Orchid Love

As I've mentioned on here before, my younger sister is a photographer! I've shared some of her photography before here. She recently decided to add some colour to her living room, and purchased an Orchid! I wanted to share with you some of the gorgeous photos that she took.

I hope that you enjoyed these as much as I did! It's such a beautiful flower and I'm currently using one of these pictures as my desktop. 

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xo. Nicole

OOTD // Flower Stems

While taking pictures for this post, I realized just how bad I take "selfies". I hadn't taken a good one in a long time, and part of that is from gaining weight and generally not feeling happy with my appearance. That's all changing now, and the exercising is also helping me pick less-plain outfits for work.

I am also super desperate for new shoes. These white ones only have to last me 3 more work days! My job includes a lot of walking, so I'm surprised these even lasted more than a month. 

I am so excited for Friday! We are officially done for the summer, so my friend and I are off to downtown Edmonton to look at some used book stores. She's started to lend me some books, as I want to get back in to reading, and I figured it would be fun for us to go together so she could recommend me some good reads! I think I'll end up sneaking in to a shop to buy some shoes, though. Some to get me through the summer!

xo. Nicole

Weeks End •• June 22

SNAPSHOTS:

• Gunner has this habit of jumping up on our bed and taking my spot as SOON as I stand up. I get the feeling that he doesn't want me on the bed next to Rob, as Rob is his person.

• It was a good mail day on Tuesday. I'm in love with all the colours that I received from Julep!

• My sad cooking fail was trying to make some gluten free alfredo for dinner. I burnt the sauce and I overcooked the brown rice noodles, so they were super slimy. :(

WHAT YOU MAY HAVE MISSED:

• I shared some Pinspiration for maxi skirts!

• I reviewed Julep's June maven box here. Loving it.

• The winner for the giveaway was announced! 

GOOD READS:

• Shelby never fails to share an awesome ootd!

• Sam and her family had a "beachin'" good Father's Day. 

This past week went super good, other than failing at making dinner one night. I've been feeling so much better since adding exercise in to my weekly habits. I also find it easier to exercise with a friend, so we have our one hour full body work outs on Tuesdays and Saturdays, and this past week we also ran on Wednesday and Friday. I'm hoping that I can keep this up throughout the summer, as both of our schedules will be different, with our job being finished until September. I may just have to suck it up and try to force myself out of the house for a run without a partner.

xo. Nicole