Improv

It is a sunny winter day with mounds of snow all over the ground. I left my sunglasses on my dresser this morning and regretted doing so the moment I turned the corner in my car. I made it to work this morning with a crease in my forehead from squinting. I had the visor down and my hand shielding my eyes but I still managed a small head ache during my 15 minute commute.
I was at work for about 2 hours before I had to leave for a doctors appointment. I braced myself for the blinding light of the outdoors again. Ten minutes into my driving and fed up with the squinting and hand shielding- I decided to start rummaging through my car to find ANYTHING to help. I opened up my center console and found remnants from my days in the tanning salon: orange-mango tan accelerating lotion and goggles. SCORE!! Although I had zero peripheral vision (who needs that while driving anyway?) I had sweet relief for my eyes!! I continued to my doctor's appointment driving down Lancaster Avenue like this:


I laughed at myself quite a bit. When I got back to my office I wrote a quick scene for the show Modern Family. If you watch the show- don't you think this would work perfectly!? I need to contact the writers immediately with this gem!

Scene: Modern Family
Dad is forced to drive his teenage daughters car. Its full of crap: food, cd’s, gadgets, books, papers…
The sun is super bright and he is squinting, pulls the visor down, holds his hand over his eyes. He begins to search through the car while distractedly driving to look for relief for his eyes. He comes across a pair of goggle like things in the glove box next to a bottle of lotion…. They are tanning goggles. He puts these on while he drives. Turns on the radio, rolls down the windows and blasts some top 40 hip-hop hit. He assumes they are some cool new type of sunglasses and keeps them on while he gets out of the car and runs errands around town. He bumps into one of his daughters friends...

My Blog of the Moment

I stumbled upon this site one day while looking up crochet ideas. (a post to come soon about my latest hobby). I just looked up "crochet" in google images and clicked on the prettiest thing I saw which led me to this site.

http://www.wardi.dk/default.html

This woman, Carina, is Danish and living in England and makes beautiful, bright things!! My friend Meg learned how to make "granny squares" from her site. See Carina's granny square blanket below.




She embroiders, water colors, draws, crochets, photographs.. she even makes her own fabric!

Hope you enjoy and are inspired by this site. I am!

A Kitchen

I Wrote a Rap Song

Hey this is my hit new rap song: Wine, Dine and get Crunk in the City

Enjoy!


Ohhhhhhhhhh YEAH!!!! You know what time it is!!!

Don’t make me say it twice! You know how we DO! UHHHH!

Come on ladies!!! Lets WINE, (wine!) DINE (dine!) and

GET CRUNK IN THE CITYYYYYYYYY!

(boomboomboomboombooombooom)---> “beat drops”


Time to get loud, time to get fresh, I had it with this mess

Time to get fly, time to get high, I aint bout to stress


Got my heels on, my fly is zipped,

Clutch is packed, im well equipped


Girl you gotchyo cell? Oh hell I got my cell

Girl you gotchyo money? Girl I don’t need no money


‘cause Boys buy me drinks just for a little dance

And if they think they want some more I just kick em in da pants


Cause I WINE (wine!), DINE (dine!) and get CRUNK IN THE CITY!!!!!

Cause I WINE (wine!), DINE (dine!) and get CRUNK IN THE CITY!!!


Me and my girls, we don’t mess around,

We get ish done when we go downtown

Hit up the spot- you know the one with the hookah

And smoke up some flavors and we don’t spend no moolah



Then off to the bar in a taxi cab

Catch a free ride cause Muhammad is our man

I say, yo Muhammad can I bum a cig?

And he says- yea girl but can you get me a new gig?


Cause I wanna

WINE (wine!) DINE (dine!) and get CRUNK IN THE CITY!!

WINE (wine!) DINE (dine!) AND GET CRUNK IN THE CITY!!!

(all rights reserved, copyright 2010, k-lo entertainment)

Obsession of the Moment: Kitchen Linens!

Kitchen linens: fun to say and look at! Linens can add a lot to a room and pack a serious punch. Whether a table cloth, table runner, napkins, placemats, hand towels, tea towels, or even aprons- they are all functional but extremely fashionable as well. My kitchen walls are a lovely shade of beige which coordinate beautifuly with my beige cabinets and beige countertops. I purposely hung my aprons on the wall to add color. I used a tea towel to hang over my tiny window and bright hand towels drape over my fridge handle. Pot holders hang on the side of my cupboards- easy access and fun to look at :)
Here are a few kitchen linens I saw on the internet (thank you anthropologie.com yet again) and am currently coveting......




check out some AWESOME tea towels at http://www.todryfor.com/

Antique stores often have lots of awesome linens in all sorts of vintage prints and colors. I picked up a few great things this past weekend. Pictures coming soon!

DIM?

Do it myself? I was on the Anthropologie website (www.anthropologie.com) checking out their knobs since I've been wanting to put new knobs on a couple dressers we have. (Although, with the cheapest ones being $6.00 each, I am not so sure this will be happening soon). ANYWAY- while on the site I came across an adorable hook that I think could easily be made at home.

I have some old silverware that I think I could make this with. I have a hook in my kitchen that I use to hang my aprons on. I imagine it couldn't be too hard to solder (or just super-glue maybe?) the spoons onto it. I think I might do a fork and a spoon instead of two spoons. How CUTE!?

Our First Christmas

Although it was a little anti-climactic, it was very peaceful. Mike went and got the tree and I decorated it with the help of my friends while we baked Christmas cookies. I didnt go out and buy lots of decorations. I decided I want to let our Christmas tree accumulate decorations over the years as gifts or things our kids make. So this year our tree was a little sparse. But I liked it that way. We received a few "Our First Christmas" ornaments, we picked one up in Antigua on our honeymoon, and a few others we happened to have.

The tree

The honeymoon ornament

A "First Christmas" ornament from Jaime. It was a bell and ended up as the tree topper!

A nativity ornament from Sarah. She said I needed to have a "Chreche" which she explained is a nativity scene (she's so knowledgable).

This was from Mike's co-workers at USLI. It is a Lenox "First Christmas" ornament.

This one is from Mrs. Logan :)

For the tree-skirt, I used a quilt I made a few years ago and never finished. It is green, red, white and brown and looked great as a tree skirt. Now that I've found a new purpose for it I doubt I'll ever get around to adding the back and finishing this quilt!
Next are some pictures Ashley, Jaime, Sarah and I in the kitchen making cookies!



Jaime wore her festive attire :)



In the middle of making sugar cookies I realized I didnt have a rolling pin! I cleverly used a tall pasta jar, covered it in flour and used it to roll out the dough. It worked but a rolling pin would have been much better.