Friday Letters

Dear Friday,
I am so glad that you are here. This has been a really rough week and I can't wait for a few days to reset.

Dear Hubs,
You have spoiled me this week! Pizza dates with walks and ice cream, pedicures and chai tea lattes, and the rodeo on Sunday. Feels nice to be pampered from time to time. Thank you for making me feel so special.

Dear Mom and Dad,
I miss you guys and wish we had more time to hang out together.

Dear Summer,
I am ready, bring it on. I love me some hot Texas summer heat.

Dear Austin Stores,
I get it, I really do. No plastic bags in theory means less liter, better for the environment. But really, I am having a seriously hard time remembering my grocery bags in the car every time!

Dear Cali,
I am counting down the days until I step off that plane and can breath in the smell of the ocean and see the beach. I've missed you. T minus 13 and counting.

Dear Tisa,
We have so much coming up. We are taking big steps this year and growing a lot. So glad that we are doing some of it together.

Dear Aimee,
I L.O.V.E. it all! You are amazing and I can't wait to share our re-branding with everyone.

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Refresh Retreat 2013

snow. mountains.games.prayer. food. shopping. cooking. talking. swag. friends

Those 10 words can sum up the past weekend I spent in Colorado at Refresh Retreat 2013. Eleven women spending the weekend in the snowy mountains of Colorado to fellowship with each other and grow as Christian women, how much better can that get? Here's the catch, most of us had never met each other face to face before Friday. We have been friends for over a year, connecting through our blogs, facebook, and twitter.  What a treat it was to get to meet all of these amazing women face to face.

We stayed at an amazing home that belong to one of the ladies family. It was so fun to have everyone under one roof.

{Beautiful Mountain Hide Away}

Hosted by Sarah & Rebecca of She Shares Ministry the weekend was spent as a time to Refresh, a time to reflect physically, mentally and spiritual. We laughed, cried, hugged, talked business, blogs and life. We played games, cooked and ate and lounged around in our pjs.

Along with She Shares Ministries there was an amazing group of sponsors that made this weekend extra special by providing SWAG for each attendant. We all loved the bags and gushed about all the amazing goodies. Since it was so good, we thought you might like on too! 1 reader will when an amazing SWAG bag from Refresh Retreat 2013.

A peek at our amazing sponsors...

Ashley @ The Gnarly Whale Shop

Sara @ Sarahorn.com

Joy @ Whisker Graphics

Tisa @ Tisa's Creations

Lani @ Elle Dee Designs

Pick Your Plum

Sarah @ Linley House

She Shares Ministries

Stephanie @ RLPco
Cathi @ Bioceutica
Kelli @ Eat Pray Read Love

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Friday Letters

Dear Friday,
I'm so happy you are finally here! Half day at work and plane ride to see my sis-in-law and bloggy friends!

Dear Pilot,
While you might then "bumps" in the air are normal, they are not, and they make me nervous. So if we could keep that to a minimal this afternoon I will enjoy this flight to the max.

Dear Tisa,
I can not wait for the next few weeks to pass! We are going to have an amazing time in Cali.

Dear Closet,
Can you please magically put together a few amamzing outfits for me that are cute and comfy, oh and go ahead and pack them while you're at it.

Dear Refreash 2013 Sponsors,
Thank you!!! You are going to rock the SWAG bags at this weekends retreat and I can't wait to share everything about it next week!

Dear Aimee,
I LOVE my new logo and can not wait for everything to be done! It is going to be amazing!

Dear Hubs,
I love you love you and wanted to say thanks for the girls weekend.

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Who My Junk Folder Thinks I am....

Have you actually looked in your junk/spam folder lately. Forever I just deleted it and moved on. Recently I realized important emails were being filtered in there and now I look every time before I delete them. All I can say is clearly my junk folder doesn't know me very well. You should see what is in that thing!

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According to my junk folder I am....

• Desperately in need of a date, it recommends younger men {Cougar site} and that they be Jewish. Occasionally a senior site pops up too. We don't discriminate.
• I need better tv service
• I need a payday loan {like everyday}
• I should go back to school, something in criminal justice
• I'm stupid lucky, you should see all the money I win
• I need better insurance, life, car and medical
• I need to loose my belly fat and this raspberry thing will do just the trick
• I've been wearing glasses for too long and should get Lasik surgery

Who does your junk folder think you are?? Link up and share with us.

