oh my stars

i love reading. i love the escape it gives me! i love being able to be so absorbed in the story its like i'm living it. i just finished oh my stars, by Lorna Landvik. i loved it!
oh my stars is about music and love  and loss and discovery and adventure. the kind you can laugh with and cry with and cheer for.
maybe its because of my name, but sometimes when i think back on my life, i picture a garden. the life of Violet Mathers, landscaped. through a long stretch it is dark and weedy and full of withered plants that stick you or ones that never got to flower, but keep looking-you might notice a smattering of roses (my mother's touch on my face, her voice), some daisies (the way i felt in school when i won the fourth grade spelling bee), and look, a whole camellia bush (the first dress i designed and sewed)! and up a little farther, why there's barely room to walk, so lush and bright and dense is the flora. and those waxy white blooms scattered throughout my garden? gardenias, of course, which represent all the times i said yes in my life, even when it might have been easier to say no. so even though my garden's got plenty of roses, lilies, petunias, and pansies; poison ivy, dandelions, and cacti; the scent of gardenias is the pervasive one. i must say i'm proudest of these flowers, my badges of bravery, my choosing yes. oh, that? you would have to notice. those are stinkweed plants. they represent envy. yes, i know there are alot of them. but are you telling me if I strolled through your garden there'd be nothing but apple blossoms and orchids?

feb-march-april packages!

i suck at blogging ha ha!
i sent my dallin this for valentines day, which was also our 3 year anniversary :)

for st patricks day, i sent him GREEEEN things :) i'm so LUCKY to have him :)

for easter, i sent him an easter egg hunt in a box! ha ha :)