giveaway time

hello my friends!! Super excited for giveaway time!!!

from Shauna of:

I won a giveaway a few months back from Shauna's other shop Lemon Drop Studio:
this print and I love it SO much.

Shauna was so helpful in picking the colors for my print and we found out that we live less than 5 minutes away from each other!! love how small the world is!

She has been so gracious to giveaway this pair of earrings from her cutie jewlery shop:

PRECIOUS RIGHT?! Perfect for the holidays to add to an outfit or for a gift!!

How to Enter:

Be a follower of For Me & visit Lemon Kissed and leave a comment with your favorite item

{This is a mandatory entry & must be done before other entries}

additional entries
{leave a separate comment for each!
 can do in any order you like, or pick and choose}

1. favorite one of Shauna's shops on etsy. here or here {1 for each}

2. follow Shauna's Blog

3. like Shauna's facebook fan page

3. Tweet about the giveaway & include @oliviakcarter & @lemonkissed

4. follow me @oliviakcarter on twitter

5. follow Shauna @lemonkissed on twitter

6. add my blog button to your side bar

7. favorite my shop on etsy: For You

8. add For Me to your blogscroll
9. blog about the giveaway {2 entries}

{Giveaway closes next Tuesday 11/23 & the winner will be chosen via random.org}

I MAY even throw in some magnets to the winner.. or maybe we'll have a 2nd winner...
we'll see how the entries go!!! :)

Ready, Set, Enter!!!

teal gray

hello amazing

on the verge of something good..

{via olsen anonymous}

wish I was here wednesday

where do you wish you were today???

write a blog post or just a picture post and link up!!!

or if you don't have an active blog (or don't want to do a new post) enter the link to the picture where you would like to be!!!

incomporable power

Ephesians 1: 18-19 "I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in His holy people, and His incomparably great power {for us who believe}. That power is the same as the mighty strength"

Ephesians has always been my favorite book of the Bible. Each time I read it I feel as though I am reading something that I never have before. Right now, in a bible study, we are going through Beth Moore's Believing God work book study and I am loving it. Dwelling in this verse right now and the power and weight that it carries along with so many truths that can be uncovered. Working on believing God is who he says He is and He can do what He says He can do.

anyone else gone through this work book before? Just finishing up week 1 but I am so excited for what is to come! I've read the book before but this is a whole new wonder!!

what could stand against?

so captivated by these lyrics today...

"And if Our God is for us, then who could ever stop us
And if our God is with us, then what can stand against?
And if Our God is for us, then who could ever stop us
And if our God is with us, then what can stand against?
What can stand against?

Our God is greater, our God is stronger
God You are higher than any other
Our God is Healer, awesome in power
Our God, Our God…
Our God is greater, our God is stronger
God You are higher than any other
Our God is Healer, awesome in power
Our God, Our God… "

-Chris Tomlin

what if we really believed this to be true?
what if we acted like it was true?
what if we lived like it was true?

so thankful for Our God today and how He loves.

i want to own this

this basket

this pillow

this wreath

this print

these birds

wish I was here wednesday

Where do you wish you were this wednesday!?

post a picture and

link back here so we can all swoon together!

organized: crafting

I've been craving crafting a lot lately (hence etsy shop...) and needed a new space to spread out and be inspired. soo I did a little re-arranging.. It's not quite there yet but I'm working on it.

I felt like I needed to create a new space. Sometimes organizing is about taking what you have and moving it around in the space it's already in, sometimes it's about getting rid of lots of things, and sometimes it's about figuring out a way to better use your space.

We have an office.. and in that office were 2 desks, one for me and one for my husband. Makes sense right?

Well.. the only thing I do at my desk is play on my computer.. which is silly because I have a lap top and end up bringing it into other areas of the house.

I was crafting using every other surface in my home and it just wasn't really working for me.

SO I recreated it all...

BEFORE:

(ugly... tucked away in lots of boxes)

 

new craft space in our guest bedroom:

MUCH better. the space is so inviting for me and I love working there!

someday...

