SILHOUETTE MACHINE GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!

SILHOUETTE MACHINE GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!

i want. i want. i want.

stumble upon

i was introduced to this website a couple weeks ago, and now i'm addicted. it's basically a way to waste time on the internet while looking at pages that have content that may interest you. when signing up, you pick topics that you're interested in , and when you click "stumble", it'll pick a random website that's related to one of your interests. genius!

apothecary jars

i want a whole collection of different sizes, shapes, and styles. however, i have no where to put them.

yet.

but one day i will have a shelf-full. and they will be full of candy, beads, buttons, potpourri, whatever. i will love it.

marisa tomei in versace

guilty pleasure: watching post award show fashion police. i like seeing the celebrities in their gorgeous clothes without having to watch all the boring red carpet.

so tonight i was watching the post show for the oscars, and some of the "police" had the nerve to say that marisa tomei had an awful dress. seriously?? look at it! it is absolutely amazing. this picture doesn't do the pleating justice. it was phenomenal. i can't even wrap my brain around its construction.

so, no worries, marisa; i heart it. and that's all that matters.

liz lemon

"30 rock" may very well be the best tv show. ever. i'm glad it's getting tons of awards, because maybe that means it'll stick around for a very long time. then again, that isn't a fail-safe way of knowing what shows will be around a long time.

jake thinks that i like liz lemon so much because i relate to her, and think of myself as her. which isn't true. i guess i relate to her a little bit. but certainly not completely. i mean, she's way cooler than i am.

regardless, "30 rock" is hilarious. and i heart liz lemon.

rice pudding

i cannot get enough of this stuff. i found a fantastic recipe several months ago and i love to experiment with flavors. there's a rice pudding restaurant in the area. it's good, but i find it difficult to spend $4 on a small thing of pudding i could easily make at home.

i've made fudgy peanut butter, orange poppyseed, coconut (my favorite to date), and rocky road. some flavors i plan on trying out in the future: caramel, lavender, white chocolate, pumpkin, lemon raspberry. any other suggestions?

anniversary shoes

i would love, love, love some new shoes to go with the anniversary dress. however, i'm not sure i'll find a pair i love for a ridiculously low price. so i probably won't get any. but i'm shopping online for them, nonetheless. i found these
and love them a lot. but they are $100. there is absolutley no way i can justify that price. but it's fun to daydream.

but these are $260

these floral ones are pretty and girlie, and on sale on ebay for $9.99 (plus $10.10 in shipping).

then again, i still have a target giftcard burning a hole in my wallet. here are some cute options from the website:

i was kind of wanting a colorful floral print or animal print, but these are classy and versatile

a sexy zebra print to add a bit of funk to an elegant outfit

*gasp!* a giraffe print! and only $26.99!

what do you think?

seattle

i miss this place. a lot. i don't realize it until i see pictures of it. i was browsing facebook and saw someone's album of the emerald city. i wanted to cry, i miss it so much.

just 1 year, 12 weeks, and 2 days until i can leave here for there.

anniversary dresses inspired by the 1950s

i'm back. and better than ever. sorry for the long absence, but i've been paying a lot of attention to one of my other blogs and haven't thought of much i heart outside of it. anyway....

as some of you may know, i was going to make a holiday dress back in december. but things didn't quite work out. and i'm glad they didn't (for the dress's sake). i have made some modifications to the dress and it will now make the perfect anniversary dress (one year already?? ok, in a month. but still....).

this picture is kind of what i'm shooting for. the boat neck, the short sleeves, the inverted pleats. but the real action will be in the back of the dress. i'm making it up so i have no pictures to show. but i promise i will post pictures when it's done. i am also hoping to add a black patent leather belt to the ensemble. and lose the purple tights.

so, what do you think?

clinton kelly

oh, clinton. you're funny. you're fashionable. i kind of have a crush on you. i don't know if you're gay or not. i know i'm married. and, most importantly, i know you're famous, thus the chances of us meeting are practically non-existent. but i still have a giant crush on you. you can make me over any day.

copper kitchens

hello, you.

i frequently make-believe what my future home will look like. i even have a layout drawn on on graph paper. i've re-designed my home several times. but seriously, guys. i have it nailed this time. it's going to be amazing. our bedroom is going to be huge. and the master bedroom closet is very creative/innovative. and the master bathroom? beyond what you can even imagine. but recently i was at a restaurant that had cool, funky tables with tops made of copper. so now the plan is to have an island with a copper countertop. because i'm so over granite and stainless steel in kitchens. but if the countertop doesn't really pan out, i'll at least have copper fixtures, because who doesn't love copper?

