#thehappynow

窓に映り込む人はいつも
ボーダーTシャツを着ています

1枚目はドイツパンの店 「タンネ」
Photo @yutaokashi
2枚目はドイツの伝統的なお家
Photo @zimt___zucker

今週も始まりました。
どうぞよろしくお願いします

#streetflowers #flowerdecorations #elledecoration #vogueliving #f52home #beautifulflower #beautifulmatter #rose #flowerstagram #slowliving #finditlive #thehappynow #livemoremagic #livethelittlethings #窓枠 #orlayagrandiflora #お花のある暮らし #暮らしを楽しむ #暮らし #お花のある生活 #꽂 #お花 #finditliveit #beautifulthings #ドイツパンの店タンネ #ゼラニウム #ドイツ #kinfolklife #ファインダー越しの私の世界 (ドイツパンの店タンネ)
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東欧雑貨店のドアが
素敵だったもんんで

今日も良い日になってください✨

#写真で伝えたい私の世界
#写真好きな人と繋がりたい
#暮らしを楽しむ #暮らし #elledecoration #vogueliving #kinfolklife #slowlifestyle #thehappynow #livemoremagic #livethelittlethings #finditliveit #british #birdwatching #f52home #beautifulthings #beautifulmatters #birdphotography #窓枠 #ドア #東欧 (Funabashi, Chiba)
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緑の中にオレンジ色した
かわいいお花を見つけた✨

家の近所を明るい時間に散歩してみると普段見落としていたものが見えてくる。
睡蓮鉢がある家の前には
「そっと覗いてみてください。」
と書かれた小さな木札が立てかけてあって
覗いてみると、そこにはかわいらしいメダカのビオトープになっていたり、
素敵なオリーブの木が植わっている家、
紫陽花が大歓迎しているような玄関の家…
って人様ん家ばかり見てる笑

うちにも最近友人からもらったローズゼラニウムを植えたので花がつくのが密かなたのしみ！
ローズゼラニウムの葉っぱの香りって最高にいい香りなんだよな～☘️

で、この木に咲いた花の名前はなんていうんだろう

#streetflowers #flowerdecorations #elledecoration #vogueliving #f52home #beautifulflower #beautifulmatter #wildflowers #flowerstagram #slowliving #finditlive #thehappynow #livemoremagic #livethelittlethings #花 #orlayagrandiflora #お花のある暮らし #暮らしを楽しむ #暮らし #お花のある生活 #꽂 #お花 #finditliveit #beautifulthings #spring #earlysummer #緑のある暮らし #グリーンのある暮らし #kinfolklife #ファインダー越しの私の世界 (Tokyo, Japan)
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You always think you’ll get around to sharing all 4,637,738 pictures you have of your child, but of course life happens and you don’t, and then one day you’re scrolling, and you find THIS picture () , taken almost 3 weeks ago, and realize () your child almost doesn’t look like this anymore, so you hurry to post it because TIME IS FLYING. And crawling. Flying and crawling. Both, both, both.
FYI: we were practicing our dainty hands over here. So you know what I’m having for dessert, right? #ladyfingers
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Oh, and these DARLING knitted booties we’re generously provided by @corrinasshop ✨
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#Motherhood #Photography #SeekTheSimplicity #LiveFolk #MamaHoodMoments #Art #MomBlogger #ArtistsOnInstagram #FlashesOfTheDelight #InteriorDesign #AheadOfTheCurve #LiveAuthentically #BeDeeplyRooted #ChronicIllness #DailyParenting #TheEveryDayProject #Candidchildhood #livethelittlethings #thehappynow #motherhoodrising #momstrong #childhoodunplugged #Writing #WritersOfInstagram #SheReadsTruth #LoveWins #HazelGwenAndMommy

