{20 items or less} for your valentine

i love love. and i love any excuse to celebrate love {including, but not limited to, valentine's day, which is right around the corner}! and so below, in 20 items or less, are some of my very favorite ways to say i love you to your sweetheart or your bestie or whomever else you might want to say it!

1.cup of tea letterpress card, $4.50; 2.retro valentine paper, $4;

3.love you more pillow, $17; 4.xoxo card + envelope, $4;

5.you're my favorite letterpress card, $4

6.arrows mini print, $4; 7.heart you letterpress card, $3;

8.hand-painted love cookies, $30 for 6; 9.valentine's postcards, $10 for 10

10.custom scratch-off card, $9; 11.fill-in-the-blank letterpress card, $6;

12.hello sexy pillow, $59; 13.my life would suck without you card, $3

14.you are my sunshine stationery set, $18; 15.je t'aime letterpress card, $4;

16.love is all you need pencils, $7.50 for 6

{20 items or less} a black, white & blush wedding

a little while ago i told you about my friend's happy news - well, they've set a date and booked a venue and i'm so excited i'm using her upcoming nuptials as inspiration for this wedding edition of 20 items or less!

 1.the venue: la buena vida vineyards {photo credit: matt peacock};

2.rose wedding invitations, from $234 for 100; 3.pink ombre cake {recipe};

4.love letter wine labels, $100 for 3 {wine labels make great table numbers too!}

5.bouquet of anemones {from martha stewart}

6.bhldn gown, $279; 7.'eat, drink & be married' sign, $15;

8.pearl box clutch, $158; 9.pink satin peep toes, $90

 10.pink polka dot straws, $4 for 25 {maybe not for wine, but who can resist?};

11.black floral hair clips, $160; 12.hand-lettered 'just married' sign, $46;

13.balloon guestbook fingerprint kit, $127

14.fresh strawberry ice cream {recipe}; 15.honeybee boutonniere, $28;

16.favor topper poms, $42 for 24; 17.blue lace garter set, $31

{local love} the hill

as promised, we got out of our pajamas today and headed out in search of food. our search took us to the hill - and the sink {one of A's last-minute additions to the bucket list involved going to every restaurant ever featured on diners, drive-ins, and dives}. we {thankfully} shared a chef's special burger and fries and i must say, it was ridiculously good. the ambience was tough to beat, too: dark and divey with crazy art all over the walls and patrons' autographs on the low ceilings.
after lunch we went for a stroll around cu campus, admiring the pretty buildings and breathtaking mountain views {and quietly cursing ourselves for not going school there}.

{homebody} happy new year!

happy 2012! we spent our first colorado new year's eve in with friends, playing games and making resolutions for each other and drinking lots and lots of champagne.


we've spent all day today being lazy hermits and ignoring said resolutions, but i fully intend to get out of my pajamas tomorrow... in the meantime i'll be playing around with this fun resolution generator and anxiously awaiting my black-eyed peas!