So, I’ve been declaring my good intentions for a while now.  I say to people, “I’m going to start posting recipes on the blog because everyone [including me] is always looking for good ‘keepers’.”  Today I’m actually going to post one!  I remembered to take pics and everything!  I know.  You’re pumped, right?  Because what

I love quirky.  Maybe even some weird.  I do.  I can’t help it. So yesterday when I was perusing Etsy in search of the perfect light fixture to go over our dining room table and stumbled across this bad boy – As seen at Designsponge.com I found myself smitten!  I mean, I recognize that they’re

“I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I’ve never been able to believe it. I don’t believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.”  -Anne of Green Gables  I am choosing colors for Miss Magnificent’s

Okay, so remember how I told you about the brilliantly creative Emily at jonesdesigncompany.com who I discovered in the middle of one of Miss Magnificent’s all nighters?  Well, she’s doing a giveaway.  A rock your dern socks off give you some SERIOUSLY cute, free stuff giveaway.  And I all kinds of want to win it. 

Miss Magnificent and myself have been spending some serious time together lately.  I would say ten, almost eleven months, of together time is enough to make two people grow tired of each other.  But we have not.  Because we cannot.  We are joined together until she turns eighteen and leaves me standing in the dust