a less than brilliant plan

As it is my semester break and I have FIVE WEEKS off, I decided to pick up a little side job, temporarily, to make some extra cash. Today I work my last shift at Anthropologie, my favorite store. I have always LOVED this place, just wandering through for hours looking at all the lovely things. UUGGHH. Not the same as working retail over the Christmas holiday... which has turned in to a complete NIGHTMARE. Lesson learned. NOT. A. RETAIL. GIRL.

let the baking BEGIN

best recipe archive ever, from Gourmet magazine

SURPRISE!

this picture sums it up.... my first and best ever SURPRISE PARTY, thrown by my most incredible friends. Nice cake, no?!

running the Richmond 1/2 marathon

my mom and I ran the RIchmond 1/2 marathon a few weeks ago... here are some good pics from that day. (I ran with my camera - it was much easier than I had anticipated.) There are the cheerleaders... anyone that has run a big race will remember how AWESOME it is to have cheerleaders out there. They rock, they give off TONS of energy, I love them. Then there was the couple that ran the entire race holding hands! So intense. I think she had breast cancer, and I could barely look at them without tearing up. Thats some serious PDA.

the cutest S & P shakers ever

that's them, hugging

wedding gift (N&N)

still life - fall wedding

CONGRATULATIONS, Mr. President!

yes. we. can. CHANGE!

ajax sunbathing

me & my shadow

...just 4 fun

iron gazebo

i am in love this this thing.

tis the season: pumpkin bread

fall leaves

breakfast

crinoline flowers

I am really excited about these photos by Daryl Banks, how cool, he made flowers out of skirts and legs.

another cat lover

This piece was found on a shelf of kids work in the ceramics studio.... another cat lover, SIGH.

Jungle Mia

TV dinner cupcakes?

underwater portrait

this would be the coolest coffee table book! a collection of your friends and families underwater portraits. I love that blue....

my new exhaust system

with all the incredible things out there to spend money on, lovely dresses, shoes, carpeting, delicious food, road trips... you get the idea. Yup - I am about to drop all my cash on a new one of these. tough times.

3191, a year of evenings

another design blog that i adore, by stephanie and mav, two friends that live on opposite sides of the country and combine their photos to make these lovely diptychs.

Paul Newman (beautiful)

fridge collage

sketchbook days are good days

and we can all use more good days.

I just love this photo - SINK

ajax is enormous

Latchum wedding

we were in the Outer Banks this weekend for a wedding, it was BEAUTIFUL. There just happened to be a schooner from the 1700's left on shore from the last storm - pretty incredible. Here is: the wedding site, Anabel running, and the schooner.

demolition derby

this weekend is the demolition derby at the VA state fair. I fell in love with a derby driver last year, and I will be back this year for some more. These pics are from last years derby.

boobcake

this has got to be my favorite cake, ever.

studio pix

i am doing a project for print class that involves ceramics studios. it's bringing me back to the old studio days of clay and glaze, what a dramatic difference that was to working with a computer...

loops

since when do extension cords have so much fun?

virginia house

there is an 17th century mansion, the virginia house, about a half mile from my house. it has an exquisite english garden out back, full of flowers whose seeds & vines are hundreds of years old, fountains, frogs, deer, groundhogs, I've even seen a bald eagle circling over head. i've truly fallen in love with this magical place, just wanted to share in photos.

terrain

i made it up to Philly to see the celebrated Terrain store (by Urban Outfitters/Anthropologie). while it was unique and beautiful, i was not entirely blown away by my experience! i felt it was smaller than advertised. they must have included the parking lot in the acreage. any-who, i am a more complete person having been there - it is almost entirely outside, pretty unusual for any retail space.

mom's floor

september

september already, and schools back in session. i had forgotten about hours and hours of homework, yikes!

still life in living room