four years of fun

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY MY LOVE!!!

I had to yell because he is in Thailand. If you can hear this....

YOU ROCK MY WORLD!!!

Woah, we look so young!!

{ thankful thursday }

Easter is coming, the most important day of the year, yet why does it receive only minimum attention? Seems like bunnies get more attention this weekend then Jesus. Funny, yet sad and interesting.

This week's {thankful thursday} is a simple one that is filled with power and strength....

"But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us." - Romans 5:8

Thank you Jesus for dying on the cross for my sins.
Thank you for being my Savior.
Thank you for your love!

weekends rock!

What a delicious weekend we just had!

Ben started the weekend off right by sending me "just because flowers at work". I love it when he does that!

Ate yummy food all weekend. Saturday breakfast sausage, eggs and tartor-tots (above picture is actually my roommate's breakfast, it looked much nicer than ours). Slow cooker cook off with my brother, which I won! Tons of raw veggies and salads. And homemade cinnamon rolls from a local diner topped with 2 dark chocolate raspberry truffles from See's candy. I love good food!

I also spent a ton of time sewing my new zipper clutches. I'll post pictures of them this week. I'm super excited to get them up on Etsy and start raising money for Thailand! Below is a process picture sneak peak!

{ thankful thursdays }

I've been thinking a lot lately about why do I post {thankful thursdays}? I want these posts to be received as genuine (because they are) and as an encouragement to you. God has blessed me with a joy that is deeply rooted in Him, which I hope it is contagious and inspiring. It can be difficult sometimes to think of things I'm grateful for (at least in the 5 minutes I give myself sometimes to write these posts). But not only do I want these posts to be encouraging to you but also a reminder to myself that I have been blessed with so much!

So this week, I am so ever grateful for living in Oregon!! Above is a picture I took a few Saturdays ago, filling up at our local gas station with beautiful Mt. Hood in the background. No - this picture is not photoshoped. Yes - Mt. Hood is right there in all of its awesomeness!

monday morning

I'm thinking about yummy soy lattes topped with raw sugar, leather bags and denim on denim and wishing the town I lived in wasn't so hilly. I love cruiser bikes!

Pretty pictures from here

i love long weekends!



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 3 day weekends are the best! I'm planning on going splitboarding with Ben and friends at Mt Adams, drinking hot chocolate, relaxing around our bonfire and trying my hand at making bread. I'm so excited!

roma video from college

Here is a video that was made about my roma bags while I was in college. I was so nervous to be interviewed! Watch it to learn more about Roma and my design process.

Hello!

Welcome to my Roma bags blog! So glad you could stop by.

I came across this image below at Elise Joy's etsy shop and it struck a cord in my heart. Why don't I just start? Why don't I go for it and and figure out what the purpose is later? Why do I always have to have a plan? Why not just purse this crafty creative energy of mine, even if it currently doesn't make sense?

So here I am.
I'm going to go for this.
Sounds like, feels like an exciting adventure.
Good thing I like adventures!

So welcome to my Roma bags blog where I'm going to post crafty inspirations and personal projects. Currently, I'm not sure the exact direction of this blog (as noted above) but it's going somewhere and I'm excited!

Enjoy!