Modish

Seaside Escape

{photo by the mister!}

Sometimes all you need is a weekend away to feel renewed and relaxed, hmm? We spent the past weekend with friends at the Oregon coast and it was so nice to unplug for awhile- play scrabble instead of watch tv or click away on the laptop, eat homemade meals instead of take-out and best of all, walk along the beach that was right outside their door! And to top it off, we had crystal clear skies and calm winds, which is pretty much unheard of in Oregon in Dec, so it felt pretty special. I wish we could go out of town every weekend!

ps: The awesome ladies at Little Paper Planes asked me to create a lookbook & I did an ode to roadtrips! See more pics from other fave trips, along with fantastic art from LPP to inspire your wanderlust.

Lucky lady!

This is one of the coolest things to happen since I started blogging... an amazing artist and reader, Lucky, embroidered my portrait!

Well me and baby kitty and my favorite vintage sweater!! It's just too much awesome. Part of Lucky's 365 project, the super talented Canadian artist embroiders a different portrait each day around different themes, and this week was her blog crush week. I'm so so thrilled to be included, it's surreal!

Check out some of Lucky's other amazing portraits below and on her blog. She has got some serious embroidery skills man, it's like she can draw with floss! I'm so impressed.

Hope you all have a great weekend!

<3 jena

new digs

Hello! So, I'm still working on a re-design of the blog behind the scenes. I hope to unveil the new digs around here and be back to blogging regularly starting Sept 26th, 2 weeks from now. In the meanwhile, if you notice some wonkiness around here, issues with it loading or anything else, just ignore as it means I'm probably just messing with something on the backend. But all should be in place in a couple weeks!

So until I get things up to snuff and am ready to get back on a roll here again, I thought I'd give you a little peek of my new office in blue! If you'll remember, it was bright yellow with brown trim and was driving me a little batty! But now...

Ahhh...a breath of fresh air! It's seriously so much more conducive to a happy, creative working environment in here now. I feel calm, cool, collected. I meditate in that chair under the window each morning and there's good vibes in here :) And after we painted, we rearranged the whole room, traded out some furniture and it's so much better organized now. I still need a new desk chair and have some more art to go up on the walls, but all in all, it's almost done and I love it in here!

We left one wall yellow in case I need a little dose of sunshine (and cause we weren't about to move that bookcase and all those records again!)

All the animals like it better too- they hang out in here with me allll day :)

Goodbye August

And hello September! I can't believe you're here already!

I'll be back next week to talk about the new features and focus of the blog, and get back in action! In the meantime, hope you have a good labor day weekend and I'll meet you back here Tuesday!

Fall is coming! Are you ready?

August's Flowers

Sparkle Power

The Mr's birthday!

We pretty much just ate all day!

exploring

meditation

Flowerspotting