Minty

And I am talking about color again.  As usual, I am loving 

the cool minty blue. I picked up this SHEER vintage gem last week

and I must say it in the wrong hands it would be a disaster. 

Luckily, I found her and am continuing to love the soft neons and 

my always fave minty. 

With color in mind, I dusted off this sweet zip pouch tutorial...

though I mixed it up with some soft neon stencils and vintage giant 

ribbon. Fun fun!

Stencils from Stencil 1. Thanks Ame!

There's the mint!! Minty interior. 

And what would the minty blue melamine color be without

yet ANOTHER blue celebration cake appearance..

(from Susie Cakes)

Happy birthday godmom Mary! and Happy Belated Megan!

yes!

Here's to hoping that we can all design something 

as cute as these H&M dresses in Organic! fabric

for $19.99(well, a few of them).  Really. 

From the H&M Garden collection. 

Off to a shoporama... happy weekend!

Side note- I will post some info on the upcoming crafty 

class(April 24) on Monday to drum up some excitement for 

crafting in the name of yo mama. 

dirty secrets!

Well, not really a secret to anyone who knows me that I have a 'small'

problem throwing things away. It just so happens that I can see the 

simple beauty in just about anything and my house is full of nooks 

and crannies of small clusters and collections

(and so is my garage and closet).

And you know, despite the constant, daily badgering and mention of it

from all parties, I am still completely proud of the fact that 

I truly appreciate everything. 

Cue the mention of an amazing blog 'A Collection a Day'

from Artist Lisa Congdon, where she shows us one of her many 

collections each day, in part or in whole, real or imagined - imagined

she does in illustration. 

I love the word collector. It has such a positive connotation. 

I love how these photos make such simple subjects seem so interesting, 

truly glamorizing the collection of what some would call nonsense. 

Check out the entire collection..

pin cushions and prayer papers..

[All images from Lisa Congdon.]

So, I got to thinking about the collections that we have going in our 

household. My new nasty trick is Collecting in the name of my 

two year old daughter.. which, clearly leaves me blameless. 

Is anyone buying it? I didn't think so. 

Below, part of the vintage toy collection in the babe's room. 

And, Ava's already out of control snow globe collection. 

Girl's got a problem. 

Just to give you a small view into the genetics of a 'collector'..

Yes, collecting is definitely inherited. 

I was caught blushing at a few of Lisa Congdon's collections, 

as they remind me of some of my own. Well, some that were

started by family members that I still stand up for( to the bad people

threatening their safety in the garage. )

Match books from 'A Collection a Day'

My Grandfather's match books... these are amazing. 

My faves are the dozen or so match books from 1960's Las Vegas with 

Casino illustrations on them. 

Mini plastic animals from 'A Collection a Day'

Coffee cans full of 'small animals' and 'small planes and cars'

that used to reside in the downstairs closet... collected by my mom. 

There are some gems in here. 

I am going to start calling myself a collector. 

Collector has an amazing heart happy ring to it. 

dreamsicle

Deadbeat blogger here. Needed a couple days to work work work.

Current state is obsessed with this Americana/mod stewardess

color palette for fall winter. 

Rehashing Fall runway and keep coming back to the 

incredible Chanel show.  BTW, those are real icebergs in the

background. For the sake of faux fur abominable snow man suits, 

you need to watch this one. Oh, and for fabulous clothes( faux fur 

short shorts included.)

Some loverly red white and blue(and navy>>heart heart)...

1.) Vintage prints from top to bottom: 

twirl vintage, vintageT, stelmaddesigns.

2.) Dresses from Ramona West. 

3.) Amazing sweater style from Barefootandvintage. 

4.) Purse from ggiotta. 

And a little of this... I swear sometimes the cheesy just gets me. 

via sparklevintage. 

If you are looking for Easter cheer, this is about as good as it gets. 

This girls knows how to party and how to dress (sans shoes).

Happy Wednesday!

Happy Weekend

From our angry book reading rabbit to you..

Happy Easter!

Painting by Sweetie. 

i almost forgot!

Today is big Ringo's bday!!

Happy 11th birthday buddy!

Ringo is all growns up!

Then,(notice how the picture quality is growing too!) 

at a few weeks..

at the ripe age of 4..

and now. What a good sport!

easter yum!

Easter Scone boxes and Easter Jam!!

Time to pull out the fancy Martha Stewart 

treat boxes... AND, I just noticed there is a crazy

sale going on at Martha on these very treat boxes and 

all of the wonderful paper that dreams are

made of. Go here to buy some. Major! 

update: the sale is over and the paper products are gone!!

hopefully, Martha will put some new papers up soon!

Owl stamp from The Mayberry Sparrow. Never gets old! 

Susie was kind enough (and very patient) to bring a new baking

experience to the babe and share her 

awesome mini scone recipe with us!!

Yes, the rabbit took a bite too. 

Get Susie's fave scone recipe, from Judith Ryan Hendricks

'Bread Alone' , a fictional novel that includes 

yummy pastry recipes! below!