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A few weeks ago I received a call from my friend Jordan asking for assistance and creative inspiration for a baby shower she would be throwing for her sister-in-law Brooke. Knowing both Jordan and Brooke to be ladies of great taste, and even better company, I was more than delighted to take part. And then …
Like so many of you, I can’t believe the legacy of LOST has come to an end. And what a moving and beautiful ending it was, wasn’t it? I mean WOW. Well, we were happy to celebrate it with friends munching on island delicacies such as wild boar (pulled pork sandwiches), sushi, smoke monster pudding …
I’m swimming in wrappings and trimmings and loving every minute of it. Never mind that I was a half an hour late to the Christmas book club party (my sitter was stuck in a Cosco line for 20 min!) or that after giddily wrapping up my book for the giveaway I ended up driving around …
It’s no secret that we all love security envelope patterns, right? And like many of you, I collect them, waiting for that perfect moment for when I just might come up with something to do with them. It actually makes receiving those bills not all that bad – almost exciting and somewhat suspenseful waiting to …
We took it easy this year for baby O’s first birthday. Thanks to last year’s Target post-Halloween sales we were good to go with decor/invite/the works. The only thing I made was the Pumpkin spice cake with my favorite Williams Sonoma pumpkin cake mold that I break out every year. Pretty low key. Pretty great.After …
So, yeah…we are moving….tomorrow. And you would think packing would have been my main priority this past weekend. Well, my good sport of a husband no doubt wishes it were. But when you are moving into an apartment, and only have a backyard for one more weekend, sometimes an end-of-the-summer tea party just has to …
So here I am, having a lovely Saturday afternoon painting some dainty little tea party plates. Jon gets home. Little A: “Dad! Mom made you a plate!”. No sooner do I turn around when I see this mischievousness going on.I see pennants. Apparently my boys see something entirely different. Something along the lines of scary, …
My talented little sister managed to squeeze in some digital processing between morning sickness, birthdays and the usual busy mom schedule so that I could show you all the rest of these photos she took of our little family. Thanks LJ! ***for those of you who asked-I used the Project Runway Simplicity pattern 2725 for …
On Monday we celebrated Jon’s birthday. We started the day off with blueberry spice muffins, bacon and eggs and then proceeded on to gifts. Little A was very excited about this. I asked him what he wanted to give daddy and he said, “A big box! and then we can say Happy Birthday!”So a big …
I thought I’d better share with you a few snapshots of our splendid Fourth of July celebration before the month was actually over. I’m still waiting on a few photos that my little sis took of us that I will of course post later.I was so happy with how all the boys ensembles turned out. …