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I certainly know how to make my mom cry! This Mother’s Day I gave my mom the quilt I had Megan from A Crafty Handful finish from some of my grandmother’s quilt squares. Even when I met Megan at Starbucks to pick up the finished quilt I got chills and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t tear up a bit. She did an AMAZING job on the quilt and surpassed my expectations.

When I gave the quilt to her, this is what she focused on:

I’m almost hesitant to show the video of her opening her Mother’s Day gift because I honestly hate the way I sound on camera. Yes, I know I have a crazy southern accent and I still haven’t embraced it at the age of 31. I’ll confess I was hoping my voice wouldn’t be heard in the video, but it was. I apologize. Since it was such a special/ thoughtful gift I’ve decided to show y’all the video (the condensed version).

Here are some more pictures I took of the big day:

I managed to capture her reaction when I told her the quilt was made from Nanny’s squares.

quilt2 — Mom is still crying + holding onto her quilt

quilt3 — Mom (no more tears & all smiles) with her beautiful quilt!

quilt5 — Watch out Anthropologie… y’all have some competition!

xoxo

Last night was my first concert of 2013 and boy was it amazing!

If you have never been to a Band of Horses show, you must drop what you’re doing immediately (when I say immediately I mean after you read my post) and then find tickets to one of their shows. You’ll thank me. Seriously, you will. This will mark the second time I’ve seen them perform (they’re officially tied with New Kids on the Block). Don’t tell them that, I doubt they would want to be associated with an 80’s boy band. I hope this blog post doesn’t ruin my street cred.

Back to last night’s show.

I’m pretty sure I went a little nuts when they played my FAVORITE song of theirs, The Funeral. When I saw them last year with My Morning Jacket, I’m pretty sure they closed the show with The Funeral (which was the perfect song to close the show with) so you can imagine my excitement when they included it in their set list. This leaves me to rate my top 5 concerts of all time (this could possibly change since I’ve got 6-7 more shows this year)

Mumford + Sons
The Avett Brothers
Band of Horses
Kings of Leon
New Kids on the Block (yeah I know I’m being judged, but those guys can put on a good show AND they’ve still got it)

Like I said earlier in my post, go see Band of Horses. If you like them you can thank me, if you don’t then you need to listen to them again because you’re obviously missing out on something great.

Enjoy some of the pictures I took from last night’s show!

BOH4 — Band of Horses at The Ritz in Raleigh

BOH3 — Band of Horses at The Ritz in Raleigh

BOH2 — He totally posed for me in this picture.

BOH5 — Band of Horses at The Ritz in Raleigh

xoxo

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A Mother’s Day Quilt

Band of Horses