fly, fly away: an outfit post

you won't see me wearing jeans often, and that's because i don't like them and they don't like me. genetics deprived me of the highly-coveted twig thighs, and because of that i always think jeans make me look ridiculous. but sometimes i'm just too lazy to shave my legs so it's a jean day whether i like it or not. sometimes it's also a good day to pretend you're a bird (translation: if you're prone to falling, like me, just play it off like you've got wings and are flying) and maybe people won't recognize you're actually clumsy as show in exhibit a:

sweater: target, bird blouse: vintage/gift from beca, belt: vintage/thrifted, jeans: target, boots: vintage/thrifted

yes, i was actually falling in the first picture, but it looks like i was just enjoying a day of flapping, right? i thought it only fitting seeing as how i was wearing a shirt covered in birds. speaking of that shirt, i got a package from my good pal beca, and in it was that awesome shirt, plus an AMAZING pair of sunglasses from the tumbleweeds new spring line! i cartwheeled and air punched for hours after opening it, because how much better can a package get?!

so how was your weekend? mine was really nice. chris was gone from about 6am to 10pm on saturday which meant i had the house all to myself; the perfect setting for watercolor painting and singing songs from grease. on sunday we did what we always do when we have date day: we ate too much, then followed it up with an unhealthy dose of eating some more. we also planned where we're going next week for lunch, and my mouth is already watering thinking about the roasted red pepper humus. now you can see why i'm so anal about staying on schedule with running.

i hope you're having a nice start to your week, and to make it a little brighter, be sure to enter yourself to win the $25 gift card giveaway before it ends on wednesday!

i got rocks, gifts from a friend, i have no brain, etc.

First off, I now have 52 followers and I wanted to thank all of you for reading and commenting on my blog. As a little treat, I'll be doing another giveaway reserved only for followers really soon!

I have no real direction with this post, so I'll just let my fingers do the work since I'm questioning whether or not I even have a brain today. Aside from forgetting nearly everything I needed to tell Chris this morning, I called the weather line instead of my husband, and I walked elbow first into a door jam. Ugh, geez. No bruise (yet), but man does it ever hurt!!!

One good thing to come out of the day so far is my trip to The Rock Garden. It's where I go to get all the pretty stones I use in my bullet necklaces. The guy that owns it is super nice, and he even gives me free stones or a discount when I go!

I got aquamarine, tourmaline, amethyst and yellow topaz today. Now I just need to do a little target practice (the only thing hurt during shooting is my husband's ego since I'm a better shot) and drilling so I'll be able to use my new stones.

I've seen a few blogs lately with top music picks, so I figured I'd be a copycat and share some of my current favorite music in the form of mp3's so you could steal it if you wished, but my dang FTP client isn't working like it should, so I could only upload one song! Hopefully I can get them on here tomorrow.

I got a super sweet package today from my friend Christin, and I can't wait to work on projects that incorporate some of these little treasures! I've never actually met Christin in person, but we've gotten to know each other really well through Etsy and Facebook, and I have to say, no matter what terrible things people may say about the internet, I've met some of the sweetest people on here that I wouldn't have had the pleasure of getting to know otherwise.

I saw a picture of her sister wearing a bird pendant (in the first photo), so she made me my very own, but the best and most special piece of all is the turtle necklace. We share a deep love of turtles and run through traffic like maniacs to save them. She even got in some trouble once when her car was blocking traffic while she tried to help a sea turtle (bigger than her) out of the road!

Her package today made me think of something we, as bloggers and internet friends, could do for one another. I'm not going to spill the beans just yet because this post is already LONG enough, but I promise I'll let you in on my little idea tomorrow! Chris will be gone all morning, afternoon, and part of the night, so I'll have plenty of time to clean, blog, and jump on the trampoline! Come back then!

One last thing. Brandi at mucho mucho bueno bueno is having a pretty awesome giveaway, so go visit her blog and enter, or don't since I want to win it!