I'm back! Eric and I just returned from an amazing honeymoon in Europe. We had the best time adventuring in France and Switzerland the last two weeks, but it feels so good to be home back with our fur children. Blogging has taken a backseat for awhile with moving, conferences, and wedding p…

Not sure about you, but after the last few weeks I could use some warmth. When I was going through images for my DesignerVaca post a few weeks ago, I came across my pictures from my favorite part of my trip to Palm Springs: Moorten's Botanical Garden. This place is a plant geek's dream, with…

I am so excited to finally post that we bought our first house! After a year of searching we finally found our perfect little blue home in our favorite Charlotte neighborhood. There are plenty of posts to come with photos and tours, so I thought I'd just share what I learned during this who…

Happy February! The new year has had be thinking of all sorts of professional goals, planning out meetups, and looking forward to conferences. Thinking about this, I realized I never got around to blogging about my last conference of 2014 - DesignerVaca! DesignerVaca is a 2-day anti-confere…

So we finally make it to our last leg of the Peru trip, and my last blog post about Peru: Lima!  Before taking our trip to Peru, I read a lot of posts about how you should skip Lima and spend as much time as possible in other parts of the country. Don't listen to these people. Yes, the…

Guys. I can't believe it's almost been a year since I traveled to Peru. I also can't believe I never finished blogging about my trip. So much time has past! Friends have taken this trip after me based on my recommendations that I sadly never bothered to write on here. Thus, I'm committing my…

I realized the other day that our wedding is only a little over 100 days away - eeek! Eric and I have been procrastinating on planning as per usual, but since the holidays are over we've tried to kick it into high gear. Today I sent off the final save the dates and thought I should share the…

Happy New Year! 2015 has been off to a great start. Eric and I rang in the new year with good friends and our pups, watched the Panthers win their first playoffs game, and started the house-hunting process again.  As you know, every year I set a few resolutions for myself. You can see …