My friend Rachael recommended this stuff to me just for this series. She lives in Utah and this spread is available at farmer’s markets and natural food stores, but I ordered mine online. It. is. sogood. I spread it on…
Year of Pleasures: New Lighting
I’ve got some big projects up my sleeves, so I just invested in some new photography lighting. It wasn’t terribly expensive (like $25 I think) and I am KICKING myself I didn’t do it sooner. Around here everybody is used…
Year of Pleasures: Hobby Lobby
A Hobby Lobby opened by us! A HOBBY LOBBY!! I was there the morning it opened like the total craft nerd I am. Hip hip hooray.
Year of Pleasures: Organized Closet
Since I had to take everything out of the closet back when we cleaned the carpets, I arranged everything all pretty once I put them back in. It’s a little bit crazy how peaceful I feel looking at this picture.…
Year of Pleasures: Chocolate Truffles
A vendor gave Bear an enormous party sized box of these chocolate truffles for Christmas, and I have just now, finally, finished them off for the good of my family. I’m not normally a chocolate fan, but oh my gosh…
Year of Pleasures: Clean carpet
After we put all the Christmas decorations away we did a pretty thorough Spring cleaning including renting a Rug Doctor and cleaning all the carpets. Being pet owners and parents of a toddler means we are hard on carpets at…
Year of Pleasures – Monogrammed Necklace
Since I make almost all of my own jewelry, I don’t have to many great pendants I can just toss on for a casual day. I’m working on changing that, and for starters I lucked into this little monogrammed necklace…
2012 Year of Pleasures – Cheap Jewelry
When I go to Cost Plus Imports, I normally skip everything and head right to the back of the store where all the lovely imported snacks are. But on my last visit I wound up taking some time in the…
2011 Year of Pleasures #44
This is another one of our goofy family games, and I am terrified of the day that Atti discovers he’s too cool for it. One of us will shout “Family Sandwich!” and Bear and I will give each other a…
2011 Year of Pleasures #42
After years of pining away for one, I finally got around to buying myself a manual typewriter. I found this beauty on ebay and fell in love with that perfect gray-blue color. It came with its own carrying case, but…