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time for home to enjoy a sample sale

The next online sample sale site has opened up… and it’s all about home decor. I’ve signed up to see what it’s all about, and if the 50-75% will pay off in the end!
If you’d [...]

weddings ruined colored candy for me

That’s right. Weddings ruined colored candy for me. Perhaps I shouldn’t lay all of the blame on weddings, but rather just the idea of a candy buffet. Normal candies transformed into wondrous displays of color… all yellows, or greens, or reds… And now for some reason I have an insane wanting to color separate all [...]

urge for color

I’m having a pretty crazy busy wacky day. In fact, this year has so far been following this pattern, and I’m really looking forward to our vacation in two weeks.
To illustrate how crazy I am… I’m lusting after
these cords right now. Maybe it’s just the price ($19.99), but I’m seriously drooling over them. After I [...]

Retreating

I’m off eating apricots and retreating for the day in the hills. I hope you get to enjoy your Veteran’s Day as well!

gilt-y for the first time

So I went ahead and did it… I made my first Gilt purchase last week. I have a wedding to attend next week, and when I saw this Cynthia Rowley dress… I knew it was perfect. I’ve long been a fan of the cut-out-shoulder look since Julia Roberts sported it in Notting Hill when her [...]

stopping to smell the roses

Some days, my work takes me on a walk past the rose gardens at the state capitol. Sometimes I’m walking briskly since I left a minute too late for my meeting/appointment, and other times I get to take my time and find a few blooms to sniff.
Today, I spent about five extra minutes meandering the [...]