Let me start by telling you a little bit about my best friend Rudolfo, or Rudy as we like to call him.  He's 22 and attending BSU for some complicated Engineering crap.  We met in high school.  Me a senior, him a junior.  He was a chubby peach-fuzzed goofball, and I was the new chubby girl at school.  We met in Mythology & Bible Lit, which was taught by tiny Asian she-devil.  We were partners on some b.s. project, and he gave me his e-mail address to communicate about the project.

Here we are 6 years later with different lives and still best friends.  Well, just recently was my bestie's 22nd birthday.  I'm here in Washington and he's off in Idaho.  So I decided I was going to send him a care package.

I threw some random stuff in there to take up space really.  I finished off Mr. Hanky the Christmas Poo from South Park (after starting him two years ago) and threw him in there.  I made a card from white card stock and a Dutch Bros. bumper sticker (not kidding).  It's main message was, "I'd be much more into your birthday if it were my birthday" and I made a haphazard bullet-list of our memories.  I threw some condoms in there with crude sayings on them including "Shag bag" and "Don't be silly, wrap your willy".  And I made some truffles, wrapped them in wax paper and tied them off with some string and beads. 

The picture quality is terrible, I know.  But it's all there.  He loved it.

Post Script: I will be posting the recipe for the truffles and my take on them a little after Thanksgiving.  I'll also be posting photos of the our Annual Thanksgiving Pot Luck.

If you've been in a store lately you've seen Mary-Kate Olsen on the covers of trash magazines.  Some calling her "fat", "bloated" and "unhealthy".  BUT at 94 pounds she is healthy and beautiful?  Didn't we rule out anorexia and realize it was drugs?  Wasn't she in rehab?  At 5'2" 94 pounds is not cute, sorry MK.

I tend to not say things are "my favorite" because my tastes and style changes so much.  So does my mind.  I'm a finicky creature, ya know.  But right now, I reealllly love Raquel Aparicio and her eccentricity.

Saturday was catalog day!  I got 6 catalogs in the mail!!  That NEVER happens.  I've always been one for mail-order catalogs.  I think my mom started it with her Fingerhut and Avon catalogs when I was younger. 

My Alloy catalog blew my mind.  I know it's juniors, but take a look and you'll see what I mean:

So, I was so stoked to get a comment from Lindsey @ Better After saying that she was featuring my reading nook on her blog!  What?  REALLY?  One of my favorite Interior Design blogs featured ME!  It was such an honor that people thought my handiwork worthy of posting about.  Thank you so much for the ego boost, Lindsey!!  She has a wonderfully amazing blog, guys.  You should ALL go check it out. 

In case you didn't get the link from above, you can click here, here or here.

Thank you to everyone you commented, complimented & encouraged me.

I'm getting slightly into stamping.  Well, scrap-booking.  Well, just card making really.  And a bit of tag making.

I want these stamp sets::

ALL by Thomassonlane on Etsy.  They're only $2.50 a set.  SO cute!!!  Oh, how bad I want!!

Look how cute some of these stamped cards are:

I finished the desk and chair Sunday around 9pm.  I apologize that it's taken so long to post pictures.  I decided to skip step 2, so as not to spoil the surprise.  So, without further ado:

So, we are getting a new sectional, 42" flat screen LCD, and a new TV stand.  So, I decided since it's "out with the old and in with the new" that I wanted to refinish some old furniture.  I moved some stuff around, and now I'm creating a reading nook next to the fireplace.  SO, I'm painting an old desk and chair black and distressing it.  Here is the 1st of a 3-part series to show the progress of the set. 

Now, I'm not a writer; but I know good writing.  I've finally come across a romance novel I had to put down. We all know how cheesy they can be, but that's the fun part.  HOWEVER, I just picked up Trouble in High Heels, and it was garbage.  Sorry, Christina Dodd.  But there were so many grammatical errors, and even misspellings!!  It was a good story idea, don't get me wrong.  But I learned nothing more in the 235 pages I read than from reading the back of the book cover.  Perhaps one day I'll pick up a second book of hers and give it a try, but for now I'm too frustrated with her editor to think about it.  You can click here, and read an excerpt. 

So, I got my nails done today.  I always like to mix it up a bit.  So I got glittery white solar tips. CUUTE!

My nail girl was excited that I was taking her suggestion this time.  I apologize for the lousy picture, but this is the best picture I could get of the glitter without the flash.  I had to take it with my phone.  While searching for better pictures on the internet ((0% success)) I found the coolest thing ever.  It's called Konad, and it's a metal stencil/stamp combo.  They have gorgeous designs.  Lookit here--

It's just this nifty little set.  This is definitely on my Wish List.

I found this surfing through one of my newest favorite blog, From Head To Toe.  Her name is Jen.  She is beautiful, has great style, creative fresh ideas & ALWAYS cute nails.  She turned me on to this Konad Nail thing-a-ma-bobber.  It's wonderful, and I want one!!

((Please click on photos for close-up))