I wish I could claim this excellent creation as my own, but I would be a big fat liar. My brother Nick made this huge (and delicious) pumpkin cake from scratch, using two bunt cakes stacked on top of one another. It was my sisterly duty to each three slices... not all at once, but one with breakfast, lunch and dinner.
This, however, is all mine! The very first pumpkin I've carved solo, and I'm overly proud of it. I wanted something that was more "Fall" than "Halloween"so I could keep it for a few weeks. It looks pretty cute all lit up on my dining room table, in my biased opinion.
But making a pair of ruby slippers was my big undertaking of the Halloween season. I started with a pair of plain red shoes from Walmart, and added spray-on glue, a few layers of chunky red glitter and finished them off with clear acrylic sealant. Voilà!
A big name for this microscopic miracle of nature. October 20, 9:00 PM, Fajardo, Puerto Rico it — except that we did get a good laugh out of how remarkably bad some couples were at paddling a kayak.
It was incredible... something Walt Disney could have dreamed up... except it was so much better, because it was real.[I couldn't bring my camera because by the end the trip we were soaked. I've patched together a few visuals, courtesy of Google and YouTube, but unfortunately they don't do it justice.]
A giant GRACIAS to my Aunt Pam and Uncle Kurt, who gave us their timeshare week at a clearance-rack price. They'd tell you that I owe them tons of hours of babysitting, but I never signed any official agreement ;)
Ryan and I will rendezvous at Hartsfield-Jackson tomorrow morning and head for San Juan. Be back next week! Until then — peace, love & go dawgs.
I am: female, 30, yankee born, dixie raised, living in the midwest, writing a memoir, & chronically seeking adventure.
I have: a tendency to be dramatic, a husband who is far from dramatic, a loud and lovable family, friends I would lie down in traffic for, & a killer sweet tooth.
I write: for practice, for sanity, & to capture the everyday things that make me grateful.
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finding the perfect names for things (hence, the name of this blog)
the desert
the ocean
adventures
cranberry sauce
dental floss
decorating on a budget
yoga
all things country western
campfires
the smell of fall
canyoneering
counting crows
apple picking
road trips
steinbeck
friday night lights
state fairs
telephone poles
third eye blind
recycling
train tracks
reading lots (and lots) of literature
skiing
city skylines
writing poetry
collecting quotes
black coffee
georgia football
cannoli, especially from little italy
christmas traditions
boiled peanuts
sweet tea
watching classic movies
olives
quotes i [try to] live by
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other." -Mother Teresa
"Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the universe loves nothing so much as to change things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be." -Marcus Aurelius
"God sells us all things at the price of the labor." -Leonardo da Vinci
"And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should." -Desiderata
"Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned..." -St. Francis
"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle." -Einstein
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." -Vince Lombardi
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." -Marcel Proust
I wish I could claim this excellent creation as my own, but I would be a big fat liar. My brother Nick made this huge (and delicious) pumpkin cake from scratch, using two bunt cakes stacked on top of one another. It was my sisterly duty to each three slices... not all at once, but one with breakfast, lunch and dinner.
so I could keep it for a few weeks. It looks pretty cute all lit up on my dining room table, in my biased opinion.
Before...
[Testing out my new ride]
[My fabulous, costumed co-workers... and my legs]
