found here: lucy and ellen, the vintage mistress, sofralma, kit n' kaboodle vintage.
now, off the subject of birds and onto weather. i have to share because it was just so insane! yesterday it rained all day long, and it was so dark and foggy that i had to have a lamp on from the time i got up, otherwise i couldn't see what i was doing. at about 10:00 last night, as i was facebook stalking and chris was playing a video game, we heard what we thought was rain. it sounded like it was coming down so hard that it was going to break through the windows. believe me, i'm not the type that gets scared over storms or other crazy weather, but we had NEVER heard rain like that! chris went to look out of the front door and discovered that it wasn't rain at all, it was hail! and it was coming down so hard that you could barely see, and what we could see was that our yard was completely white from ice. is was nuts! did anyone else have that sort of weather yesterday?
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set bread machine to 1.5lb loaf, white bread setting, light color. add these ingredients:
i'm so painfully shy that i even feel weird when chris takes my picture. that's why i look like i do there. i really love the dress. i'm not allowed to wear jeans to work (which sucks, especially since all of my clients wear jeans and wouldn't be offended if i did), so i pretty much wear dresses year round. i like to look for dresses that work in the miserable summer heat, but still look cute with leggings, scarves, coats and boots in the winter. this one passes the four seasons test!
poor little native american man has a bad hair day, and i think he may be a little bit of a creeper. still, i think he's oddly cute. and because i'm now certifiably cat crazy, i just couldn't resist this sweet little planter. i mean, who doesn't love a yellow kitty playing with a giant ball of yarn?!?
last, and best of all, is The Chair. i love it so much i even capitalized its name! this is the one thing i'm SO glad micaela talked me into buying, because if i'd come home sans Chair, i probably would have cried. well, probably not, but maybe, thanks to my lady hormones. anyway, i told her that when chris saw it, he'd probably say, "what do you need a tiny Chair for???" but because chris is baby crazy and can't wait to be a dad, i'd say, "one day we'll have a kid, and they can sit in it," and then he'd like it. he did ask me what i needed with that Chair, and i explained all the reasons micaela gave me to support owning The Chair, and the things i could set on it. so, clearly he had to understand. but the real fun came when i told him what my plan was. since chris is 6'2" and The Chair is about 1' tall, i told him that it would be hilarious if he sat in it for a picture to go in this blog post! so he sat in The Tiny Chair, then i gave him a tiny book to read and we died laughing. it was so hilarious that i thought i'd wet my pants. so after we finally stopped laughing, chris did something to pick on me, and i told him to be careful or he'd have to go sit in The Timeout Chair. then the laughing started again. i can see The Chair will bring us lots and lots of joy, so thanks, micaela! and i've already decided that it will be mandatory for people who come to visit me have their picture taken in my tiny timeout Chair.
whew, i feel like i did a lot of rambling! anyway, i hope you've had a good weekend so far, and i hope you have a good monday!
i've been making rings like crazy as i have a lot of stones that are awkward shapes and sizes, which make them less than ideal for putting in a custom setting and using as a pendant. i've also been making a lot of bullet and feather earrings. i don't actually wear earrings (aside from a tiny pair of studs) because flojo always pulls them out, but i've really started to LOVE making them, and sometimes it seems the only ideas i have are for earrings. 
that's right, there is now a