chalkboard contact paper

i really want some of this stuff. i am in need of something for list-making. and white boards are so 1990s. and, yes, chalkboards are so before 1990s. but, really, i love most things retro. and enough time has not elapsed since the 90s. it's still a fresh wound in my memory.

bad blog pictures

i'm so over bloggers who take their own pictures, but only take them using a shallow depth of field. sometimes it's good to have everything in focus.(why, pray-tell, do we only care about the chocolate chips in this picture, and not at all about the pumpkin pie spice?) is this not commonly understood? do some people not know you can actually change the aperture on a lens? do they even know what that means? this is part of the reason i resent digital photographers(who never learned the basics of photography). i mean, just because you own an expensive camera and can take a picture and look at it right away, doesn't mean you're good at it.

no, i'm not the best/most experienced photographer. yes, i'm a snob.

giraffe wallets...giraffe anything

i need this. seriously.

oilcloth

this stuff is great. i mean, really great. it's all-purpose. need reusable lunchbags? oilcloth. cute apron? oilcloth. bibs for your messy baby? oilcloth. wanna make a super retro-cool bag? oilcloth.

pranks

someone finally did what i've never had the guts to do myself:


those of you who aren't familiar with the housing market in provo, this is complex called "the colony". someone just painted over the "y".

propaganda

has anyone else noticed the not-so-subtle shift in the media from calling the horrific plan the government is trying to pass a "bailout" (boo!) to a "rescue plan" (oh, much better. i think i've changed my mind, thank you)? or is it just me?

direct buy

i looked for a clip to do this quote proper justice, however...no luck. there is a commercial that frequents our television set for a company called direct buy. basically, it's a club that allows you to "save thousands of dollars" on home-related stuff (e.g. furniture, kitchen cabinets, carpeting). there is a man giving his testimonial about the company by stating the following:

"i'm not expecting to be rich; i'm going to be middle class the rest of my life. and direct buy is a good way to..." (wheels turn, searching for the right words) "live above my means."

too bad for direct buy that this economic crisis has hit americans so hard. in fact, just this morning i heard a financial expert on the news say that "the time to live beyond our means has passed." (seriously? i never knew it was an option/encouraged)

babysitting

my neighbor e-mailed me last week to ask me to babysit her 18-month old. i hadn't been so ecstatic to babysit since i was 12. i had offered (multiple times) to babysit anytime. i was just starting to feel depressed because nobody seemed to trust their children in my care (it's no wonder....when i was 16--after babysitting lost its charm, and the only reason i was being called to babysit was because all the other girls were out on dates--i once babysat a little girl who wanted me to read another story, so i totally faked reading to her. i said "blah blah blah" the whole time while occasionally turning the pages. yeah, i know. don't judge me, i have changed. now i just refuse to read to children*) when my neighbor called on me for help. little "a" and i had a blast. we played dress-up. she wore ladybug wings, sequined head scarves (belts for big kids like me, but it gave her such a charming, gypsy quality), and a lovely argyle belt. i wore a feather boa. she tried on all my shoes and paraded around the house. surprisingly fantastic at walking in high heels, that "a". i chased her around the house, along with the tickle monster (she pretended not to like it by running and shrieking, but anytime i caught up with her, all she did was laugh). we unpacked all my belts and scarves from the over-the-door case. and then she helped put them away. like i said, we had a blast. all was fine and dandy until someone came to our door begging for money for the boy scouts. we never have anyone knock on our door so i expected it to be her parents. i got her hopes all up, only to be dashed when i saw boy scout on the stoop (yes, i was still wearing feather boa). there was then a meltdown which lasted until her parents actually arrived about 15 minutes later.

it was still a success.


*to anyone who is reading this that has children and was considering me as your next babysitter (especially my neighbors...), please do not fret over this horrible tale of my babysitting days past. i have turned a new leaf and love entertaining children and will read to them as much as they want. this was just a "joke", trying to demonstrate to my blog readers i am clever and witty. ok? ok (whew).

sunflower market

we decided to go vegetarian at the right time. last week a new store rolled into town. i'm completely in love. the produce is gorgeous and the prices really are silly. i never thought the day would arrive that i would have a hay day in the produce section. but seriously, i bought everything (including six, yes six, avocados). we got freshly ground peanut butter, winter red wheat berries, and the coveted gluten-free blueberry flax granola (seriously. stop laughing. no, we're not on a strict diet and allergic to gluten. it's good, ok?) (at only $3.49/lb...eat that harmon's!). they have over 250 varieties of cheese. who even knew that many varieties existed? finally, my cheese book (with a section on the decadent world of olives) i got for christmas, like, five years ago will come in handy. i have made a vow to try as many types of cheese as humanly possible.

i heart you so, so much, sunflower farmers' market. i have a feeling this is the beginning of a long, beautiful relationship.