Monday, March 30, 2009

Apron Possibilities

One thing I'd like to change about my daily routine, is to wear my nicer clothes every day and not only when I need to leave the house.  In the past, I'd just throw on a pair of comfy yoga-type pants, a graphic/printed tee and maybe a sweatshirt.  But this kind of apparel does not make one feel very attractive or productive.  Just blah and lazy.  One could reason that while cleaning and cooking, you'd want to wear these types of clothes so as not to get your good clothes dirty.
Remedy:  An Apron
Duh.  How did I not think of this before?
Ok, on to the pattern searches.
I only found a few, but they all have potential:
Apron 1Apron 2Apron 3Apron 4
Butterick, McCall's, McCall's, Heather Bailey
But why make one when I could buy one for about the same price as fabric, the pattern and the time it would take to make it?
Good idea:
Apron 5
Fresh Pink Poppies Polka Dot Ruffled Full Apron - by My Sunday Apron

Apron 6

The BELLA Vintage Inspired Brown Modern Pears with Turquoise Full Apron - by Boojiboo
Apron 7

The FAMOUS CHLOE Vintage Inspired Black and White Damask Full Apron - by Boojiboo
I have to say, this last one just might be my favorite!!  It was featured in a SONY magazine ad.  SO DARLING!!
But then, I could just enter a giveaway and WIN one.  That just might be the easiest!
New To This Whole 'Mommy' Thing is giving a Boojiboo apron away, as is Simply Stacie.  So, ladies, here is a blog post about the aprons and your giveaways!

Thursday, March 26, 2009

What I Miss

Seeing as our house is still on the market in Texas, it is always on my mind.  And usually not in a pleasant, calming way, but a, nagging, unsettling, worrisome sort of way.
Well, at least something happy crossed my mind in regard to the house today - I love how I never had to turn on a light until about 7 or 8pm, because there was so much natural light streaming in through the windows.  It was so comfy and sunny, and I really miss that.  An apartment doesn't give you much in the way of natural light.  While we do have windows (and lots of them in one room) we don't get any more than an hour of a sun-patch.  It's all indirect light.  And, while I suppose that I should be grateful for that, I do miss the bath of sunshine you got when in the house.
On a completely separate issue, are cats supposed to massively shed for 3 months?

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

I think

I think I take on too many projects at once.

Friday, March 20, 2009

Foto Friday: Cannelle et Vanille

While I wish I was a genius in the kitchen, I am not,  but that doesn't stop me from drooling over other peoples' culinary talents.  Aran of Cannelle et Vanille, is one of those individuals who can not only make something delicious (I can just tell from the ingredients she lists) but beautiful as well.  She captures her lovely food with stunning photographs, making them even more mouth watering.  She can take something simple, like sorbet and make it look positively divine.
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{photo from Cannelle et Vanille}

She also has a flickr site, with just the photos of her fabulous food.
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Foto Friday is a weekly installation, occurring every Friday, exploring Photographic websites and books as well as other Photographic topics.

Just Have To Add

Google homepage 3-20-09
I am loving the homepage today!  Yay first day of Spring!  Yay Eric Carle!

Thursday, March 19, 2009

While I Wait

I just started (yes, another project) a free online .... system... for lack of a better word right now.... that deals with keeping your home and family and life organized, clutter free, clean and cheery.  One of the things that one must do, is every morning (for those who don't work outside the home) to "get dresses to shoes".  As for me, I still don't know why they insist on a grammatically incorrect phrase, but the gist of it is to get dressed from hair and make up, all the way down to tying up those shoe laces.  This way, you're always ready, and have a can-do mentality right from the get-go.  As for me, I am a firm believer in the no-shoes-in-the-house philosophy.  Less dirt, no scuffs, and more importantly, no broken kittie toes in the case of accidental steppage.  (just loud meows.) 
The solution to this is to have a pair of shoes only for house-wearing.  So, I stopped by DSW on my way home from dropping off Pete's forgotten keys, and was saddened to find not one satisfactory cute pair of tennies.  (They HAVE to have laces - no slip-ons.)  Enter the internet.  Behold, the shoes I am waiting for.
ASICS Women's Mateo Lace Up
Image found on goldencan.com.
I only hope the colors are more like the photo on dsw.com....

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

I've been busy!

Catchin' up on some projects...
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More coming soon!
P.S. Look what came in the mail on Friday:
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

I won something!

Not just any something, a really awesome something!  Holly Hanks, author of The Charmed Life blog, Design Team member of Label Tulip, Pink Paislee, and Chatterbox, Inc., held a giveaway on her blog last Wednesday.
 She graciously was offering a brand new copy of Elsie Flannigan's Love, Elsie Recipe Idea Box, a book that I have wanted since it came out, but everywhere had sold out of! 
Love elsie recipe idea box
And I won!!
Thank you so much Miss Holly!!!

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Once a month

Or so it would seem.  My track record for blogging this year.  Just about.
Huh.
Sigh.
Anyways, I could ramble on about some of the things going on in my life right now, but that would produce a slightly confusing and somewhat disjointed read.
So, I'll just complain about my evening.  How's that?
Well, actually just the movie we went to see tonight.
I'm sure many people out there will disagree with me (and others will emphatically agree) but I just have to say something about Watchmen.
First, a disclaimer that I have never cracked a comic about the Watchmen, let alone heard of them until they started running Watchmen covers on the EW magazine.  Obviously, my husband is not of the same camp as I.
I cannot believe that that movie only got an R.  And that it was 3, three -- THREE hours long.  I'm not SUPER squeamish, but really, the butcher knife, and the electric circular saw thingy.. c'mon. 
Then the movie just started getting ridiculous.  It so wasn't believable or realistic.  And I know it was a comic, but so was Iron Man and Batman, and X-Men, but somehow those characters and plots seemed so much more believable.  Suddenly, there is a blue and white and black tiger like thing with matching fur-covered horn-like appendages shooting out of its head.  Right.
Oh, and since it is CGI, we can show men-parts.  Full frontal.  Ugh.  Oh, and a almost pornographic bedroom scene, or really, flying owl-like hover craft- ship-plane-thing scene.  Which of course, had all the high school kids tittering and squirming.  Gross.
Speaking of gross, can I just say that the guy who sat next to me seemed harmless enough at first, but then as the torture dragged on, I heard smacking every 30 seconds or so... like, mouth smacking.  And not in the kissing kind of way.  Just, opening and closing of the mouth.  Constantly.  Then, about half way through, I notice he's picking his nose.  Often.  Yeah.  Sick.  THEN he starts leaning on the armrest, which my coat happens to be kind of resting on, so now I must get it dry cleaned.  And finally, the icing on the nasty cake, at the end of the movie, he stands up, I see a ball of socks in his hand, as he shoves his BARE feet into his shoes.  Um, this nasty person was BAREFOOT throughout the whole movie.  I was two seats from the aisle, but I would have rather braved shoving myself through the completely immature and super messy teenage boys who took up the rest of the row in the other direction than leave over the floor where the smacker-boogie-leaner-barefoot individual had sat.
Shudder and cry.
On a side note about the movie, Pete says of all the movies he has ever seen, it was the most faithful to the book/comics.  Which, in that case, I'll just pass on reading them.
And now, I don't have enough time to make bread in my bread machine for a craft gathering tomorrow, because I spend three hours at that movie.  Sigh.