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Happy Birthday Mom!

Happy Birthday to the most fabulous mom ever! My mom inspires me every day and I’m so thankful to live nearby my parents and see them as much as I do. And if you can’t tell, I pretty much get all my style and inspiration from her. Whenever I see my mom, I want to steal whatever she’s wearing!

My sister and her husband came in for the week to celebrate my mom’s birthday and I was so happy to see her little guy. I can’t help but have the cheesiest grin around him, he’s so darn cute!! When I’m around him my already high pitched voice gets even higher pitched because all I can do is squeal about how cute he is and pinch his chubby little cheeks! 🙂

Go to Jen’s blog to see more pictures!

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Christmas recap in photos!

Post author By tiffany
Post date December 29, 2011
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I can hardly believe that Christmas is over and 2012 is almost here!
Since I like to think of my blog as a little online journal for myself,
I thought I’d share a little bit of the Christmas pictures I took this
year.

Our holiday decor. I kept the wrapping very
simple this year with just some kraft paper and fun ribbon. I made all
the bows myself and the ribbons were all purchased from JoAnn Craft store.
The red tree and the plant were found at a boutique flower shop last
year. I love pulling out our holiday decor but some of it was so buried
in our storage that I couldn’t get to it and had to order a bunch of
new decorations! (Cleaning that storage is top of my new year’s goals!)

(i downloaded and printed off the gift tags from Creature Comforts round up of free holiday gift tags! Thank you to The Sweetest Occasion and Ellinee for the cutest gift tags! )

My
husband was very thoughtful and spotted these roses for me and I loved that it went with our holiday decor.

I also keep a little space just for my “girly” holiday decorations. 🙂

Just
some of the goodies that I made. I had never had homemade chex mix
before but decided to make it and YUM! So addicting. I put a bowl out
and in an instant it was gone. I made chex mix 3 mornings in a row!
And white chocolate covered pretzels are so delicious!

The cutie tins that I put the treats in. They were perfect for gift giving!

I
just had to include this picture of me and my super adorable nephew in
the sweater we got him. We love H&M kids where we bought him this
sweater. He just looked so darn cute in his little winter sweater and I
was wearing a cozy winter sweater too so I had to get a photo with
him! 🙂

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Happy Birthday Mom!

Happy Birthday to my beautiful mom today! My family means everything to me and my parents have been so supportive of my blog as well as being an integral part of t+j Designs since the beginning. I really could not live my dreams without them and their support. So a big thank you to my mom and dad and a very happy birthday to my mom! I love you!

This was taken at my dad’s birthday in August. We ate so much that night it was ridiculous (but good)!

And this was brunch for Mother’s day! See the post here.

I also have my mom to blame for my love of Chanel bags. 😉 If you missed it check out my video here which I included some of the bags that I borrowed from her. I’ll try to see if I can “borrow” some of her fall/winter bags and post another video! 🙂

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Happy Mother’s Day!

We took my mom out for mother’s day to her favorite brunch place, Lola, in downtown Seattle. I get a lot of questions about where to eat when visiting Seattle and although I have a million recommendations I can say that any of the Tom Douglas restaurants are a safe and super yummy bet. I’ve eaten at all of them and have no complaints. We had a fabulous brunch and then Pike Place was having a flower festival so we walked down there to check it out and to get my mom some flowers. I mentioned before that Pike Place Market gets super crowded but I was pleasantly surprised to see that they blocked the cars from entering Pike Place which in turn helped the usual crowding out SO much because it gave people so much more room to walk in. It was really nice walking through the market and not dealing with pushing through the crowds and cars. I don’t know if it was special for the flower festival but I wish they’d close the street to cars all the time so that the market is much more fun to walk through! Anyway, it was such a great day hanging out with my family and was so happy to take my mom out for a fun mother’s day!

Made to order doughnuts, seasonal jam, vanilla mascarpone

A stack of golden brown pancakes and pork-maple sausage, vanilla mascarpone, maple syrup

Lola breakfast: two eggs, smoked bacon, smashed garlic fried potatoes, toast

Eggs benedict, Bavarian meats ham, dill hollandaise

My sister flew in from Chicago to surprise my mom and surprised she was! We don’t get to see my sister as often since she lived in NYC for awhile and now Chicago so it’s always great to have her home.

The nice diners next to us offered to take our picture which was nice because most people are intimidated by our huge camera so usually my husband and I are not in the photo since we are the photographers!

My fabulous family minus my brother and brother in law who couldn’t make it. I <3 family time and am so happy that my parents live close by enough to see them often!

Happy Mother’s Day to my amazing mom who I get all my style from! I learned from the best! 🙂

All photos were taken by me, except for the ones I’m in which were taken by my husband. Shot on a Canon 5D Mark II with Canon 35mm f/1.4L Lens.