my tummy is growling!

get the recipe here image from martha

double growl

My Daddy

image from here
my dad is the best, seriously.
he taught me:
-the value of a good book, and read me ever so many, and sat with me as I read painstakingly slow while learning how to read.
-to be honest, even when it looks like it might not be the easiest thing to do, like when I rode my bike into a parked car and had to walk sheepishly up to the house and apologize. yikes.
-to be kind, to love, to be able to cry. my dad's tough, but put him in front of father of the bride and he tears up with the best of us, and I love that.
-to be silly, everytime I here "wild thing, I think I love you" I picture my mom and dad breaking it down on the dance floor, or rather or living room floor dancing like fools, in the best way of course!

most of all I love you daddy-o

Table numbers!

check it out here

So how adorable would this be for an outdoor wedding? Perhaps a wedding where friends were coming with sand in their pockets from our own beloved Newport Beach?

Check out even more great wedding ideas
http://www.oncewed.com/category/diy/

Can We Please Move Here?

Seriously, just when I think New York City can not get any radder they go an do something even more amazing...
see for your self!
Tree Museum

and for somethings totally unrelated but equally rad

Deer Head Tutorial
and a diy makeup bag

Pink Lamp Shades and Hot Dogs

So I fell in love with adorable lamp at Apartmenttherapy.com



and decided to have a go at making my own... I bought two lamps at a garage sale this weekend, for four dollars a piece, they were silver and I decided that wouldnt do, so I painted them with an ivory color base and then painted the shades a bright shade of pink, because honestly I cant have enought of pink! They are still in process but I am getting there!



the thermastat says 90 and apparently the heating and air guys are coming sometime today... lets hope, because Monkey and Scoots are not happy!!

Sweating Like a Pig

Its 88 degrees in my apartment and I am sweating like a pig, oh air conditioning wont you please oh please with sugar on top start working?