Instagram Love

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I'm still totally hooked on Instagram.  Here are a few of my favorite shots this week.  I'd love to see what others are posting on Instagram.  Feel free to post a link in the comments to your profile or favorite picture and I'll becoming a follower.

 

Pine cone in the snowy woods.

 

 

Evidence of New Year's Eve celebrations.

One of favorite holiday foods, mince pies.

Linking up to Deb Duty's This or That Thursday.

Have a wonderful weekend :)

Ali

This week....

I've been having fun with Instagram this week:

Andy and I took a road trip to the Paper Source - always a fun time!  I'm so glad there isn't one near my house because I'd be bankrupt.  I found lots of really cute gifts for my daughter and one or two for myself!  And we had lunch at one of our favorite Italian restaurants, Alta Strata.  Here's a shot of the Paper Source store front - they always have such nice displays.

 

I did a little more holiday decorating around the house:

I know the woods near my house pretty well, so I was excited to discover a  new trail this week.  It's quite a steep climb but at the top you're treated to nice view of the river - frozen at this time of year.

And I finished up the last of the holiday orders for my store.  Check out this cute one:

Thanks for stopping by!

Ali

Double Dip Travel Journal

I was cleaning out the spare bedroom last week and came across an old travel journal from 2005 documenting a family vacation in Vermont.  All the wonderful memories from that trip came flooding back to me when I read it - it was such a gift stumbling across it unexpectedly.

The Double Dip

In a piece written for the Ladies Home Journal, Sandy Fernandez refers to memories as ‘one of the secret weapons of happiness because they offer a double dip’.  She continues to say that it’s scientifically proven that thinking back on a pleasant experience stimulates the same area of the brain that made the event pleasurable in the first place.  

This was definitely true for me looking through the old Vermont album.  

  

Tips:

• Why not try leafing through a scrapbook, photo album or journal you created and see if you re-experience the original joy of the vacation.
•  Keep your scrapbooks out and enjoy them often - don't keep them locked in a closet.
•  Create journals and scrapbooks to document the everyday as well as vacations.  

 

Further reading:

• Project Life by Ali Edwards
• Calendar Tutorial by Kate Crane
• 6 Journaling Ideas by Ali Manning

Thanks for stopping by! 

Friday Favorites - Writers & Graveyards

Last Saturday we spent a lovely day exploring an old graveyard in Concord, MA and nearby Walden Pond with some new friends.  The graveyard is called Sleepy Hallow and is home to the graves of some famous writers, such as Emerson, Thoreau and Alcott.  It was an awesome place to take pictures, so I thought I'd share a few of my favorites today.

Hope you have a fun weekend planned!

Ali