Dear Friend,

How was your weekend?  Did you have a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends?

As we finish up our turkey leftovers and begin the Christmas decorating, I remind myself that this season is not about food, and it is not about stuff.  Christmas is about sharing the beauty found in our hearts.

Everyone knows I love, love, love pretty things (perhaps that's why I'm a floral designer and event planner), but I believe true beauty comes from a place so much deeper.  It is the reality of this world and eternity in our hearts that eventually produces the pretty things.  Sometimes beauty is hard work, sometimes it is born through pain, and sometimes it appears like a sunset, completely undeserved and unearned.

I wish you great beauty this Christmas season.

xoxo,

Emily

Yesterday I was feeling a bit at sea over some BIG decisions that have to be made (you now, the kind you have to use a calculator for because you'll be spending the BIG bucks) and I was also fairly convinced I was coming down with three or four diseases.

So what did I buy to make myself feel better?

No, not chocolate from French Broad...

YUM!

Not a nonfat vanilla latte from Starbucks...

This is one of my top three favorite coffee mugs!

Not even a bottle of Melange a Trois...


When it's this serious and decisions have to be made, I follow in my mother's footsteps and buy...

Yes, that is an $.88 price tag on the notebook.  An impulse buy need not break the bank.  :)

There is nothing like a new pen and a new notebook to help things become more clear.  I learned this from my mother.  Isn't she wise and beautiful?

Oh, and I may have been overreacting a bit about the diseases.  Turns out, a person should not ignore a sinus infection for 7-9 weeks.  Weird.

What's your favorite impulse buy?  Did you learn it from your mother?  Leave me a note!

Have a wonderful weekend,
Emily