I realized the other day how very few pictures I have of both Hazel and me . . . I have roughly 4 badrillion photos of Hazel, but only about 6 of the two of us, and even fewer with Daddy in them. Like most moms, I assume, I’m always more eager to get pictures of Hazel (because, let’s be honest, showers and make-up are things of the past #momstrong), looking like the radiant Beastie she is, than I am of capturing MY image, when I feel purely beast. Due to multiple chronic illness issues, two-thirds of my hair fell out after Hazel was born, followed by a fierce case of adult acne. Add to that a hefty portion of sleep deprivation, and, well, no… I’m not aching to have my image documented. But a wise woman once told me – thank you, Sister Alyce – that I should be sure to get behind the lens as often as I can, because I will want these pictures, one day, despite how stinky and gray and covered in pimples I might be in them. She’s right of course, damn her.

And besides, if anything, my appearance is a more pure reflection of the me beneath the me; of how Hard I’m Showing Up for my child. It won’t always be this way. I won’t always be here, in this fragile, volatile space where love and desperation mingle and intertwine, two cords of the same rope with which I swing to new heights and occasionally want to hang myself …

So here’s to present over perfect.

Here’s to sacrifice and surrender and to inhabiting EVERY SINGLE MOMENT. Messy and painful and exquisite.

Because they are ours.

Because only we can invite and detain and extract them.

Here’s to bringing our nothing and our everything, to being unabashedly broken and relentlessly loved.

I can’t think of a better day for Love to win than that of Good Friday.

Happy Easter, beloveds.
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#Motherhood #Photography #SeekTheSimplicity #LiveFolk #MamaHoodMoments #Art #MomBlogger #ArtistsOnInstagram #FlashesOfTheDelight #InteriorDesign #AheadOfTheCurve #LiveAuthentically #BeDeeplyRooted #ChronicIllness #DailyParenting #TheEveryDayProject #Candidchildhood #livethelittlethings #thehappynow #motherhoodrising #momstrong #childhoodunplugged #Writing #WritersOfInstagram #SheReadsTruth #LoveWins #goodfriday

After a lovely and FULL weekend, I’m not going to lie, Monday is kicking my butt. I refer to this kind of exhaustion as puke-y tired. You just wander-trudge from room to room, trying not to upchuck on anything hand-wash only. Going to make myself another (5) cup of ☕️ and maybe do a few jumping jacks. Or maybe I’ll just THINK about doing them. Same thing, right? Sure it is.
Anyone else battling puke-y tired?
If so, these should help.
I mean, THAT SMILE.
#goodgriefPickle
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#Motherhood #Photography #SeekTheSimplicity #LiveFolk #MamaHoodMoments #Art #MomBlogger #ArtistsOnInstagram #FlashesOfTheDelight #InteriorDesign #AheadOfTheCurve #LiveAuthentically #BeDeeplyRooted #ChronicIllness #DailyParenting #TheEveryDayProject #Candidchildhood #livethelittlethings #thehappynow #motherhoodrising #momstrong #childhoodunplugged #Writing #WritersOfInstagram #SheReadsTruth #LoveWins #HazelGwenAndMommy

This little Pickle surprised the HECK out of her parents by ROLLING OVER on Sunday. There we were, just having our irregularly scheduled tummy time, expecting her to face plant into the mat as usual, and she goes and does a full 180. What the what!? I suppose she’ll be asking me for the car keys by next week…
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Magical knitted beanie @corrinasshop

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#Motherhood #Photography #SeekTheSimplicity #LiveFolk #MamaHoodMoments #Art #MomBlogger #ArtistsOnInstagram #FlashesOfTheDelight #InteriorDesign #AheadOfTheCurve #LiveAuthentically #BeDeeplyRooted #ChronicIllness #DailyParenting #TheEveryDayProject #Candidchildhood #livethelittlethings #thehappynow #motherhoodrising #momstrong #childhoodunplugged #Writing #WritersOfInstagram #SheReadsTruth #LoveWins #HazelGwenAndMommy

