Like you, I’m incredibly busy this holiday season. In just a few minutes, I’ll begin my Thanksgiving meal contributions: Pumpkin Cheesecake and Pimento Cheese Spread. I had to buy five blocks of cream cheese. Dameian had this wide-eyed look, like, What the heck?! Five blocks of cream cheese? Five?! Yes. Cream cheese is a good thing.
This Thanksgiving, this first since beginning this blog endeavor, I’m thankful for other blogs and such. Here is a smattering of sites I love and RSS.
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i.Anton Photostream
This photographer’s flickr photostream was the first that I subscribed to. Pure gorgeousness, dreamy, ethereal.
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Geninne’s Art Blog
I love Geninne. She’s an amazing artist who paints wonderful visions of birds and other creatures. She also has an amazing workspace. I hope she doesn’t mind that I printed this birdie painting, framed it, and placed it right on my desk.
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The Brightside Project
Wonderful giveaways, wish I would win already!! These ladies are brilliant!
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MCP Actions Blog
Now I’m not scared of editing photos in Photoshop anymore! Jodi has lots of easy to follow video tutorials and great Photoshop actions.
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Day after day she fills her blog with pretty inspiration. Great place to find links.
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Cathe Holden has given me tons of d.i.y. craft ideas.
I think Charlotte has reached its color peak. My drive to town today was gorgeous. Yellows, oranges, and reds…absolute beauty.
Here are a few shots around my neighborhood.
A heart for you!
North Carolina was in a terrible drought when Dameian and I moved into our home two years ago. Despite that fact, and that I have no gardening skills, I decided to plant some flowers and some other things. This pretty mum was the only survivor.
*Click on the photos to see them in all their glory. :)
Hey, I made bokeh.
I think she’s gorgeous.
I had no clue what I wanted to be this Halloween. However, after finding a cute little dress from Target with tons of black tulle, I knew it would be perfect. Paired with a red corset, fishnet stockings, shoebooties (that’s what I call ankle boots), and doll makeup, what was I? I don’t know. Just a general vampy character.
Here’s my makeup.
Whoa, look at my lashes (three coats of mascara)!
That photo kinda reminds me of Blair Witch Project.
And now for Dameian’s costume. He decided on Halloween day that he wanted to be a deranged farmer serial killer. We set off to three different thrift stores looking for overalls. None were to be found. So he wore a pair of old jeans and a plaid shirt. Then he fashioned a mask out of a burlap-look fabric (from a ladies shirt found at The Goodwill), cut eyeholes, and sewed up the back. Well, I did the sewing part.
The fun part was laying the costume out on the garage floor and dripping blood, more like acrylic paint, all over it. Really, it was fun splattering it all around.
Here he is with a Captain Morgan and Diet Coke, sipping through his mouth hole.
Blogging is good for your health. Well, it might not keep you from catching the flu, but it will occasionally bring you a bit of cheer…and really great gifts!
About a month ago, I found a link to this really great gift exchange, Shop, Swap, & Blog on the Structured Chaos Blog. I signed myself right up. Lucky for me, I was paired with Stephanie, an amazing chick and owner of a boutique Letterpress shop called Dahlia Press. Stephanie also blogs about life, Seattle, cool stuff, and her fabulous letterpress. You can check out her portfolio here.
Oh look, there’s the cute little package in front of my fave Sugar pillow.
Lets open it and see what special treat Stephanie sent.
It say’s “Hello Stranger.” Isn’t that the cutest greeting?
Stephanie is a true west coast gal, she lives in Seattle and even worked for Starbucks! Yum. After some years in the corporate world, she decided to throw her creativity into a new art, Letterpress. All of her wonderful pressed stationary is printed on 100% tree-free cotton paper. It is so thick and soft, I can’t wait to write on it with my trusty Uniball Jetstream pen (my current fave). To top it all off, she mixes all inks by hand and personally designs each motif. Her work at Dahlia Press truly is stunning.
How’s this for fabulous? My own personalized note cards!!! I had toadd all those exclamation points because I’ve never had personalized stationary. Stephanie told me I could pick out whatever I wanted from her shop, but I had no idea she was going to customize it for me. For me! I’m in awe. It’s so pretty. :)
Thanks Stephanie, I’m in love with my Letterpress stationary from Dahlia Press. :)
www.dahliapress.com
www.dahlia-press.blogspot.com
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