peace in autumn

 

I forget what fall really feels like. Every year, I am astounded by the pure beauty, the pure chill, and the pure....... wonderful-ness of fall. Everything about it seems cozy. The warm colors, the oversize sweatshirts, the multiple cups of tea or coffee, and so so much more. I don't know about you, but autumn is my favorite.

xo,
hannah
p.s. You might want to stop by here.... :)

just because || a giveaway

Just because...

>>>I love you guys

>>>I'm in a good mood

>>>I feel like creating

>>>and it's almost fall

I've decided to give away a package from my design site, Simply You Designs. Just because :)

This package includes:

Sound good to you? Excellent. Here's how you can win this:

[Leave each entry in a separate comment]

>>Mandatory Entry<<

You must be a follower of beautiful

>>Extra Entries<<

Follow Simply You Designs [+1 entry]

Follow me on twitter [+1 entry]

Follow me on Pinterest [+1 entry]

Blog/tweet about the giveaway and include link [+1 entry for each (separate comments)]

Tell me what color scheme you would like for your blog if you won [+1 entry]

This giveaway closes on Wednesday August 15th.

Good luck!

-hannah

simply you designs || summer sale

When new seasons roll around, it's time to spruce up your blog. I don't know if you guys know, but I have my own blog/web design business, and it's called Simply You Designs. I offer cute, chic designs at affordable prices, and now it's even more affordable!
From today until June 4th I'm offering the Blog Design package (originally $35) for only $20!! And it gets better! If you're an aspiring/professional photographer, the Photographer's Package (originally $45) is now only $30!!


Order your design today!
-hannah
p.s. don't forget to vote on the poll in the sidebar and enter my photo challenge :)

My design blog!!!

Hey guys! I switched my photo blog into a design blog!!! Yay! Go check it out! http://summersnowdesigns.blogspot.com
I hope you enjoy looking around! :)

Mountain pics and cousins :)

I really should be posting these on my photo blog but its so much easier to post them here!

I was in the car when I took these. I love the last one because you can see the sun rays shining through the clouds like the angels are trying to let you see a smidge of heaven.

I've always thought the farm above was beautiful. When we were driving past I finally managed to snag a photo.

Which one is your favorite?

And I am asking a direct question which I would appreciate very much if you'd answer in a comment:

Should I delete my photo blog?

You can answer yes, no, or it's up to you! (meaning me!)

My two awesome cousins are over. They are 9 and 6. Kate loves to play with them and for the past few weeks they've been taking a dance class together. They do musical theater, jazz, tap and ballet. They are currently working on the song "It's a Hard Knock Life" from Annie. One of my favorite songs ever! They are practicing in the basement but since they are really belting out the song you can hear it through the heating vent.

They all have great voices!

They asked me to come down and watch them one time and honestly, it was great! =)

Also, this is something I'm looking forward to when I get my blog makeover:

A double sidebar so my photos can be bigger! 

I'm going to the mountains again.........:)

And just to let you know my family will probably be going to our cabin every weekend so I will probably not be posting most Saturdays. Hopefully most Sundays will bring loads of photos from the mountains. So I was thinking about combining my photo blog with this one. Yes I've brought it up before but I really want your honest opinion. I think it would be so much easier just to manage one blog. Anywho, yesterday we had our family over to celebrate my grandma's (my mom's mom) 70th birthday! It was a blast and it was a great opportunity to take lots of photos of my cousins (mostly my baby cousin because I was sort of babysitting her the whole time, which I didn't mind at all, she's so darn cute!). Unfortunately I won't be posting those because I don't think their parents would feel comfortable with their pictures on the internet. There were tons of desserts and I sampled almost everything (which I payed for later, but it was totally worth a little stomach ache!)
Cookies, cake, an awesome pudding/brownie/cool whip/chocolate thing that my aunt brought! (I did not get any pics of that. I know, shame on me!)
There were also three kinds of pies but by the time I finished all the other stuff I was waaayyy too full to risk anything else. So I hung out with my cousins (I am the oldest of all of them but they're all super fun!) and uncles and aunts and snapped photos like crazy. Every time I took a photo of her, my one-year-old cousin would say, "see! See!" so I had to show her a few pictures of her gorgeous self. (Whenever I showed her a picture of herself I think I saw more drool on her face than usual! LOL kidding!)
At the end of the night I played a slideshow for my grandma that featured every member of the past three generations. (Ok, I might have missed one or two of her sibling but everybody makes mistakes, right?)
She loved it! And it was made by yours truly.................... moi! (With a little help from my mom of course!)
So that's what's been going on around here for the past 24 hours!
Gotta get to bed!

Just one of my favorite pics ever!

I know it's on my photo blog but I just had to share it with you guys who don't follow it.

(click to enlarge it)

It's my 100th post and you know what that means!

Photo contest!! And a giveaway! Yes, I am hosting a photo contest and a giveaway in honor of my 100th post. The category is, drumroll please.............. I said DRUMROLL PLEASE!! Thank you. The category is.................................................................... Summer fun! You can enter any photo that has your favorite thing about summer in it, with a small description saying why you love that about summer.
There will be a grand prize and and a runner-up prize and some honorable mentions. The grand prize will be:
A blog makeover by Olive Tree! Thanks so much Olive Tree! An award featuring your photo and any this necklace in my etsy shop (if you need me to make the necklace a little longer thats fine)!

The runner up prize: An award featuring your photo, a blog button made by moi :) and these earings from my etsy shop. (If you don't have your ears pierced thats fine because I have something set aside just in case!)

The honorable mentions will receive an award featuring their photo. Only one photo per person!!! Please leave me a comment with the URL of the post that has your photo in it.

Now for the giveaway! I will be giving away this necklace:

Here's how to enter:

Leave a comment saying you want to enter: 1 entry

Follow my blog and leave  comment letting me know that you do: 1 entry

Put my button on your blog and leave a comment: 1 entry

Follow my other blog "Find That Creative Spark" and leave a comment: 1 entry

Post about the giveaway on your blog and leave me a comment putting the URL of the blog post into it: 2 entries

Post about the photo contest on your blog and leave me a comment putting the URL of the blog post into it: 2 entries

Post about my followers fest and leave me a comment saying you did: 2 entries

That adds up to 10 entries total. You have until July 25th to enter and then I will put all the entries into a hat and pick one out. Good luck to all of you! Sorry I will only ship inside the U.S. :(

Yes, yes, another change :P

I know what your thinking, "Can't she keep her blog the same for one week?" well, this is a major change! (Actually not really, but i like to call it that :) I put up pages near the top, so feel free to check them out. I also simplified my other blog, "Find That Creative Spark". I hope you'll take a peek! :)))

A tag

The Golden Eagle tagged me!


Q. Why did you start your blog?

A. Because i love to write and I thought it would be cool to post about my life and make friends over the internet

Q. What are/were your objectives for your blog(s)?

A. To have a whole lot of followers!!!

Q. Who tagged you for this tag?

A. The Golden Eagle

Q. Do you love chocolate?

A. YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!

Q. Have many blogs do you have? Do you post often? Are any private? 


A. I have three blogs and I'm contributing to one other. One blog is a test blog, another is my photo blog, this blog and I'm writing for a story blog. None of them are private and I try to post as often as I can!


Thanks Golden Eagle!
Now I tag:
Hannah @Aspire
Guinevere
Luci @Virtuous Girlhood