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Friday Letters

Dear Hubs,
Have I told you lately how proud of you I am? Well, I'm really proud of you. Thank you for being my Hubs. 

Dear Tisa,
Sad you are in OKC without me, but I know you are going to totally rock it!

Dear Santa,
I've been pretty good this year, just sayin'.

Dear Craigslist,
Please find people who wants my old random Living room furniture so I can make room for the beautiful new furniture that is coming:)

Dear Radio,
I really don't like Christmas Music. I know, I'm weird. Unless you want me to complete give up on you please play some non-Christmas music too!

Dear Vacation,
I need you!

Dear 4 Day Work Week,
You rock! I love being home on Thursdays to work on Elle Dee Designs and catch up on life.

Dear Legs,
Thank you for getting me through the Dirty Girl Mud Run, sorry for that fist size bruise on the calf. The wooden wall was harder than I thought.

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5 things I'm Loving Right Now!

5 things I'm loving right now! by elledeedesign

Skinny Jeans Plain Shirts Messanger Bags Pei Wei EOS Lip Gloss

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This or That Link-Up

I'm back and am ready to share the skinny on me. I can't wait to hear what you chose, this or that! So grab a button and link up!

1. Chocolate or Vanilla: Chocolate

2. Morning or Night: Night

3. Eating in or Out: Eating in if Hubs is cooking, out if I am:)

4. Cats or Dogs: Dogs

3. Apple or Windows: Windows

4. Store bought or homemade cookies: Homemade always

5. East coast or West Coast: West Coast

6. Night out or night in: Night in, I need my bed close by.

7. Coke or Pepsi: Coke..Diet Coke that is

8. Laundry or Dishes: Dishes

9. Football or Baseball: College Football, otherwise baseball

10. Reality TV or Sitcom: Sitcom

11. Electronic reader or paperback: Ereader, sometimes its nice to hold a real book

12. Facebook or Twitter: Facebook

13. Eloping or Wedding: Wedding

14. Math/Science or Language Arts: Math/ Science

15. Salt or Pepper: Pepper

16. Friday or Sunday: Friday

17. Movie theater or rentals: Theater

18. Paper newspaper or online news: Newspaper

19. Valentine's Day or Thanksgiving: Thanksgiving

20. Oscars or Grammy's: Neither- don't really care

21. Gas stove or electric: Gas

22. Gold or Silver: Silver

23. Coke or Tea:Tea

24. City or Country: City but I love both

25. Diamonds or Pearls: Diamonds

26. Peanut butter or Jelly: Peanut butter-but really what is one without the other?!

27. Colors or black/white: Black and White

28. Online shopping or actual shopping: Actual shopping, as long as its anywhere but the mall.

29. College or High School:  high school was way more fun than college

30. Breakfast or Dinner: Breakfast for Dinner!

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Friday Letters

Dear Families in Midland,

We are all praying for you. 

Dear Christmas Affair,

I'm spent after 1 night, here's to the next 2!

Dear 4 day work week,

I LOVE you!!

Dear Customers,

You never cease to amaze me! You make my me smile so much.

Dear Etsy,

That Cha-Ching noise on the mobile app is amazing!!!

Dear Husband,

Thank you for everything! You are the best.

Dear Followers,

I'm trying to figure out what our new look will be.

Dear Twitter,

I think I got this...finally!

Dear Cinsarah,

I love my necklace, thanks for hosting your awesome giveaway.

Dear Simply Livly,

This necklace is perfect!!! Thank you Thank you!

Dear Hubs,

I promise the couch is more comfortable than the chairs. You are gonna love the new living room:)

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This OR That: A Link up

I saw this adorable post last week and thought it would be a great link up! I would love to get to know you better! I found this awesome survey to simply ask you to pick between this or that. Feel free to elaborate anywhere you'd like to explain your choice. Simply copy and paste the survey into your blog post and enter in your own choices between this or that. Come back on Monday November 19th and link up! If you don't have a blog feel free to share your answer in the comment section below.

