Rainy Saturday

Its stormy today. Perfect day for catching up on the blogverse. Oh and please please please let the rain cool things down. Another day of hot humid weather is just one too many.

In other news, I am one of those people who constantly tears pages out of magazines and catalogs. It doesn't matter who the magazine belongs to doctor's office, nail salon, something someone loaned me if the page has something on it I need to remember its coming with me.

But then what do you do with all these pieces of paper? Well my little habit may have solved the issue for me. Since I came across this adorable bulletin board in one of my "tear sheets" from Lucky magazine. The website Kikkerland Design has so many cute and quirky items for GREAT prices. This bulletin board is only $20 and 2% of the proceeds go to treenation to help plant more trees in the world. Bonus!

Also going to have to buy this little cutie. I've always been obsessed with polar bears and at $5 I can't resist him.

So head on over there today, who knows what you might find.

Oh and my co-blogger also worked very hard on this post, as you can see.

Me Time

Came home to one of my favorite pieces of mail waiting for me... the Pottery Barn catalog. Now this is just the Bed and Bath version, I assume my fall one is on its way to me traveling through mail land. But this one had more than enough to keep my happy. Here are my favs.

Not gonna pay $129 for 3 5x7 frames (sorry PB) but I can find frames with all this detailing and paint and sand them myself for a lot cheaper. Great idea!

Apparently I'm a little obsessed with pillows embroidered with French sayings

{all images from Pottery Barn}

Oh and everyone on my Christmas list is getting those little soaps, so get ready.

Ok, gotta dash off. Rachel Zoe is on and it would be "BANANAS" if I missed an episode. Later

Lucky Dog

Today was a good day for the pup.

Playing with his brand new toy which is cute and makes a chirping sound like a real bird. Any of you who are sick of ugly dog toys (I mean a rubber chicken, really?) head over to Pets Mart they have a new Martha Stuart designed collection and it looks good lying on the floor of your house too, finally!

We also made homemade dog treats. Guess who got to eat the left over dough?

In my next life can I come back as one of my pets? They've got it made.

Black Eyed Peas

AMAZING. I never would hve gone to this show if it hadn't been offered up as a New York market week excursion

I am so glad I went, it is one of my top 5 concerts of all time. Dang can they put on a show. And the concert was actually in New Jersey so I got to fist pump in NJ, just like on the Jersey Shore ;)

Our seats were incredible, so instead of me talking a ton I'll let the pictures show you what we enjoyed. Warning, there are lots of pictures, but come on I had to get all of Fergie's outfits in their gloriousness.

Oh and I really feel like this is the first time my camera really showed me what it can do. I'm impressed with it.

Ok, so blogger is kind of starting to freak out on me, maybe there is a limit to the amount of pictures you can upload. Good thing I was done. Later.

Yankees Game

NY market week was amazing. Lots of work happening, but also some fun.

Tuesday night we went to the Yankees game. We didn't get to see ARod hit his 600th home run (he did that the next day) but it was still pretty fun.

27, for the number of World Series they have won.

All right, that's all I have for now. Stay tuned though, I have pictures from Wednesday night's Black Eyed Peas concert to share with you next time. Later

Fabulous Finds

Oh jeez, I've been gone way too long again.

My mom came to visit this weekend. She took my puppy back with her to Texas for a little while so he doesn't have to be kenneled while I go in and out of town for the next few weeks. We had lots of fun shopping and eating, and drinking!

There is a little antique mall here called Fabulous Finds that we always love to go to when she comes into town. And yes, our finds were pretty fabulous, check them out...

I already had the big one, now I have the baby one too. Both gifts from Mom. Now I think I need to expand to other kinds of old cameras. Hmmm...

Baby camera's new home

Imagine this little darling painted black and hanging in my entry way, after some rewiring just to make sure it won't set my house on fire of course. Oh and it was only $49!

Oh and the pictures are courtesy of an iphone ap that creates older looking pics. I'm still playing around with it. Some come out better than others. Ok, have to pack for my 5:40am flight. Yikes!

New isn't always better

There's a little house at the end of the street where Eddie and I take our evening walks. It's really cute... A few weeks ago the obvious signs of moving (random objects by the curb with the sign FREE next to them was the biggest sign) appeared. I imagined myself living in this little house. It has a yard for Eddie, there is a spot for a porch swing, and a peek in the windows (I couldn't resist) showed that not much updating was needed. Perfect!

Then I saw a FOR SALE in the yard a few days ago. Was this fate smacking me in the face and telling me this was the house for me? I needed to find out more info so tonight I found it on the internet (although not on the listing realtor's site, note to self don't use them) and I was thinking about calling my realtor right now. Only $99,900, which could definitely be negotiated down and the backyard is HUGE (more peeking, oops). What more could a girl want?

So let's have a look at the info: 2 bedrooms, more to the point 2 closets, perfect; 1 bathroom, I can make it work; separate dining area, nice for entertaining, so far so good. 654 square feet. WOAH this place is tiny, tiny, tiny. I think the backyard is bigger than the whole house. The washer and dryer are in the second bedroom which does not work for my guests. And there does not appear to be a fridge, the main reason I think is because one wouldn't fit!

Suddenly my condo that I feel like I'm growing out of seems huge, 500 more square feet huge to be exact. This whole thing made me realize that being burned out on home projects is not a reason to start envisioning oneself sitting on a new, project free, front porch sipping lemonade.

Sometimes something new isn't as great as what you already have. This whole episode just tells me that I need to dive right back into my own projects starting with replacing the honey dijon colored counter in my half bath.

My mom comes to visit in two weeks and when she arrives I am dragging her to all the places I can possible think of where I can find a cheap but chic counter top for this vanity. Suggestions are welcome. I'm renewed to update my comfy condo one room at a time, just like HGTV taught me. Wish me luck!