A few weeks ago, I received an Anthropologie catalog in the mail.  I couldn’t resist flipping through it and I found these dishes… You know why they caught my eye…blue and white, yes.  I also loved the hand painted scrolled detail and little foxes on the bottom.  They were a nice bridge between classic and current and I loved them.  I immediately went to the website and put some bowls, dinner plates and salad plates in my cart.  The total was somewhere in the neighborhood of $300.  I just couldn’t do it, so I emptied the cart and put the dishes out of my mind. Fast forward a few weeks and I was browsing around the clearance section on the Anthropologie site, looking for a dress Ella had picked out for me.   And, I spotted THE dishes!  They were 50% off, so I went for it.  Even at 50%

I had a lot on the to-do list today and I didn’t even get to half of it, but one thing I did get done was a photo shoot with my new 24mm lens.  This new camera gear has been so fun!  And it’s made me slow down a bit on my shoots.  I don’t want to have this awesome gear and then take rushed, crappy pictures with it!  It’s sort of a lot of pressure!  But in a good way. Now, the 24mm lens is my most expensive lens to date.  By a lot.  Like two and three times more than my other lenses.  And I even bought it refurbished, because I couldn’t stomach the full price!  So, this isn’t a fun lens to buy on a whim.  This is a serious piece of glass, which is what I was looking for.  I originally had my eye on the