Thrifty Finds: Bench Project

Last Fall I bought this ugly but lovely bench from an estate sale for $15

9 months and $20 (spray paint and new fabric) later, i have this pretty little bench to put outside my front door.  Above it i hung some of our engagement photos in a vintage frame with vintage letters spelling out our last name.

International Pillow Fight Day

Saturday was International Pillow Fight Day.
Too bad I was at home doing my taxes :(

for more info & photos: Ground Report

Pretty In Pink

I'm not a cotton candy pink girly girl by any means. I do however enjoy a nice passion pink now and then but you'll NEVER find me wearing anything that resembles the hue of sugar on a stick.

That is until today! Did I say never? Oooopps...

My friend Loren from Soulfumeink was selected to have one of his designs printed on teefury a few weeks ago. When he originally designed To My Mistress The Bridge it was intended to be printed on a purple tee but due to limited color choices, it ended up on pink.

I do have to admit the pink is pretty sweet.

sweet like candy.

You can check out his debut and interview here.
And by the way, he sold 129 shirts in 1 day! Way to go Loren!

the art dept sporting To My Mistress The Bridge

Check back at teefury on Wednesday 3.25.09 when his second design Passion Can't Apply When We're So Drained & Pale is up for sale! Each shirt is a limited-edition for $9 and is only up for sale for 24 hours "tee today. gone tomorrow.". You can't afford not to buy one! Well, even if you can't, you should. Go out and support Soulfume and get an awesome tee in return!

Passion Can't Apply When We're So Drained & Pale

Our Engagement Photos

Back in the fall we spent the day with my college roommate Angie taking some sweeeeeet engagement pics. Here are just a few of the sweets.

My favorite part was going back to our old neighborhood where burgerboy and i first met in the front yard of our apartments. Too bad the apartment i used to live in no longer exists (our dumpy place was torn down and replaced by an obnoxious beast of a building). But at least his apartment was still standing so we could take this sweet pic...my favorite!

See more on my flickr page. Thanks again Angie!

Bring On The Bacon

In high school I had the hardest time waking up for school. Setting my alarm clock 1.5 hours before I had to jump out of bed just didn't do the trick. Neither did my mother opening all the windows to let the cold winter air blow in, creating a freezing cold wind tunnel with my ceiling fan set on the highest speed. It froze every hair on my arms and legs but I just crawled deeper under my covers. She even tried placing a wet towel on my face and turning the tv on the highest volume with the channel set to black and white scrambled noise. Did I mention all of those attempts were done simultaneously? Pathetic but true.

And today is no different...burgerboy wakes up to the sound of a pin dropping while i can clearly sleep through a tornado sweeping across my sheets. Our only conclusion has come to creating a wristband that I wear to sleep at night that shocks me when it's time to rise...leaving him pleasantly asleep right next to me. But seeing as we're not exactly the engineering types, maybe we should look into other slumber jolting options.

I received an email the other day...

Subject: Best Invention Ever
with a link to this amazing creation!



What is it you ask? It's the one and only Wake N Bacon alarm clock...







....and it just might be the answer to burgerboy's prayers!

Who wouldn't love waking up to the smell of sizzling bacon?

Done, Done, Almost Done

I'm so proud of myself for making sure all of my handmade holiday crafts were finished & shipped out on time! Ok I lied, just 1 project went unfinished which was our Christmas stockings. But no biggie, at least no one was waiting for them to arrive in the mail. I am however disappointed in my efforts to keep my blog up to date. So, my new years resolution is to keep this baby running!

Here are the 10 ornaments that i made for the ornament swap. I'm so excited for how they turned out. I wish i could have kept them all for myself!

My friend Jamie's ornament made it to the flickr pool of some of the ornaments that were swapped....yay!

jamie's pompom mitten :)

These are the ones i received from all over the world....I loved finding a package in my mailbox everyday and not knowing what was inside.... what pleasant surprises!! I can't wait to do it again next year!






Since I was having so much fun making fabulous ornaments, burgerboy asked if i would make an ornament for each one of his 40 employees at Five Guys. Delighted, I accepted the great task and here's how they turned out...a plush soft drink cup to hang on their trees!

Now that the holidays are finished, i just need to finish my stockings and i can cross all my handmade christmas projects off my list...hooray!!! But they'll have to wait til i return from my trip to brazil. The beach, hammocks and waterfalls are far more important than handmade stockings...ill post the pics once they're done!

Oh Happy Day!

What a wonderful day it was on Monday. The art dept received new office chairs from Staples YIPPIE!!! The search for a comfy chair has finally ended. The mesh seat is oh so nice! And so is spinning in them!

Look how happy we are in our new chairs!

I can finally retire my good old purple beast from the 70's. No more wondering if I'm going to fall and break my neck when the wheels decide to pop off and no more sitting on a half a circle seat.