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Last Minute Ideas to Celebrate the Eclipse

Last Minute Ideas to Celebrate the Eclipse

What are you doing to celebrate the eclipse? Comment with your plans! We’d love to hear!

Creative Water Animal Activities

Creative Water Animal Activities

During the month of August my children often discuss water animals. Between shark week, beach trips, and it being the first theme at school each year – they get very interested in water animals during this month. I personally LOVE water animals and never really tire of looking at them or learning new things. Here […]

What Is The Olive Shoe? The Short and The Long-ish Version…

What Is The Olive Shoe? The Short and The Long-ish Version…

I have always known I would do something creative for a living, and when I stopped trying to find what was perfect for me, perfect showed up…in ALL aspects of my life.

Life is Lovely

High Five it's Friday, y'all!! Cheers to the weekend!! 1) Stumbled upon this great post by @plentyinhuntley 💗. So good. I've always been a carpe diem kind of girl and it's good to be reminded to #bepresent because the present really is a present. 🎁 2) This gorgeous window @blakeandbrady in downtown Anderson literally made me stop in my tracks this week. High Five for the gorgeousness. It is visually delicious, whispers "come in" and is just so very lovely. 3) High five @muschealth 🙌 Thanks for working so hard to help save Van's sister, Meloni's, life over the last 4 weeks. We'll miss walking your long halls for what would have been our fourth weekend there, but we're excited to be home this weekend now that's she's back in the upstate! Thanks for everything! #fightmelonifightfightfight 💪🐯. You've got this girl! 4) High five to texts from my Silla @mrscopcar of my nieces' amazing artistry. I love beyond measure how creative their little minds are! Tiny #creativitycrusaders in the making! 🎨👏💗 5) High five, hugs, and so much love to my mother-in-law Harriet who's 50th anniversary to Van's Dad, Bill, is tomorrow. If you know her, send a little extra love her way tomorrow and a prayerful thought up to Bill in heaven. 🙏 How cute are they in this photo??? Hope everyone has an amazing weekend! #weekendvibes #happyfriday #friyay #highfivefriday #cheers I've had so much fun doing house portraits this year! Here's another one from a slightly angled perspective vs. head on...and though I don't know the homeowner, I already love them because of that bold door! So fun!! * * * And P.S. These make great Christmas gifts! Get your order in my November 1! * * P.S.x2 Locals: you can now pick up orders in the "Shoe Mail" box. 👠💌 #shoemail #houseportrait #painting #watercolor #watercolorpainting #artofinstagram #artist #wearethecreativeeconomy #stationerydesigner #creativitycrusader High five it's Friday, y'all! We are celebrating so much this week! 1) First and foremost, were so excited that Meloni is off the ventilator and on her way OUT of ICU! She still has a long road to recovery ahead, but she is able to breathe on her own and communicate with us. 🙌 Special thanks to the Big Guy upstairs and her medical team. 🙏💗 Also our friends, family and prayer warriors who have carried us through this last three weeks. 2) High five to ladies' Bible breakfasts with some of my favorites. I really needed your positive vibes and wisdom this week and you brought 'em! Thanks, also, to the @cornerbagel for always bringing it with breakfast and coffee! 3) High five to my friend @mshump143 for crossing the finish line at Clemson! You are a true creativity crusader, and you always have a positive word and encourage those around you! (Loving that giant ring sticker in your grad photos too 😉). 4) High five to my blogger friend @mybrownbrigade and her sister @hcbeeks14 for the ADORABLE "One in a Melon" 🍉 first birthday shindig y'all tag teamed for baby Ramey!! Thank YOU for letting @theoliveshoe be a part of your celebration. Those rice crispy treats are just the cutest and I'm honored I got to play a part with tags and invitations! 5) High five to team planning with @stephanievgamble and @mblooney - I absolutely can't wait to welcome all the JLAC new members with y'all this year, and am still laughing that all three of us showed up to lunch with our @erincondren planners!! Fate!!! High five to the weekend! Make it a good one lovelies!!! 🙌💗🎉 Special edition #fightmelonifightfightfight 💪🐯 t-shirts are available for preorder!! Select your pick up location or shipping when placing your order. Proceeds from the tshirts will assist Meloni and family with expenses associated with her recovery. Shirts are $18 each, and we will be taking orders until Monday, August 14th at 8 AM. Fight like a tiger, Meloni! 💪🐯Link in profile or visit shop.theoliveshoe.com Tuesday, 8/8, Update on Meloni: Doctors reported overall improvement this morning, and she has had a busy day today already! They replaced her breathing tube with a smaller one, and also did a breathing test this morning. Her white count is down, and her kidneys are working better. 