Elizabeth Nixon is a journalist and lover of art, design, and throwing parties, which she writes about on her blog Clementine and Clover. Nixon works as an editor at Lifescript.com, a site devoted to healthy living for women.

With autumn here and comfort foods beckoning, it’s easy to slip out of your healthier summertime habits and act like a bear beefing up for winter. I don’t know about you, but those extra pounds really zap my energy! This fall, I’m doing things differently.

What really helped give me a kick in the pants to start a diet was spying this infographic by Sarah Kliff in The Atlantic on what Americans eat over the course of one year. It succeeded in grossing me out, yet helped me jump-start my diet. Continue Reading

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Some of you know, some of you might not. I started blogging back in 2009 with the alias Ms. Poodle over at Weddingbee. Today I wrote my last post and with that I also closed the door of my wedding blog. It’s kind of sad because I shared so much there and the Weddingbee community is awesome, but it was time. For a long time I avoided talking about our wedding just because I had overdose, I didn’t wanted to hear or talk about weddings at all after our honeymoon; I think it must have been because I ate, breath and slept weddings for months =] So it took me a long time, but today finally – I finish with my recaps!

So this definitely marks the end of my first blog and to share some of my favorite pictures I wanted to show you all a little GIF animation I made =]

[all images by amazing Next Exit Photography]

I will update my wedding page soon with a list of all the post I wrote for them so you can navigate them if you’d like, but in the meantime you can read them here.

And if you are visiting from Weddingbee, HOLA! and welcome to my personal blog =] take a look around and thank you for visiting!
XO

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I am so excited to share this giveaway with all of you =] Last week I went shopping for sewing suplies here in Chile and decided to put together a care package for one lucky reader!
Some of you already know, but when you sign up to this blog via Google friend connect there is a little pool of 3 simple questions, thanks to that I found out that a lot of you, my dear readers are beginners crafters and sewers. That is why I focused on that to put together this little package, to help you getting started!! and if you already have your basic tools; pretty threat and sewing items are always welcome, right?

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Hello my lovelies! long time no read huh? I’ve spent a week in Chile already (the first week of my trip was in Argentina) and it feels like I’ve been gone for months. Getting to spend time with my Mom and Sister it’s been amazing. I’ve got to see a lot of friends and family and snap pictures along the way =]

My sister got a puppy a few months back, she named it Blacky. When my mom got it they told her it was a Chihuahua, it was super tiny, just like his brother. But along the way we have come to find out Blacky’s mom was visited by her neighbor Dachshund a few times to play. And now that both puppies are 4 month’s old, the difference is very noticeable. As you can see below he definitely does not have a lot of Chihuahua in him =] but he is adorable no matter what!

This past weekend we got to visit a part of my family in El Monte, a little town in outside Santiago, we had tons of homemade Empanadas and yummy food. We laugh and shared old stories while looking at baby pictures =]

My cousin’s cousin was there with her baby, I offered to take pictures of her, because they didn’t really have any, this was my very first time taking pictures of a baby and the first time taking pictures for someone else.

I wish I would have brought all my equipment because I only had my camera and one lens. I feel like I could have done a better job if I had my reflector and my other lenses, but I guess this pictures are better than none, right? So now I learned that I should always be prepared even if we go on a little weekend trip, you never know who might ask you to take pictures hehe…

I have to say babies are by far the toughest subject to photograph I’ve experience. I thought Curly moved a lot and he was hard to portrait, but he doesn’t cry when he gets bored =] I took a lot of pictures of her, with her Mom and Dad. And they were very excited to have their picture taken. I felt so good =]

Talking about Curly I wanted to share this picture I took the week i left when I gave him a haircut, since the local groomer doesn’t like him anymore, because last time Curly was not very nice. So until we find another place, I’ll do his hair =]

I also wanted to let you all know that I will be posting a giveaway later this week so stay tuned! and there is also a few Joyful guest post coming =]

Have a lovely week!
XO

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