Friday 5/30

If I had one wish [or eight]

Staying with the birthday theme for this week's posts (since I'm a firm believer in birth[week]days) I thought I'd share some Pekarsk-ing Around approved birthday presents!

I know I would love to find any of these goodies under pink polka dot tissue paper! 

Happy Birthday CPR by crpekarsk 

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It's my party

We are about to hit full tilt birthday madness here come June.

Tiernee joins the 2-4 club three days before me on the 5th.

Molly hits 23 June 10th.

Jenn officially enters her "late twenties" aka 26 on June 13th [same as the Olsen Twins.] 

Target's card aisle and I are about to become BFF.

There are tons of cute [and affordable] birthday ideas to send friends besides flowers [trying not to break the bank over here, we still have Father's Day to go.] 

I personally am crushing on these gold number balloons from Party City. 

This balloon clad cutie from Sugar Paper LA is just presh!

And doesn't any #postgrad bestie love a good coffee mug? 

What's on your birthday wish list?

You can never start planning too early! 

[long] Weekend Recap: 5/24-5/26

Where do I even start?

This weekend [and a Monday] was absolutely fabulous y'all. 

Friday technically isn't part of the weekend but since we got off work early it gets a pass. 

Friday morning I got coffee with my Catholic soul sister Ashley who was in town from Knoxville for work. 

We are two tall chi tea lattes in a pod I tell you.

We were off work at 2:30, let Memorial Weekend begin! 

Saturday was finally FLEA MARKET day!! Mom and I were parked and through the gates by 9am #dedicated. We were on a mission!

My [early] birthday present this year was sweet goodies for my porch.

Mom and I had been bouncing ideas around for months and it all came together by 2pm that day!

First stop: the cutest red benches that perfectly match my front door!

After wandering some more booths and a tad more people watching we decided to just go for it and headed to the nearest Home Depot. After lining up a couple combination of flowers and taking pictures, but no real winners we headed back downtown with four green flower pots for me and a Black Eyed Susan for mom.

FF to 20 min later when we were back in the car heading back to Home Depot to get four more Black Eyed Susans for me. Per usual mom was a genius and put her Black Eyed Susan in one of my pots just to see how it would look and it was love at first sight.

Now I need to have a porch party! 

Sunday was lazy but good. Dad and Joe came downtown and fixed my sink along with double checking my AC unit [after it leaked through my bathroom ceiling last summer.] I bummed around the house for a couple hours then packed up my bathing suit, Clarisonic, and Steeler blanket and headed to River Chase to finish out the long weekend.

Monday was heavenly.

Mom, Sophie, and I camped out by the pool for the afternoon and soaked up every ounce of sun we could.

Life does not get much better than this. 

I truly do live a blessed life.

Land of the free because of the brave. 

Simply perfect

I posted a picture of my planner sprawled out on my couch Wednesday night and in no time flat had tons of questions about what brand it was; so I figured I'd share with everyone!

I have been a long time Lilly planner lover, it was the first thing Lilly I ever bought.

Swore by them all through college, but post grad life called for something a little more structured.

Now don't get me wrong, I still love the prints and stickers that come with a Lilly planner. That's why I now have the Lilly wall calendar hanging by my desk at home. But then I was introduced to Emily Ley.

Emily Ley's Simplified Planner is a game changer.

Thank you Sara for this one! 

The 2014 planners only came in the rainbow stripe but this coming 2015 planners will have three different cover options, all precious.

Each day has a quote, your day broken down by the hour 7a-7p, a built in To Do list, a Notes box, and in my case the usually neglected Dinner box. There's a huge front cover pocket and monthly calendars at the beginning of each month. 

I mean what else could a girl want?

Oh, cute stationary? Well while you're planning out your day in your Simplified Planner don't forget to make your grocery list on one of Emily Ley's adorable notepads. There's gold foil and personalized options, you can't go wrong with either! 

Planning has never been so fun or looked so good!