Most kids pick the biggest...Stella picked the baby.
Her pumpkin friends...
Pensive...
See? Tiny.
Friends...
Us.
Da boot.
A perfect day for a trip to the pumpkin patch. Beautiful 60 degrees. A perfect day for a birthday. Happy birthday Mom...I love you with all my heart. xo
10/19/09
My overpaid super model ;)
So, my idea was to make a 'party' hat but a warm 'party' hat. I wanted it to be a cone but this will do for my first time around. It's cozy and cute! Once I get them perfect perhaps you'll see them in the shop. I'm onto mittens next! I'll post pix when I'm done :)
Rock star Ruby...
Martha's Halloween Blondies...mmmmmmm
2 sticks of butter 1 cup of packed light brown sugar 1/2 cup sugar 2 large eggs 1.5 t pure vanilla 2 cups flour 1.5t coarse salt brown, yellow and orange m&m's
350 preheated oven. Mix all ingrediants together except the m&m's. Pour into a buttered 8X8 parchment lined pan. Have the kids decorate the top with the m&m's. Bake for approx 45min until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Try the cookies...soooo yum! xo
10/15/09
just a little peek...you may be getting one this year for Christmas :)
Plan: Tear up rug and replace with hardwood of some kind, replace three windows, add french doors, new trim and base boards, paint one wall with chalkboard paint, other walls not thought of yet.
Inspiration:
1. Zebra Flor rug 2. Fun fabric already purchased for curtains 3. Chalkboard wall. 4. Vintage school lockers (yet to be located) 5. Art area. 6. Dress up area. 7. Ikea 8. Music. 9. Kid art everywhere. 10. Telluride art posters framed and hung. 11. Christmas lights.
Things I know about myself after watching this amazing short film:
~ I miss my Dad immensely and realize I've been in mourning for someone who is very much alive. ~ I miss the hours upon hours we'd sit in Quincy Market and people watch. ~ I miss our Sunday or was it Saturday trips to pick up a Barrons and a pack of Chiklets. ~ I miss hearing 'how sweet it is'... ~ I miss being a kid. ~ I miss the innocence. ~ I need to have more patience with my children and all the loved ones in my life. ~ I need to embrace this life I have and run with it. ~ I need to stop feeling bad about things in which I have no control over. ~ I need to be less selfish. ~ I need to hug more. ~ I need to laugh more. ~ I need to allow myself to be loved. ~ I need to give more of myself to those that need me. ~ I need to be a better friend. ~ I want to be a better mother. ~ I want to be a better wife. ~ A better sister. ~ A better daughter. ~ A better aunt. ~ I will.... ~ I want to...
10/12/09
Roasted Pumpkin Seeds ~ loads of seeds ~ one stick of butter ~ sea salt (lots of it :) or if you like sweet instead of savory ~ cinnamon sugar ~ honey or ~ maple syrup
Roast in 425 oven until a lovely brown.
Six girls. Six pumpkins. 24 + hours. Two asleep by 10. Three asleep after 11. Two up before 7. Three up before 7:30. Hundreds of seeds needing roasting. One Mom needing sleep. One Dad needing sleep. One dog kept at bay. Hectic. Super fun. xo
Getting ready for a little something special for the girls tomorrow night! Have a great day! xo
10/1/09
I had to combat my ho-hums and do something fun to lift my spirits. So, while I should have been doing a number of other things I instead made Stella this little recycled dress. Dug through the Goodwill bag I had packed to send off and made this little number out of 5 different pieces. SO cute and SO fun. If I get good enough perhaps I'll open a second etsy shop ;) Like who has time for that, right?
I haven't felt like coming here. It's so much easier to ignore the chaos in your life if you stick it deep inside that hole in your head/heart than to purge it here, there, anywhere. I feel overwhelmed (a common theme in my life) and when I get this way I shut down. It's like admitting defeat by acknowledging it and we all know I hate to feel like a loser. So I lock it up and wait and wait and wait until I've had enough and then I let the deluge begin. Woke up this morning at 5 am to the sounds of gunshots in the distance. Hunters. I loath what they're doing. Turns my stomach inside and out. Makes me fret, weep, hate. Welcome to October. Run deer, run for your lives! I then had to pass those hate filled trucks, vans, cars on my way to bring the kids to school. I could feel my foot, a heavy weight on the pedal as I sped by...trying yet again to ignore what I don't want to see/hear/know. It's cold out this morning...the leaves already falling...leaving a blanket of covering on the grass. Gorgeous reds, yellows, orange. Melancholy. xo
Getting the hairy eyeball...
Us.
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