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Girls night, was as always, a BLAST. 
 

We celebrated Miss Stacy's birthday with Champagne and cake!

 
There was karaoke, dancing, lots and lots of randomness, and even a cab ride home...  All of the ingredients for a perfect girls night out.

Also - been working on some "shelves" at the new house...  here's what I've come up with...  Yes, some of the frames are still empty...  Gotta (eventually after everything else is done) make some time to pick out photos to fill them with...  Maybe I'll get a personal assistant for my birthday?
 
The hallway...  

 
Dining room #1...

Dining room #2...

 
(Don't mind the messy table.)  Just need some curtains in there...

 
Finally got around to hanging my birds in the livingroom...  They need something else though, looking a little bare over there...

Another coffee picture for the archives...  Oh how I love this spot in my kitchen....
 
 
The bookshelf in the livingroom...  just getting started on this one...

That's all for now...

more sharey-share type stuff...

Very short and pressed for time these days...  But a few pics to share...

More treat-making happened when my parents stopped over.  Where my Mom comes up with these ideas is beyond me, but YUM  YUM!!

CHOCOLATE COVERED MARSHMALLOW POPS!! 

HOW FREAKEN CUTE ARE THESE?!!???  Same deal, shaped like ghosts!!

Jeff borrowed my camera for a bit and snapped a couple shots outside...  
HOLY GORGEOUS!!

Keegan took a snooze (and yes, he totally naps like this!!)
 
(doesn't it look like he has eye-shadow on??)

And...  my bottle cap collection has outgrown it's home thanks to my best friend Bird's love of liver damage.  ;)

That's all for now...  Happy Monday to you all!!

Adventures of a Football Spectator: Inclement Weather Edition.

Spent the morning at Jacob's very cold rainey football game today...

 
 
 
 
 
Hopefully Jacob will forgive me for being a wuss, and staying in the car for the second half.  I can do COLD, but COLD & SOGGY, not so much!!

Happy Sunday!  GO PATS! 

Since everything else in my life is changing, why not the blog too?

I've been wanting to change this blog for a while.  I think last summer, I even sat down and attempted to learn CSS once, but I was being far too ambitious about it, and ended up frustrating myself, consequently putting the kibbosh on any/all blog re-designs.

This time, I decided to keep the layout simple and colorful (much like myself).  I celebrated a small CSS victory last night by rocking out to Britney Spears, and announcing to the habitants of the kitchen that I had finally gotten the spacing right on the stupid effing navigation bar.  No one really celebrated with me, but that's ok.  Britney and I did just fine by ourselves.

The new blog will go live 10/1.  You might start to see some smallish changes prior to that date as I update and revamp things in the sidebars.  There may also be a daily photo section, or a daily style section...  We shall see how much I can accomplish in the next couple weeks...

Stay Tuned.

Show & Tell

I kid you not.  Jeff is STILL arranging furniture in the cyber-house.  I'm pretty sure I woke up in the middle of the night and heard him click-dragging TV's and coffee tables in and out of various rooms.

I am telling you, with this type of intensity, you'd think he was coming up with a new National Health Care Plan...  But no, he is just trying to make room for a few extra bean-bag chairs in the kids play room.

 

Every hour or so, he completely redesigns a room, and then I have to follow him into another room to look at a piece of furniture so that I can conceptualize his new design.  I've been referring to them as field-trips. 

I am starting to get a good understanding of what life with an engineer is going to be like.

But anyway.  Let's have show & tell!

The snazzy new sofa...  It's all individual pieces, so you can build it to fit your space.  We got it in an "L" shape, with arm pieces on both ends, AND the ottoman which can be used to make one side a chaise.  I fell in love with the color.  It is way more perfectly chocolate in real life... 

Did I mention the new table?

This was not at all on our "to buy" list.  Not in the slightest. But I'm pretty sure that when we sat at it, we both had a moment, and without even saying much of anything it was decided that we were not leaving this store without this table.  Tall people like it because it's pub-style, creative people like it because it's square shaped (I'll admit...  symmetry makes me hot & bothered.) Parties-of-six like it because it seats eight!  Bonus!

Done and done.

And I would be lying if I told you I did not squeal on the way out of the store... 

well, shoot.

Had some technical difficulties there...  But now appear to be back in business.

WHAT. THE. HECK. IS. GOING. ON. WITH. ME?  WHERE AM I?  WHY AM I NOT POSTING ANYMORE?

I wish I had some super-amazing explanation, like:  Aliens landed their spaceship on my patio and took me hostage, leaving in my place a slightly less amusing version of myself who did not have the password to my computer, and therefore did not keep the blog updated.

But I have no explanation.  Not even for myself.  I just feel myself changing.  Everything about me seems to go through some sort of major renovation every 3-5 years...  It's that time again, apparently.

I am being forced to find a new home, and with that change is a renovation so grandiose that it will blow your mind...  More on that soon.

PAINTINGS!!!

Tonight, I discovered that Keegan will GOBBLE UP his dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets if I make them talk to him in funny voices...  I started to be excited about that until I really thought about how weird - and slightly creepy - that actually is...

Be patient with me.  I will come back around...

don't fade

The challenge was...

Paint an emotion. Or paint how your mojo feels the day you sit down to paint. The challenge is to not use any distinct shapes, just keep it abstract.

THIS. WAS. A. CHALLENGE.  Infact, I sat down with this canvas EARLY this morning, and had to set it aside several times, until finally I decided that perhaps the only thing abstract about me is the inside of my brain...  and that without words, I am at a total loss.  I need words to create... Without words, I got nothing.

So I broke the rules completely...  but I know Mark (the challenge originator) will forgive me for it.  I am not a girl who thinks inside the box...  And yet I failed the only abstract challenge given to me.....  How is that possible?

Either way...  Here's my painted emotion.  Was feeling much like my soul was fading.  So I painted some words to make it stop. 

Don't Fade.

 

And there is perhaps one other person on the planet who will pick up on the song reference.  Words are half the inspiration, and typically the other half is music.

right now...

The challenge was:

How about doing a "Right Now" page, documenting what your life is like right now? Ali Edwards is doing it.

Aside from the fact that the entire time I was creating this page, I was humming the Van Halen song, Right Now...  This was really fun.  Cathartic, I guess you could say...

Thoughts on my mind, right now.  Things that are happening in my life right now.  Vows I am making to myself, right now...

 

Not exactly how the amazing Ali interpreted this idea (and believe me, Ali Edwards has been one of my idols for as long as I've been scrappin)...  but this is SJ style, and I think that is what matters most...

Loved this one...  

Mmmmmmmmm...

This was almost finished last night, but then I got sidetracked with some strawberry shortcake which is a direct result of those GLORIOUS strawberries I picked up at the farmers market yesterday... Yummm.

So this challenge was:  take a cereal box, pasta box, brownie mix box... a box of some food item out of your cupboard and use it to inspire a creative thing :)

I opened the cabinet and my eyes went straight for the thing I reach for the most...

 
(Sorry for the blurry picture.)

And here is what it inspired...

 

And because the package was sitting with me in my studio, I ended up eating about 5 cookies while creating this painting...  This was of course before the strawberry shortcake.

(Mojo Rehab is good for the mojo, but not so good for the butt.)

Oh so true...

The challenge was...

pick a song from the playlist you posted and let it inspire you!

I picked "You're the Storm" by the Cardigans...  If you do not have that song in your own playlist, you should definitely download...

Time for a snack, then back at it!!