Alex Lemley

thecandiedlemon@gmail.com

(909) 561-5118

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The meaning behind the words...

Hi, I'm Alex.

I'm a newly married, baker and hand letterer. I love watching cookies bake, hoarding every pen I can get my hands on, yoga, leggings, and my incredibly BLESSED life!

Welcome to my crazy little creative space! Here you'll find lots of hand lettering and my navigation through this crazy life. I also have a blog, where I occasionally post my adventures and new findings on life. 

I hope you like sweets and pretty things! And if you do... let's be friends! 

 

+ Contact me for collaborations, custom lettering, or to just chat!

 

Follow me on instagram @thecandiedlemon

Today was cherry picking day!! Having so many fruit and vegetable bearing plants in our yard has brought me a great sense of clarity and peace within the gospel. ⁣ ⁣ The parables and symbolism of planting, tending to and harvesting are so applicable
You’ve got the wrong girl. ⁣ •⁣ Lately I’ve been uttering this phrase to Heavenly Father almost daily. ⁣ •⁣ I think you’ve got the wrong girl. ⁣ •⁣ Surely someone else was meant to navigate a world full of turmoil and
Yesterday we got the ensign magazine and I opened it up and flipped through. I noticed this page and it just made me smile 💕 what’s making you smile today?
Last week, Reagan and I got to play with friends! It was really a sigh of relief and hope. Probably with everything going on now, we will be home alone for awhile, so I’m happy we got this special time to enjoy with sweet friends 💕
A new pack of pretty study sheets in my Etsy shop! I titled it UPLIFT and it is full of Book of Mormon scriptures that are messages of hope. They can go in your standard scriptures, or can be used in your journaling scriptures! I hope they bring a li
Swipe for process video>>⁣ ⁣ If God can answer the prayers of all those people in the scriptures, why can’t he answer mine?⁣ ⁣ I journaled this verse in Mosiah 9:18... And God did hear our cries and did answer our prayers; and we did go f
This has been my happy place lately. Today has been a good day, but the rest of the week has just been... kinda rough. Potty training, cooking, cleaning, laundry. I’ve gotten good at distracting myself from my negative feelings by going out and
This is what Easter while potty training in quarantine looked like 🤣💕 it was a great day and we had the Easter miracle of no accidents!!! 🎉 How was your Easter?🐣💕
I woke up early this morning, before sunrise today to read John 20 as recommended by @mrdavebutler (an awesome, uplifting follow by the way!). It was so enriching. ⁣ ⁣ I wanted to read the story of Jesus’ resurrection, at the same time of day M
Tomorrow I’ll be hosting an Instagram LIVE where we will be making this bible journal entry together! I’ll be working in a regular margin quad, because I know that’s what most beginners have! Feel free to use your wide margin script

Why "The Candied Lemon?"

What's the meaning behind the name? As bizarre as it sounds, a lemon symbolizes the start of my new life. 

When my sweet husband asked me to go on our first date, he took me to a restaurant in Provo, UT called La Jolla Groves. This restaurant was very unique because it's ceiling is covered in leaves and lemons, simulating lemon groves. I was surrounded by hundreds of lemons when my life changed forever. Ever since then, lemons have reminded me of my sweet husband and our special bond and story. These special lemons are my ironic reminder of the sweetness life brings.