
3. However good or bad a situation is, it will change. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
4. The best is yet to come.
5. Your Inner most is always happy. So, be happy.

Hey, I warned you!! I just couldn't help with all of this preciousness. 

advice via elements of style blog and images are via pinterest.

Can I do just a couple more??

ahh, ok I think I have gotten all of the furry baby animal love all out of me.

Happy Tuesday friends!!

Hope you liked the lovely advice, I thought it was all pretty relevant.

whoops. one more :)

the best lovely advice is this though:

My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness...

Therefore I am well content with weakness, with insult, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ's sake: for when I am WEAK, then I am strong.

2 Corinthian 12: 9-10

xo always lovies!!

who is excited?

It is just around the corner, 23 day in fact. I am excited to see what she wears but not quite this excited...

via

holy royal wedding memorabilia!!

xo always,

poof

Ole Miss = land of the poof.

I come from south Alabama, its a miracle if you can get shoes on us let alone teasing our hair.

I'm telling you my girlfriends have this hair teasing thing down to an art and I have always been enamored with it. Living in the sorority house I quickly learned that my Mississippi girls always have that comb in their purse and hairspray close by. I love it!

I found an article on thelane about the bump it and these images take me back to game day mornings at the KD house getting ready for the grove. (tear.) Kinda makes me want a mimosa...

watch out Tom Brady.... that poof will get you every time.

Cat, this post was for you! Can't wait for your bachelorette this weekend. Love you so much sista, I know there will be poofs all over the place!!

xo always!