grateful: week 37

inspired by my reading of the happiness project by gretchen rubin, i am instituting monday "gratitude" posts (read here for more detail), where i will list "3 things i'm grateful for" from the previous week.

the 3 things i'm grateful for this week are:

1) after a bit of chaos and lots of hours behind the wheel (details not important!), the family all made it to northern michigan for new year's at our cottage.

2) the month of december was pretty wonderful.

3) a new year is upon us!

{a weekend of bowl games, board games (star wars monopoly!), and good food!}

this week's blog love:

• love the picture and the quote in k.ryan's of pretty things post on grace
• more great photography tips from centsational girl with AWESOME examples!
• coco + kelley's peek at the intermix holiday lookbook was full of sparkle and fun
• an awesome diy project from papery and cakery - christmas lights in bottles - already has me rethinking how i'll do one of my christmas decorations next year!
• in love with this whimsical wedding editorial from brides posted by ashley of ashley nicole catherine

here's to another grateful week.

xo. di.

*image 1 via lovely clusters, image 2  from my personal collection