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shelby's transformation, or how she found happy and lost 55 pounds while doing it // lifeplusrunning.com

Marvelous in my Monday: Find happy and the rest will fall into place.

By chimes On May 20, 2013 · 5 Comments

 

 

 

Good morning. I’m spending some lovely time in Colorado right now, but I couldn’t wait to share this inspirational story, so I went ahead and scheduled it while I’m on vacation. I noticed that my friend Shelby had lost a ton of weight, and I asked her to write a guest post [...]

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Blend 2013, here I come!

By chimes On May 16, 2013 · 5 Comments

Tomorrow morning at 4 AM my friend Alex will be picking me up (or maybe I’ll be stopping by her place — we need to pow wow yet) to drive to Des Moines to get on a plane going to Utah for Blend Retreat.

In case you missed all [...]

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PhD, here I come!

By chimes On May 15, 2013 · 14 Comments

Logged in to check my grades today, and I couldn’t wait to share!

My post title is a bit misleading. I’m going towards my MFA in Graphic Design, which is the terminal degree in design in most places. Some places offer a PhD in design but it’s a bit extraneous. My [...]

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Marvelous in My Monday: Mother’s Day

By chimes On May 13, 2013 · 11 Comments

 

This was a pretty marvelous weekend. And a busy one to boot! My mom was coming on Sunday for Mother’s Day so we had a lot of cleaning to do. We hadn’t done laundry for at least a month; two grad students + finals + work = no chores getting done. [...]

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coffee talk.

By chimes On May 11, 2013 · 10 Comments

Have a seat. grab a cup. we’ll talk. no big whoop.

Too many things have been happening lately (event-wise, and life-wise) for me to sit down and do a legitimate update. so i’m going to do it now while i’m drinking my tea (not coffee) before i get ready to go to our college’s convocation [...]

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Graphic Design GEEKGASM.

By chimes On May 8, 2013 · 3 Comments

I’ve been so busy all day that I haven’t even been on Google to notice that the google doodle of the day is an homage to my favorite designer, and probably one of the greatest designers of my time, Saul Bass (thanks for the tip, Kelly!). It would have been his [...]

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Spread some goodness and plant a tree with Odwalla

By chimes On May 8, 2013 · 2 Comments

 

I’d love to plant a tree, or two, or three. Maybe have an orchard. But alas, I rent. So that’s not happening anytime soon.

The only time I ever planted a tree was when I was about 8 years old. I helped my dad plant some trees in our front yard. We moved away [...]

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Pin it Party

By chimes On May 3, 2013 · 2 Comments

I’m participating in the Lean Green Bean‘s pin it party, and these are the 5 posts that I would LOVE to see get some more play and be pinned.

The BEST Valentine’s Gift I ever had tutorial 

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Throw Back Thursday: the infamous co-ed sleepover.

By chimes On May 2, 2013 · 12 Comments

If I’m going to do Throwback Thursday, I have to do a birthday shout out to one of my favorite ladies in the whole wide world, Danielle. She’s been a good friend since the time we were learning how to read. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! May you look your age this year. Here’s a cute pic of [...]

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WIAW: Or that time I managed to over-procrastinate studying for finals.

By chimes On May 1, 2013 · 8 Comments

 

 

Take a peek at the delicious ways that I managed to escape studying (though I had best intentions! I even cleared my calendar), then head over to Peas and Crayons to see what everybody else has been munching.

 

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