The Week in Review: March 3-9

Last week was so busy it feels like it happened ages ago. Wowza! There was yoga and walking and out-of-breathedness. I got to visit with fun peoples and even squeezed in some baking. This week is a heavy-on-the-schoolwork kind of week and tomorrow I get to get a filling. Oh joy!

Hope y'all have a grand, grand week!

For myself, for you, for everyone...

I love to wrap presents. I love to wrap presents so much so that I wrapped up a pile for myself on my birthday. I know, what? There's just something so delightful in a pretty stack of packages. On the one hand I struggle with the waste involved in gift wrap but on the other hand I think that if I can use materials I have or perhaps bring an extra dose of giddiness to someone's day, it is all okay. Either way, the idea that someone would take a moment to present something no matter how simple to another person, with a touch of care and kindness, change can be had. You can change a person's perspective, you can maybe sway a poor mood and you can maybe allow it to trickle through their actions and words which can carry a simple act even further...

What I mean is, taking a moment to do something kind and beautiful, whether it is for yourself, a friend or a stranger can change the outcome of any moment. So, instead of using the excuse of waking up on the wrong side of the bed, take a moment to do something nice for yourself. Use a pretty glass instead of the first one you touched. Place a sprig of something blooming within your view. Put on some lipstick even though you are in jeans and a t-shirt, hold the door open for someone, smile at another driver, tell your mother, sister, brother, husband or child that you like them (like is sometimes even better than love!). Make change happen, one random act of kindness at a time.

Photobooth Friday: Playing Tourist

Wednesday was spent traipsing about Hollywood Blvd with a fellow flickr fiend. We played it up and hammed it up complete with cameras, terry visors and a trip to the photobooth. Laughter, guffaws and laying the street happened. It was a perfect day for seeing the sites. Maude bless the photobooth!

more boothing off here and over here.

There's Something About Aqua

..or turquoise, baby blue, robyn's egg or whatever you wanna call it, that seems to make every other color out there brighter and more smile inducing. It truly goes with everything!

When I first painted my bedroom this color named South Seas, I imagined there would be an eye popping collection of red and aqua pretties spilling and dancing all over the place. Somehow a little bit of yellow snuck in and then a pinch of pink stayed behind. Suddenly, there was this brilliant purple lantern cozying up to my mother's antique green dress dummy, an enormous rusted dragonfly keeping watch over my bed and a mr. a-go-go who brought along his childhood cookie monster, a black art deco bureau and a collection of striped t-shirts. Somehow, it all works. I lean towards a yellow and brown picnic with tiffany blue skies but don't knock myself when orange polka-dots prevail. There's something about this pretty, punchy, soothing blue that makes my world seem like a fine, fine, place to be. I think I may attempt another summer quilt, this one with hints of green napping with yellow. I will make it myself except of course when my brain is on the verge of exploding, then and only then will I ask them mister to step in and perform his magic. What shade of blue inspires you these days?

Bunnies! Bunnies! Bunnies!

They're in the shop!!!! What are ya waiting for? Go get one or two or a dozen...

The Week in review: February 25-March 2

Hey folks! We just celebrated our third year of weddedness, go us! Our tradition is to revisit the sight of our wedding and take a leap off the fountain. Afterwards we head on over to good old Bob's Big Boy for some old fashioned burgers and fries and at some point we stop for a rootbeer float and hopefully a photobooth pic. We made the floats at home but never got to a booth. Oh well, we still had oodles of fun.

This week I have school and more school and a little bit more school and hopefully some crafting and packaging going on. The bunnies should be in the shop today and I still need to take some pics for a scrumdilly-do! post. Have a great week folks, Happy March!