5/52

A personal project in which I document something I ate, something I wore, something I made, and something I explored once a week, every week, in 2014.






Something I ate: jambalaya. My #1 favorite food group might be Italian, but closely behind at #2 is Creole.
Something I wore: scoop neck chiffon top from... Old Navy! I've never been an Old Navy fan until recently, but goodness, they've been nailing it these past few months.
Something I made: a bookmark. (Ha!) I doubt this is what Zach had in mind when he asked if I had any scraps of paper laying around that he could use to hold his place, but, you know. Go big or go home ;)
Something I explored: our backyard full of snow. (I shared more photos from our snow day here.)


5/52 features photos from January 30-February 5. See all posts in the "52 Weeks" series here.

4/52

A personal project in which I document something I ate, something I wore, something I made, and something I explored once a week, every week, in 2014.






Something I ate: crock-pot BBQ chicken (with tater tots, because hi, I'm five). This chicken is the first crock-pot recipe Zach learned to make when we got married... and we still eat it pretty often :)
Something I wore: red plaid flannel shirt from Old Navy with one of my favorite knit hats from ModCloth.
Something I made: matted & framed this photobooth strip from our honeymoon. It makes me smile so much!
Something I explored: a little bit of High Point University and the world of a cappella music for Corrie's Riff Off. (More photos from the event were shared here.)


4/52 features photos from January 23-January 29. See all posts in the "52 Weeks" series here.

3/52

A personal project in which I document something I ate, something I wore, something I made, and something I explored once a week, every week, in 2014.






Something I ate: bagel bites, lest you ever think this will one day turn into a gourmet food blog. Just keeping it real over here, y'all. Bagel bites are still one of my favorite foods to this day.
Something I wore: this dress (yes, dress) from New York and Company, lest you ever think I'm capable of pairing together skirts and blouses first thing in the morning. There is not enough coffee in the world.
Something I made: lots and lots of heart confetti. I tend to go crazy with the paper punch.
Something I explored: the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and the Nature Research Center in downtown Raleigh. Zach and I had such a fun little adventure in our own city.


3/52 features photos from January 16-January 22. See all posts in the "52 Weeks" series here.

2/52

A personal project in which I document something I ate, something I wore, something I made, and something I explored once a week, every week, in 2014.

(ps: I'm only, like, four weeks behind already, but I refuse to give up just yet ;) I have been taking pictures(!), but getting them from my memory card onto my on-the-fritz laptop is another challenge. I hope to play catch-up in the next couple of weeks and get back on track.)






Something I ate: tacos, although mine were more plain than Zach's photogenic creation.
Something I wore: white button-up with little black polka dots from Old Navy.
Something I made: channeling my inner Kal Barteski (one of my favorite artists) with some brush script.
Something I explored: the lake/trail in our "backyard" (Zach thinks it's hilarious that I constantly refer to the area directly behind our apartment building as our "backyard," but that's clearly what it is, right?


2/52 features photos from January 9-January 15. See all posts in the "52 Weeks" series here.

1/52

I absolutely love the 52 Weeks series on Bleubird, a project where James Kicinski McCoy takes a portrait of each of her four children once a week throughout the year. I love it so much that I wanted to do something similar in 2014, but I obviously have no kids and (much to Zach's relief) didn't think a portrait of my husband once a week throughout the year would be the same ;)

Sooo... I've made up my own four categories to document each week: something I ate, something I wore, something I made, and something I explore(d). (Like my attempt at making that rhyme?) I'll share the photos on here once a week, and 52 weeks from now, I should have a pretty grand collection of snapshots that reflect my life in 2014.






Something I ate: cajun chicken pasta, leftover from date night at Chili's. It's my #1 favorite.
Something I wore: white sweater from Ann Taylor LOFT (and glasses due to a tiny eye infection)
Something I made: cards for my sisters. Katherine is in her final semester of college and begins her first day of student teaching tomorrow, and Corrie just made it home today after an 11-day stay in the hospital.
Something I explored: absolutely nothing, because it is WAY too cold to go exploring. Lazy day snuggles.


1/52 features photos from January 1-January 8. See all posts in the "52 Weeks" series here.