wade made this video and insisted that i put it on the blog.
so, here's our summer wrap-up.
11/30/11
11/28/11
if santa wanted to know...
this is what i'd put on my list this year.
this lovely trio of stacked gold rings.
size 7, thank you.
i really do love nars' blushes.
and this sampler looks to be the bomb!
this is probably good for getting in the christmas mood...
but santa would have to make an early delivery on this one.
these look perfect for the snow.
oh yes, i did just put this all-clad set on the list.
it's just time for a grown-up set.
what? you don't think it'll fit in my stocking?
since we're throwing out suggestions that won't quite squeeze into my stocking, how about this here beauty?
not sure which fabric, santa. i'll have to get back to you on that.
also, our thanksgiving was superb. we hosted this year and my mother-in-law and i spent the whole day cooking and chatting. i love cooking with people i really like. it's just really fun to me.
i tried my hand at dying my table linens. i was going for more of a deep navy, but i really liked the purpley-blue i ended up with.
also, i got to use my thrifted goblets and share the spoils of my glorious ebay victory - my flatware.
my poor family. they were forced to celebrate the perfect shape of each spoon bowl, and fork tine all weekend long.
i suspect they were actually making a bit of fun of me.
look, i get excited about these things.
oh, and the food was awesome.
and relaxing all weekend long with some of my favorite people...
good stuff.
another hi-light of the weekend:
wade's brother, brad, got a bunch of old pictures off a dinosaur of a computer that's been sitting in my closet for six years, AND he hooked up my vcr so my kids could watch our old-school vhs tapes. we have some good ones.
it took him about 5 minutes to do what i've been "trying" to do for six months. thanks brad!
i do feel very blessed.
11/10/11
let's talk kitchens...
because i think about them a lot.
let's just dream up the perfect kitchen.
actually, let's just dream about kitchen windows.
i get specific on my wish lists.
face it. unless you're weird, you don't like doing dishes. that's why you need a great view from the kitchen sink. standing at the stove without a window isn't a problem. the entertainment is in the pan, but dishes = drudgery, so i need me some windows while i scrub.
preferably a whole wall of them.
without any cabinets at all.
just straight up glass.
they could have left that little cabinet out and gone for one more window. but it's still nice.
this is kind of a cool idea. takes the open shelving to a whole new level. and that mutha' of a slab of marble countertop is amazaballz.
and i really love the parson style island.
and the windows.
?
i prefer the windows to come closer to the counter, but this is still really pleasant, and those walls are $TUNNING.
look at all that marble!
plus, i've always been a fan of stairs coming down to the kitchen.
like in the family sitcoms from back in the day.
frank randolph
i love the windows wrapping around the corner here.
actually the whole package is pretty sweet. maybe a little more counter to the left of the stove.
am i picky?
yes!
hello bridge faucet. i love you.
bijou home
steel cased window vs. wood cased windows.
i can't decide who wins.
it's an ongoing battle for me.
hello again, bridge faucet. you're my friend.
jill sharp
the windows at the end of the room make up for there being just one at the sink.
this is kitchen perfection to me (except there needs to be some counter space on either side of the stove. that's a major oversight) but i guess i'd live with it if someone gave it to me for free :)
john howard
?
take those little cabinets down. you don't really need them anyway. you've got a few others.
maybe we'll do this again. i love dreaming about kitchens.
next time : kitchen hoods?
what's your dream kitchen?
11/8/11
election day baby
this little lady is now officially six years old. for some reason this is the strangest and most unbelievable birthday yet. maybe it's because some of her antics are more fitting for a four year old rather than a six year old (like the nice piece of "art work" she scribbled onto the wall the other day. excuse me! not okay)
maybe it's that i have the hardest time figuring her out and knowing how to deal with her... intricacies? it's really true, though, that the same things you find irritating and infuriating and difficult about someone are often the same things that draw and endear you to them. that's how it is with whitney. she is one. BIG. adventure. and that's what's so great, and sometimes exhausting, about her. but i'll take it. every single bit of it because whitney is truly an amazing, and exceptional little person.
she is as take charge and a go-get-what-you-want kind of girl as they come. that's the nice way of saying that's she's bossy. but in her defense, it's probably because she gets bossed around by me so much.
but in my defense...have you met whitney?
she definitely has her element. can you guess what that is? she's never happier than when she's outside, in the water, or chasing some poor critter up a tree or down a hole.
without her scrapes and bruises she would almost be unrecognizable.
this morning whitney descended in all her birthday majesty. nikki made a banner for her room and waited patiently outside her bedroom door until she woke up and then helped her dress in her royal robes. it was really really sweet.
and by some birthday/election day miracle, i was able to braid whitney's hair this morning.
i'm bad at hair.
but not this morning.
this morning i ROCKED!
another birthday/election day miracle : whitney was permitted to put sprinkles on her sandwich for lunch.
i love this little girl. a lot.
happy birthday, my little animal.
now go out and vote.
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