Wanna win it...

I love jewelry. And I love jewelry that no one else has. Something that's interesting with texture. Kayce Hughes is giving away one of her necklaces over on her blog.


Know what else I love? I love that the world seems tinier because of blogs. I was LITERALLY last night re-reading my April 2010 Country Living magazine and Kayce and her family's home was featured. I had a few of their pages folded down for future reference. This morning there's this post...small, small world.

L.O.V.E...

My husband is a genius. I'm loving our new front door. Now we need to change the sidelites, perhaps get a storm door before it gets stormy, apply trim, decide on a door color, paint the house...blah, blah, blah. But hey, this is a start!

What i'm wearing this fall...

Maybe I should say "what i'm buying this fall." I've purchased a few things that I haven't been able to wear simply because it's been too warm. But here's what i've got sitting in my closet so far:

Old Navy

Old Navy

Target

Target

Target

Piperlime

Old Navy

Old Navy

Target

Target

PLUS...

Yep, this is from Target too...

My cute target bag that I bought as a diaper bag-turned-purse three years ago has handles that are ripping. They are literally hanging on by threads. I'm ashamed to even be carrying it around it's in such bad shape. So this is what i'm going with. I'm thinking i'll also do something in either silver or a darker gray. I plan on having a plum or peacock wool coat (time for something besides black) and think the orange will work with either one. Maybe this one:

J Crew

So what are you wearing this fall?

Wowee...

I can safely say that that was one hell of a summer! From getting our house ready to sell, to buying the new one, starting renovations on it, getting over the emotional roller coaster of moving and saying goodbye to our old place...it was a crazy 3 months! Make that 4 months! Baby Kara arrived in June (see my previous post) and she's one beautiful girl. Our house is coming along and we're so busy that it may be a while before I post anything about the remodel (which I had hoped to do as we were in the process). Suffice it to say that we've ripped out floors, painted 12 foot ceilings, fixed a leaking chimney, measured for doors, measured for blinds, installed carpet, measured for kitchen islands, painted, painted, and painted some more. Soon, very soon, I will start on the new blog. Then i'll have to rely on the dates on the photos to know when we did what. Over the short summer I lost my focus on exercising and eating right. I keep telling myself that it's okay, I had an excuse. But you know what? I HATE excuses! So no more of those, I am doing Weight Watchers again. This is how I lost 22 pounds 10 years ago. Now i've had two kids and sit on my rear for work a LOT. My goal this time is to lose 21.9 pounds. I'd like to do it by Thanksgiving, we'll see what happens! Just for fun here's some pics of the boys (and Max's friend Jaidyn) at the fair in July:

One final note, it's September and we've got a Thunderstorm Warning here and a Tornado Watch north of us. What's up with that?

Nine more weeks...

My beautiful sister-in-law is having her first baby (a girl!) in about nine weeks. This past weekend we had her baby shower and took some time to get some pregnancy photos. I call her Mego Prego (not to her face of course)...but really her name is Megan.

I hope to get some more of her, and maybe her good-lookin' husband too, before the little one gets here in June. Thanks for letting me practice Meg!

Argh...

Please remind me to never buy a house again. And to never buy a house until mine is sold. I'm frustrated and scared and this is all after the elation that I felt on Monday night that we had actually done it...and without a realtor. All of our hard work and extra money was going to belong to us. But as of today (yep, three days later) they haven't signed the contract. His wife needs "convincing." That doesn't sound very good to me. Does it sound very good to you? Every single penny that we have is going to the closing of the new house on June 1. No lie. And if we don't get this house sold, I don't know what we'll do. Back to praying I guess...

160.4 (just in case you were curious).

This would be awesome...

(image from cameraimage)

Rachel B has a fantastic giveaway on her blog! She's giving away an actual Polaroid. Oh my, if 5 years ago I had known I would want one, I would have grabbed Ryan's grandmother's at her estate sale. But I didn't know. I didn't know i'd turn to photography as a hobby and I certainly didn't know that I would want to try to get creative with a Polaroid! But as luck would have it, I stumbled upon Rachel B's blog a month or so ago and have fallen in love! What a fun new challenge. So she's giving one away here and cross my fingers, i'll win!! You should try too, and give it to me for Mother's Day or something! Hee hee!

Have a great weekend!