Category Archives: Life Letters

January Progress or Lack Thereof

Paper pinwheels

So… today I had planned to share the paper pinwheel project I teased on Instagram earlier this week. But as you can see, I have no pinwheel project to share. It seems that I didn’t quite think through my project and found myself with lots of pinwheels and no way to hang them up! I think I’ve finally found a solution, but I’m waiting for some glue to dry.

Isn’t that how life goes some days? Just sitting around waiting for glue to dry.

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DIY Quote Art

DIY Quote Art via www.twopurplecouches.com

I started blogging to have a personal, creative outlet. It was the place where I would share the vision I had for our newly-built home, and watch it come to life. It was the place where I would try out all those projects and ideas I’d been pinning for months. And it was the place where I would write how I wanted.

Two Purple Couches is still all of these things to me, but some days, it’s easy to forget why I started. And I need a simple reminder—four powerful, motivational words in the form of a DIY quote art project—to jolt me back to those early posts, and the reason why I hit publish in the first place.

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Life Letters: On Doing Nothing

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Do you have a hard time doing nothing? I do.

I am always go-go-go. Even on vacation, I like having a to-do list of places to go and sights to see. It’s what I’m used to; it’s how our family vacationed when I was a kid. We were never sit-on-the-beach kind of people.

We just got back from a sit-on-the-beach kind of vacation. And it really got me thinking about my relaxation habits. Or lack thereof.

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Life Letters: On Marriage

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Today is a pretty special day.

If you count our dating years, Tom and I have been together for 14 years. I am 29 years old, so that is pretty much half of my life. Half of my life. I have known this man.

We were awkward teenagers together. We made it through college with a long-distance relationship. And today, we’ve been married for 7 of those 14 years.

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