Here they are!
These were such sweet little blooms to paint. For those of you who were inquiring about the color: I used Windsor and Newton Violet, Payne’s Gray, and a touch of Turner Cobalt.
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Prints are available in the shop! (Link in bio) In addition, the original is also available for purchase.
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OK, now regale me with your weekend plans so that I might live vicariously through you. The husband and I are hunkering down to care for the fussy little Nut and HOPEFULLY watching The Passengers. I heard it was good! Anyone else have a massive crush on Jennifer Lawrence?
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#slownaturemoments #alovefornaturesbest
#botanicalpickmeup
#embracingtheseasons #forahappymoment #plant_problem #lovelywanderings #asecondofwhimsey #calm_collected #simplethingsmadebeautiful #byarrangement #dstexture
#flashesofdelight #lovelysquares #doitfortheprocess #dscolor #thehappynow #thatsdarling #acolorstory #artistsofinstagram #colorsplash #mystoryoflight #thesimpleeveryday #shared_joy
#nestandflourish #thefloralseasons #howihue #styleonmytable #Watercolor #Painting

I promised you some ducking cute photos, didn’t I? Well I THINK these should do. I still can’t believe we took these ourselves. What a bunch of newbies…. BUT, looking at her, my scrumptious Pickle, well it was ALMOST worth the aneurism she gave me. Nothing three margaritas couldn’t fix.
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Oh Hazel, just when I don’t think my heart could possibly contain more love for you, somehow that love grows exponentially. It just GROWS. Gets even bigger so that it feels like I’m drowning and flying all at once. Your smiles, which are just beginning to show up on purpose, are like warm rain, melting away the constant fatigue and muscle aches and monotony. My child… you undo me. UNDO ME. I am beyond smitten with you. Thank you for choosing me to be your Mama.
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#Motherhood #Photography #SeekTheSimplicity #LiveFolk #MamaHoodMoments #Art #MomBlogger #ArtistsOnInstagram #FlashesOfTheDelight #InteriorDesign #AheadOfTheCurve #LiveAuthentically #BeDeeplyRooted #ChronicIllness #DailyParenting #TheEveryDayProject #Candidchildhood #livethelittlethings #thehappynow #motherhoodrising #momstrong #childhoodunplugged #Writing #WritersOfInstagram #SheReadsTruth #LoveWins #HazelGwenAndMommy

How about a little squishy tushy to perk up your Tuesday?
I don’t know about you, but I’ll be having warm buns for lunch.
Also.
A GIANT, back-cracking hug goes out to Aunt Trish @hopeeshandmade for this stunning changing pad cover, made by @iviebabyshop, who has wayyyyy too many cute things for my own good.
Trish, sister, you love on Hazel and me so hard … We’re not really sure what we did to deserve that hard love, but we’re grateful and honored, and in genera just especially glad we get to do life with you. You are warm and decadent, like a hot fudge sundae, and so thoughtful it makes my head spin.
We love you.
Squish on, sisters!
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#Motherhood #Photography #SeekTheSimplicity #LiveFolk #MamaHoodMoments #Art #MomBlogger #ArtistsOnInstagram #FlashesOfTheDelight #InteriorDesign #AheadOfTheCurve #LiveAuthentically #BeDeeplyRooted #ChronicIllness #DailyParenting #TheEveryDayProject #Candidchildhood #livethelittlethings #thehappynow #motherhoodrising #momstrong #childhoodunplugged #Writing #WritersOfInstagram #SheReadsTruth #LoveWins #HazelGwenAndMommy #iviebaby

From Hazel (photographed at 3 weeks old) as interpreted by her Momma:

Thank you @cuddleandkind for my very first stuffed animal! I’ve named her Miss Kitty and she is just purrrrrfect.
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You guys, we are obsessed! These dolls are not only so dang beautiful, they come with a story, and you KNOW how I feel about stories. In a (Hazel) nut shell, each doll sold provides TEN meals to hungry children. TEN MEALS.
We are so honored and grateful to have been given something so precious and worthy. Thank you, Jen and Derek, and the whole Woodgate clan! I have a feeling this is going to be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

