clicks of note: no freedom without love...

get your week off to a colorful start...
LISTEN.

• Do you ever find yourself asking, "Whatever happened to Dido?"  Perhaps while watching Love Actually and also asking, "Is that Rick Grimes?"  The answers:  she's still doing her thing, and it totally is Rick Grimes.  This song, "No Freedom" is super pretty, and very Zen, which I may need today as I begin a new semester at work, with 50+ new teenagers (I mean that in both senses:  they are new to me, and also fairly new to being teenagers) in my classroom.  Not all at once, thank goodness.

SWOON.

Katie Lopez Photography via Style Me Pretty

• The Bride's Cafe features a round-up of cute, creative seating chart ideas.
• Martha Stewart Weddings features Kate Bosworth's homespun reception.
• You must see this elegant-meets-glam celebration at Style Me Pretty.
• I'd love to visit this Rocky Mountain modern lodge from 1 Kindesign.

SMILE.

• Get organized for NEXT Christmas with Cupcakes and Crinolines.
• US Weekly features the celebrity weddings of 2013 - 95 of them!
• Here is 2013, according to Google's new Zeitgeist feature.
• Pretty desktop calendars at Oana Befort's site and the Ruche blog.

FLASHBACK.

• Last year I featured white amaryllis wedding ideas, kicked off the new year Sunday Social style, wrote about expecting great things from 2013 and ways to show compassion, and rounded up ideas for a cozy-glam neutral winter wedding.
• Two years ago I rounded up pretty ideas for decorating art journals.