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Pink Milk Pot
from
Labor and Wait

L O V E
pillowcases
at
Cox and Cox
and
Lush Designs

Little Mouse rug
from
Toast by Post

New Artist to Love

H A N N A K O N O L A

visit
her blog

the "rain" is my favorite!!!!
I LOVE IT.

lettuce . . and other random things.

oh how i love taco salads.
they are so easy and you end up eating
so many different good things.
my mom always added rice and beans to the
meat too and i am carrying on that tradition. . much
to my hubby's chagrin.

making "cards" with my niece today
which was hilarious due to her new people
that she makes which are. .adorable. . with these
large triangular dresses that almost always
have big hollow dots on them.
this one has a sticker head. . .and is
obviously holding a lovely bouquet of flowers
in one hand. . . obviously.

"deception"
and
"it's the thought that counts "

in this adorable bag with the adorable
red and white string. . are muffins. . for my brother
. . which are fall aparty due to the fact that i
bent the recipe so much that they were
not really even muffins any more but some sort of
strange . . . grits?
.. . .. . . but he got the best ones that were sort of holding
together. .
. . and thankfully you can still have fun putting even the most
horrible failed experiment in a cute bag for someone
you know will appreciate something homemade
even if they can't identify exactly what they're eating.
:)

we had a little snow last night.

White Christmas lights are the bomb. . the bees knees.
and the fo shizzel. . . foshizzel. . where's my little
bro when i need him.
anyway. . . my niece asked me today. . Ra Ra . . why do you
have so many Christmas lights in your
house in the winter?

.. and i told her it was because they made our house feel
like a home. . AND . .that they were not just for winter.

although i do admit our dining room still has
the lingerings of Christmas.

I can't imagine life without them.
:)

This .. is why i loooooooooove anthropologie

i
love
love
love

this.

anthropologie

One Day . . .Many Many's

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh. . . .the quiet evening of yet another
day . ..

many crayons
many doodles
many stickers
many snowflakes
many berry kix
many balls of playdough
many nails
many pounds of the hammer
many logs on the fire keeping us warm

many snuggles
many bottles
many maisy mouse moments
many smiles
many funny faces
many silly phrases
many many many . .

much

L O V E

Com'on girl. . shake it off.

painting by emily martin
aka. . the black apple

. . . having the very hardest of times shaking off this
lonely feeling left over from after the Holidays.
And it's times like these when you think
you will never have the energy or desire
to do anything creative again.
Right now my little one sleeps but any minute
he will wake up and i kind of can't wait
. . when i have too much time to myself the past
few days i start thinking a little too much
about what it's like with my sisters
here and what its like . . without them.

I wish that we didn't have to move so far away from
each other. I wish it was like the "old days"
when families grew up and stayed together. .
of course im talking specifically of when this actually
happened. . and NOT about when families
moved away and never saw each other
AGAIN because there were no
planes or phones or mail or even
pictures!. .
and no facebook.

I want all my brothers and sisters and best
friends to all live together in a quaint
little town and every night we
will have a pig roast or pancakes
and on the weekends we will stay up late at
our little pub laughing with and at each other
whilst the children sleep )

i know. . im so nuts.

Feeling Sad

Feeling a little lonely and sad about
Christmas coming and going.
All the fam was together at long last
and it was good times.

It's hard to get back to business as usual.. .
which is what . .exactly?. .