Nice to meet you! I’m Caitlin.

I’m a twenty-three year-old recent graduate from Tulane University with a B.A. in English and Studio Art (concentration in Painting). On June 2, 2012, (after dating for nearly five years) I married my high school sweetheart, Andrew, on an absolutely gorgeous and perfect day. Now that I’m through with wedding planning (and a million and one DIY wedding projects!), I am in the process of turning our apartment into a home and enjoying being a newlywed! My husband and I live in New Orleans, Louisiana (and have for the last four+ years), but we are still figuring out just how to live 10 hours away from the rest of our families (in Southern Illinois, where we both grew up). We both miss the country and small town life, but we love New Orleans as well. I’m a graphic designer (well technically a Web & Publications/Communications Coordinator) by day and my husband and I run our own web and graphic design business by night. Our date nights consist of tapping away at our keyboards, coding websites, designing business graphics, and planning our marketing strategies. I have a passion for making things beautiful and I spend my time painting, collecting fabric, looking for home décor inspiration, cooking, planting flowers in the tiny windowbox in my kitchen window and the small front yard of our apartment (while dreaming about beautiful flower and vegetable gardens), dreaming up sewing and crafting projects, trying to maintain a healthy and gluten-free lifestyle, and writing this little blog. It is my place to share my dreams and inspiration and document all the little blessings in my life. Pretty simple.

So why “icing on the cake?” It’s cliché, I know. But it seems to fit. My family all calls me “Cake,” a nickname that stuck when my little sisters were young and couldn’t quite pronounce the “Cait” that everyone else called me. They are more than old enough to pronounce it correctly now, but my nieces prefer that I be “Aunt Cake.” I mean who else has an Aunt Cake? To me, the “icing on the cake” in life is all the little bits of inspiration, dreams, smiles and blessings that we constantly stumble across in our lives. All those happy little things really are the icing in life. Considering that’s what this blog is all about, what better name for it?