Can't sleep....

I've loaded the dishwasher, cleaned the counter tops, made D's lunch, put sticky note messages in his lunch sack, then played with this photo. I think it will go downstairs in the green polka dot room.
What do people do at 4 am when they can't sleep?

Fun in the Sun...well kind of

For Real

We met Twitch!!! D spotted him and I instantly turned into a huge dorky fan. I blurted out, "Will you take a picture with me, I'm kind of in love with you?" He looked at D and Elle then started cracking up. He was probably thinking, 'Who is this girl declaring her love for me in front of her husband?!!!'

But he gave me a huge hug and graciously took a picture with us and talked to us for awhile. He was so nice. He was on his way to Salt Lake for a workshop he was teaching. Of course I had to call Holly, Annie and Whit right afterward-I was on cloud nine! Okay so I'm still giddy about it.

Happy Feet

New goal: notice one thing everyday that makes me happy. Yes, Oprah's the queen of the gratitude journal-personal chef, bizillionarie, gorgeous homes, girl's school is South Africa...who wouldn't want to jot that down?

My list won't be quite the same, but D does make a mean twice baked potato ("Mmmm, sweet potato"-you have to watch The Soup to get that). And since I'm more of a visual person, instead of writing down what I'm grateful for I'm going to take a picture of it. Here's to being happy today.

March is making me happy

And so is she. Everyone should have a friend like her. Need a little boost in your day? Or even if you don't, check out how amazing she is here.

Bringing Sexy Back

Victoria Secret is bringing sexy+chic back to swimwear. I love some of their suits this year. Very J. Crewesque, without the J.Crew price tag.

I even liked this one glamazon suit which reminded me of a red carpet dress. Formal pool parties might be this summers hot ticket.
BUT beware of this one...



The suit looks like a tug boat that has dropped it's anchor and for a VS model she looks completely flat-chested. If she can't get away with this swim suit-no one can.

I've always been a magazine addict. Ads and all, I love the glossy pages, creativity, photography...
I'm starting a project that is long over-due. I'm going through each and every one of the issues that I have stored in my basement and ripping out the pages I find inspiring/clever/well done and cataloging them in a binder. Spring 2001 Martha Stewart done, a gazillion to go.

Now that Martha (and everyone else) has a blog to archive all the latest and greatest ideas and have a keystroke away, I wonder if it's worth it....

image by me

Blog Hacker Alert!

I have been a victim of a blog hacker!
Just kidding I just wanted you to read that and think "Oh no a blog hacker!" and then change your status to private because blogs are oh-so dangerous. No offense to the private peeps out there-I do agree there are creepy people lurking.
I love my blog hacker however! She surprised me with a new header. And I love it.
She can surprise me like this anytime she would like.

How did you celebrate heart day?

We didn't take any pictures but I can tell you our night didn't look like this

or even this

We kept it simple this year. We always go to the same restaurant on Valentines Day, Cafe Molise. D always orders Italian sodas as if they have free refills and he is 10 years old again. Then we ordered dessert to go and were home by 9:15. Simple but nice.

S.W.A.K.

Elle Bell made her first Valentines and mailed them out to her friends this year. Best part is that they were totally free-minus the postage stamp. Hope your day is filled with LOVE and lots of XOXO!