I am dreaming up some gender neutral room decor for a someday baby.

I don't want to find out the gender before it is born. This may seem "unlike" me to a lot of people as they know what a planner and organizer I am. {and this may change by the time I actually am having a baby but for now... }

how cute is this:

halloween traditions

dinner:

chili + rice.

My mom always made a mean batch of Chili on Halloween night to warm us up before we adventured out into the cold for candy gathering.

in college I didn't have my mom but still wanted the chili, so I just made it from a can :)

and my wonderful roommates my sophomore year introduced me to a rice cooker and to adding rice into the mix with chili. It quickly became one of my favorite easy meals and my new easy Halloween meal until I learn to/have the time to make great Chili.

movies: so because I actually HATE scary movies with a passion, these are my Halloween favorites:

Hocus Pocus

Double Double Toil & Trouble

Teen Witch

treats:

pumpkin pie

candy corn

joys pumpkin bread

{recipe and pictures to come!!}

happy...

BIRTHDAY to my WONDERFUL friend jill.

Jill, I am so thankful for you in my life and so excited to walk through

ALL seasons of life with you.

xoxoxo.

happy birthday

to my baby sister.

I love her so much

she is my best friend

i can't wait to do life together forever

i am so blessed to have her

Happy 21st birthday to the most wonderful and fabulous woman that I know!!

sisters, sisters

{via}

wish I was here wednesday

Thinking of making Wish I was here Wednesday a link up post...

thoughts? any interest?

some...

more fun DIY projects I'd like to try!

misc monday

Oh Monday.. you've come too soon for me.  linking up with Carissa today over at Lowercase Letters!

{1.} " Your love is, your love is, your love is strong."

Haven't been able to stop singing this song since church yesterday. Brian and I sang it with his guitar yesterday too. It's so beautiful and so simple. I'm captivated by this right now. It's all so simple. God is so big and His love for us is completely ENOUGH. and it's so strong. It's okay that we feel weak, tired and nothing, He is everything and we don't need to be anything.

{2.} I watch too much TV. The sad thing is, I never just browse channels, I actually have so many shows that I watch on a regular basis that I always have something (also it doesn't help that I'm obsessed with FRIENDS ... which is such an easy TV show to watch for 3 hours when you own all of the DVDs..)

SO: I've been making more of an effort to do things around my house that aren't TV...
I did a little reorganizing/redecorating to my quiet time space and crafting space in the hopes that I would be drawn to it more, and yesterday as it was POURING down rain, I was!!! It was a wonderful evening.

pictures to come...

{3.} my computer is out of commission.. there was an accidental spill of red wine (... not by me...) onto it. For the most part it has dried out and works but there are a few keys not working so it's on bed rest right now..

{4.} I had a wonderful weekend.  My friend Jill and I went to Moonstruck Chocolate on NW 23rd for a little snack while we waited to pick up our husbands from a comedy show. We got truffles (my favorite: raspberry) and Soy Mayan hot chocolates. Never had this before... and let me tell you, it was to die for. I thought I didn't like hot chocolate... turns out I just never had a good one before.

in case you missed it...

I opened up a little etsy shop!! It's called "For you"


It's not much right now but I've been having a blast crafting and excited to dream up more to add to it.

Check it out, favorite it if you desire and maybe buy a magnet set!

They're big! The size of a silver dollar or a bit bigger!

the one with all of the pumpkins

Happy Friday!!!

Don't forget to head over to (my sister) Anna's blog and enter her giveaway!! Super cute you don't want to miss out!

a fun surf

house in PC that we LOVED

Dashboard Confessional lyrics? yes please

loving white pumpkins

super cute shop

can't get over it

coffee shop loves

truth

sissy's first giveaway!! go over and enter

AND amazing reader celebration happening over at one of my favoirte blogs: Wild & Precious

i just opened up a little etsy shop... more to come

wish I was here wednesday

{via}