🏆🏆She sat in a chair for 2 hours yesterday!!! Way to go Meloni! 👏👏👏 She is resting now, but they will get her up in a chair again this afternoon, and will do another breathing test. Our prayer requests today are for continued improvement, physical and mental endurance, and the ability to breathe on her own. Thank you for your thoughts and prayers today! It is hard for Van and I not to be there, but helps knowing we have friends and family surrounding us. Special thanks today to Angie Culler who is spending her day off at MUSC with Harriet and Meloni. We love you all! 🙏💗#fightmelonifightfightfight 💪🐯 I love how creative my children are when they play! #CreativityCrusaders #VivaDiva #NoliaFlower #XRayForChildren High Five Friday is a little different this week... As most of you know, Van's sister was unexpectedly admitted to ICU on Monday afternoon and has been fighting for her life. We are incredibly thankful that she is finally beginning to respond to treatments, but also conscious of the long road ahead to recovery. That said... 1) High five to Meloni who is fighting so hard for her life. #fightmelonifightfightfight 🐯💪 2) High five to our families who have been incredible support this week, and especially my mom who happened to be in town this week and of course jumped right in to help however she could. #familyfirst 3) High five to all of the doctors, nurses, and medical professionals who have worked hard, advised, weighed in, given us feedback, kept us informed and busted your rear ends to keep Meloni alive and are working hard to get her off the vent and get her well. 🙌🙌🙌 4) High five to our friends and army of prayer warriors - our adopted family - who have been praying around the clock all week and have offered to do anything and everything this week to make our lives easier in any way. You are the best and we love you so much. We have felt you lift us, and especially Meloni, in #prayer and are forever grateful. #prayerwarriors 5) High five to the big guy upstairs. Thank you Lord for the miracle you are working on Meloni this week. Our gratitude is beyond words. 🙏💗 High Five (day after) Friday! Whew this week was a doozy. Coming back from vacay is hard y'all! Celebrating so many blessings though, including these: 1) Brought home a pot of my aunt @susanmense 's amazing homemade spaghetti sauce from the beach and she taught me via text how to make chicken Parmesan this week. #nomnomnom #shecancookyall #realdealitalian 2) Met the incredible @brijvintage at #blogher17 and have been loving her vintage finds, like this super cute jacket, rolling across my lnstafeed. 3) My mom's in town to visit!! High Fives and SO VERY THANKFUL for an amazing mother daughter relationship! 4) High five this gorgeous bedroom. Swoon. Thank you for sharing @creativechristianstoreuk 💗 5) Love these 5 daily reminders we could all stand to say to ourselves daily. High Five @sdotfratsltl and thanks for sharing!! 🙌 Hope y'all have an amazing weekend!!! Happy Wedding Day Lindsey and Nathan!! Thank you so much for allowing The Olive Shoe to participate in your big day!!! Much love and many blessings as you begin this new chapter together! 🙏👏💗 Thank you SO MUCH to all of our AH MAYZ ING clients!! Y'all are responsible for helping me accumulate over 250+ custom designed original pieces of stationery currently exclusive to The Olive Shoe. I have had the most amazing time helping all of you celebrate: new babies, new marriages, new homes, new seasons, new businesses...it is just mind boggling to me that we have made this journey together, and I can't wait to see what the future holds! I am in the process of getting all designs and coordinating pieces up in the new online shop, and I can't wait to be able to send you all over to see what we have created together! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Can't wait to continue to celebrate with each of you! A little tidbit for your Monday...#paper #papergoods #stationery #stationerydesign #stationerydesigner #stationary #paperlove #invitations #weddings #weddingstationery #notecards #sendmoresnailmail Opened up this gem today!! My Grandmother packaged this for me in 1992!! It reminded me of how something so simple can lead to so much creativity amongst children! #ChildrensChina #SpotofTea #TeaParty #HandPaintedChina I met Margaret this morning on my sunrise walk. She was blowing giant bubbles in the light of the sunrise to the sound the ocean waves. There was something poetic about her movements and I couldn't help but stop to watch her for a few minutes. I asked her if I could share a few photos of her, and she laughed like it was so silly. I couldn't help but think though, THIS is a truly beautiful creative outlet that she does just because...squeezing the juice out of life in these fleeting moments of sunrise. #creativitycrusader #bubbles #carpediem #sunrise #beachlife This. 💗

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