Mellow out Monday August 3

Welcome to Mellow Out Monday! For a Monday, I must admit it's pretty calm here in the office so far. Now that we've hit August, I can feel that back to school feeling in the air and the energy that comes with it. Soon our office will be hopping! I picked this particular picture because it makes me think of a leisurely bicycle ride through a park or campus - very back to school-esque.

So, rather you are thinking of the upcoming school year, semester or that last chance to hit the beach, take a moment to Mellow out...

Thanks for joining me!

Simple Beauties Giveaway

I've been a bit out of touch the past few days - my husband and I had some family come into town - including our young niece and nephew (4 and 5). They had an absolute blast - we live on the coast and they live in the Midwest. They loved the ocean and we spent hour after hour there looking for shells and feeling the waves crash against us. They were able experience things here they hadn't before and we were able to share that experience and create some family memories.

The magic simplicity of the family vacation.

I started thinking about the vacations my family took when I was a child. Every year we went to the UP to visit my grandparents - which was great! One year we took a camping trip with them to Copper Harbor. This was such a fun trip - I remember thinking it seemed so far away and how cool it was to travel with them - my parents and I had a "three man tent" (which we all know is really for one) and the grandparents were in a camper - which I thought was just the coolest thing! The trip was jam-packed - we toured lighthouses and mines, hunted for fossils and copper (found some too), when to tourist trap souvenir shops and bought postcards and tee shirts. It was a fun trip and definitely created some lasting memories. Thinking about this trip reminded me how exciting it was to find those glimmers of the copper we hunted - the simple beauty.

So now it's time for the giveaway! Leave me a comment with a few lines about your magic family vacation or share the simple beauty you find in your family and enter to win your choice of my new Simple Beauties line of jewelry.

Want to enter more than once?

1. Feel free to share as many stories as you like - You receive one entry for each tale you share.

2. Or for an additional entry, visit my shop and tell me what you like best or what you would like to see more of.

3. Follow me on Twitter.

Make sure to leave your email address so I can contact you if you win.

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Giveaway will run until 9:00 pm (est) Saturday, August 8 and the winner randomly chosen and announced the evening of Sunday, August 9.

Have fun reminiscing!

Mellow out Monday July 6

Welcome to Mellow out Monday! Do your weeks start out crazy? My sure does - especially after a holiday, the phones seem to ring louder and more often and everyone is a little cranky that they aren't still enjoying their holiday. So take a moment, and mellow out - you deserve it!

*contented sigh* I feel better - don't you?