Okay…maybe one more post for today. This whole week has been a difficult one for me and I keep looking to the below saying and listening to this song.  I sure have been clinging to that promise of comfort and strength. Thankfully it has come in the form of a lot of love from good … More a promise of strength, comfort and hopes & dreams

Like any girl I love jewelry. I find new bangles, baubles, rings and things everywhere I go, and working at the mart does not help! Ha! I love the way a great necklace can “make” an outfit. This past weekend Josh hung up some hooks in my bathroom for my ever-expanding necklace collection {whoopsies…mart!} and I … More jewelry jewelry everywhere

What a strong verse. We are so blessed that the Lord has more in store for us and knows so much about our future that we do not yet know. It is a hard thought to keep in your head, especially if you are as plan-obsessed as I am. I have to have a game … More things which you do not know

August has been quite the month so far, and it doesn’t seem like any of the stresses will be letting up anytime soon.  Instead of going down that road right now… we will go down the super cookie road. 🙂  today’s little moment is brought to me by Oreo and Pillsbury I am not big … More happy stuffing

As I mentioned before, Josh and I skipped out of Atlanta last weekend for a little impromptu trip to his hometown of Chickamauga, GA and to Chattanooga TN. We had a wonderful time and I definately broke in my iPhone camera and Instagram app 🙂  Mr Mason came with us! {don’t tell Miley} bye Atlanta! … More weekends away

This is one of my favorite songs and one of my favorite things to think about 🙂  “How He Loves” David Crowder Band {and one of my favorite artists, Caitlin McGauley, watercolor paintings…. it’s favorites Friday} He is jealous for me, Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree, Bending beneath the weight of his wind … More the way He loves

So excited!!! Mom surprised me one of these yesterday: a beautiful Lodge cast iron skillet!  I am so excited to get some country cooking going {make my hillbilly boyfriend proud, ha}! But I need ideas on what to cook in it… PLEASE give me suggestions {leave comments below}I promise I will share my country cookin’ creations with you … More country cooking in the cast iron

I had a hard time getting out of my cozy bed this morning. I can’t remember the last time I slept in and I am craving that extra hour or two!  I love my bedroom– but also loving these bedrooms!! {they have been added to the hopes & dreams file for sure!} The brick wall and … More cozy bedrooms

My mom often tells me that she wishes she were still a flower child {not the wedding kind}, or something like that. She is a hippie in her own way- saving the world, wearing flowy skirts, her long wavy blonde hair, planting flowers, looking for shapes in the clouds {uhh}, always telling me that everything … More hippie love

Finally! Josh’s 30th birthday celebration has been planned! I feel awful but typically around the big markets {January and July} I have trouble seeing past the last day of that market. So for the past 6 months or so that I have spent planning the July Market events, anything occurring past July 18th hasn’t registered … More birthday candles & bocce ball

 This weekend AMC debuted a new temporaries product category: Paper Boutique. This category contained a juried collection of the most beautiful stationary, invitations, etc. To introduce the collection we invited great-granddaughter of Emily Post, Peggy Post to our market to talk about “the power of paper.”  After her talk Tess and I found a minute … More pretty papers & nice little notes

i work with some of my best friends & i am sooo lucky for that! here are some pics of me and the beautiful marketing girls at market this past week/weekend 🙂   my support system! at icon honors awards night dinner at BLT Steak with some AMC girls and some event stars! Cortney Novogratz and … More the best people to work with #bydesign

So I took over 100 pictures during market. wow! Tonight I am just going to post pics of products that I found that are amazing!!! If you are interested in any, leave a comment and I will search through my bag of brochures and business cards for their website.   there were sooo many amazing … More gift & home products

For the most part market is over. Our events and the market went very well! {i will post about market soon, promise} I am extremely exhausted and my body aches from head {probably because i ran into a wall..yeah..i did} to toe {wedges & heels + running through 4 buildings for a week…ouchie}. But! The feeling … More pretty & blonde & braided

Market is here! So I am going to do a little shout-out to “positivity” and to the AMAZING team that I work on! Seriously, I am so incredibly blessed to work with some wonderful girls {thats right, i said “girls”}. We have so much fun even through the absolute #bydesign craziness that goes down in … More love to my people and positivity

It is the week of our July Market and my anxiety levels are high. like super high. i am prepared and ready and super excited, but the pressure to perform perfectly is on and i can feel every bit of it. Earlier in the week, while pinterest-ing {aka my all time favorite thing ever} i … More taking time to live life

green is my favorite color. it makes me so happy and i gravitate towards it whether it is the color of shampoo bottles, office folders, luggage, thank you cards, statement jewelry and shoes {well, one pair of precious patent green loafers with a bow….a major impulse purchase, and very much under-worn}.   tonight i dedicate … More my envy for green

i am product obsessed. i always have been. i am the girl that actually pays close attention to the ads and commercials tucked into my favorite magazines and tv shows, i could spend quite some time in the beauty product aisles of target and cvs and don’t even get me started on my obsessive love … More beauty products that i love

It’s sad but somehow I only manage to find time to read when I am at the beach. This week I have managed to finish/read 3 books, all of which were aaaammaaazing! Each one stole my mind away from its current paradise {soft, sandy, white beach and clear blue water} and dropped me into its … More beach books!

I have big news! Last night I tried a….  SANDWICH!!! & it was sooo yummy! but it was hardly a typical sandwhich. it was brie and bacon {2 of my TOP loves in this world} on cranberry walnut bread, panini style. all warm and crunchy and buttery and yummy.  what makes this “day in amanda … More big news in amanda macy history

It’s the type of pictures that you can only expect to see from family-fun trips to the beach. and who would i be, but the first born dork to a nuclear family-fun group of dorks, if i didnt post them?!we will start with some of the Tillers and I {i thought youd enjoy some candids … More "so expected" family beach pics

Another day in beach land!!! loving vacation time! family board games. i am personally not a fan… i painted my finger nails and pretended to play instead. i even tried to make this game into a drinking game…but Mom wasn’t too thrilled. haha but seriously, with letters like this…how can this game be fun?! josh … More more seaside time

We are in Seaside Florida this week for family vacation! The house we are in is fantastic!!! it has a massive deck that looks out over the white beach and beautiful blue water.  Here are some pics of what we have been up to:  bocce ball tourneys! homemade pizza bik bike riding!  I’ll post more … More seaside beach trip!

whoops! clicked publish a bit too soon and left off these pics… my boho-neo-traditional-super-cozy room {and not at all 60’s looking, contrary to this pic} recognize the bedding college friends? it hasn’t changed- just added some new accent pillows. i miss the days when we would all pile on my bed and just hang out … More cozy bedroom II

 Some shots of my room. {i know it’s not really anything to write home about…but… i’m  writing about it anyways 🙂 } wonderful books: Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen’s “Influence” and interior designer Victoria Hagan’s “Interior Portraits”  {yes, that is a yummy newcastle summer beer that slipped into the pic, whhooopsies} i really love books … More cozy bedroom

My self-named “blog manager” {aka boyfriend josh} thinks that blog posts about “things that i think are pretty” are lame. But today i do not care, i was in a blah mood today and decided to look through my computer folders at the pictures that i have saved this past month. 🙂 looking at pretty … More pretty things that make me smile 🙂