Archive for January, 2010

helping the hodges

Posted at January 21, 2010

. Starting today, the National Cartoonists Society Foundation (NCSF) will be launching a fund-raising auction of original art by America’s top cartoonists who donated their work to help one of their own in his time of need. In August of 2009, Matthew Hodge, the teenage son of former Disney and Veggie Tales artist Tim Hodge, [...]

artsy

lack of belly photos

Posted at January 20, 2010

I didn’t take weekly belly photos for a few reasons. First reason – I hate taking self-portraits, let alone 40 of them. Second reason – When I asked Mr. M to do it, I’d pout at the result and delete them and get hostile towards him for not telling me that I looked that bad. [...]

baby

where to find [insert house item here]

Posted at January 19, 2010

[source: Young House Love]. One of the most daunting tasks of being a homeowner is invariably making your home “yours.” When you’ve relied heavily on the style of IKEA or hand-me-downs… it’s hard to jump out of that box and find what YOU are really all about. Sometimes you can find it in the pages [...]

homey

holiday tea

Posted at January 18, 2010

.Allegedly the sound I hear beating against the window pane is just El Nino stopping by to say, “Hello!” to California. And if we’re in for the super wet winter that everyone is projecting, I’d like to start more of my mornings like today’s holiday celebration. Sweatshirt, yoga pants, slippers and a hot pot of [...]

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saturday night in catan

Posted at January 17, 2010

.We’re wild and crazy people who like to spend their rainy Saturday nights indoors eating home-cooked food, drinking fun cocktails (mocktails for me), snacking on chocolate goodies, and rolling dice. Yeah yeah… we’re a couple that likes to live on the edge and play weekend matches of Settlers of Catan. . .Some of us take [...]

wacky

that’s some pig

Posted at January 16, 2010

.No offense Memphis and Basseterre… but “if” I were a celebrity lucky enough to stop by the swag suites for the Golden Globes… I’d totally be picking myself up a free mini pig and we’d expand the home to a puppy/bunny/piggie habitat. Good thing that I’m far away from Wilshire Blvd right now….