boRing suBjectS saVed bY cRaftiNg.

 

{mine}

let's be boring grown ups for a minute and chat about the weather.

the sun is finally coming out of hibernation (kind of)...

things are in blooming...

 the temperature is rising...

people are shedding their layers...

ahh, yes. spring is upon us. 

and that, my friends, calls for a bit of spring cleaning. 

.......

okay, subject change... i literally just took a mental nap because this subject is so boring. 

.........

in other news, let's chat about crafts. 

YAY CRAFTS!

as you all know our time in england will be coming to a close soon (i don't want to talk about it... i'm still in denial that we're leaving soon) which means, i get to start thinking of fun ways to decorate our next house.

oh, how i have missed crafting. 

future house, i would like to incorporate:

some lovely drapes to separate spaces.

pinterest.

some kind of crazy wall that's completely covered in photos (and somehow get my hands on that exact sofa)

pinterest.

more fun illustrations that talk about being british.

pinterest.

and you know, other cool things too... the lack of paint in our british home has crushed my creative soul... so, next time the first order of business will be to color our walls with pretty.

i don't know about you but i agree... a cup of tea with chocolate does in fact solve everything. :)

mudge love.

'graMmiN' and snEets.

twitter is soooo two thousand and LATE.

even though my friends are hilarious and cool, i never left the ground.

all those little birdies are flying around out there with their funny tweets that i'll never read.

 oh, sure i know all the "lingo" with your hashtags and abbreviations so don't think i'm totally in the dark. 

but for now, looks like y'all are going to have to mail me your hilarious tweets if you want to keep me in the loop (or maybe you don't... #rude).

NEW FAD ALERT:

we should start mailing each other tweets... they can be called:

SNEETS.

sneet= snail mail tweets.

let's just brainstorm here..

 "my latte has so much foam on it #totallyturnedintoacoffeesnob "

 "sittin' in traffic writing this sneet when i should be drivin' y'all" #notthebestdriver #attentionspanofasquirrel

.....

wanna know what all the cool kids are doing these days? (and by cool kids i mean just me)

oh, i'll tell ya.

i.n.s.t.a.g.r.a.m.

we be 'grammin.

bob marley style. (yah, mon!)

my 'gram feed has been to all kinds of places like:

jivin' to some bagpipes in the old town of edinburgh,scotland.

 

observed tourists sailin' around in bruges, belgium.

snappin' a pretty blondie tuscaloosa, alabama.

 

climbin' to great heights in paris, france.

 and soakin' the views at dusk in porto, portugal.

yeah, so there you have it... i 'gram y'all. 

all images can be found on my instagram feed @izzieraephotography

hey, but for real... we should totally sneet each other! 

i'll run a sneet by my mister and see his reaction. #getyourmindoutofthegutter

mudge love.

piNch yoUrsElf... tHis isn'T a dReaM.

{via}

hello, again.

fancy seeing you still hanging around after all this time. 

i bet you've been reading old posts to hold yourself over until i checked in again.

such faithful readers.

you can go ahead and pinch yourself... this is not a dream.

for those of you that missed me here's what happened in a nut shell the past few months:

my darling husband went away for 6 months to serve his country.

 i started my mourning process by trying to keep busy:

flew to alabama to stay with friends and family.

flew to hawaii and shot a wedding/had a mini reunion with dear friends.

flew back to bama.

flew back to england with one of my best buds.

had 4 visitors come stay from sep-oct.

flew to norway with a lovely friend for a few days in november.

flew back to england rested for one day and then flew BACK (again) to bama.

stayed in bama until the holidays.

flew to the florida keys with a lovely photog friend and shot a wedding with her.

FINALLY flew back to england and then greeted my husband 2 weeks later. 

P.H.EEEEEEEEE.W!

let's just say i totally racked up some sky miles.

and kinda got over my fear of flying.

so.... yeah, that's pretty much what i did. 

all of those things were lovely but not as lovely as the moment i got to see and hold my husband for the first time in 6 months. 

{mine}

mudge love.

teAse aleRt.

(via)

me oh my.

it's been too long since i last saw your lovely interweb faces! 

i so miss you.

what have you been up to?

where have you been going?

let's sit and have a proper catch up, can we please? 

it's been almost half a year since we last saw each other...

i cannot wait to tell you our stories... so many stories.

don't you worry... i haven't forgotten about you.

you're on my radar and i will be checking in again soon...

PROMISE.

mudge love.

{dispLayin' rOotS}

 {via}

where i come from people are proud of their southern heritage (rightly so)... 

but, some of them take it too far...

i told myself i would never take my proudness of heritage "too far".

nuh uh. no way.

people that have "bama" memorabilia scattered all over their house to remind visitors where they came from and how proud they are to be a southerner (as if the country accent wont give them away) would NEVER be me.

nope. never.

oh dear...

my excuse is that i don't live in bama anymore.

that's my story and i'm stickin' to it!

mudge love.

{dEar huSbaNd}

@izzieraephotography

dear husband,

thank you for your love letters over the past 6 months. 

you have no idea how many times i read and re-read your letters.

i have (and will always) treasure the words you write to me. 

when i read them i briefly forget that you're half a world away from me.

if only for a second, my heart is full.

when i read the words you write to me i fall in love with you all over again.

......

guess what, my love?

we've almost reached the end of our separation.

it's been such a long&painful journey, but i know we will be stronger for it.

pretty soon we wont have to rely on letters or emails or patchy, 20 minute skype conversations to try and make up for the fact that we haven't seen each other in over 175 days ... 

days... we are literally days until we get to rest in the arms of one another. 

not months.

not weeks.

just days.

i love you.

-elizabeth

{ghoSt poSts}

{via}

oh, hello world... it's good to see you on this lovely 2013 afternoon.

what? you thought i was buried in a hole somewhere because of those the mayan predictions?

you say i've fallen off the face of the blog'osphere?

 you mean, you haven't been reading all of my daily posts?

you mean to tell me that none have posted?

......

okay... okay... okay... so, i may or may not have been ghost posting.

what's that, you say?

you don't know what a ghost post is?

well, it's something i just made up.. snuggle in close and i'll explain:

gHoSt pOst:

an imaginary blog post that entails awesome events and life happenings. it's recorded in one's mind and  immediately published for me to read and enjoy... 

.....

yeah, so there it is.

i've been ghost posting like a machine in my mind.

what? you call my bluff and say my "ghost post" is another name for "blog abandonment and laziness"? 

hmmm... fair enough.

mudge love.