I just can’t resist a good alliteration.  Anyway, some Flickr users must not allow the use of their photos in mosaics & such.  But you can see the missing ones if you click on their respective links. :)

1. 89093557_adc3310748, 2. I can’t help myselfe, 3. kitchen cabinet blinds, 4. kaleidoscope, 5. Pretty in pink - DAY 7, 6. 18-365, 7. 花吃了那女孩., 8. vacancy, 9. Magic eggshell beret (my angora so soft), 10. Ivoire Cowl / Neckwarmer, 11. 14/365 (2009) Everlasting flowers, 12. Untitled, 13. bird-&-flower-cross-stitch, 14. camiseta, 15. Texture, 16. Happy Holidays!

We’re going to the Gulf Shore for 2 weeks.  I’ll try to say hi while I’m there!

Happy Friday!

1.  Warm baths on cold nights (with my journal and perhaps a creative book)

2.  Lost and Battlestar Galactica are back

3.  The 365 in 2009 challenge (and its domestic counterpart)

4.  Making the same Built by Wendy shirt over and over and over again (5 times now)

5.  Leather-working (Yep.  I’m doin’ it.  And I had a hard time finding a link about it that wasn’t related to World of Warcraft.  Huh.)

6.  Little houses (look at this cuteness)

7.  Bread pudding made from ruined raisin bread

8.  Getting quilt blocks in the mail (This lovely one was pieced by Kathryn.)

9.  The “Creative Process,” as expounded upon here and here

10.   My babies who keep me on my toes… and my sweet husband who let me sleep in (watched said babies), brought me coffee, and loves me so

get over a sinus infection?  Evan and I are still pretty sick around here.

I’m behind on my correspondence, but I did manage a Wardrobe Refashion.  Before:

After:

This was quick.  I spent the majority of my time picking the rhinestones off the butterfly and choosing a design that would cover it.

Thanks, Mama Debbie, for the hoodie! :)

And on the verge of walking.

Today, Jacob is:

• sucking his thumb and not his pacifier (who needs that old thing?!)
• laughing at his sister
• and sometimes pulling her hair
• saying “mamamamama” and “duhduhduhduhduhduh”
• blowing bubbles, gurgling, and spitting a lot

• eating Cheerios, teething biscuits, and peas on his own
• standing in his crib when he’s finished napping
• violently nom-ing his stuffed toys
• attacking the DVD player
• overcoming all obstacles between the remote control and himself

He’s cute and generally easy-going.  And I love him so.

So how about a healthy dose of Vitamin C?

In the spirit of A Year of Mornings, I present to you a tangerine diptych.

Happy Friday, everyone!

EDIT: How do you like my new, orange-y banner? :)

Seriously.  Have you seen this yet?

Hey, thanks for the couch love.  I feel affirmed.

If you don’t love the couch and are too polite to say so, that’s okay too.  We can still be friends. :)  And I’ll even be friends with those who used words like “ugly” and “fugly” in reference to my new love (*cough* male friends *cough*).

New to me, anyway.  My dear friend, Mindy, is moving and needed to get rid of this hand-me-down.  It was me or Goodwill.

So I asked Evan and his friend to pick it up on Sunday.  When they brought it home for me, they were both confounded.

Evan: You really wanted this?  It’s so ugly!

Craig: At least you can recover it.  Is that what you were thinking?

Um…

Evan: Did you know it was this color?  You like it?

Um.  Yes.

Evan: Oh.  Well.  At least we have a sleeper sofa now.  

Yeah!  We really needed a guest bed.

The truth is, I like this weird little loveseat.  I like it a lot.  If I have to, I’ll put it in the garage and build a space around it just for me.  Just so I can enjoy my vintage, pea-colored, velvety seat and be judged if I must.

Welcome home. :)

This is still a work-in-progress, but I thought I’d share the breakfast nook today.  It seems to be welcoming a new week, don’t you think?  Below the chairrail - that’s what I painted last week.  I didn’t bother taping because I don’t have any blue painter’s tape.  And I didn’t bother using a paint roller either.  I just went to it with some brushes, primer, and paint.  I cannot recommend this approach, but it worked for me.

Evan was playing Call of Duty for about an hour and a half before he came in and realized what I was doing.  He said he thought I was scrubbing the floor.

In my mind, scrubbing the floor seems like a much more shocking venture for me than painting a wall on a whim.  ;)

Yep.  I never knew what that was.  I took pictures while using the “Aperture Priority” setting on my camera, but I didn’t know what the heck was changing.  Until.  Until the Pioneer Woman who insisted that with enough brain-washing, all of us could get it.  Really!

Check out all of her excellent photography lessons.  I like her.

I took this picture today on the manual setting and tinkered with the aperture and shutter speed.  As I was taking it, the sun was so bright that I couldn’t tell those buds were pink.

Okay, and I decided to share this with you too.  I love it, but I would.  I fixed the exposure and used the cross-process filter in Picnik.  Now that’s more like it. :)