Shopping

Lately I have been busy going in and out of town to visit family and go to various educational seminars. (Look Ma! No free time! :P) While out of town, I go shopping!!! Can I just mention... how much I love Pier 1? It's so addicting to go in there and see what I could do myself. Or get ideas of brilliant! This time around... I took the husband. This, my friends, is what happens when you drag in the husband. He gets bored.

He found the GIANT utensil set. Each one was $50 and pretty stinking awesome. Not that I would ever pay that much for those suckers.

Then he somehow managed to convince the employee to take a picture of us in a brand new Home Decor edition of "American Gothic." Ignore my hair. I was rushed that morning.

In the end, I managed to scour the clearance section and snagged some incredible candlesticks for $5 each. You can never go wrong with a white table setting! And corn. ^_~

Lastly and randomly, I'd like to show you that there is a different store that had these hours on posted. I don't get it. Can someone clue me into why someone would post closing hours like these?! Am I missing something important?

Vintage

Oh my it's been... how long since I last showed my face? I am so ashamed... >.> We finished Summer semester, took a trip to visit family, taking another trip later and then coming back for Fall semester!!! AAAAH crazy people... crazy.
Here is a little peek at something I put up for sale at the Little Brick House this afternoon. I will be doing more of this sort of thing when I get back (during school, hahaha! Nuts.)



I am also looking forward to working with my Brilliant cousin Rachel with some wedding awesomeness she has planned for her sister and for later photo-shoots. I am so completely jazzed about this artistic mesh of ideas that is soon to occur. Take a look at the "glamping" stylizing she just did. It's pretty incredible! Brilliant Imagery.

Treats

Just a brief update before I have to get back homework. Pick Your Plum is so worth it! I recieved my chalkboard vinyl today and I could not be more pleased! They also sent me a little "treat" to make me laugh. ;) It would be well worth your time to check out their site here.

(Also soon to come... see how I transform a pair of chairs and an old rickety dresser...)

That's the way of it

Please forgive me for not updating. It's been a whirlwind. School, selling a shaved ice stand, family, stress, church, and just a whole roller coaster of emotions. So that is my excuse. :P

This time of year... I always keep the travel bug. I am a travel fiend. I like to be on the move, I like seeing new and/or exotic places. I've taken a few treks in the United States in the past few years. But the last over seas trip I had was to visit family in Thailand a few years ago. We actually made it home about a week before the Bangkok airport was shut down due to a political sit-in. But I miss Thailand... it's an incredible place to visit. I just want to share a few pictures.

The food was amazing. This last picture is of some ladies outside our hotel making roti. We visited them everyday. It's like an elasticy fry bread thingie drizzled with sweeten condensed milk, or with bananas inside, or even with an egg fried in it. I crave them to this day. It was like... a dollar for three. YEAH!

Elephants are my favorite creatures ever. ^-^

The temples (wat) were incredible. Beautiful and amazing. And if you have the right tour guide (ie, my Uncle) then they'll tell you a lot of stories associated with them all.

Old ruins in any civilization are awesome. This was no different. Incredible. Just incredible.