1. Chocolate or Vanilla:

2. Morning or Night:

3. Eating in or Out:

4. Cats or Dogs:

3. Apple or Windows: 

4. Store bought or homemade cookies:

5. East coast or West Coast:

6. Night out or night in:

7. Coke or Pepsi:

8. Laundry or Dishes:

9. Football or Baseball:

10. Reality TV or Sitcom:

11. Electronic reader or paperback:

12. Facebook or Twitter:

13. Eloping or Wedding:

14. Math/Science or Language Arts:

15. Salt or Pepper:

16. Friday or Sunday:

17. Movie theater or rentals: 

18. Paper newspaper or online news:

19. Valentine's Day or Thanksgiving:

20. Oscars or Grammy's:

21. Gas stove or electric:

22. Gold or Silver:

23. Coke or Tea:

24. City or Country:

25. Diamonds or Pearls:

26. Peanut butter or Jelly:

27. Colors or black/white:

28. Online shopping or actual shopping:

29. College or High School:  

30. Breakfast or Dinner: 

31. Make up your own This or That for readers to answer in the comments section!

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Friday Letters

Dear Job,

You really shouldn't be this stressful.

Dear Country Music,

You made my morning with another Eric Church song.

Dear Hubs,

I can not wait for our "anniversary dinner" part dos tonight.

Dear Customers,

I promise I am going as fast as possible.

Dear Veryjane.com,

You rock!

Dear Groopdealz,

Thanks for helping with so much of my Christmas shopping.

Dear Sandy @ Firefly Confections,

I had so much fun writing about your amazing caramels, thanks for the opportunity!

Dear Meghan,

I can't wait to use all of my goodies and start my new book!

Dear Swaps,

You are so much fun!!!

Dear Craftcation and Snap!

I CAN NOT wait!!!

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Book Swap!!

If you've been around for long you know I love two things, swaps and books. So you can imagine how excited I was when I saw that The Sweet Green Tangerine and Friends were hosting a BOOK SWAP! Now that's what I'm talking about! I love reading and recently converted over to using my iPad for checking out books from the library and new book purchases. There is something to be said for holding an actual paper book in your hand. On occasion I am drawn to used book stores just to get my paperback fix. Anyways, on with the swap....

The mystery of who you're paired up with and followed by the mandatory stalking of all social media to "get to know" your swap partner. These are the key things to a good swap in my opinion. I was paired us with Meghan of Shine On. So I checked out her good reads, twitter, and blog. What I found made my day, the girls loves Nora Roberts as much as I do! Which was clear since we both sent each other one of her books.

I have to say I feel bad, I sent Meghan her book with a quick note. I was rushing to get it in the mail and not forget about the mailing deadline. When I got Meghan's package she had spoiled me! I got the awesome above mentioned book, but she also included these adorable owl magnetic book marks and an awesome mini book light! Meghan I promise I'll make it up to you next time we partner up!

Do you swap? What is your favorite so far? Do you have one in the works? Share so I can check it out!

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Write in Down & Link It Up

Handwriting can be so fun, practiced and perfected, it can tell a lot about a person.  As little girls we practice our signature or hopeful signature of the future. It usually ends up with little hearts above every i. As we get older our writing changes with our personality. I remember my cursive L looked like a giant 2 for years, it wasn't until I was married and had a D in my name that I actually like the way my cursive D looked. 

I couldn't pass up a fun link up all about handwriting! So I headed over to Something Charming and started on my "writing post." She provided a simple prompt for what to include in each post...

                           

I got to work on my writing and only started over once!

{I guess you're never too old to practice}

So there you have it! What does your writing look like, what does it say about you? 

Did you write a post and link up?

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Friday Letters

Dear Hubs, 
Thank you for taking me out for a wonderful dinner last night. It was nice to actually sit down, eat a meal and talk together. I need a little one on one time. 

Dear Etsy,
You rock! I love your platform and I love my customers. 

Dear Grown Up Job,
40 hours a week is just too much, can't we negotiate?

Dear Bloggers,
I love all of the holiday gift guides. So glad that I could participate in a few of them! 

