Photo A Day May: Something You Made

Well this wasn't an easy choice. I like making things. It makes me happy. I decided to go with the most recent thing that I have made.

Seeing as I love nail polish, frankening was the next inevitable step. Frankening is pretty much taking pre-made polish and mixing them to create new "custom" colors. These are three of those creations.

I'm hoping to start creating more polish, from scratch, in the next few weeks. It's something I have been wanting to do for awhile. So hopefully things will go well and you'll be seeing some of my creations soon!

Life: FB page

Yep, jumped on the bandwagon...


...come visit me on the new The Thing About Daisies Facebook page!

Photo A Day May: Snack

Really do I have to say anything else? Except maybe to apologize to my waistline. 

Photo A Day May: Grass, Love and What You're Reading

The grass is finally greening up here, which is so mind blowing to me. Here it is the middle of May and when we left Ohio in March Nate had already had to mow the lawn. This grass is right by the community mail box and every time I get our mail I just want to kick off my shoes and squish my toes in it. 

Love is something that Nate always makes sure that I feel. Sometimes it's as simple as stopping to hug me and say I love you. Other times it's a beautiful bouquet of some of my favorite flowers. These beauties were given to me yesterday. 

Domino is back! I picked up a copy last night and have been scouring it for decorating ideas. I already have at least 5 pages earmarked.

Photo A Day May: Something that makes you happy and Mum

Man apparently I have a hard time reading a list. Somehow I glazed over yesterday's challenge of something that makes me happy. Yesterday's challenge and today's kind of go hand in hand as something that makes me happy is daisies and something that reminds me of my mom is also daisies. So enjoy two days worth of daisy posts!

Every spring in Dayton the roadsides would go white with mass amounts of daisies. Every spring I would want to put over on the interstate to take pictures and lay in them. But I refrained. Luckily one day I was able to get close to a patch. It's hard not to be happy when you are surrounded by such a happy flower.

It's Mother's Day and I don't have the option to share it with my mother. It's a holiday that I will never again celebrate, not for myself and not with my mom. But every year I take the time to remember her and how amazing she was. Having daisies around is one of my simple ways to help me remember. Be it having fresh daisies, a picture, a necklace or art. At my wedding a bouquet of daisies sat on the closest chair to me as a memorial for my mom.