New Year :)

I don't know about you but I'm looking forward to 2011!   2011 will be my last year in my 20s!  It's also going to be 5 years of marriage in March :)  We have our trip to Disney in October and T's 4th birthday!  I have some photo shoots planned and hopefully my business will continue to grow. I'm not making any resolutions-- just...

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Blondes don't have more fun

I dyed my hair dark brown... I decided I'm not high maintenance and didn't want to keep spending money highlighting my hair.  I have to fix the color a bit tomorrow because apparently I have a lot of hair and one box was not enough to cover all of it... thus I have a streak or two left ;)Oh and if you look at the side of the blog you'll see a...

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Remind me again...

in the spring when I'm going crazy with my TWO grad classes... that I was the one that signed up for them.     K.  Than...

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Christmas Menu

I know you're going to be jealous of my menu ;)arroz con gandules (rice with pigeon peas)lechón asado (roast pork... though not authentic because I got it boneless and skinless)pasteles (green banana meat stuffed pastries?? Not sure how else to describe it)tostones (twice fried green plantains)Only thing missing is my morcilla (blood sausage) but can't...

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Count Your Blessings Tuesday

Today I am grateful for:energy.  I have NO idea how it is that I stay up until midnight and get up at 6am and still function.  having almost everything crossed off my to-do list.  creativity.  I love being able to create things that don't look like a two year old made it :)getting into the spirit of the season which is GIVING.  I...

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All kinds of crafty

This weekend I've delved in many different crafty endeavors.  I:baked and decorated gingerbread cookies baked a cake for more cake trufflesmade Tootsie the owl made "Reindeer Food"cut out all the pieces to make T his own owl which does not have a name yet...Check out the owl for T!  I love him!  He's made out of a stretchy...

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Meet Tootsie

Yeah, I name my sewing projects.  I made this little owl for somebody who is having a baby soon.  My sewing skills are not up to par with S and C but I think it turned out pretty cute!The pattern called for feet but I didn't think they would look cute... I added the belly panel instead.  If you want to make it too, check out the website...

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Allowing myself a non grateful post...

This is why today sucked:my uncle passed away this morning from cancer.  While I know he's no longer in pain, he was an awesome person and I'm mad that he was taken away from this world.school made a bad call today in not closing early.  My commute was horrendous and my car slid all around the road... no fun.my prof. asked us to revise all...

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100+ treats

My unexpected day at home was not unproductive.  I made over 100 treats and bagged them... 47 bags of treats to be exact!  I made:       - chocolate fudge cake with chocolate icing dipped in dark mint chocolate with green vanilla swirl       - chocolate fudge cake with chocolate icing dipped in milk...

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Count Your Blessings Tuesday

Today I am grateful for:hot chocolate + car + Christmas lights an awesome anniversary celebration with Cevenings at home with the three best cuddlers out there (C, T and D..the dog)getting to know part of my department a bit better with our new "girls nights" my budding photographerChristmas craft time with Tthe new treadmill and making an...

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Best Present

This is being delivered Thursday.  It's our gift to ourselves for 2010... Merry Christmas, happy birthday and any other thing ;)  Goal is at least 30 min a day every day.  No excuses. &nb...

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C + M

Today C and I had our 10 year anniversary celebration day.  We celebrated by going to the Walters Art Gallery and Fogo de Chao.  We also hit up a few stores in our travels during the day.To see some cool photos of the Walters, click here. Here are a few highlights of the 150 photos I took today.....

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Little Baby Buggy Box

                     Acest carucior a fost o comanda  pentru un cadou . Comanda era de fapt o cutie pentru o bijuterie pentru un bebelus. De mult ma batea gandul sa incerc si eu sa fac un carucior de bebe. Chiar daca pare complicat, va asigur ca nu este.        ...

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I can laugh now...

but I really just wanted to cry when I got through stuffing my Christmas cards into the nicely addressed and decorated envelopes and noticed that in the cards I designed, I misspelled "Holidays."  Yup, I lied... I did have time to design my own cards-- WITH THE WRONG SPELLING! I can't believe I missed that... and C missed it too!  UGH!"Happy...

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I never post on Tuesdays...

Maybe I should change it to "whenever I feel like counting my blessings".  Any day is a good day to think about what you're grateful for, right?Today I am grateful for:cuddle time with C and passing out on the couch ;)going out on an errand and ending up driving around looking at Christmas lights before heading homemy parents.  I hope they...

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So many choices! What to do, what to do!?

In the past I've had to resort to creating my own Christmas card design on Photoshop and had it printed through my photo lab because I couldn't find cards cute enough.  I don't have enough time this year to devote to my holiday card design so I found myself searching elsewhere for cards to suit my taste. Well Shutterfly sure has outdone itself...

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Highly Productive Saturday

This is the first Saturday that I've been home!  I got to sleep in thanks to my awesome hubby, got some lunch (yeah.. that much sleeping in!) and headed to IKEA to get said awesome hubby the desk and chair he has been wanting.  I put together the desk, drawer set and chair all by myself :)  I purged and re-organized the office area in...

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Change of plans

So I originally planned to go out with C on Saturday-- even lined up a babysitter for the day but I decided to postpone our celebration until next weekend.  I've been so stressed over my grad project and have had no time to clean, do laundry or go grocery shopping.  Last weekend we were in Jersey so nothing got done then either.  I just...

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Alone

Today I was talking to my Mom and asked her when Dad was going to let me borrow her (he actually told me she could come see me) and she said that she couldn't... that she can't leave Dad alone.  She then passed the phone to Dad who proposed to me that instead of having her come to me, we could all go on a cruise... the whole fam. I lost it then......

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Christmas it's  the most wonderful time in the year!        Quillingul m-a ajutat in  acest an sa nu imi mai reinnoiesc stocul de ornamente pentru pom. Ba dimpotriva, am avut chiar in plus. Aceste ornamente ofera mai multe posibilitati. Ornamente pentru pomul tau, pentru pomul rudelor tale sau ornamente...

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