my newest craft

i’ve taken to making cards for birthdays, holidays, and thank you’s! i’m working hard on getting my easter cards finished, but here’s a hint of what’s to come!

 Happy Easter!

  INSIDE

these are a few of my favorite things

as our move out of the apartment is looming before us, i felt the need to preserve some pictures of my favorite things i’ve collected over the years. since we are moving into a friends house, there won’t be much in the way of my decor about the place. guess i’ll just have to wait ’til we’re back east and have our own place!

hope you enjoy these quirky, kitchy, whimsical items as much as i do! some are thrift store finds or antique store finds, some gifts, and others are passed down from our grandparents.

KITCHEN 

orange colander (Marshall’s), ikea napkins, teapot (target), cross stiched citrus fruits and 3-D mushrooms (fantastic thrift), 1970s flower power cheese platter

various bird pictures, beer stein from Germany (thanks dad!), grimmy figure i’ve had since i was 10 (“i’m not a morning person”), seductive picture of woman and man (thanks stephanie!), serving tray from Mikasa Mexicana by Ben Seibel (california thrift store), the piles of sunglasses on polka dot tray (target)

 

above the sink: painted pierre and sugar tiles (by lisa!!), crosstiched kitty (fantastic thrift), virgin of Guadalupe, decoupaged plate with redneck pin-up

 

plastic flowers (antique store in fredericksburg)

                            

 

over the trashcan (gotta make dirty look pretty!): vintage apron (halcyon vintage), floral still life (fantastic thrift)

 

needle-pointed floral, paint-by-number puppy

 

LIVING ROOM

elephant plant stands (passed down from gibson’s g-grandma), various collections 

 

hand painted velvet pin-up with wormwood frame (orange, ca antique shop)

 

pierre picture (painted by me in 2002, ha!), tiki figure from hawaii (thanks pearl and tom), various coffee table books, glass vase (from my grandmother), owl lantern (urban o.), flower power recipe box (fantastic thrift), odd shaped end table (from my dad, found at the navy exchange)

 

wood hanging (was gibson’s grandfathers)

 

time of sacrifice

 

the lenten season has begun. it took me sometime to figure what was something difficult for me to give up. i kept thinking coffee, but wasn’t confident in that. it hit me yesterday, on ash wednesday, that i should give up wine. later i ammended that to be “no alcohol.”  well, you can thank gibson for breakin’ me already. watching him crack open a cold beer for dinner, i felt like i was being tortured. i know, i made the concious decision to imbibe and give in, but “dang” him for putting it RIGHT in front of me so instead, i am doing my best to refrain from using “foul language.”

i do have quite humorous story about ash wednesday: one of my residents (a middle-aged woman who had resulting severe brain damage from a car accident) is so funny without intended to be so. there were volunteers from a local church to lead the ash wednesday ceremony and all residents and staff who wanted to participate could. the aforementioned resident has already had the blessing as was made clear by the ashen cross on her forehead. however, while others were receiving their ashes the resident continued to call out, “give me ash wednesday. give me ash wednesday.” one of my co-workers was quick to remind her she already had her ashes to which she replied, “oh, yeah.” within the 10 seconds or less it took my co-worker to step away a few feet, the lady continued to ask for her “ash wednesday.” it was precious…

other news, i’ve become an etsy addict!!! i easily browse the site looking at all the lovely handmade goodies and amazing finds (one’s i wish i came across myself!) for HOURS…. and i keep looking for a gift or gift idea for the lovely lisa jobe-shields, but i keep finding things i want for myself too! hardly being a good friend now is that?

and perhaps the most important news: i’m an aunt! well, not an official one, but certainly accepted by gibson’s family as official. last week gibson’s sister jess gave birth to her baby girl, taylor ashlynne. he is so excited to be an uncle…i was lucky to be able to fly over on a quick whim thursday night with our frequent flyer miles. at first, i was overwhelmed by the hospital and the pain that his sister very clearly was in from the c-section that had to be performed. needless to say i was tired/crabby/freaked out and therefore proceeded to inform gibson i was never having a baby and if he wanted one, he could give birth toit himself. really, i am such a loverly person when lacking well-needed sleep

 in other news, well, there is no news! <3

Remembering MLK

“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”

 

THE DRESS!!!!!

at last!!! at last!!! 

ahh!!! i stumbled across it tonight at last! the “maya” gown by Michelle Roth is the dress that i have been looking for!