Mantra Monday: Alligator!

(Technically this is not a mantra... but hey.  It made me smile)

Mantra Monday: Don't Forget to Play

Also, check out Marc Johns' work here!  Great stuff.

Blog Gawker Sunday: Her New Leaf

Meet Her New Leaf.

ALKFJLSKJEIFAH!

May I just say I am gawking her like everysingledayever since I discovered her wildly inspiring self?

I pretty much am.

So here's her blog and of course the first thing I do on a new blog I love is check out the DIY/Project section which is totally nifty and amazing (check out her painted mug and braided neck shirt tutorials!)

Kira just seems so sweet and nice and she lives in VENICE so even if she didn't have stinkin' awesome blogging skills she'd still have more cool points than me.

She also blogs about blogging a lot, which is superhandy and full of tips for beginning bloggers (such as yours truly)  

Hop on over there and drink in the stupendousness of it all!

Excited for the half marathon, crafty wonderfulness, and PO-TAY-TOES

One, I  have just been perusing the half marathon website.

For the heck of it.

I'MSOEXCITEDAAH!

but now that that's out of the way, I've got lots of other stuff to blog about.  For example, this nifty way to make boiled eggs.  Only you don't boil them, you bake them.  And you can make like, a gazillion and a half at once.  Great tip, especially if you're making copious amounts of devilled eggs for a family reunion or something.

Also in the food department, my dad picked up a giant back of potatoes from Walmart last night and I've been thinking about roasting some of them.

This picture has me cracking up today... totally the story of my life dress the past couple weeks.

I might actually attempt makeup, having seen this beautiful specimen of a simple smoky eye.  No idea if I cam actually pull it off, but hey.  I can try, right? {P.S.--check out The Beauty Department blog!}

I'm liking this wall art idea, as well as this paint chip art -- I'm thinking I have some crafting to do the next few days.

 

I might have to make an epic crocheted blanket like this while I'm at it too, and maybe put a wocket in the back of my jeans pocket. 

Blog Gawker Sunday: 366 Random Acts of Kindness

So I think this is an amazing idea:

This sweet lady is blogging about her yearlong journey through performing 366 (It's a leapyear, folks) random acts of kindness.

LOVE IT.

She is totally not the kind of person that's like...

"ohmygoshhhhhh look how NICE I am, aren't I great, don't you just LOVE me..." She's just awesome and doing all these random kind things for people.

And she just has great ideas in general, such as becoming a sick kid's pen pal or answering trivia to feed hungry people.

By the way, her name is Ryan.

Hop on over to her blog and do something kind today!
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big giant correction!
Ryan, I'm so sorry!
read his comment, folks: "Thank you so much for the post! I wanted to clear up a little confusion though. Ryan (me) is a man, and Lindsey (the woman in the pic with my daughter) is my wife."


sooooo actually it's still Ryan, but he's a man.  And that darling lady up there is his wife.


one day I'll be a cool mom and wife who DOESN'T make epic fails like this.

Mantra Monday

Stuff that's blowing my mind today

Happy Saturday, folks!

So today Pinterest, Craftgawker and the like all seem to be hopping with inspiring ideas.

Or maybe it's just me being in a super-easily-inspireable mood.

Either way.

Okay, so my first blowing-my-mind thing (am I overusing dashes today?  hmm.  Just call me Dasher I suppose.  You can be Rudolph or Prancer or Comet or Vixen or any of those, if you like) today is this.

She embarked on a project to fill 365 jars all full of some kind of artsy something or other and release them off into the wild to be found by passerby.

HOWCOOLISTHAT!!!!!!!!!!

thing two:

Thank you, Duitang for giving me this lovely hair idea.  The model and her hair remind me of Meg Ryan back in her long hair, Sleepless in Seattle days.  I need to watch that movie again...

This Clickin Moms article on how to create your own home photography studio -- Super handy dandy!  But not as handy dandy as Steve's notebook, of course.  Is Steve even the name of the Blue's Clues guy any more?  Is Blue's Clues still even on?

Oh good gracious, a world of youth living without Blue's Clues...  That's a scary thought.

This shirt.

Just... yes.

I love whoever came up with it.

I'd Have to Agree

'nuf said.

Awesome Stuff of the Day

I keep running across cool stuff today, like this pool porch (random Pinterest find -- no URL or anything.  It's probably a photoshopped scam, but if I say that a fairy will probably die or something - or DHEC will make a rule against porch pools - So I'll just say isn't that AWESOME???

Then I was gawking Inspired to Share's post on treehouses.  One day, I will sleep in a treehouse.  Somehow.

Then I ate an avocado and licked the pit clean.

superdelish, y'all.

Then I came upon Loops of Lavender, a lovely blog of loveliness.  Check her out!

And finally, I heard that McDonald's small frappes are a buck each till the 26th.

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!

happy Tuesday, folks! :)

B-A-N-A-N-A

Confession: 

I have to pause for a second every time I

spell 'banana' (pause) to make sure I don't 

just keep going and going like this:

banananananananananananana.

That's all.

Oh, and PS -- look at this bananananana art!

ValenScrooge

I'm a bit of a Valentine's scrooge.

'Nuf said.

However, though I've said enough, I'm going to keep blabbering on about how stupid Valentine's day because I love to bore you just ramble like that.

It's not that I'm alone or that my boyfriend isn't perfectly wonderful.

Because I'm not.

And he is.

But there's just something about so many people not having what I have that makes me dislike Valentine's Day very much.  That, and all the massive quantities of pink and chocolate. 

Bleh.