Not your typical 21 year old.

I just realized I never spoke a word about my 21st birthday. I suppose it is because I was not the typical 21 year old. On October 7, my date of birth, I had a lazy day. I had a long week in the studio because of this bone necklace:

Since it was a long week, I did no homework thw day of my birthday. I answered the sweet phone calls, loved my texts, and facebook messages. Everyone was very kind!!! It was nice, but I had to play catch up later. My dearest mother came into town and surprised Pony and me with Ellie May and Rascal (two of our dogs.) It was disco heaven having them here for a week. (Mom and the dogs.) I am so lucky to have a mom that I love so much!

After my lazy day, we went out to eat bonefish, came back in and had coffee (my addiction and drink of choice), and pigged out on peanut butter, chocolate, pumpkin cake my AMAZING mother handMADE, as well as a pumpkin cobbler Julia Childs Chloe Lewis made herself. I had not had sweets in a while so this was a splurge. My sweet Emily Anne taught me that birthday calories don't count;) Miss you Em!!

Puppy Pictures:

(They are so attached. It is so sweet. I loved on Rascal as much as I could. He has bad heart murmurs and I am just scared about something happening. LOVE!)

It was such a good day, and I celebrated my birthday for the first time as a married woman! I am lucky to have the family and friends that love me so. I feel blessed to have been here for 21, healthy years. Thankful to God for all I have.


Ps. here is a small child burrito that my husband ate. Ya'll he ate the WHOLE thing. What a special boy. Unlike me, he can eat that and stay tiny.

Happy Days
xoxo
Lilly

David Yurman Workshop

My school is so great with connections! I am lucky to go to SCAD, and truly feel blessed after weekends like this past one. Let me tell you about it-

This past weekend I did a workshop with the Senior Designer, Jane Hong, from David Yurman! Let me tell you, I am thrilled I had this opportunity and decided to do this.  Only 15 slots were open. It was so nice to have a break from the usual teachers (not that I don't love them.)  It was just a different pace and face. 

We had to create a mood board before the class and had to choice to design eye wear or watches based off of our mood boards...  Since I have never done watches nor eye wear, I decided to stick with watches. In my head, it is similar to jewelry sketches. We sketched 9am-5pm Friday and Saturday with critiques and "one on ones" with Jane in between. Then Sunday, we were to have rendered sketches of a collection. Talk about FUN!

My mood was creating layers and tantalizing textures.  The ideal woman would be a quirky, trend setter, who loves to layer, mix patterns, juxtapose textures, and pile her jewelry on.
See mood board below: 

Final designs and board below:  (Sorry for horrible iphone pictures.)

(There are million more sketches. I had another collection I would love to render out sometime. I just did not have enough time to do two for critique. I decided two hours of sleep was better! Smart?! Yes.)

Jane was seriously such a sweet woman.  It made me really question if I want to do more fabrication, or design... I still don't know for sure yet, but I do know that becuase of my hard work (and two hours of sleep the night before our collection was due) I am able to be in a Sponsored Class for Limited next quarter!!!!!!!  You hear that!? :) EKKK!!!! I am smiling ear to ear... I'm not suppose to talk about it much, so just know it's exciting and great news! :)

See Jane (the pretty one in front of me) and the rest of my classmates below:

Maybe I am in love with what I do... Even if I just have a job in the creative business one day. I will be happy.

Ps. I go to NYC SO SO SO SOOOON! :)

xoxo
Lilly Grace

This has gotta be the good life!!!

I CAN'T CONTAIN MY EXCITEMENT!!!  :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)

First things first, I wish a very happy seven month anniversary to my better half, Jeffrey Sloan Dokken. I can't believe that we have been MARRIED 7 months?! Time flies!!!! It is still blissful, and I can't imagine my life any differently!:) You are my sunshine, my pumpkin pie, and the creamer/ caffeine in my coffee (thank pinterest for this last quote!)

Secondly, this weather.
T h i s   w e a t h e r.
There are almost no words for my joy.
I was outside talking to the Chloe Lewis today, (aka Julia Childs), and I was COLD!!!! The high tomorrow is 68. I'm not getting my hopes up because Savannah likes to be hot, but I will enjoy it while it is here, and hope it decides to stay:)

Thirdly, I have some great friends... Chloe and Eny came over today... Yes, I had time for friends in my busy schedule.  I made today a "me" day and squeezed in homework! Yay! We watched the proposal. Made me miss and think of my sister. (Love you Lynds!)
I am just so blessed to have SUCH Godly girls and boys in my life... Sloan and I learn from our friends, and we are growing with God because of them. I can't explain it since you don't know them, but all I can explain is that God has really, really blessed us with some true, good people here in Savannah... And they are married couples, engaged, or most likely soon to be engaged. So, we are not this "weird" married couple!!!! I feel so thankful and lucky, and plain happy!

Lastly, my brother and his PRECIOUS girlfriend were in town for a few days. Love that silly boy!!! And Kristen too!!! She is so sweet and makes me laugh a lot! Her humor is just great. I loved seeing how the are with one another! It seems like a nice match and I am thankful for that:)

God is great. Coffee is good. People are loverly.

xoxo
Lilly