For more information, visit @cuddleandkind and follow the link.
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#Motherhood #Photography #SeekTheSimplicity #LiveFolk #MamaHoodMoments #Art #MomBlogger #ArtistsOnInstagram #FlashesOfTheDelight #InteriorDesign #AheadOfTheCurve #LiveAuthentically #BeDeeplyRooted #ChronicIllness #DailyParenting #TheEveryDayProject #Candidchildhood #livethelittlethings #thehappynow #motherhoodrising #momstrong #childhoodunplugged #Writing #WritersOfInstagram #SheReadsTruth #LoveWins #HazelGwenAndMommy #CuddleAndKind

My #labordayweekend plans… A few blissful hours at The Spa at @pebblebeachresorts. ⁣⁣
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#PebbleBeach #seemonterey #visitcalifornia #coastalliving #luxuryspa #luxuryhotels #mypebblebeach #thehappynow (at The Spa At Pebble Beach)
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Summers end buts cry’s for that latitude / longitude of Venice…
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#travelaway #venice #venezia #vistitaly #visitvenice #travel #travelgram #igtravel #thehappynow #travelbrilliantly #manmeetsfashion #lifestyle #tbt #italiano #italy #travelphotography #travelguide #beautifuldestinations #beautifulmatters #latitude #longitude #destination #igersvenice #igersitalia #venicecanals (at Venice, Italy)
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Seduced… #
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#tentrinty #privateresidence #fourseasons #tentrinitysquareprivateclub #toweroflondon #visitlondon #luxuryliving #luxuryhotels #grandluxury #beautifulmatters #fwis #manmeetsfashion #lifestyle #london #londonlife #mylondon #londonbylondon #londonhomes #hotelinsta #londonliving #interior #interiordesign #details #thehappynow #condenast #condenasttraveler #wanderlust #igerslondon (at Four Seasons Hotel London at Ten Trinity Square)
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#Repost @iamfordena Well, I don’t even know where to start because I have been blessed and honored to get to grow a little miracle inside me! I thank God for this moment every chance I get. This year has been very challenging to me in which I got to grow into the woman I am today in so many positive ways. Growing up, many people made me believe that getting pregnant in your 20’s will block your real blessings and make your life 10x harder. Based on my personal experience, pregnancy isn’t the easiest thing to go through but it pushes me to strive harder daily to secure a future for my family. And by having the right people by your side to cheer you up about your special gift from God, it’s all worth it. It’s nothing to be ashamed of like they make it seem! I thank God daily for my Dad, Mom, my siblings and a lot of supportive friends I have by my side since day one. They get to be so positive around me and keep me in their prayers. Most importantly, they get to see me grow into the beautiful mother I’m becoming today. A black Queen. I also lost a lot of people who I thought that was really by my side but God and my family were there! They were not supposed to be a part of this chapter of my life I am celebrating. All I can say now, is that I am truly happy and can’t wait to meet my baby and be the best mommy ever! For the young mothers and Moms to be out there that’s experiencing things negatively, you are not a failure! You are strong, you are amazing! You are beautiful! You are capable of doing great things! You really got this! I know it’s not easy to adjust in a society bashing you about the choice you made. But, trust me it’s going to get better keep making all the sacrifices you can for your little ones it’s all worth it at the end. It’s incredible what the woman body can do just remember that.

: @wolfshotitt

#maternityshoot #pregnancyannouncement #glow #blessings #fertility #babybump #blackqueen #africanqueen #pregnancy #motherhood #mother #candidchildhood #thehappynow #momofinstagram #watchthemgrow #motherhoodunited #wonderwoman #momblogger #viral #newmommylife #newmommy #newmom #pregnant #selflove #blackgirlmagic #momempowerment #melanin
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“If they love you they’ll be patient with you…they’ll wait for you and try to make sense of the chaos in your heart.”
— r.m. drake
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#waitfortherightone #thehappynow #selflove #showupforyourself #beherenow #positivevibes #staypresent #uohome #urbanoutfitters #fairylights #cozyspaces #rmdrake
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My October intentions!
Have you written yours?
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#thehappynow #showupforyourself #selfworth #rawalignment #beherenow #positivity #octoberintentions #intentions #bepresent #workoutgrind #journal #read #highstandards
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Off they travel miles away to their recipients ✈ thank you for supporting our small shop @beaglecakesart

