New Kicks

Got these little ladies in the mail today. Yay!!

COLOR

I thought the Army Jacket color was my new favorite. Then Michele let me use her cute OPI lavender. Now I can't decide. I can't decide.

Army Jacket

Bdog bought this for me last week at American Apparel. Then I used it, and I love it.

Chudnite Skali

I want to visit this place so badly. It's called "wonderful rocks" and it's in Bulgaria. I hardly have any memory of this place. I only ever saw it from the train while I was on my mission. I'm ready to go back and see it for real. Ready, set, go.

Me Likey

Thank you "Secret Friend". You're right, they're totally me. I'm wearing them on the plane to go see my boyfriend in L.A. I can really rock out tonight 'cause they give me power. Thank you!!

The Tingler

Who has ever had one of these on their head over at my house? Aaahhhh...

Packaging

I get really happy whenever I see this packaging:

Meyer's Basil Soap

I'm not kidding when I say this is the best smelling hand soap of all time. I want to wash my clothes in it and use it as body wash and shampoo. I'm not going to, but I want to. 'Cause I want everything in my life to smell like this. And it's from Target. So it's cheap. And it's basil. And I love it.

Summer, Don't Go

What we made with dinner the other night might be the most delicious thing in the whole wide world. Brown sugar does amazing things on the grill...

Napoleon's Bees

Last week Miss Katie and I went to D.I. for a spring cleaning drop off. She begged to go inside. She loves looking at all the random old toys and always finds some hidden treasure. I'm actually glad that she's o.k. with second hand toys and not too snobby for them. It makes the little hippie that lives inside my heart very proud and happy.

While we were there I was browsing all the glassware and something caught my eye. These darling drinking glasses with little raised relief bees on them. I didn't know anything about them, but they were $0.75 each and I liked them so I bought all four. When I got home, I googled the name on the bottom: La Rochere. Turns out, they are a french classic designed by the La Rochere Crystallerie in 1475...the oldest glass factory in France. The bees are called Napoleanic Bees and these reproductions sell for around $10 a piece. Not a bad find I'd say. And I love them.

Oh Remember...

Just in case you have forgotten about Matsby and this, I'm here to remind you. And to show 3 favorite pictures from that gem:

Crafty

I'm sorry if you don't have a friend like hot neighbor Michelle. Everything she makes is amazing. I've never had someone give me neighbor gifts for Christmas like her gifts. Remember this? And this? Yeah, she's creative and crafty like that. And she was sneaky and printed out some pictures of our crew and magically put them on these rad blocks with all kinds of texture and goodness on them for Christmas. I LOVE them.

And you must also know, that Michelle knits like nobody's biz. She is making hats, headbands, flower clips, headbands, baby hats and probably a million other awesome things. You can buy them. They are custom and they are AWESOME. See them HERE. Must. Have. Flower. Clippy. Look at them!!!

Lovely Laura And Her Star Fingers

Remember this post? Well, that amazing Bad Paid For Photo made it all the way to Ellen. SO AWESOME! I love it so much. It makes me so happy to watch this. And I love Laura so much. She makes me so happy.

Ring Bling

Of all the nice things I got for Christmas, this might be my favorite thing to look at...

Rainbow

I don't think I ever posted this amazing pic. This is what it looked like out of our back window on Oct. 9th:

Griswalds

My dad sent me this. It makes me so happy.

Crafty

A couple weeks ago I took a bunch of kiddos to Corn Belly's for Halloweenie fun. While we were in the corn maze, the kids kept picking up these dried out ears of corn that were all over the ground. So, I kept shoving them in my diaper bag. Turns out, they make a really awesome wreath. Me likey.

Harvest Moon

Our back yard carrots:

I've had a hard time keeping up with the harvest this year. I've made more salsa, applesauce, plum jam, beets (with goat cheese of course), basil concoctions and grilled squash than any one family can eat. I love picking stuff that grows in the dirt. It's just hard to eat it all before it's not so yummy anymore.

Hooray For The Unc!

We got an amazing surprise package in the mail today. It's The Yellow Bird Project coloring book. It's from The Unc to Miss Katie & one to Baby Connor. It's the bomb. It's got 32 pages of The Shins, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bon Iver, Broken Social Scene, Joseph Arthur, Wolf Parade and more to color. And the royalties go to various charities. How Indie is that?

Holly's Giveaway

If you want to win this kid's apron, you have until this Sunday to post a comment on Holly's blog: The Peas In Our Pod

You can also pick up some of Holly's crafty craftiness at Rock Canyon Park's upper pavilion tomorrow (Fri-18th) from 10:00 a.m.-7:30 p.m.


On a side note...I've won 5 blog giveaways in the last year, and NOT ONE of you have made good on the prize. Hmmm. You ladies know who you are. I had a giveaway as well, seen here, and my prints were all shipped out within a couple weeks. What's going on people? Do I need to write about you on the UnCool? I'm just sayin'...just sayin'.