While we were at the cabin, I visited one of my favorite little shops in Sauk Centre. Sadly, it was for the last time—they family-owned store was going out of business. Everything was 30 percent off, and while I could have spent my last paycheck without much trouble, I settled on these lanterns.
I picked up eight small, glass lanterns in pink, yellow, orange and lime green. I also found four larger, plastic lanterns in the same colors, though Olivia managed to break one roughly 8.5 seconds after picking it up.
Nevertheless, the 11 lanterns, filled with a bit of sand and votive candles, looked gorgeous hanging in the ornamental pear tree off our deck at dusk. As an added bonus, I found an extremely efficient way to make Bryan nervous…
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