Oh Saturday...

After scarcely six hours of horrible restless sleep, I pulled myself out of bed; it was clear that I wouldn't get much more. I hopped on the computer to check the dailies: AOU, gmail, this blog, and Facebook. When I got to the last one, I was met with disheartening and depressing news: my voice class, the one I had been so ecstatically excited about was canceled. Canceled?! What? I had talked about how excited I was to improve my voice and work hard, not to mention getting to see my teacher from last semester and a few of my friends.

The morning moved along and I was caught in a general mood of I'm just not happy and I don't feel like being happy, so I'll just be melancholy. And when this happens, you generally start to count the number of things that make your life stink. But then I realized something! (something that I've realized many a time before and always need to remember). I have way more blessings in my life than I do problems. As I began to count them up, the truth of the matter was quite clear: the blessings outweigh the problems about a hundred to one. I had breakfast this morning, I've got clothes on my back, I didn't get sick from the water I've been drinking, I have a sturdy house and a roof over my head... and the list goes on. How can I complain when I have so many things to be thankful for? 

It is so easy to be caught up in what we don't have rather than remembering what we do have. Most of the world doesn't live like we do. Every day almost 16,000 children die of hunger, so what right do we have to complain about such comparatively silly things? Just a little food for thought. [also, if it sounds like I'm guilting and judging people, that's not what I'm doing. This is just as much for me as it is for you. And actually, this isn't where I was planning to go with this post, but that's what almost always inevitably happens. :)]

Well, here's a little bit of lovely for you...

Yesterday's dilapidated omelette... 

I didn't draw this, but I colored it today! Via Pinterest (originally via weheartit.)


The rest of the day was filled with pinterest-ing, sketching, listening to the Hunger Games with my momma, a beautiful, brisk, evening walk with my P-dog, brainstorming for the photo shoot, randomly playing 2 minute segments of my piano piece, and playing a game in the bathroom: act like some fictional character and make crazy facial expressions. :) I'm trying to work on acting and doing roles that really stretch me (which actually end up being the ones I don't expect). You really didn't need to know the entire agenda of my day, but now you do. I hope you don't mind. :)

Have a lovely day!!

Love and a hug,

Lindsey Nicole
Lindsey Lou
The Rooftop Girl

[ p.s. I posted at AOU today! Check it out if you'd like: here! ]
[ p.p.s. yesterday I went to see "Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dream coat" and it was really fun! I'm going again tomorrow with my pals from Seussical :D ]

one hundred.

It was a few years ago that I started this blog, but it didn't really get going until the summer. And since then, it has been a wonderful adventure. With each post, I have gotten to share with you little pieces of my life. I have made friends with many of you, and have been so encouraged by your comments and your lovely faces in my followers box. I went from three followers to 31, and with every single one of you lovely people, my heart did a little happy dance and a smile sprung up on my face. 

So thank you.

Thank you for reading. 

Thank you for following.

Thank you for commenting.

Thank you for encouraging.

Thank you for giving advice.

Thank you for putting up with my ramblings.

Thank you for not judging.

Thank you for letting me be me.

Thank you for everything.

All of you give me a motivation to write. You make me excited to spring out of bed and check what comments you have left me. Those comments make my day. You all make my days. I am so blessed. So thanks again.

Love and hugs,

Lindsey Lou

{p.s. those strawberries were just fresh the other day--in January! can you believe it?}

{p.p.s. what's your favorite pic?}

The Introvert Hour {In The Studio}

so here i sit in my studio. soaking up some alone-time and writing in all lower-case letters. creating cards for beloved friends and reading books. listening to judy garland and ella fitzgerald. enjoying the organization of my studio, that never has been, and probably never will be again. dreaming of beautiful dresses that make you feel elegant and picture-perfect. dreaming of christmas and winter and christ's birth.  dreaming of the thing i should have forgotten, but continuing to dream of deeper, all the more. pondering my life's experiences and being thankful for the trials i have encountered, which have given me far more strength and knowledge than i could have had if i had avoided the pain and went down the easy road of life. being thankful for little sisters. being thankful for closeness with the lord. being thankful for the strength and patience he has given me in the past month. being thankful that he is sovereign and his plan is so perfect-- and that i can see that so clearly. and being thankful for you. :)

now here are some of the photos i promised:

i am also thankful for sunsets and silhouetted trees.

this is a lovely pearl necklace that my grandma gave me. i treasure it.
while we were at my grandma's, she showed us her old jewelry. she had rings with diamonds and real gold,  but out of them all, this ring (below) was my positive  f a v o r i t e . it has a fake jewel, and it's sterling silver, but it was just charming.

now i'm drinking tea and nibbling ginger snaps, compliments of my sister, babycakes. mockingjay is next on the agenda, so i'd better hop to it. this was my introvert hour-- thanks for tuning in. :)

much love and a hug,

lindsey nicole

p.s. the lovely, lacy black dress was ordered less than ten minutes ago! a n d  it went on sale!! how great is that?