Orange Beach, Fairhope, and Point Clear

I hope that each and every one of you had a lovely holiday. I spent the week before Christmas down on the beach for a little pre-Christmas vacation with my grandmother. As crazy as it seems, I just couldn't help walking barefoot down by the water. The weather was lovely and just warm enough during the day to spend it outside walking on the beach. I spent one entire afternoon on the balcony reading John Grisham's Skipping Christmas cover to cover. An old favorite of ours is to drive into Fairhope one day when we're at Orange Beach. The little downtown is a lovely place to walk around and browse--we always make sure to stop by Aubergine Antiques, where I may have picked up a couple of pieces to use in our wedding. Instead of stopping for our usual lunch at the Fairhope Inn, we walked to the Windmill Market and had lunch at Sweet Olive, where I ended up sitting a table down from Jason Schwartzman and his family. If you don't know who he is, I suggest you go watch some Wes Anderson films (Rushmore, The Darjeeling Limited, Moonrise Kingdom, etc). On our way back from Fairhope, we stopped at Point Clear to have afternoon drinks overlooking the Bay just before the sun started to go down. The entry was decorated so beautifully that I couldn't help but snap a quick picture.

Gifts Gilded in Gold

Every girl loves something glittery gold, so I found a few great little gifts to give to your friends or the fun holiday hostess. What better time than the holidays for gifts gilded in gold?

1. Lovely Gold Monogram Mugs make for fancy coffee.
2. A Set of Golden Bobby Pins to dress up your 'do.
3. A Gold Monogrammed Tray to hold pretty things.
4. As Good As Gold Polish for a festive mani.
5. Light Up the Room with a special scented candle.
6. A festiveWine Stopper to dress up your drink.
7. Cheers to pretty Letterpress Coasters for your holiday parties.

Insta-Lately.

Life has been crazy lately, between moving, the holidays, traveling, and work, there hasn't been much room to breathe...but it's been wonderful. 

Sporadic Settling.

As I'm sure you can tell from my sporadic posts, I'm still getting settled into my condo in Birmingham. Over the weekend, however, we finally got the bedrooms and office painted so that the new carpet can be put in and then...FURNITURE! I was really looking forward to seeing the colors that I chose for the rooms and I'm really happy with them. The next thing I'm looking forward to getting in here is my Christmas tree, y'all. Normally, the mister and I would have put up my tree a couple of weeks ago, but this move has thrown a wrench in our holidays—along with his graduation from PA School and board certification coming up. However, we have planned the perfect date to celebrate our 3 years.

We had to postpone our date because things are so crazy right now, but as of today, Mr. Burton and I have stuck together through three years and three different cities. Who would've thought we would make it this far? I can't wait to see what happens next.