Our weekend review

I am still recovering...many activities, sugar overload, late night sewing. But it was great and memorable. A little more sleep would have been nice, but thanks to my procrastination, I just powered through the fun. Poor me.

Tom took Luke off my hands for a bit, a friend of ours was visiting from NY. I had around three hours to get some sewing done and make the easter egg chocolates I had been procrastinating on all week. Very yummy though; coconut and peanut butter variations dipped in white, dark, and milk chocolates. We ended up staying up way to late, partly due to me sewing too long, and partly to us getting sucked into watching Deceived, a movie I have embarrassingly seen way too many times. Then Luke showed up and wanted to help dip the chocolates.

Saturday morning, our community hosted an easter egg hunt for the kiddies. We invited Luke's closest friend Chloe and her parents, and had a great time helping them find the eggs amongst the brush and shrubbery. We followed up the hunt with my favorite breakfast of German pancakes and cinnamon rolls. Why not start the sugar fest weekend off with a bang?

Being that Saturday was also our anniversary, Tom surprised me with an indulgent afternoon of kid free spa time including an hour full body massage, manicure, and pedicure. I have never been able to justify an hour massage the way I can a new top, so I have only had one other massage that I can remember, and I think it was only a half an hour. And ever since I heard about a report on 20/20 of the risks of pedicures and infections, I have avoided the jetted foot tubes, and have been to cheap to pay for anything better.  But I enjoyed every minute of it, and even spent some time in the sauna.

Tom picked me up in my lethargic state, with just enough time to grab some dinner before heading to my anniversary gift to Tom, tickets to see Jose Gonzalez. The music was perfect and beautiful. If you have never heard Jose Gonzalez, I suggest you click here and listen to his beautiful cover of Heartbeats, accompanying my most favorite commercial ever. Its kind of old, but I could watch it over and over.

The rest of our night was spent with me finishing up my easter dress, I had to do it, especially since the weather promised to be at least 60 degrees. But before I knew it, midnight came, and I was too tired to finish the matching tie for Luke. So I got up early.

After Luke's nap, we had our easter festivities, all revolving around him. He hunted for eggs hidden around the house, refused to put down his chocolate sucker, and enjoyed digging through the easter pale filled with as much as my mom could find from the dollar store.

Tom and I have started a month long diet of fruits, vegetables, and lean meats just to recover from the weekend, and way too many similar to it.

Six years...

And happy as ever!

It's actually not until tomorrow, but whats a day early when every day is like the first.

Love ya Tom

My toes need to breathe...

I am really ready for spring.

I want to break out my fun colored jackets, I want to wear cotton sweaters instead of wool, I want to see color on people, but mostly, I want to  wear dresses, lightweight ones, with sandals instead of boots. It's killing me that I'm letting Easter Sunday pass without a new spring dress. I have some great fabrics I am excited to whip up into a new spring wardrobe, but it will all just have to wait, wait for warmer weather. I mean, who wants to see a cotton dress dress paired with wool tights and boots? Dresses NEED sandals.

I can't wait for an excuse to buy some new ones. I will have to narrow them down to just one or two, but there so many cute ones out there already, do I choose comfort over cute? feminine over androgynous? I love so many of them, I guess my budget will have to decide for me this year.

My most favorite pair:
I have been obsessing over these for the last 2 1/2 years. They are by K Jacques. Maybe this year will be it for me. Gladiators aren't going anywhere yet.

My sort of second favorite pair:
I'm still sort of on the fence here with these.  I saw them all over Brooklyn last year and hated them at first, but by the end of summer they really grew on me. And of course they scored major bonus points when I saw them on her.

My favorites from Urban Outfitters. 

Matt Bernson, where did this guy come from? I love every pair I have seen of his so far.

And because they are so inexpensive & comfortable, maybe another pair of salt waters.

Here it is

Posting a gigantic picture of myself is very uncomfortable...

We decided on a combination of the two haircuts. A thick blunt side-swept bang, and some layers. Not too drastic, but when both the bang and hair get a bit longer I can easily go for the Urban Outfitter girl's look, which I really love!

In other unrelated news, I am almost done with Gilmore Girls, just a few episodes left. I know I am a year behind everyone else, but I didn't get into it until November. I have watched seven years in the short span of four months.  These ladies have been such a constant in my daily routine lately, I try to sneak in at least one episode in during naptime, thinking about the end is really upsetting me. But what I really don't like is the direction season 7 is going in, does it even have a happy ending?

Anyway, I will quickly need another show to wallow in after I finish this one up. Any suggestions?

She's got an eye

like one of the best ones, seriously.

If there was only one person I could steal talent from it would be my friend Abby of Hi + Low. She is a graphic designer by profession but has amazing taste in decorating, collecting, and dressing. Just being around her is inspiring. But in addition to her impeccable taste, one of my favorite things about her is her modesty. For how talented she really is, she is one of the most unassuming people I know, and always gives credit to everyone around her.

This week, her apartment was featured on Design*Sponge. An honor that was rightly due. If I could hire her to decorate my apartment, or house I would. Every piece of furniture, art, or collectible is thoughtful, beautiful, and complimentary. I wish I had the vision to incorporate different design era's and elements the way she does.

And to top it all off, Abby is also very very thoughtful. Saturday night I came home to a package addressed from her, and inside was this beautiful ceramic pitcher.

Abby has a couple of these pitchers, and I have loved them since the first time I poured something out of one of them. I finally asked her where I could find one and found out they were made by Dansk, vintage, and very hard to come by. After losing a few bids on Ebay, I gave up. But now I have one of my very own, thanks to her, and now will probably start my obsession up again to find it a friend.

And another Abby gift, my own desk calendar. I love it and use it every day. It is designed by Abby for Kate Spade. I would really love to fill my life up with things made and picked out by Abby. 

*And for those that are anxious to see my hair, don't worry I will post. I just can't seem to take a decent picture of myself, darn camera.