I’ve found that more often than not, people appreciate a little happiness and a little kindness. I hope to be inspired and create a little inspiration. Want to get in touch? email me. balletintheclouds at gmail dot com :) I think it’s amazing. all of it. truly. this life we live. the lightness. the darkness. the evening and mornings too. I’d like to lay with you, in the middle. Would you be my afternoon?Tumblr (3.0; @balletintheclouds)http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/<p>Yay! The winner of the SUPER cute earrings goes to… drumroll please…</p> <p><a href="http://www.luciwithani.tumblr.com" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.luciwithani.tumblr.com" target="_blank">www.luciwithani.tumblr.com</a></a>!!!!!</p> <p>Thanks Luci for entering to win! Email me with your addresss so I can pass it along to Salley at <a href="http://www.salleyanne.etsy.com" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.salleyanne.etsy.com" target="_blank">www.salleyanne.etsy.com</a></a></p>http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/295413573http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/295413573Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:04:33 -0500<img src="http://1.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kv0r7aCdS41qzssheo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Hello my WONDERFUL readers :)</p> <p>My new friend Salley has a really great ETSY stop with all kinds of great jewelry! She has decided to give away a pair of the earrings above to one lucky reader!!! All you have to do is enter by emailing me <a href="mailto:balletintheclouds@gmail.com" target="_blank">balletintheclouds@gmail.com</a> and REBLOG if you are on tumblr!!!</p> <p>this is a 24 hr giveaway. and it’s a really great one! Wouldn’t these just be the perfect thing to add to your new years eve outfit?</p> <p>Check her store out <a href="http://www.salleyanne.etsy.com" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.salleyanne.etsy.com" target="_blank">www.salleyanne.etsy.com</a></a> I’m IN LOVE with the fire agate pendant.</p>http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/293786542http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/293786542Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:21:10 -0500<img src="http://22.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kv0qvxLaAQ1qzssheo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Hello Loves.</p> <p>I’m spending my NEW YEARS EVE with THESE boys.</p> <p>OH AVETT BROTHERS I AM SO VERY EXCITED!!!!!</p>http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/293778012http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/293778012Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:14:21 -0500<img src="http://16.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuvatn9FcD1qzwf25o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>I’ve never had either. Tumblr makes me feel like I’m missing out, big time.</b></p> <p><a href="http://deghanmay.tumblr.com/post/289353092/i-love-you-all-but-i-have-to-do-this-on-your" target="_blank">deghanmay</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>I love you all, but I have to do this.</p> <p>On your left is a macaroon. A macaroon is a cookie, usually made with coconuts and egg whites. Apparently Italian in origin.</p> <p>On your right is a macaron. A macaron a sandwich-like pastry made with two thin cookies and a cream between them. Classically French.</p> <p>The more you know…</p> </blockquote>http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/289362872http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/289362872Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:48:33 -0500<img src="http://3.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuv7d0fIx11qzssheo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>And this was another one of those moments.</p>http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/289276438http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/289276438Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:24:35 -0500<img src="http://23.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuv78cDNFp1qzssheo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>There are always moments in life that you realize how incredible your life really is. This was one of those moments for me.</p>http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/289273564http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/289273564Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:21:48 -0500<p>to admit that although no one has “coined” the phrase keep it classy (besides probably ron burgandy) I totally got turned back onto the phrase by my girl <a href="http://www.allthingsalishan.tumblr.com" target="_blank">Alishan</a></p> <p>Props where props are due.</p>http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/289267109http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/289267109Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:15:04 -0500<img src="http://16.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuv6skU5vG1qzssheo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Sometimes, however, Lauren and I like to keep it classy with bud heavy.</p>http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/289264598http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/289264598Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:12:20 -0500<img src="http://22.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuv6niRXZL1qzssheo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>A year ago. November.</p> <p>President Obama got elected.</p> <p>Lauren and I went to see Coldplay in atlanta.</p> <p>Our road trip included: candy necklaces and singalongs.</p>http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/289261798http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/289261798Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:09:18 -0500<p><a href="http://www.thedailyjulie.com/post/289188761" target="_blank">thecooknook</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><i>“Snow in the South is wonderful. It has a kind of magic and mystery that it has nowhere else. And the reason for this is that it comes to people in the South not as the grim, unyielding tenant of Winter’s keep, but as a strange and wild visitor from the secret North.”</i><b> </b>-Thomas Wolfe</p> <p>This.</p> <p>is why we gets so excited about snow. Sometimes it doesn’t come, sometimes it does. And when it does, boy or boy do we get excited.</p> <p>How long will it last? No one knows.</p> <p>When will it come again? No one knows.</p> <p>It’s mysterious! It’s magical!</p> </blockquote>http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/289189576http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/289189576Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:50:31 -0500<img src="http://9.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuv2ihe5nJ1qzssheo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I want to sled.</p> <p>badly.</p>http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/289179930http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/289179930Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:39:53 -0500<img src="http://2.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuv1raIWUe1qzssheo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Yay! Snow.</p> <p>I did one HECKOFA single ladies in this snow.</p> <p>Don’t even ATTEMPT to go to the store right now.</p> <p>a. soooo many people</p> <p>b. already gonna be out of milk and bread.</p> <p>c. raleigh is scared of snow</p>http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/289165545http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/289165545Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:23:34 -0500<p>It is snowing here. right now. North Carolina kind of snow. Small, almost sleet- like snow.</p> <p>And ALL i want to do is run into the middle of the parking lot and do the single ladies dance across to the mailboxes.</p> <p>Is that appropriate?</p>http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/289136633http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/289136633Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:51:17 -0500<p>I just opened a savings account.</p> <p>For the first time.</p> <p>Since I started college in 2002.</p> <p>Oh yeah, 26 is going to be a good year.</p>http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/289124911http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/289124911Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:38:05 -0500<p>is it amazing?</p>http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/289048831http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/289048831Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:15:53 -0500<img src="http://12.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuuvsmASjd1qzssheo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>this is the look i’m giving today when people ask me questions.</p> <p>i didn’t sleep easily last night. i have a foggy brain today.</p>http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/289047821http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/289047821Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:14:46 -0500<img src="http://9.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuuu7bBkTz1qzssheo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/289016895http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/289016895Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:40:22 -0500<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/288945261/tumblr_kuu3vmTOES1qz6dlk&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p><a href="http://julia.nonsociety.com/post/288578106" target="_blank">juliaallison</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Baby It’s Cold Outside!!</p> </blockquote>http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/288945261http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/288945261Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:19:54 -0500<p>I’m a southern girl.</p> <p>I never thought I was because my Mom is from Miami and my Dad is from Ohio. I’m a liberal… and I know I’m not the only one but sometimes it feels like it. I’m the only one in my whole family that was actually born in North Carolina.</p> <p>But I’m a southern girl.</p> <p>I love sweet tea</p> <p>and I have a drawl.</p> <p>I love southern hospitality and manners and men who open doors.</p> <p>I’m a southern girl, and I can’t believe it. and I’m so happy that I am.</p>http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/287788431http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/287788431Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:10:16 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0UjsXo9l6I8&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0UjsXo9l6I8&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Love.</p> <p>Jay- Z empire state of mind.</p> <p>our theme song.</p>http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/287665889http://balletintheclouds.tumblr.com/post/287665889Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:53:00 -0500