summer favorites...

Back home from our summer vacation we were excited to find some veggies in our garden. Can't wait to make some of my favorite recipes with these. This reminds me of this post recently on inchmark for a favorite things party. What a fun idea! Has anyone ever done this?

summer holiday...

Have a safe and happy 4th of July!

colors of summer...

Monday= pink

catching up over here....

Tuesday= yellow

Wednesday= green Thursday= red and white Hope you've been checking out all the inspiration over here.

summer journal pages...

More pages from my summer art journal that I've been making in Kara's online class. grounding my summer...

I like to indulge in....
s'more picnic by the campfire...
summer playlist...
summer scents....

summer sky....

I'm having a lot of fun with this book so far.

Hope you're having a great summer!

Summer color fun!!

This week over at Poppytalk is an uber-inspiring week of summer color. Be sure and check it out each day for some major eye candy. This is how to works...

Every day this week has a different color theme:

Monday- pink

Tuesday- yellow

Wednesday- green

Thursday- red and white

Friday- blue

Join in the fun and play along on your blog and upload your pics in the flicker pool.

Here are the full details and some inspiring pink to get you going.

Hope to see you there!

lost in summer....

Summer has taken ahold and I'm trying to document it in the moment. I'm taking Kara Haupt's fun Summer of Love class and it really got me in gear to start my summer art journal. This book is for....

Summer is....

My summer word.....fresh.

The cover.

sunny lemonade...

We've been celebrating sunny summer days with ice cold homemade lemonade.

ingredients....

1 cup sugar (can reduce to 3/4 cup)

1 cup water (for the simple syrup)

1 cup lemon juice

3 to 4 cups cold water (to dilute)

method....

1) Make simple syrup by heating the sugar and water in a small saucepan until the sugar is dissolved completely.

2) While the sugar is dissolving, use a juicer to extract the juice from 4 to 6 lemons, enough for one cup of juice.

3) Add the juice and the sugar water to a pitcher. Add 3 to 4 cups of cold water, more or less to the desired strength. Refrigerate 30 to 40 minutes. If the lemonade is a little sweet for your taste, add a little more straight lemon juice to it. Serve with ice, sliced lemons. Yummy!

Serves 6.

I think lemonade is summery enough to warrant it's own party.

It seems that babalisme and many of her blog readers would agree. Check out these amazing printables for a summer lemonade party!! She has some cute favor boxes, napkin rings, and invitations on her blog along with some amazing inspiration for the party. Happy Summer, indeed!