Erin Condren Love

Recently I discovered Erin Condren's website. I read a lot of blogs and people are ALWAYS talking about her products and I know now why! I love her design work and bright colors!

I got her iphone case for Christmas and love it! I get so many compliments on the case and highly recommend it! I even gave one for a Christmas present. I got the case below.

My next purchase was her Life Planner. I check my order status everyday in anticipation of receiving it in the mail. It has been printed and is now waiting to ship! I have read so many positive reviews about her planner. I used to love writing in a planner in high school and college and can't wait to do so again! The iphone calendar just isn't cutting it for me. I picked the same cover as my iphone case so they match.

My most recent purchase, I didn't even realize was Erin Condren. I received an email from Shutterfly thanking me for my 2011 purchases and it had a $20 off code in there to use on my next purchase. I searched all their stationary to pick what one I wanted and when I go to check out...it is Erin Condren! Crazy! I ordered the card below from Shutterfly. I just love their customer service and deals! It is my go to place for cards, photo cards and address labels! Below is the stationary I purchased from Shutterfly.

Stationery Card

View the entire collection of cards.

To check out Erin Condren visit her website at www.erincondren.com. I hope you all love it as much as I do! P.S. I do have a birthday in just a month...so if you need a website to look for presents, you know where to go! Ha!

Picture Dump

A picture dump to update you on what we have been up to lately!

Last Night's Dinner

I've become addicted to Pinterest and one of my boards is for new recipes. Last night I decided to try one on there for the first time. I was so excited about this dinner because it sounded really good. While I was making it 1. I made a complete mess and 2. it just did not look like it was going to turn out good. I really thought I had made a disaster of a dinner. To my surprise when I tasted it, it was great! I loved it and can't wait to make it again. Colin even really liked it!

The recipe is from the website Ready Set Eat. I have never made anything off this site before but I will start looking for more recipes on it now that I tried this one! The recipe is called Zucchini and Black Bean Skillet. I've linked to the recipe below. The only two changes I made to it were that I also added yellow squash and garlic. I think I will add corn and chicken next time.

Click here to see the recipe!

Catching Up the Last Couple Months

Wow, I have been a bad blogger. So bear with me as I play catch up minus pictures.

• This summer I traveled to Ohio for my Grandma Sweval's 80th Birthday!
• Colin and I went home for a week to spend with our family and friends.
• Once August started work got so busy that I feel like we haven't had a few weekend in months.
• We have done some house updates including starting to put edging around our flower beds, Colin painted a hallway, we re-did our bedroom and Colin made a headboard (will do a separate post about this) and we re-painted our front door red.
• We have had 4 home football games in a row and I am exhausted but Clemson is also 4-0! We have had a great football season so far and hope to continue it this weekend as they travel to VT! Go Tigers!
• We have had company the past 4 weekends between family and friends. Colin's mom and grandparents came down for a few days and it was nice to have them here.
• Next weekend my brother is coming for our homecoming game.
• I am going to the Maryland game to host an IPTAY event the night before the game.
• We have a big donor event before the UNC game.
• Colin's parents are meeting us in Atlanta for the GT game the last weekend in October and then coming back in November for the Wake Forest game.
• Our nights are consumed by Fall TV again. So glad our shows are back on. I'll do a post with all the shows that we watch later and my new favorite show.

That is our life lately. Super busy. I feel like Colin and sometimes just pass each other in the morning and at night and don't get to just sit down and enjoy our time together.

Scaredy Cat...I mean Dog!

For the second Sunday in a row we took Bella to the rowing facility on Lake Hartwell to see if she liked to swim. We hoped deep down that she would be a water dog and would just run right in to fetch a ball. Well today our dreams were dashed...we realized she just does not like water. Last week she did pretty well, actually walked into the water on her own and would swim to us. Today, you could tell she did not like it. She wouldn't walk into the water on her own, so we had to pick her up and put her in the water and when she did swim, she swam straight to the dock to jump out and wouldn't come near us. We were disappointed that she didn't like water but she does seem to enjoy running around on the dock while we lay in the sun. Bella we loved you but you are such a chicken doggie! Below are some pictures of the 5 minutes we actually got her in the water. Even though she hated every minute of it, I think she still looks pretty cute!

Summer Salad

I thought I would share with you my go-to salad in the summer. I could eat this for lunch or dinner every day of the summer and I have actually had it 3 times this week already. I got the inspiration from a salad at Longhorn Steakhouse.

Lindsey's Summer Salad:

- spring salad mix

- grilled or rotisserie chicken

- pineapple chunks

- grapes sliced in half

- strawberries sliced in half

- pecans

- feta cheese

- light raspberry and walnut vinaigrette

You can add whatever fruit you want, but this is how I always make mine. This salad is SO good and SO easy to make! Sorry for the poor quality picture but I took it with my iphone. Be sure to add this recipe to your weekly dinner menu!

In My Nook Library...

I recently got a Nook Color and am so in love with it! I get on kicks and will read a ton of books and then take a break for awhile, but since I got my book I have been reading non-stop. I thought I would let you know what I'm reading in case you need some recommendations for your summer reading.

I stayed up late last night to finish reading the Hunger Games series. This series was awesome, I loved all three books and I highly recommend them. They are a fast read. They just started filming the movie about 2 hours away from me in Ashville, NC. The movie comes out in March and I am so excited to see how they portray all the characters and costumes in the movie. You better believe I will make Colin take me to this movie!

Before I started the hunger games I read Water for Elephants and loved that book as well. I liked it so much that I finished it in a weekend. Sadly, I have yet to see the movie because Colin refuses to go. I'll wait for it on DVD since it didn't get great reviews. I know I was late on the bandwagon for this book.

I also read Mini Shopaholic. I read the entire Shop

aholic series a few years ago and loved them so I was excited when the author came out with a new one. If you were a fan of the series be sure to read this one as well, it was a cute book!

I almost forgot the first book I read on my Nook...Throwaway. I wasn't sure about the Nook yet so I wanted to read a free book to start with. It got good reviews on Barnes and Nobles so I said why not, it's free. It turned out to be a decent book so if you have a Nook, download the book for some free guilty pleasure summer reading!

I have a few books at home that I still have to read and I think my next one will be the Help. I want to see it before it comes out in August as a movie. I also have several books on hold through the library that I will put on my nook. I can't wait to read the summer away!

What are you reading? Leave your suggestions for good summer reads!