this month...

1. scotty melted my heart with my favorite little boy.

2. i visited my dear dear friends in oly.

3. we found the inspiration for our ugly little house.

4. nikki gave birth to beautiful baby elizabeth.

5. this is what i wake up to. huntley is such a creep.

6. annie is full of maebel.

7. nice weather promoted walks to dinner. which is always nice.

8. we can see (sorta) the sunset from our backyard.

9. and unfortunately our house still looks like this.

at least i am attempting to attempt this

i bit the bullet... and after an embarrassing amount of time blogging about again and again and looking for chevron print curtain panels or rugs or anything striped... i just bought the fabric and will make curtain panels myself. the fact that i had told myself for the last two months that it would be SOOOOOOOooooOOOOOooooOOOoo expensive to buy the fabric at joanns and i would have to just accept it and spend $100 per panel.... it turns out it costs nothing to buy. and they ship within 48 hours. and its also on sale.

and it will also make me feel good to make my own. and im not even sure that i want chevron print curtain panels. so, since i am incapable of making decisions. i bit a cheap bullet and bought 3 yards each of these two fabrics...

thoughts? i want to like the brown and cream one. but i think our tiny little house would most benefit from a softer shade...

oh who the heck even knows anymore...

another good weekend. another good week.

so why the heck am i am so dang tired?

almost done with the guest bathroom... i came two seconds away from taking my FIRST bath in it last night (what the heck is taking me so long...?) but my severe sunburn prevented me.

here is the bathroom:

courtney and mikey came to palm desert from olympia for the week... so we trekked over for the weeked. huntley was so good in the car... and the whole weekend really...

we ate a LOT. layed out by the pool. got sunburned. played with huntley in the pool and with the hose. went to bruch. oh, and i got an iphone app that turns your face fat. we had wayyyy too much fun with it.

bahahahahahaha.

kickball game tonight. bridal shower this weekend. sea world on sunday. life is sweet.

reason # 19298474849302 why i love my job

new diy-ish projects.

1. our backyard. all we want is: curtains/drapy-ness, grass, concrete, firepit, long bench like table... is that too much to ask?

2. i want to make this shelf for... i dont know where, but i will find a spot.

3. scotty has tons of pallets stored in his wharehouse. he sells the pallets to some guys who pick them up for 50 cents a piece. since i basically own the company (ha, right), i will make the executive decision to NOT sell one pallet ( i feel comfortable taking charge on a 50 cent loss). and instead we will take one pallet home, stain it "whitewash", add wheels, and then sit and enjoy. seriously- how cute is this..?:

4. kitchen table. right now we have a round glass table. it is cute. but it prevents feasts. instead we will use this tutorial and make a table that looks like this:

or this:

or a mix in between. and then we can have more than one couple over for dinner. and all have room to use our hands when we talk. and be happy.

we are out of town this weekend. so we will see how long it takes for me to do even one of these projects.

my "blog-worthy" competitor:

its audra.

check out the birthday dinner she "designed" last sunday.

food- out of control.

company- eclectic as hell but lovely.

ambiance- too nice.

entertainment: seeing grown men dance on the kinect to lady gaga is one of the biggest joys.

aside from me screwing up the cake and being too out of my mind throwing a shower that i forgot to call my oldest and dearest friend on her birthday-

i think this was her best birthday to date.

one thing is a fact: it was her classiest. i love yuppy dinner parties.

baby shower & i heart olympia.

if you would have told me five years ago that i would be homesick for olympia i would have said no way, no how. but alas, it is true. i had a GREAT weekend there. and i am already homesick.

we threw a baby shower for annie. it was so much fun and to toot my own horn- we did a great great job! we ran around like crazy, but it was so worth it.

from the yummy menu-

tomato basil soup

mini grilled gruyere and smoked cheddar cheese sammys with prosciotto and chorizo. drool.

to the decor- a little flag banner that i made with scrapbook paper and twine that could not have turned out any cuter. to annies baby clothes hanging from clothes pins. to these amazing yellow flower poofs i found at the party store. so. cute.

to the dessert- um, cute sprinkled pink donuts on a cute cakestand? with jars of colorful candy all over. with the cutest table cloth of all time. so. cute.

to the guest of honor- annie is glowing and couldnt have been a cuter or more gracious momma. love. her.

here are some "hip" pics:

clockwise: 1. mini grilled cheeses, piled high. with yummy fig and strawberry jams to make them even yummy-er. and adding cute little signs to things took me like 10 extra minutes and made it just so much cuter. 2. the dessert area. mad hatter tea party-esque. 3. annie's boots from when she was a little nugget. 4. the stupid diaper cake my mom and i made that i lugged up to washington. not my finest decision, but kind of worth it.

regular pics:

and then to top off a beautiful day- why NOT have a wig party and drink a tad too much with your favorite people? why not?

great great weekend.