Five Things Friday

1) Gilmore Girls....as in the complete set of dvd's. I have missed Lorelai and Rori (and Luke) since I haven't had cable to watch reruns. Now I can watch any episode I want whenever I want :-)

2) Having a dining room to eat in - I love having friends over and actually talking at dinner instead of being in front of the TV because there's nowhere else to sit and eat.

3) Getting things in the mail! Especially boxes of stuff. Not so much with the bills...but at least those are something in the mailbox. It makes me sad when the mailbox is empty.

4) Peanut butter and brown sugar sandwiches. Just try it, you'll see!

5) My little brown teapot stuffed with hot pink roses from my yard. I don't want them to stop blooming, they're so pretty!

Photoshop is My Friend

HA! I can't wait to print this and frame it for my room :-) I love me some photoshop, is that font not perfect for a 50-60's movie star!?

Five Things Friday: Garden Edition

I promise I will replace these pictures with the ones of the actual plants in my yard. That just involves getting home from work in time to catch daylight, which hasn't happened in a few days. That, and my hydrangeas haven't actually bloomed out yet but they're covered up in buds!! I can't wait :-)


1) Peachy yellow roses - this is sort of what mine look like. I was super excited when two of the bushes in my yard bloomed out to be my FAVORITE kind!!




2) Red Geraniums. McDonough is the geranium city, so these are everywhere. I like them anyway and both of my grandmothers always had pots of these on their front porches, so now I do too! Family tradition :-)



3) LOVE Impatiens. I got pink and white, but I think the place where I stuck some may be too sunny, we'll see...I can always move them up under the ginormous bush with big rose-like flowers that I keep forgetting the name of. Seriously...I'm losing it. I think it starts with a C? or a G?



4) I can't wait for my big hydrangea bushes to bloom...they're old and established and should be absolutely covered in blooms. I want to dry some, does anyone know if there's a way to help them hold their color?



5) I love funky flowers, I got a hanging basket of Fuschia like this for the porch. I need to find some more odd things to mix in with my traditional shrubs. Fortunately hanging baskets go on sale right after Mother's Day, I want to get some hot pink Bougainvillea too ;-)

Five Things Friday

Let's see...this week...short and sweet

1) Friends :-)

2) Cherry limeades

3) Strawberry tarts

4) Warm summer nights (ok, wishful thinking!)

5) Peachy yellow roses

Shoes!!

Since I saved so much money on the mattress set I had budgeted for (my goal was to stay around $800, but thanks to the card holder sale at Sears I was well under that!) I splurged on some new summer shoes. Mostly because I really don't need to wear plastic flipflops to work so often...or at least that's how I'm justifying it ;-) I'm totally into wedges this summer, so I ended up with these by American Eagle at Payless:



And these, which are the same brand as the turquoise ones I got last summer and still love :-)




I really wanted these too, but I'm also on a skirt kick this summer and I'm on the fence about wearing slingbacks with skirts...opinions?



Also, how STINKIN' CUTE are these?? I think I might have to go back and rescue them...I wear a lot of blue, so yellow is a good accent color :-)

Phoebe in Wonderland: Dare to Dream Your Life

"At a certain part in your life, probably when too much of it has gone by, you will open your eyes and see yourself for who you are. Especially for everything that made you so different from all the awful normals. And you will say to yourself, 'But I am this person.' And in that statement, that correction, there will be a kind of love."

Five Things Friday: I Fell Off the Wagon...Again...

Sorry folks, I'm lazy these days... Maybe I need to start posting every day so I won't make excuses.

Sooooo...here we go!

1) Snickerdoodles. Cinnamon + sugar cookie = delicious.

2) My mailbox. Where I grew up we had to go get the mail at the post office, so the idea that someone brings it to my house is still cool. Yes, I'm easily entertained.

3) This chocolate pie. Make it today, you won't be sorry. And yes, you really do have to beat it for five minutes between each egg, it's totally worth it. Also, go for the deep dish pie shell.

4) My kitchen sink



5) Unpacking boxes. I need to take a picture of my mountain of empty boxes, it makes me super happy!!