With the end of Google Reader approaching us, I thought I'd give you a list of places you can find me online.
You know, because that's normal.

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I've taken to Feedly to manage my subscriptions and so far I love it.
It takes a little getting used to, but in general it's really intuitive and beautiful!
So if you want, you can get started there and search "Freckled Italian" and add it to your feed.

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I have at least four weddings to go to this year, and I'm not complaining because weddings make me cry and dance and believe in love and wear pretty dresses. My friends at Jigsaw London were nice enough to send me a couple of dresses to wear for the first two weddings on my calendar.

I also have some gorgeous jewelry to show you in the next few weeks from Pame Designs. Everything Pam makes is gorgeous and I'm so excited to be working with her.

Necklace: Old

Pame Cut Out Cuff: New (c/o Pame Designs)

Romantic Dress: Borrowed from Jigsaw London...and blue!

(See what I did there?)

Shoes: J.Crew | Nail Color: Essie, Sand Tropez

My sweet friend Emily got married this weekend in Richmond, and I felt overwhelmed with gratitude that she invited me and Rob to be there to see it. Emily and I were both English majors at Longwood, and didn't really get to know one another until after I graduated and she was a senior. We had already been Facebook friends, but really only connected later through blogging. We started meeting for coffee whenever I was in town, and we'd talk and laugh and get teary-eyed as the hours passed and our lattes got cold and we got really serious about life and marriage and God and Harry Potter and politics.

And then one morning, I was in Farmville for the weekend, getting up early to see her present her senior seminar paper on The Bell Jar, and as she spoke with passion and excitement and answered questions about her topic in front of the room, I realized that she and I were actually real friends, and again I felt overwhelmed. How sweet it is to find yourself in such a random, special friendship.

I started this weekend early, on Friday morning, and I drove to Longwood to visit my brother and talk to a handful of my favorite professors from undergrad. I didn't realize it until I was driving away from campus just how perfect it was for me to stop by Longwood on my way to Richmond to see Emily. Farmville, Virginia is where so many good things begin--my education, my relationship with Rob, my friendship with Emily, and her relationship with her now husband, Robbie (another Economics-studying Robert, just by the way).

Emily and Robbie got married on Saturday and I don't know if I've ever seen any two people happier.

How sweet it is to see true love like that.

I dropped my Rob off at the airport on Sunday afternoon and drove home through the rain. It was warm and grey outside, and when the rain stopped the sun came out, and I rolled down the windows of my car. I've been having a really rough time lately. I've been sad and overwhelmed and negative a lot of the time. But seeing Emily this weekend reminded me that I can be positively intentional about a lot of my life. So as I drove, in the middle of my musings about spring; and my fond memories of college; and the thought of our bright, prosperous futures with the people we love the most; I took a deep breath from the cool, wet air outside and smiled.

How sweet it is.