#instastyle #instadaily #stickersforplanner #Stckers #vinylstickers #kawaii #cuteart #ramennoodles #etsy #etsyshop #smallbiz #cutekawaii #illustrator #illustration #plannerlove #plannersticker #happymail #snailmailing #bubbletea #bobamilktea #貼紙控 #kawaiigirl #visualsoflife #acolorstory #livecolorfully #flashesofdelight #pursuepretty #thehappynow #style #stationery

Off they travel miles away to their recipients ✈ thank you for supporting our small shop @beaglecakesart

#instastyle #instadaily #stickersforplanner #Stckers #vinylstickers #kawaii #cuteart #ramennoodles #etsy #etsyshop #smallbiz #cutekawaii #illustrator #illustration #plannerlove #plannersticker #happymail #snailmailing #bubbletea #bobamilktea #貼紙控 #kawaiigirl #visualsoflife #acolorstory #livecolorfully #flashesofdelight #pursuepretty #thehappynow #style #stationery

Off they travel miles away to their recipients ✈ thank you for supporting our small shop @beaglecakesart

#instastyle #instadaily #stickersforplanner #Stckers #vinylstickers #kawaii #cuteart #ramennoodles #etsy #etsyshop #smallbiz #cutekawaii #illustrator #illustration #plannerlove #plannersticker #happymail #snailmailing #bubbletea #bobamilktea #貼紙控 #kawaiigirl #visualsoflife #acolorstory #livecolorfully #flashesofdelight #pursuepretty #thehappynow #style #stationery #fashion

orders are drawing to a close~ Thank you for your support & happy holidays to you all! ☺

#whereiwork #seekthesimplicity #acolorstory #christmas #etsysellersofinstagram #etsyseller #bubbletea #kawaii #kawaiigirl #cuteart #boba #instastyle #instashop #instagood #inspiremyinstagram #thehappynow #instadaily #xmas #etsyshop #artist #animelove #fairytail #giftsforher #etsyelite #handmade #artsandcrafts
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New pins & key chain designs! These sweeties are ready to find themselves a new loving home

Available via @beaglecakesart Etsy shop!

#mermaid #pins #kawaiicute #enamelpins #acryliccharm #acrylic #visualsoflife #pursuepretty #alpaca #llama #style #anime #gifts #nautical #etsy #instacute #pinstagram #instapict #rainbow #flashesofdelight #natureinspired #seekthesimplicity #thehappynow #thatsdarling #pin #enamelpin #design #illustration #keychains #thelittlemermaid

One of the pic of that goofing around-photo-shoot from a few weeks ago.. It captured a side of me i dont let out often. Inside everyone is a lil a softer side of themselves, and a lil bit vulnerable.. Something so honest about that side of us, when i see that in others, thats when i feel like i can see the core of their soul. #photographyissoul #photographyislife #portraits #makeportraits #postthepeople #postmoreportraits #photoshoot #shoot #modeling #femalemodel #vulnerable #soul #gentle #softside #human #scared #justgoshoot #allshots_ #livethelittlethings #liveauthentic #thatsdarling #thehappynow #photography #livefolk #humannature

Life’s essentials: Take some time to just be..be with yourself, be with your friends.. be with your loved ones, and catch some sunshine + an afternoon nap in the park between all that! #liveauthentic #livethelittlethings #finditliveit #warmth #summerdays #relaxinginthesun #summer #berlin #berlincity #berlinsummer #sunglasses #sunnies #thehappynow #thatsdarling #allshots_ #justgoshoot #loveyourcity #iphoneonly #neverstopexploring #content #relaxed #calm #atpeace #peaceful #afternoonnap (at Treptower Park)