Dear TV,
I didn't really miss you until this morning when everyone was talking about how amazing the CMAs were. Now I wish I had watched some how. 

Dear Vacation Time.
I wish I was using you to take a fabulous trip that involved sand, bikinis, me and my hunky husband. I guess we'll both have to come to terms that you are being used for days to stay home and sew orders:)

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Currently- Fall Edition

Some of my favorite bloggy friends have been posting about what they are "currently" doing. I felt inspired and honestly can't believe I pulled off this adorable post. I did make it then close the window without saving it and had to start all over. So here is what I am Currently up to - Fall Edition!

Thanks for the inspiration Carly at TexasLovebirds!

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Friday Letters

Dear Grandma,
I hope you feel better, being sick is no fun and everyone is worried about you.

Dear Bed Bath and Beyond,
Thanks to the awesome anniversary gift card from grandma, their is a Keurig in our future:)

Dear Hubs,
I wish you hadn't had to go out of town this week, or least that I could have gone with you. So glad you are home now. 

Dear Craft Show,
Lets rock this, please?

Dear Schedule,
Something has to give! There are just not enough hours in the day. I swear as soon as the holidays are over I am taking a staycation. 

Dear March,
Hurry! I have so much fun planned. 

Dear Eric Church,
I really like this Springsteen song.

Dear She Reads Truth,
I am really enjoying your site, you rock!

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Friday Letters

Dear Hubs,

Thank you for making time for me this week. I think we both needed it.

Dear Mom,

I had so much fun this past weekend on our road trip.

Dear Shoulder,

I need to get through the next 3 months, please, please behave! I can not afford days in bed.

Dear Country Music,

I've missed you. It's been a fun reunion. 

Dear Customers,

Why would you think you can order a custom product for  a holiday and expect to get it within days. Do businesses really do this? Sad to say I have had to turn a lot of you away this week:(

Dear Skye,

Once again you are my hero this week.

Dear Twitter,

We got this. 

Dear Etsy,

Thank you for being you! So excited that we reached the 500 sales milestone this morning!

Dear Facebook,

Yes, that is 2000+ followers!!

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Friday Letters

Dear ATX,
Enjoy all of your live music at ACL this weekend. I'm headed to the Big D and away from the craziness.

Dear Ashley,
I am soooo excited to have you on board. Can't believe that Elle Dee Designs hired it's first employee this week!

Dear Skye,
Never thought I would need a virtual assistant, but you ROCK! and I am so glad to have you!
{Skye can be found as @rinderceIIa on twitter or at http://www.skyemclain.com}

Dear Mom,
So glad you are here, Road Trip here we come!

Dear Land's End GIANT Tote Bag,
I am so glad you are giant size, I will be filling you full of stuff to work on in the car this weekend.

Dear Hubs,
1 set of clinicals down! I am so proud of you, this semester will be over before you know it. 

Dear Etsy,
Not sure how I feel about these "changes for the better" that you have going on. We'll see...

Dear Week,
I am glad you are coming to an end. This has been one of my busiest weeks in months.

Dear Readers, aka YOU,
You should really subscribe to my new newsletter. Its gonna be awesome and packed full of cuteness or and coupon codes and event info. Click here to sign up ---->http://eepurl.com/c7jr-/

Dear Cousin J,
Congrats on getting married this weekend, thanks for having a fun wedding so we can get dressed up:)

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Friday Letters

Dear Gym,

Oh, how our 0615 meet ups are working for me! LOVE IT!

Dear Tisa,

Can't wait to hit the farmers market and craft with you on Saturday.

Dear ACL,

I am dreading your weekend. I think I'll stay close to home and avoid all of those people.

Dear Mom,

Can't wait for you to get here next week! Looking forward to our road trip!

Dear Employee Who Can Not Yet Be Named,

Where are you? I need to find you!

Dear Hubs,

I miss you! I feel like we are both so busy we never see each other{even though we see each other everyday}.

Dear Mall,

I survived you! I made it solo through my bi-annual outing and feel good about not seeing you again until late Spring.

Dear Virtual Assistant,

I see the beginning of a beautiful relationship.

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