Instalife.
Just a few instagram snap shots as of late……
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| Our street. |
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| A lil office betting. |
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| A short doc produced by ma boo. |
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| Old school stairs, new school shoes. |
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| Stella got her hur did. |
Freakin fab frittata.
You don’t mind if I lick the screen, right?
This losing the wedding weight biz ain’t all that fun, but a freakin’ fab frittata can sometimes make it OK. This recipe calls for only two eggs and maj egg whites which keeps it on the lighter side. SautĂ© up some of your favorite veggies and sprinkle a lil feta cheese and you are good to go my friend!
Check out the recipe I loosely follow HERE. Thank you skinnytaste for creating killer recipes such as this one!
Enjoy!
Happy Anniversary to Moi!
Well people, if you haven’t kept track, today is my four year bloggin’ anniversary. Woot woot! Who knew that my first post about DIY sticky tiles would lead me into this magical word of lifestyle bloggin?!
In order to celebrate this most momentous milestone, I leave you with some of my four favorite lists. Enjoy and thanks for reading!
4 Favorite Posts
2010
2011
2012
2013
4 Favorite Bloggers
Young House Love
I think it’s safe to say that this was the first blog I started following on the regular and was the inspiration for me to start my own. This fam knows how to DIY and BLOG – so much so that they now just blog full time for a living. How cool is that? Check ’em out if you like witty home improvement blogs!
Nat the Fat Rat
I’ve always enjoyed this gal’s writing more than anything else. We don’t have a ton in common (she’s a hip, urban mom living in NYC), but I appreciate her candid stories and moody photos.
Bower Power
I found this blog through Young House Love and have followed it pretty closely ever since. The gal that writes this is a hoot and talks about everything from DIY home improvement to life in general.
Thug Kitchen
I don’t know how I found this blog, but it seriously makes me laugh every single time! And the recipes aren’t half bad 🙂
Grandma Elizabeth.
I got a cool lil package in the mail the other day from my Aunt Susan (on my Dad’s side). She’s a family history buff and I had asked her over the holidays to send me some things when she had a chance. I’m trying to collect stories and pictures on both sides of the family – not sure what I’m going to do with them, but it seems important that they don’t get lost.
She hooked me up with over 400 images from the Sugiura/Penrose side of the family. Check out a few of my favs below. Most are of my Grandma Elizabeth, whom I never met. She died in 1978 – four years before I was born. She’s also who my sister is named after. I’ve always wondering what it would have been like to have Grandma Elizabeth around. She’s a bit of a mystery to me……though these photos are a bit of a glimpse into her life. Pretty darn cool if you ask me!
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| My Grandma’s autograph book signed by my Grandfather before they even started dating. Whoa. |
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| So that’s where I get my stellar gun handling skills! |
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| Ahh….horseback riding….a family favorite activity! |
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| Did I mention that she was a nurse? |
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| Plaid and outdoors! |
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| Had to include this one. See my hippie arse Dad second over from the top right. Nice hair man. |
Chomp.
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| The final product! |
I thought I would share one of my recent sewing projects that ended up being a holiday gift for my sister’s cat, Tuna. I know, I know….presents for cats……we’re a strange family around here.
I used the same technique as I did for Stella’s quilt, which I made a few months back. I simply picked a few fabrics I liked, the main one being these cartoon sharks, cut them into different sized strips, sewed ’em together, batted the back, quilted a bit, then finished it off with self-binding edges. It’s really so simple 🙂
Things I learned with this project:
When using a fun patterned fabric, be sure to give yourself additional fabric for seam allowances – I lost a few sharks that way because I forgot to calculate the actual sewing part. My bad.
When piecing this bad boy together, I laid out the strips in the order I want them to be then sewed the first and second ones together, third and forth together, and so on. Once those were paired up, I went back and pair them up again…and again….until they were all sewed together. This method helps keep your sewing lines straight and your fabric from going wonky. I found this blog to be helpful!
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| The top layer is done! |
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| Always a fan of pressing the seams. |
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| Pin it up, quilt it out. |
