February 10, 2012

Dance it Out



Love these! Your favorite film/television dances. Illustrations by Neiges Borges - see more on Dancing Plague of 1518 and buy prints here.

[ via iwatchstuff and my bff Faith's cool husband Ryan ]

February 8, 2012

Personal Pinatas


I've not been blogging, but I have been working and making lots of things. We have two big parties coming up this weekend - B's 4th birthday and a shower for friends adopting from Africa. These little pinatas-in-the-making are favors for Baker's party. I really wanted to do these, but cutting out approx. 25 and taping them all together seemed crazy. While papier mache is totally sane...

They will look like this when they're done with a little treat inside.  No matter how busy, I will always make time for this kind of thing.  Paper crafts, Forest helping, glass of wine, Downton Abbey. Relax!

December 22, 2011

The Hock Family :: Carpinteria Bluffs















One of my favorite families...and next time we do photos there will be seven of them! Sarah & Davis are in Ethiopia right now meeting the three new additions, or the "bigs" as they are called. It's a beautiful story of faith & love, so appropriate for this season.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays xoxo


November 9, 2011

The cutest flash drives you ever did see


Annie did it, and I thought it was brilliant. So now I have these cute little flash drives to deliver image files on instead of DVDs. It is almost 2012, after all!

They're like digital petit fours. I think Marie Antoinette would eat them up.

October 21, 2011

Happy Weekend + I love Instagram


Do you Instagram? Find me @ rayacarlisle and I'd love to follow you!


Happy Weekend! xoxo

October 17, 2011

Seven Years

































[photo by David Jay]

Today we celebrate seven years of being married. I'm sure I've told this story before, but it rained on our wedding day which seems like the worst thing that could happen, but really it turned out to be kind of magical. The sky was incredible and people still talk about dancing in the rain. I mean, how often do you get to dance in the rain? Next time we have wet weather I'm dragging Forest outside for old times' sake.